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Has anyone here just giving up on trying to read the recent Marvel and DC comics?

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8crismon

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I have just given up on the "big two" because Marvel's been kicking Spidey like a dog and DC has been trying way too hard to appeal to twitter. Indies, manga, and whatever you might call 2000 AD however, have more than filled that void. Older comics too, like The Spirit for instance. My favorite comic on the site Indyplanet is Big Bang Presents a continuation of Big Bang comics; a breath of fresh air compared to the coal smoke the mainstream put out.
 
I tried to read some, somewhat recently, and honestly it's all just incomprehensible at this point. Every storyline has to be this ridiculous tangle, characters that die always come back and then die and then come back again, nobody is freaking consistent anywhere, and every writer has to jump ALL the sharks every single time. And that's not even counting all the things like time travel or multiple universes and whatnot, which makes things even more of a mess.

I'm not good with convoluted storylines, so it's a bit beyond me.
 
Misery said:
I tried to read some, somewhat recently, and honestly it's all just incomprehensible at this point. Every storyline has to be this ridiculous tangle, characters that die always come back and then die and then come back again, nobody is freaking consistent anywhere, and every writer has to jump ALL the sharks every single time. And that's not even counting all the things like time travel or multiple universes and whatnot, which makes things even more of a mess.

I'm not good with convoluted storylines, so it's a bit beyond me.
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Add the fact that both the Big Two are essentially throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks at this point and are also insulting the people who used to support them.
 
8crismon said:
I have just given up on the "big two" because Marvel's been kicking Spidey like a dog and DC has been trying way too hard to appeal to twitter. Indies, manga, and whatever you might call 2000 AD however, have more than filled that void. Older comics too, like The Spirit for instance. My favorite comic on the site Indyplanet is Big Bang Presents a continuation of Big Bang comics; a breath of fresh air compared to the coal smoke the mainstream put out.
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As fa as I am concerned, they stopped being entertaining over 40 years ago. The newer ones seem to be a hodgepodge of convoluted and contradictory story lines, and dark but glaring artwork that hurts the eyes after a while. I can't take more than a few pages before putting it down.
 
Nope. I never gave up reading them. I couldn't because I never started reading them ever in the first place.
Just was never into that kind of stuff.
 
8crismon said:
I have just given up on the "big two" because Marvel's been kicking Spidey like a dog and DC has been trying way too hard to appeal to twitter. Indies, manga, and whatever you might call 2000 AD however, have more than filled that void. Older comics too, like The Spirit for instance. My favorite comic on the site Indyplanet is Big Bang Presents a continuation of Big Bang comics; a breath of fresh air compared to the coal smoke the mainstream put out.
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I have not bought comics in ages, so my opinion is pretty meaningless. But, I get your attitude. I stopped buying Marvel and DC not long after Image took off, and Dark Horse followed with Legend. Stuff like Zero Hour just seemed more and more tired. Too many gimmicks.

I used to love reading Big Bang Comics. I had no idea they were still putting some out--that's awesome. I figured that was totally forgotten.
 
Cryptid said:
How recent? I gave up in the late 1980s.
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I think I only saw 2 or 3 samples of Spiderman, 1 or 2 samples of Superman, and 2 or 3 of Ironman during my entire childhood/teen years. Most of my comics exposure back then was silver age Batman. Personally, I usually except only silver age (late 50s through early 70s) and campy children's cartoons like Super Friends, DC Super Friends, Lego as how I view the comic characters being but I will select and borrow a backstory from Bronze or Modern age (eg. Frank Gorshin style campy Riddler as the result of being afraid of being beaten up over his grades and such in childhood, goofy Super Friends, DC Super Friends or Lego Joker being the result of chemicals at Ace Chemical's).
 
That unfortunate to hear they've gone downhill. I can't say that I "gave-up" on comics just sorta moved on due to circumstance. Grew up in a small town, under 10'000 people kind of small. So when the only magazine shop carrying comics closed down in my early teen years I had no choice but to stop. This would have been in the 90's. Until that point though hands down I'm a Spiderman fan for life and always preferred Marvel to DC.

I was never a serious collector. No boxes plural but I had a very large and full box of comics that my so very kind Mother gave to the neighbors kid the week after I'd gone off to university. That one stings a little, not because they'd be worth anything, it'd just be nice to read them again and revisit that part of my childhood. I was always big into reading and rereading so they were not even approaching mint condition.

Comic books also taught me early on that I have a peculiar ability to be able to copy a drawing, not trace, almost exactly, yet at the same point zero ability to create anything new that doesn't look like a 5 year old doodle. Show me a picture of a house I'll draw it exact. Ask me to draw a house from scratch you're getting a stick men.
 
DC and Marvel are two things I never missed at all when I stopped seeing them around. I really think they would be a lot more useful if the villains wore nice business suits and did stupid things.
 
FayetheADHDsquirrel said:
Do you know if the Telltale Batman games are any good?
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I haven't played the Telltale Batman games, although now that you mention them, I may add them to my wishlist on Steam since they look interesting. :)

They have received overall "very positive" reviews according to Steam.

As far as I can gather, they seem to be episodic, point and click sorts of games.
 
Yes. Lot of dialogue choices, animations and cutscenes, minimal amount of traditional walking around and searching for hotspots to click, some easy quicktime-events which most of time you can fail without ending the game. Not much of a game, more of an animated movie. Typically 10 or less hours of fun.

Like with all games of the genre (well, I have experience mostly with DontNod and TellTale), choices does not really matter to the story *), no free saving, autosave does not allow experimenting with different choices (unless you copy save-files constantly), and there is little to no chances to skip animations you are watching about 100th time (the most annoying thing in the genre).

But still... I was a little bit devastated when I heard that TellTale quits.

*) Except second game Enemy Within, which has last chapter being completely different depending on how you treat Joker at the second last chapter.
 
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