Me. I don't care at all. I picked up some comics before I was a teen but could never get into them. My relationship with comics is that I go see some superhero movies here and there but this cross universe and Avengers stuff is exactly what doesn't appeal to me. Cool to walk through comic stores though. I dig the variety of the cover art.
Does anyone else not give a shit about comics
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I recognize there is great literature in the medium I rather not miss, but can't be bothered to follow very long series of the most famous superheroes or shonen, so I usually stick to critical darlings.
I've read about 2 comic books in my life and that was enough for me. I used to watch the 60s Batman TV show plus the animated series and that's why I only really care about Batman when it comes to films. Especially being from the UK, stuff like Avengers means absolutely nothing to me.
There's too many different continuities, too many absurd powers, too many eye-rolling 'resurrections' of characters that I find it almost impossible to care about most comic book superheroes.
There's too many different continuities, too many absurd powers, too many eye-rolling 'resurrections' of characters that I find it almost impossible to care about most comic book superheroes.
Dan "shoe" Hsu is that you?
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Unless comic strips count, then no. Don't watch the movies based on them either, not that I watch a lot of movies anyway. I think the last superhero movie I saw was Superman II. To be fair though I basically haven't tried reading comics, if someone with good taste handed me something and told me to read it I'd probably give it a chance. Just don't care enough to check it out on my own.
That's one of the mediums biggest problems. You can't print a book full of high quality pages for cheap. Plus, they take a lot of space. Things are better now with comixology.
So to combat the amount of threads he makes another. Brilliant logic.
Kingsman is 2015.
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i like the super hero movies because they've usually full of action and given the proper blockbuster treatment (2 hours with an original score, etc.)
i appreciate the serialized stories and the shared universes, but i'm not invested in it. i could probably put some hours into a legitimate spider man cartoon though.
i appreciate the serialized stories and the shared universes, but i'm not invested in it. i could probably put some hours into a legitimate spider man cartoon though.
striferser
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I'm more of a manga guy, but i read comic once in a while. Mostly non marvel or DC like Tintin, Asterix, Marsupilami, Dilbert, Monica, Lucky Luke, and other...
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Comics fall to the same failing as anime or asian cinema or a lot of things- as most mediums of entertainment are, they are like 70% shit, 20% ok and 10% great (if that) but since it isn't 'big' like hollywood film or western television or just books, you have people overcompensate and try and convince everyone it's pure art and amazing, then you get people legitimately arguing next to like, legitimate art classics like Godfather 2 or To Kill a Mockingbird that some cartoon where wolverine fucks a robot (FYI I just made that up, but honestly wonder if he has ever done this) is up there with heavyweights.
Comics look really nice and it isn't any surprise that little one shots or self contained arcs tend to be more popular or well recognised. In the end they are purely just money making machines. So are hollywood films, but at least like one in every 20 hollywood films that come out tend to be "It will make money to let say, Quentin Tarantino make what he wants" and you get a true passion project.
The other thing is comics don't quit, they just keep going and going until you get the most convoluted storylines ever. I'm a massive MCU fan but I simply cannot get into the comics. I have tried and it's just too daunting.
Comics look really nice and it isn't any surprise that little one shots or self contained arcs tend to be more popular or well recognised. In the end they are purely just money making machines. So are hollywood films, but at least like one in every 20 hollywood films that come out tend to be "It will make money to let say, Quentin Tarantino make what he wants" and you get a true passion project.
The other thing is comics don't quit, they just keep going and going until you get the most convoluted storylines ever. I'm a massive MCU fan but I simply cannot get into the comics. I have tried and it's just too daunting.
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More people should probably care about the comics that spawned the MCU. Would probably bring the Marvel fanboys who believe their favorite company can do no wrong down a peg.
Shit, more people should read in general.
Shit, more people should read in general.
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best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
The last thing the world needs are more people blindly stanning for identity crisis or civil war.
I'm still trying to figure out all the things wrong with this paragraph.
I'd put Amano's Wolverine next to Kill a Mockingbird in a second.
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