So we meet again, Sprawling Backstory, my old nemesis
It seems wanttobeatree has dragged me kicking and screaming into Marvel comics fandom. Except she didn't so much drag me as go "Look! I has a fandom! :D!" and then I fiercely pounced upon it and started devouring it.
Well, it would count as 'devouring' with any other canon. Given how huge comics canon is, it's actually more like 'very tentatively nibbling at the corners'. UGH SPRAWLING CANONS. I kind of love universes this huge, and it turns out that on some level I have been missing giant superhero filled universes since I left DC comics fandom, because YAY COMIC BOOKS, but I also HATE SPRAWLING BACKSTORY FOREVER, because I am a completist and end up with storyline ADD. I will try and read one series, and then that will reference and build on events that happened in another series, so I'll put the first series I was reading on hold so I can go and catch up on the relevant story arc from another series first, and then that other series with reference a story arc from another series, so I'll put reading the second series on hold to go catch up on a third series, and then that series will reference other events from another series and then AAAAAAAAUUGHH. /o\ I get completely lost flitting around in backstory.
On the up-side, I have discovered a latent well of affection for Spider-Man. \o/ The movies were my last exposure to Spider-Man, and they completely failed to awaken these feelings, but reading him in comics I keep going "Dawwwww, Spider-Man, YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE DORKASAUR", and getting fond remembrances of the fact I used to watch the animated series when I was five. I LOVE HIS STUPID FACE. AND HIS COMPLETE REFUSAL NOT TO UNDERMINE HIS OWN DIGNITY AND THE DIGNITY OF THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM.
The other heroes are all "I am a BADASS, RARRR" or "I have an aura of gravitas and I will stand here so you may bask in it, wrong doers" and then Spider-Man turns up and is all "LOL, we are all wearing brightly coloured spandex, none of us have gravitas" *sits upside down on the ceiling and cracks utterly stupid jokes*. If he hadn't become a superhero he probably would have become a /b/tard. And then people would call his terrible puns the cancer that was killing /b/. It's like it's his mission in life to show everyone SUPERHEROING IS SRS BSNSS. The SRSEST of BSNSSES. LOL NINJAS.
Well, it would count as 'devouring' with any other canon. Given how huge comics canon is, it's actually more like 'very tentatively nibbling at the corners'. UGH SPRAWLING CANONS. I kind of love universes this huge, and it turns out that on some level I have been missing giant superhero filled universes since I left DC comics fandom, because YAY COMIC BOOKS, but I also HATE SPRAWLING BACKSTORY FOREVER, because I am a completist and end up with storyline ADD. I will try and read one series, and then that will reference and build on events that happened in another series, so I'll put the first series I was reading on hold so I can go and catch up on the relevant story arc from another series first, and then that other series with reference a story arc from another series, so I'll put reading the second series on hold to go catch up on a third series, and then that series will reference other events from another series and then AAAAAAAAUUGHH. /o\ I get completely lost flitting around in backstory.
On the up-side, I have discovered a latent well of affection for Spider-Man. \o/ The movies were my last exposure to Spider-Man, and they completely failed to awaken these feelings, but reading him in comics I keep going "Dawwwww, Spider-Man, YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE DORKASAUR", and getting fond remembrances of the fact I used to watch the animated series when I was five. I LOVE HIS STUPID FACE. AND HIS COMPLETE REFUSAL NOT TO UNDERMINE HIS OWN DIGNITY AND THE DIGNITY OF THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM.
The other heroes are all "I am a BADASS, RARRR" or "I have an aura of gravitas and I will stand here so you may bask in it, wrong doers" and then Spider-Man turns up and is all "LOL, we are all wearing brightly coloured spandex, none of us have gravitas" *sits upside down on the ceiling and cracks utterly stupid jokes*. If he hadn't become a superhero he probably would have become a /b/tard. And then people would call his terrible puns the cancer that was killing /b/. It's like it's his mission in life to show everyone SUPERHEROING IS SRS BSNSS. The SRSEST of BSNSSES. LOL NINJAS.