i love comics but

A stream of consciousness about my feeling on my own comic reading laziness

I love comics

I really do. comics are a fantastic vast and varied medium. i mostly read super hero comics it has to be said. but still it is vast.

Over the last year lets say iv found it harder and harder to read comics. i think this is mostly my fault but i don't think comics are entirely blameless.

Maybe im just getting burnt out on weekly comics. time was i would rush out early on a Wednesday to my local shop then rush home and read all of my haul there and then . id then hurriedly upload my thoughts on those comics to the mad hat pirates blog. the quality of those articles was probily poor nevertheless i hella enjoyed writing them. it was an outlet for my thoughts on comics. it made me feel part of the larger comics conversation even if our readership was only seven bored bots.

Now i lay most of the blame for my every increasing apathy over comics squarely at myself. im famously lazy and i let the stack build up. i let my self get frustratingly behind on issues to the point ware most of the comics im buying each week cant be read. i decided to cut my loses on  lot of dcs books leading up to rebirth considering they were mostly filler.

Theirs a few reasons for this stack clog. a lot of comics start of great with fantastic creative teams and plots but as the years and issues roll on these grate people and plots are replaced buy inferior to me at least un interesting folk. im looking at you DC. iv read all of the new 52 PISH green lantern book. because im mad and because someone had to witness its fall. someone had to stay with it while it died its sad quite death. that someone was me. and most likely thousands of other madmen. other comics are still well written but i lose interest in them because i just dont find them fun to read any more like saga or rat queens. these comics are examples of the old man in me disagreeing with the tumblr based youth of today. tumblr based young people comics are becoming quite the strong voice in comics today,  thats great for lots of reasons but a lot of the time i find my self yelling at them to get off my damn lawn.

Iv taken steps to sort out my life in comics. iv taken long hard looks at my pull list. DCs rebirth has helped lots. iv droped long standing new 52 stalwarts like detective comics and batman. though i have adde dew titles  from rebirth but most of them debut later in the year so weil cross that bridge when we come to it. a more pressing concern is boom studios well written new mighty morphing power ranger comics and there spin off as well as my brains perverse desire to actually buy monthly transformers comics.

Still buying new comics should lead to a revitlased interest. well it should. As i sit here tapping away at this article the stack looms ever bigger. i haven't read spider-man in many months. i fear to go back. i fear how much dense dan slott banter ill have to wade threw. i am weak man.

I think i have become burnt out on the endless cycles of comics. marvel has proven itself a meaningless place to invest in. sure there's grate story's written here and there but  every book renumbers itself #1 every six or so months. all new all the time ! its a just a factory for future movie plots. Steve rogers being an agent of hydra being a agent of hydra seem a lot easier to swallow as the plot of captain america 4 don@t it ? ware it can be resolved in the span of two and a half hours.

DC doesn't fair much better with its ever changing writers and corporate mandates of what superman should be and its shilling of harly quin as deadpool with tits. i started reading comics as a marvel fan . first with the uk reprints of mark waid  excellent fantastic four run and then with the gauntlet story arc of amazing spiderman starting my weekly visits to my local comic shop. more and more over the last 4 or 5 years iv turned into a DC fanboy. mostly thanks to the new 52s and writers like goff johns and grant Morrison. ill defend the new 52. a lot of good story's we'r told. just not really over the last 2 years. DC has habit of following really good runs with really terrible runs. i think that's been a big factor in me losing interest in my fave company.

Also iv been reading comics for like the last ten years and all my life really if we include the beano and stuff. its possible iv just gotten a lill board with them for now. i still love comics. i will always love comics. ill allways love to talk endlessly about comics. ill always love to complain about comics too. im just in a funk at the moment. hopefully this blog can help me get threw these dark dank listless lazy times. hopefully these little chats of ours will focus my thoughts into laser sharp ramblings of a hopefully entertaining nature. at the very least i might even improve my spelling !

So yes comics are way cool and i am the problem. a threat to my self and comics every ware.

Night !