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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2015 10:13:32 GMT -5
Well, I am a Christian, so... All joking and possibly ill-conceived callbacks aside, I boil it down to two reasons. First is that I was not raised on these books, nor did I have any exposure at a young age to them. I turned 6 in 1979, with the first books I read being Star Wars, Micronauts, Godzilla, and a handful of Marvel superheroes. As I got older, I read G.I. Joe and then Amazing Spider-Man before diving head-first into the entire Marvel Universe. As such, I have no nostalgic affinity for these types of stories, and so when I see them, they just seem childish to me, because I have not connection to them in any way; they were aimed at a pre-teen male audience when they were written, but my introduction to them came when I was in my late-teens and early-20's, at which time they just looked like "little kid books". Secondly, the style of storytelling doesn't appeal to me. This isn't to say they aren't well-written, but the very nature of the books doesn't interest me. A brief story to illustrate my point: My father, who is pushing 70, came to me a few years back frustrated by something he'd watched. He had seen an ad for the show Fringe during a football game and thought it looked interesting, so he watched that episode. Problem was, it was in the middle of Season Three, and he said that he felt lost and that he didn't like that he had to have seen all of the previous episodes to make sense of what was going on. He preferred shows like Bonanza and Gunsmoke, where you could just watch an episode out of the blue and everything was wrapped up at the end of the hour. You didn't have to watch every week, nor did you have to remember minutiae about characters or events because the next episode told a whole new story. I explained to him that those type of shows were uninteresting to me, because the characters were always the same. They never grew as people, and events from one episode rarely if ever had any consequences down the road. Conversely, I love serialized storytelling, from soap operas to The X-Files to Buffy to Angel to Supernatural to any of the countless other shows I watch today, because there is a grander sense of universe going on, where something that happens in tonight's episode might be important next week or next season or three seasons down the road. To that end, events like Gwen Stacy or Jean Grey dying affected storylines for years, but did Bat-Baby or Really Weak Superman or 100-Foot Tall Lois Lane ever get mentioned again, or were they just one-off stories that were forgotten by the following month? This is why I tend to read series in their entirety rather than just picking random issues here and there, because I want to understand the entire universe (either for just the character or the shared universe they exist in). That's just me. I like both. And I feel both have their place. But I think *some* of today's comics have taken the continuation of story-telling from one book to the next YEAR, just a tad bit too far. I should not have to read 24 books of a series just so I can find out if the Uncanny Avengers beat out the Apocalypse Twins. That's too much.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Dec 19, 2015 14:51:06 GMT -5
I would like to see a Super version of the Tardigrade, little cape and all. At the very least he could have some fun adventures with the Atom.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2015 19:01:37 GMT -5
Well, no one would fault you if you did They've been started. Making one for my little(r) dog, too. They just need to be stitched up, made into a collar, and then decorated. Uh, believe it or not, the hard part has already been done.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 19, 2015 19:05:32 GMT -5
But... I want the cape!!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2015 19:07:28 GMT -5
But... I want the cape!!! Do they sell a cape I could tie around his neck? If so, I could get one and attempt a photoshoot for you guys.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 19, 2015 19:16:58 GMT -5
If you can make a dog collar, I'm sure you could make a cape (says the man...)!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2015 19:51:36 GMT -5
If you can make a dog collar, I'm sure you could make a cape (says the man...)! No. I cannot make a cape. Leather and fabric are two totally different things.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 19, 2015 20:14:32 GMT -5
If you can make a dog collar, I'm sure you could make a cape (says the man...)! No. I cannot make a cape. Leather and fabric are two totally different things. Just use a bath towel like I did as a kid.
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Post by batlaw on Dec 19, 2015 20:40:50 GMT -5
All curent monthly dc books look the same to me. And not in a goodb way. The art looks like instead being drawn on a computer, it was drawn BY a computer. Almost too good. Does that make sense? It's exciting, slick, flashy, uniform and impressive... but imo lifeless.
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Post by Pharozonk on Dec 19, 2015 21:41:20 GMT -5
All curent monthly dc books look the same to me. And not in a goodb way. The art looks like instead being drawn on a computer, it was drawn BY a computer. Almost too good. Does that make sense? It's exciting, slick, flashy, uniform and impressive... but imo lifeless. That summarizes comic coloring for the past 10 or so years.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2015 22:07:45 GMT -5
All curent monthly dc books look the same to me. And not in a goodb way. The art looks like instead being drawn on a computer, it was drawn BY a computer. Almost too good. Does that make sense? It's exciting, slick, flashy, uniform and impressive... but imo lifeless. I'd rather this to artists who are over-rated and burn the skin from my eyes with their hand-drawn aberrations, like Rob No Feet Liefeld and Humberto Ramos, who really tests my patience sometimes.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 20, 2015 7:22:30 GMT -5
Why did they always draw aunt May like a 100 year's old mummy ?! There, I've said it...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 8:00:46 GMT -5
No. I cannot make a cape. Leather and fabric are two totally different things. Just use a bath towel like I did as a kid. I'm going to try and find a cape.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Dec 20, 2015 8:15:29 GMT -5
Why did they always draw aunt May like a 100 year's old mummy ?! There, I've said it... They wanted to make sure that we never, under any circumstance, started to view Aunt May as a sexual entity.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 8:19:26 GMT -5
They wanted to make sure that we never, under any circumstance, started to view Aunt May as a sexual entity. Dude, Aunt May gets more action than some members on CCF....
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