frodog28
Name: Joseph Trahan
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Lots of people have really enjoyed the latest stories in Thunderbolts: the villains on the run, bouncing through time. I…
Read full review and commentsThunderbolts saved me from what was an otherwise dreary week of comic reads. It was the last on my stack…
Read full review and commentsI didn’t expect this to be my pick of the week, especially since so much of this recent Deathlok story…
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This excellent posts and the great responses following have got me thinking about the characters I would follow through multiple creators (Luke Cage and Hal Jordan). But that really got me to reverse that and think, who are the characters I won't read, no matter the creative team. Now that I type it, I sound thick-headed, even to myself, but I've given these characters a try, time and again, and I never enjoy the reads, even when I acknowledge the writing to be good.
Spider-man and Daredevil, who visually and thematically should be among my favorites, never hook me. I can't relate to characters so continuously slammed by life. And I won't be the first to say it, but Superman, most of the time, is just too god-like for me. As ohcaroline pointed out, your connection to a character may be about what you have in common, or what you wish you had in common (but might not possess yourself). I wonder what these characters have that I either don't, or don't want to identify with.