The last time I was reading numerous free-standing DC titles was before War Games, so that's three years ago.
Yeah, that's just about when I stopped reading. And while I didn't really stop because of the crossovers, but mostly because I had a phase of less interest in comics -- I just tend to be somewhat cyclic with what I'm into, it happens with other fandoms too, like a couple of months I'm really into SW, and then I go into a HP or SGA phase and get back to SW later on etc -- this makes it *really* hard to get back into DC even though I'm in the mood for comics again.
That just can't be a sound strategy, that even geeky people motivated and somewhat familiar with their universe have trouble reading. I think it's fine for superhero comics to have a complex continuity in the background and tying into the stories, that's part of their appeal for me after all, and why I switched to reading them rather than European action-adventure and SF/Fantasy comics like I did before getting pimped into superheroes, but not so much that it's the main thing all the time so that you get sick of it.
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Yeah, that's just about when I stopped reading. And while I didn't really stop because of the crossovers, but mostly because I had a phase of less interest in comics -- I just tend to be somewhat cyclic with what I'm into, it happens with other fandoms too, like a couple of months I'm really into SW, and then I go into a HP or SGA phase and get back to SW later on etc -- this makes it *really* hard to get back into DC even though I'm in the mood for comics again.
That just can't be a sound strategy, that even geeky people motivated and somewhat familiar with their universe have trouble reading. I think it's fine for superhero comics to have a complex continuity in the background and tying into the stories, that's part of their appeal for me after all, and why I switched to reading them rather than European action-adventure and SF/Fantasy comics like I did before getting pimped into superheroes, but not so much that it's the main thing all the time so that you get sick of it.