Yeah, I was meaning more the age when you have the spare time to dedicate to things like learning the entire Warhammer 40k lore.
I'm not disdainful of superhero comics, just of what superhero comics usually are.
So you just dislike the majority?
My biggest beef with Super Hero comics boils down to "Is this all there is?" problem where you go into a comic shop and, if you don't like Super Heros, Sci-fi or Fantasy, you've pretty much got just the indie comics, which are often hard to tell from the cover, or there's always the manga section, and a lot of new people see manga as the comics you read if comics don't appeal to you.
I have a similar issue - I'll pick up some here and there, and I'll pick up specials or events - for example, The Killing Joke, or Batman, Year one, or Dark Knight Returns, just for three off the top of my head - and I'll pick up series that are good - for example, Brave and the bold, or Gotham by Gaslight, to continue with the batman theme - But I don't tend towards the main holy-fuck-what-the-shit-is-going-on-we-need-a-reboot-just-so-that-someone-can-at-least-fart-without-breaking-the-entire-continuity books, which exist pretty much to make money because people will buy them, week to week. I'll also buy a lot of separate series, such as Watchmen, Preacher, Hellblazer, Sandman, Death, Fables, Atomic Robo, that sorta stuff.
Yes, exactly. Whenever I read Superhero books, it's always the sort of stuff you mentioned -- stuff with a beginning and end, that can be read in a vacuum.
I just remembered another thing that sucks about Big-Two superhero comics -- NOTHING MATTERS. Anything big that happens is going to eventually be undone. Superman dead? Not anymore. Captain America dead? Not anymore. Batman dead? As I understand it, he's literally on his way back to life right now. Hell, Spider-Man married to Mary Jane? Woops, never happened. It's impossible to get really emotionally invested in anything when you know none of it really matters in the larger narrative.
No joke - Next panel is a large splash image of him screaming "Loving me killed you!" if I remember correctly. He doesn't outright say it - Because you can't really say "I gaves you ze cancers with my radioactive Friendly neighberhood spiderjizz LOLOLOLOLOL" in a Comics Code Authority title - but it's pretty clear.
Okay, Am I the only one around here who knows a lot about/likes the underwear pervert books, rather than being disdainful of them and going for Manga instead, or am I not? I'm getting confused, here.
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My biggest beef with Super Hero comics boils down to "Is this all there is?" problem where you go into a comic shop and, if you don't like Super Heros, Sci-fi or Fantasy, you've pretty much got just the indie comics, which are often hard to tell from the cover, or there's always the manga section, and a lot of new people see manga as the comics you read if comics don't appeal to you.
I just remembered another thing that sucks about Big-Two superhero comics -- NOTHING MATTERS. Anything big that happens is going to eventually be undone. Superman dead? Not anymore. Captain America dead? Not anymore. Batman dead? As I understand it, he's literally on his way back to life right now. Hell, Spider-Man married to Mary Jane? Woops, never happened. It's impossible to get really emotionally invested in anything when you know none of it really matters in the larger narrative.
Man, I only hear about this stuff second-hand, I never heard about that. WTF.
Next panel is a large splash image of him screaming "Loving me killed you!" if I remember correctly.
He doesn't outright say it - Because you can't really say "I gaves you ze cancers with my radioactive Friendly neighberhood spiderjizz LOLOLOLOLOL" in a Comics Code Authority title - but it's pretty clear.
"You're a 17-year-old, why are you dating the toothless guy who loves Dragon Ball Z?"
But seriously, Kamen Rider versus exploding crab hitler is not that high up on the weird scale.
HEY! WAIT JUST A MINUTE!
(6:49:03 PM) Scott Johnson: just got off with my dad
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