Yes. Always. ;) True confession time: I've stopped buying all of the Avengers titles. If someone happens to upload an issue, and I happen to come across a link, then I might download it, but I can't justify actually spending money on Bendis' molasses-like storytelling when I'm enjoying other books so much more. I'm hoping that SI is the shot of adrenaline he needs to pull all his plot threads together and get things moving.
I'm reading Ms. Marvel, DoS, She-Hulk, Wonder Woman, Pax Romana and Transhuman monthly. I'm reading Y: the Last Man, Preacher, Alias, Buffy Season Eight, old Wonder Woman, Nightly News, Criminal and Transmetropolitan in trades.
And I'm working my way through a massive folder of downloaded comics that include the entire Avengers run, Captain America v5, Immortal Iron Fist, Sensational She-Hulk, a metric fuckload of old mystery and horror comics from both DC and Marvel, Birds of Prey, Scalped, Jonah Hex etc etc.
So I hear you, but of course you will always NEED MOAR TITLES, because that's just how comics fandom is. *g*
I wonder how I would have reacted to that story line if I'd read it at the time it was released, stretched out over the months.
I read a lot of comics after the fact, and I've noticed to that my reactions tend to be very different from people who follow the book month to month. I guess when you're reading individual issues you get an opportunity to solidify your opinions, before the next chapter comes along to shake things up. And of course there's a difference in how much time has been invested - I might read an entire run in a week or two, whereas someone else has been reading it for years. So of course we'll be coming at it from different places.
The fact that the nature of comics canon makes it so easy to pick and choose what canon you "keep", mentally, makes it that much easier to ignore difficult subjects.
I love that too, because in some ways, comics are the ultimate fandom. There's just so much flexibility for RPers, fic writers and even run of the mill fans to relate to the canon in whatever way they like - it's incredibly open in a way that most fandoms can't be. The only thing that comes to mind as being similar is soap operas, which have such long and meandering canons that people can see the characters in wildly different ways, and still be in line with the source material. Soaps even have retcons!
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Yes. Always. ;) True confession time: I've stopped buying all of the Avengers titles. If someone happens to upload an issue, and I happen to come across a link, then I might download it, but I can't justify actually spending money on Bendis' molasses-like storytelling when I'm enjoying other books so much more. I'm hoping that SI is the shot of adrenaline he needs to pull all his plot threads together and get things moving.
I'm reading Ms. Marvel, DoS, She-Hulk, Wonder Woman, Pax Romana and Transhuman monthly. I'm reading Y: the Last Man, Preacher, Alias, Buffy Season Eight, old Wonder Woman, Nightly News, Criminal and Transmetropolitan in trades.
And I'm working my way through a massive folder of downloaded comics that include the entire Avengers run, Captain America v5, Immortal Iron Fist, Sensational She-Hulk, a metric fuckload of old mystery and horror comics from both DC and Marvel, Birds of Prey, Scalped, Jonah Hex etc etc.
So I hear you, but of course you will always NEED MOAR TITLES, because that's just how comics fandom is. *g*
I wonder how I would have reacted to that story line if I'd read it at the time it was released, stretched out over the months.
I read a lot of comics after the fact, and I've noticed to that my reactions tend to be very different from people who follow the book month to month. I guess when you're reading individual issues you get an opportunity to solidify your opinions, before the next chapter comes along to shake things up. And of course there's a difference in how much time has been invested - I might read an entire run in a week or two, whereas someone else has been reading it for years. So of course we'll be coming at it from different places.
The fact that the nature of comics canon makes it so easy to pick and choose what canon you "keep", mentally, makes it that much easier to ignore difficult subjects.
I love that too, because in some ways, comics are the ultimate fandom. There's just so much flexibility for RPers, fic writers and even run of the mill fans to relate to the canon in whatever way they like - it's incredibly open in a way that most fandoms can't be. The only thing that comes to mind as being similar is soap operas, which have such long and meandering canons that people can see the characters in wildly different ways, and still be in line with the source material. Soaps even have retcons!
The ex being Starfox, yes?
Yup. I'm so not a Starfox fan. *shudder*