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The end of an era
Feb. 27th, 2003 09:18 pmToday I come to a momentous decision: to cut down nearly all of my weekly comic book consumption. It is necessary for the following reasons:
a) It's expensive;
b) I no longer enjoy reading mainstream titles as much as I used to, and even the ones that are good are not that good - to the point where I'm not really going to miss them all that much; and
c) I better get used to not buying comic books at this quantity level if UGA ever gets off its butt and tells me that I've got that TA-ship and MA place.
I realized how much I didn't miss when I left for those two weeks in the UK and came back and saw what had accumulated. So, going over the list with a critical eye, none of the super-hero comics survived the cut, not even Avengers or JSA or even Black Panther. I'll continue with Cerebus until it finishes at #300, but aside from that I'm only going to keep buying a couple of independents, like KODT and Nodwick (even KODT is looking shaky).
These days I find myself buying trades more and more, like archive editions and the Ultimate Spider-Man trades which collect arcs and are more enjoyable to read that way. I also find myself reading web comics more and going back to the small press, independent titles (funny how things go in cycles - it was about 20 years ago that my consumption of indies went up, but back then I didn't give up on my mainstream comics) So nearly all the periodicals have been axed. Thankfully I'm not going cold turkey - I'll still be able to read them off the stands, but the buying and stockpiling shall cease.
Just thought people'd like to know. I haven't really stopped, but the scale back is still quite significant, for a guy who's been reading comics for nearly 30 years.
Someday I'll be back. Just not right now.
a) It's expensive;
b) I no longer enjoy reading mainstream titles as much as I used to, and even the ones that are good are not that good - to the point where I'm not really going to miss them all that much; and
c) I better get used to not buying comic books at this quantity level if UGA ever gets off its butt and tells me that I've got that TA-ship and MA place.
I realized how much I didn't miss when I left for those two weeks in the UK and came back and saw what had accumulated. So, going over the list with a critical eye, none of the super-hero comics survived the cut, not even Avengers or JSA or even Black Panther. I'll continue with Cerebus until it finishes at #300, but aside from that I'm only going to keep buying a couple of independents, like KODT and Nodwick (even KODT is looking shaky).
These days I find myself buying trades more and more, like archive editions and the Ultimate Spider-Man trades which collect arcs and are more enjoyable to read that way. I also find myself reading web comics more and going back to the small press, independent titles (funny how things go in cycles - it was about 20 years ago that my consumption of indies went up, but back then I didn't give up on my mainstream comics) So nearly all the periodicals have been axed. Thankfully I'm not going cold turkey - I'll still be able to read them off the stands, but the buying and stockpiling shall cease.
Just thought people'd like to know. I haven't really stopped, but the scale back is still quite significant, for a guy who's been reading comics for nearly 30 years.
Someday I'll be back. Just not right now.
