lobofan

October 14, 2009 1:04 pm Heck, I would give up television, internet and most other entertainment that really does nothing for me just to get my comics.  They have been my major entertainment for nine years and are fast becoming the only things I really enjoy.  So, my question isn't can I afford comics, it's more on the lines of: Do I give a crap about anything enough to give up comics?

October 8, 2009 3:03 am

I'm more likely to enjoy Incorruptable than this.  It's funny how, although I have wanted Superman to punch through some snob sometimes, I just can't bring myself to read about the hopeless case of a hopeless mental case in a hopeless world that has no hope of winning against said hopeless mental case.  I need some freaking hope!

But, all you people who like that stuff, enjoy!

October 7, 2009 11:48 am

I like continuity, but I run from it also.  My favorite stories are usually those that start their own continuity.  Like a Vertigo series or an indie book.  But, I love the continuity being maintained once it is established.  It's just hard for me to care when I come into a story and the continuity is so intent on itself that it makes an entire issue unmanageable. 

On the other hand, I like X Force and read no other X books.  So, if I am missing continuity, who's to know, and as long as nobody tells me there's something missing then I probably won't notice.

October 7, 2009 11:41 am

Sounds fun.  Not sure what attracts me to it.  But if the concepts Bill Willingham uses in his other stories are any sign of what to expect here, then I'm sure it will be a joy to read.  If for nothing else than wrapping my head around them.

October 7, 2009 11:29 am

I see what's coming but something in me just will not accept it.  I have seen and read digital comics before, but it just seems impersonal.  I feel as if I don't own a copy because it is reduced to a stream of data that I can access instead of a book I can see.  So, yeah, I know digital will win over print comics, at least if the trend continues, but I'll hope for some trades if the singles ever disappear.  And I'll be able to afford them if I don't have to buy issues beforehand.

In the end it won't be that big of a transition for me.  I'll just ignore the digital issues and buy them in print if they ever come out.  I just hope the confines of an electronic screen don't stifle the creativity of the art.  I mean, there should still be an outlet for those issues where the artists (both writer or otherwise) want to be more creative than rectangular panels and word balloons big enough to read on an iphone.

October 6, 2009 10:24 am The flashes should work out some kind of shift plan for guarding the city.  Or they could just do what the green lanterns did, two of the adults can find a new place to guard.  Heck, anything to force the flash to team up with a different power that six other flashes, kid or otherwise.

October 1, 2009 1:15 am I just love comic book fights.  I read this article earlier and tried to think of something, anything, that would make me see things your way, but there was none.  Even though I have read comics regularly around nine years as well, I just cannot bring myself to discredit the fight scenes. At least not reading monthly. There is, however, a little monotony when reading a trade and there is nothing happening from issue to issue because the writers chose to fill half of each issue with a battle that has nothing to do with the overarching story in the trade. Then again, I did avoid Locke and Key (Big Mistake) for months because I thought it would be just boring emotional drivel because I saw no big battle scenes when I flipped through.  So, although it is technically useless at times, I will always thrive on the battle scenes.

September 30, 2009 1:59 pm

There's Manga and then there is Anime.  There's Comics and then there's Cartoons.  I don't mean that I don't like the work done in this area, but as far as I am concerned there is just something missing when you take out the word balloons and add in real voices.  The inventiveness that embodies every page of a comic isn't necessarily gone when it is animated, however it is a different kind of inventive.  For me that is enough to disassociate the word comic with the product other than when referring to the characters.

Writing evolved early on into two different directions, art that tells a story and symbols that, when interpretted, told their own story.  The symbols became words and the words became books.  The art became pictures and the pictures have since been given life and motion in movies.  However, sometime after their division into the two, the two merged to create comics, and for some reason I can't get over the fact that the motion comic has abandoned the marriage of word and art that made it a true comic.

September 29, 2009 12:26 pm I grew up in the 90's, but only read the older comics because they were cheap and I was broke.  But, for some reason my impressions of my favorite characters stay in a state of flux while my less favorite seem to be grounded firmly in my mind.  I guess it's because I never got two consecutive issues of the same character when I first started reading, so I was forced to accept the changes in the styles of artists. I have since forgotten who drew the first Batman I read or the first Superman and just chose the artists that look the coolest to be the ones that I think of first, like Neal Adams Batman.  Anyway, that's just how it worked for me.

September 27, 2009 6:00 pm Took the time to read other people's comments now, and realized I just repeated their crap. So, whatever, I generally don't like Moore's work and only pick up several of his books based on his name and the fact that I am supposed to like it. So keep that in mind whenever I mention him. I have ceased caring.