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Tonight I dreamt, I flipped through a DC Batman/Superman title and I didn´t get it at all. S and B were floating in a dark space and talking serious universe affecting stuff, sometimes one of them was missing his head and it was confusing.
Then Jack Denfeld appeared and explained the comic to me!
Thinking about the dream, I knew what was wrong with superhero comics for me the last 12 or so years. They are way too confusing. DC was always confusing to me. No wonder, Batman and Superman had been sold decades before I was born, with Marvel and cheap reprint paperbacks it was way more easy for me to catch up.
DC has had too many crisii (?  ), superheroes, silver ages and stuff.
And when Marvel started that too, with Spiderman having his fourth title, mutants having their fourth and so on titles, Marvel stopping numbering F4 and starting at number 1 again, I dropped every Marvel title.
The breaking point for me was, when Xmen was biweekly and Storm got reborn as a child. They already did similar rebirths with Jean ([Phoenix crisis], Jean´s clone, Jean returning after the clone] and especially Illyana [Inferno crisis], and for once it would have been nice if people really remained dead (Valiant even made ads saying "in our universe the dead stay dead").
These days the only Big 2 titles I read are Punisher, Nextwave and some vertigo titles.
The smaller companies are much more fun! I prefer BPRD, Ex Machina, Planetary and Walking Dead. They are young, not much history to know (yet) and it will all end one day. |
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