Any interest in a comic "book club"?

[iesika]

Okay, this reboot thing is managing to terrify and frustrate me - retconning Babs back into Batgirl? And who the hell knows what else? Presumably deleting younger characters I love all along the way?  I can't even throw my hands up and say "AAARGH! DC I AM NOT BUYING YOUR BOOKS ANYMORE, TAKE THAT" because I did that when Lian was fridged, and they

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[iesika]

Oh, I know there's probably more hype than anything...and I'm less ticked than I am feeling a sense of loss. I just really haven't liked the track DC has seemed to be on for the last few years, and it seems to have been accelerating lately, so my assumption is this is going to be more of the same. What that means, for me, is that I won't be excited about new things coming out. What it means for fandom me is that I might end up losing touch with friends due to loss of common interest - this is the thing that makes me most sad and afraid.

I've decided to make an executive decision to stick my head in the sand and ignore it all until I know if it's worth an emotional investment. I get too worked up about comics - I'd rather have a positive reading experience than a negative one. Hence this plan! Which will hopefully allow me to find new (old) good things to read while still keeping in common interest with fandom friends!

I'm trying to apply the method I use for finding good non-comic books: I look a decade or so (or more - often much more) back and ask for recs from people whose taste I trust, use that to find authors or series I like, and never again read a bad book just because it's selling well or marketed at me. Years back, I stopped buying new novels for 12 bucks and being unsure of the wisdom of the investment of money and time; instead I hit up the library or librivox for free and am much closer to assured that I will enjoy the book. It's a system that's served me well so far. There's so much good stuff out there - why should I waste my time and money on things that don't make me happy?

I figure it's time to do something more constructive than complaining.

[acechan]

I can totally understand that--honestly, I think the lack of a library-equivalent might be hurting the industry as badly as the whole sixty-year-continuity thing. Looking into older comics is probably as good an idea as anything else.