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Post by dupersuper on Jul 10, 2014 1:07:31 GMT -5
I work pretty much every day, holidays included, because I can't stand the thought of not being productive. Are you the bizarro dupersuper?
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 10, 2014 1:13:54 GMT -5
I'm so behind on checking my webcomics...
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 10, 2014 1:17:41 GMT -5
The commitment of a review thread would kill my desire to read whatever I was reviewing. I can't even use a site like GoodReads, because just keeping track of what I've read feels like a chore. I'm so hooked on Goodreads...
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Post by mrc1214 on Jul 10, 2014 6:23:56 GMT -5
The commitment of a review thread would kill my desire to read whatever I was reviewing. I can't even use a site like GoodReads, because just keeping track of what I've read feels like a chore. I'm so hooked on Goodreads... It is a great site but I find myself adding more books to my want list. I must've bought about 20 books just from reviews on that site.
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Post by DubipR on Jul 10, 2014 8:33:53 GMT -5
I'm starting to wonder if I even care for comics anymore. My attempt to do a review thread on CBR was slow and taxing. I haven't read anything in the last three years but Sandman from the library. And even despite liking many parts of it sometimes it felt like a chore or obligation to finish it. I think I've lost any care for comics despite great memories of them when I was going full bore. I treat this community more as a social site than comic discussion. I like y'all and even if I care less for comics I'll always be here. Y'all are good people.
I'm with you, Adam. There's just days where I don't give a flying frig about comics. Seems I'm just buying them out of habit instead of using that cash for something else. I think my next project is to bind and make hardcovers of all my comics...just to have an nice looking library. I'm thinking next year (birthday 40), I'm cashing my chips and leaving the table.
I know how you feel. I'm in one of those periods right now. I love talking about comics, even if I don't currently feel like reading them. For me its the gluttony of superheroes in the media that have sort of spoiled some of my comic reading. I'm f**ked out on superhero films, tv shows and heroes that aren't in comic format. With the amount of media blitz of information of the medium we love dearly, it look out the fun and childlike thrill of reading comics.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 8:46:22 GMT -5
The laments about losing (or lost) interest in comics certainly echo with me, but like (apparently) the rest this place (& before it, the old CBR forum) has become a social venue. I post here pretty often, & it's likely that less than 10 percent of what I write concerns comics.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 10, 2014 8:54:51 GMT -5
It's kind of funny, but I'm in a place completely opposite of some of you right now. I was buying and reading comics as an obligation for much of my 20's as some way to hold onto my adolescence, but as I've grown my collection and expanded my knowledge of different writers and artists, I find now that I am more into it than ever. Not just buying more issues to fill up a box, but reading almost every day because I want to know what happens next and because I'm really ENJOYING them for the first time in a long time; my current goal to read through the entire Captain America series has been fun, because I took so long to build the entire collection but never stopped to actually read any of them, so it's all new to me.
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Post by impulse on Jul 10, 2014 9:36:12 GMT -5
Heh. I know what you guys mean. I've lost interest in nearly all my Big Two stuff. I'm not sure what mix it is of the books no longer being good compared to me growing/changing/not caring, but it's there. My buying habits trailed my reading habits by a year or two, so I have a whole mountain books I haven't and may never read that accumulated before I trimmed my pull list. I enjoy my indie stuff and read it pretty much immediately, though.
I can attribute at least a good portion of my disinterest to nearly all of the X-Books (historically my biggest interest area) becoming a bloated, decompressed, pointless mess with no clear focus, direction or overarching story arc. Buying 5-10 books a month and still not really knowing what's going on kind of takes the fun out of things. Bendis taking over was the straw that broke the camel's back.
I do read The Walking Dead and Invincible eagerly and immediately, though. Everything else is just piling up..
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 10:42:39 GMT -5
Well, if my Kenmore washing machine had to conk out last night & decline to ever get beyond the first cycle (i.e. not draining & thus not reaching the spin cycle), obviously it's best that it happened during my week off, else I'd be wearing a rather beat-up pair of jeans to work today, since every pair of pants I otherwise own was in that load.
*sigh* From poking around various online fix-it sites & forums, it might be something I can handle myself as long as I'm able to muster a sufficient number of visual aids, but in the meantime I'll be making my first visit to a laundromat in more than 20 years. Luckily, I'm only about 3 blocks from one such place & a mile from another ... but still.
First-world problems, I guess. Or maybe somewhere between first- & second-world, because I suppose washers aren't exactly luxury items these days, at least for those of us who don't live in apartments. Heck, even my mother had one from, IIRC, my grade-school days on, though she never had a dryer.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 10, 2014 10:56:36 GMT -5
The commitment of a review thread would kill my desire to read whatever I was reviewing. I can't even use a site like GoodReads, because just keeping track of what I've read feels like a chore. I love the IDEA of review threads, and I try, but I agree it's tough to stay with them... all the more reason to appreciate Shax, Scott, and anyone else who does them! I've been having better luck with novels...with comics, it tends to disrupt my reading experience a bit... most things I read in bunches, so stopping to make notes is a drag sometimes.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 10, 2014 11:12:52 GMT -5
Holy crap, I woke up this morning to find a friend request on Facebook from Alan Brennert! I love my life!
Cei-U! The fanboy in me is freaking out!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 10, 2014 11:25:53 GMT -5
For me its the gluttony of superheroes in the media that have sort of spoiled some of my comic reading. I'm f**ked out on superhero films, tv shows and heroes that aren't in comic format. With the amount of media blitz of information of the medium we love dearly, it look out the fun and childlike thrill of reading comics. I can partially agree. I've not seen a superhero movie in the theater since Spiderman 2 or X-Men 2 (somewhere around there) and have no desire to. Not that I haven't watched any via netflix or rental since then but that's because there's almost zero effort or investment. I think possibly the whole superhero concept to me is burned out. Of the previous comic movies I own I've probably not watched in years. The DVDs just collect dust. Maybe the whole concept is old to me. Maybe a break is what I need. Cause as much as I enjoyed Annihilation, Conquest, and DnA's GotG, I have zero excitement or anticipation for the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 11:31:53 GMT -5
Holy crap, I woke up this morning to find a friend request on Facebook from Alan Brennert! I love my life! Cei-U! The fanboy in me is freaking out! Oddly enough, I don't recall you reacting quite this way when I sent you a friend request (or was it the other way around?).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 11:35:56 GMT -5
Speaking of pleasant surprises & Kurt (two concepts that, let's face it, hardly ever go together), yesterday afternoon while browing the downtown library's recent-releases shelves for longer than usual to kill time during a sudden torrential rainstorm, I came across a large-print edition of a new Craig Johnson mystery that I didn't even know was out. (I discovered Johnson's Longmire books last year at Kurt's recommendation.)
It's probably the next thing I'll read after finishing the Kitty Genovese overview that I came across on the nonfiction shelves. Read most of that one last night & have maybe 40 pages to go.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 10, 2014 13:36:27 GMT -5
Holy crap, I woke up this morning to find a friend request on Facebook from Alan Brennert! I love my life! Cei-U! The fanboy in me is freaking out! He wrote one of my favorite Brave and the Bolds. # 182 was just a great Team-up with the Earth 2 Robin, and It almost jerked a tear.
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