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Post by fanboystranger on Dec 2, 2014 19:55:45 GMT -5
I think one of my biggest criticisms towards Simonson's Thor is that it was a book that was clearly being written for more sophisticated older teens/adult readers. I would say the same of Miller's work on Daredevil. I can enjoy both NOW. And I expect that I will hear from some people who bought these titles off the rack as kids who really did dig them. But for me as a kid these books were just puzzling and not what I was looking for. My comic book buying habits as a kid were really random. I rarely was able to buy two issues of any one title in a row. I needed to have my own money and be in a position to actually get one at a 7-11 which rarely coincided. So buying a random issue or Thor where he is a frog, or some random person in disguise as thor wearing a red mask, or some random alien being better than Thor just confused me and convinced me to not buy the book anymore. I was one of those kids, and I loved both Miller's DD and Simonson's Thor. Walt's Thor, in particular, instilled a love of mythology in me, which I would soon devour in my reading. Maybe those books weren't quite appropriate for an eight year old kid, but I'm not sure I'd still be hooked on comics if I hadn't been reading books like that. I always felt that I learned something from them, but perhaps more importantly, that the books didn't talk down to me, a problem I often had with more age-appropriate books and comics. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2014 19:59:53 GMT -5
I think one of my biggest criticisms towards Simonson's Thor is that it was a book that was clearly being written for more sophisticated older teens/adult readers. I would say the same of Miller's work on Daredevil. I can enjoy both NOW. And I expect that I will hear from some people who bought these titles off the rack as kids who really did dig them. But for me as a kid these books were just puzzling and not what I was looking for. My comic book buying habits as a kid were really random. I rarely was able to buy two issues of any one title in a row. I needed to have my own money and be in a position to actually get one at a 7-11 which rarely coincided. So buying a random issue or Thor where he is a frog, or some random person in disguise as thor wearing a red mask, or some random alien being better than Thor just confused me and convinced me to not buy the book anymore. I was one of those kids, and I loved both Miller's DD and Simonson's Thor. Walt's Thor, in particular, instilled a love of mythology in me, which I would soon devour in my reading. Maybe those books weren't quite appropriate for an eight year old kid, but I'm not sure I'd still be hooked on comics if I hadn't been reading books like that. I always felt that I learned something from them, but perhaps more importantly, that the books didn't talk down to me, a problem I often had with more age-appropriate books and comics. Totally fair. I was already really interested in mythology at that age. BUT I felt that as a kid with 60 cents to spend if I was buying a Thor comic book I had a reasonable expectation to actually see the real Thor (by that I mean the regular Marvel Thor as I'd seen him in the Avengers comic) in it. And there seemed to be a really big epic story going on during a time I had no knowledge of comic book stores or back issues or anything. It always felt like the real Thor wasn't there and I was wandering into the middle of a super complex story that I had no possible way of finding out about. Different strokes. I gravitated more towards the Roger Stern Spider-Man stuff which had an overarching story with Hobgoblin but was mostly one or two parters where I felt I got a complete story for my meager pennies. |
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Post by fanboystranger on Dec 2, 2014 20:05:38 GMT -5
I was one of those kids, and I loved both Miller's DD and Simonson's Thor. Walt's Thor, in particular, instilled a love of mythology in me, which I would soon devour in my reading. Maybe those books weren't quite appropriate for an eight year old kid, but I'm not sure I'd still be hooked on comics if I hadn't been reading books like that. I always felt that I learned something from them, but perhaps more importantly, that the books didn't talk down to me, a problem I often had with more age-appropriate books and comics. Totally fair. I was already really interested in mythology at that age. BUT I felt that as a kid with 60 cents to spend if I was buying a Thor comic book I had a reasonable expectation to actually see the real Thor in it. And there seemed to be a really big epic story going on during a time I had no knowledge of comic book stores or back issues or anything. It always felt like the real Thor wasn't there and I was wandering into the middle of a super complex story that I had no possible way of finding out about. Different strokes. I gravitated more towards the Roger Stern Spider-Man stuff. Well, let's just say it: Roger Stern could do no wrong in the '80s. I wasn't that big of a Spider-Man fan, but man, did I love his Avengers and Dr Strange (another book that wasn't appropriate for a young kid, but so great). |
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