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[filkertom]

Ahhh, DC Comics. Always with the maturity and good clean fun.

I don't think it's any secret that I've had it up to HERE with what the writers and editors at Marvel and especially DC Comics consider to be cutting-edge material, mostly because their material tends to include lots of cutting edges. But this is just frickin' nuts

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[alverant]

I've left comics almost 4 years ago when I got laid off. To be fair, getting laid off was an excuse. I hitched my horse to Marvel and I was sick of how they were treating their characters. I would start collecting a new series and then it would get canceled. It didn't seem worth the $4 an issue anymore and I was running low on storage space (I have about 17 long boxes filled with comics that are doing nothing for me).

I thought about getting back into them now that there are digital comic books but what Marvel has done since I left hasn't encouraged me to come back. In the 90s I had a favorite superhero. He had a decent 50 issue run but since then it's like they didn't know what to do with him. His origin got ret-conned, they threw him in some cosmic story, then with a bunch of teenagers before they killed him. It's like they don't want me back.

There are titles like Honor Brigade and Johnny Saturn on the web that are pretty good. Those are the ones we need to support.

I'd love to get into comics again, but it seems they've lost what made me interested in them in the first place. The only comic I collect now is Knights of the Dinner Table (just got issue 201 last night).

[filkertom]

I only buy compilations of things I like anymore. Mostly, older comics I loved. My most recent purchases (over the past six months) include Jon Sable Freelance Vol. 1, the first Nexus Omnibus, Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, and the Showcase edition of Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld. (That one REALLY needs a color printing.)