Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Am I over comic books?

I think I'll pass on that one. I've never liked Arcade, and I have zero desire to see any of those characters re-enacting the Hunger Games.

I'm enjoying the Legion Archives I've finally scored from the library.

So I'm not over comic books. I am over the idea that my finances will ever again be in a state where I can commit to buying the damn things, though.

I suppose I am pretty much over comic books. I haven't bought even one in almost 2 years. Neither the finances nor the interest is there. It isn't just comic books, though. Lately I have had trouble reading almost any work of fiction.

I do have a nephew who is in the Marines. He is one of the finest people I know, actually. A few weeks ago I told him he could have all of my old Avengers and X-Men if he wanted them. I think I could hear him salivating over the phone.

I keep dreaming that one day i'll have the money to buy all the archives. I KEEP DREAMING. I mean, seriously, if you bought all 13 of them for face value you'd be spending close to 500 bucks! YEEEEESH!

I used to get one every year for my birthday.

Ha! I used to do one every Christmas! I like your style, Peebs!

I think I bought about one a month when I was buying them. Managed to get some pretty good deals on them by shopping around online as I recall...

No, you're thinking of this all wrong. Basically, you find twelve other trustworthy lunatics. Each one commits to buying a different volume. Then we-- er, the other twelve obsessive fans besides you swap them back and forth in the mail.

Yes, it'll be sort of like that M*A*S*H* ep where everyone in camp waited their turn to read B.J.'s one copy of a mystery a few pages at a time-- but so what?

Do it for the collective!

Collective or no, cleome, you can bribe with sweet treats.

Sometimes I think I'm over comic books, but I never get over the Legion Archives. They have a staying power that other comics just don't achieve.

The best way not to get burned out on comics is to just select one title to follow. For me it's the Legion (which has meant two titles purchased a month, soon only one). This works with my budget and gives me a month of anticipation between reads so I don't get burned out. I can't even imagine you guys who have a pull list of a dozen or so titles every month. One title is enough for me.

I'm similar. I pretty much only follow the Legion religiously. But it keeps me going to the shop once a month which usually leads to my buying OTHER titles which subsequently continues the evil cycle.

That and I really just got back into comics like six months ago after a 10 year break. I am faaar from burnt out yet.

My love has definitely waned some. I'm really not feeling the new DC, and I left marvel years ago. There are a few independents I like, but the my love for it has definitely suffered due to the bad writing, poor storylines, and almost disdain for older comics readers like me.

I haven't bought comic books for the past two weeks! and I went to the shops and looked around.



I'm so burned out on all things action and marvel ... and dc I am done with. It is easy to boycott when you only have to drop one title --- World's Finest --- that is boring.

Anyway, I could very easily switch to trades of the things I do get ... Daredevil, Saga, Hawkeye. They might even read better.

I do Morning Glories, Glory, Manhattan Projects and Chew as trades.


This is almost a 90s esque diaspora. Especially if I just ordered the trades off Amazon.

The sad thing is ... going to the CBS is a mid week treat for me.


but now it is not worth the trip.


Oh and I'd like to give Mr. Eryk Davis Ester a big shout out for making this post happen.

Er... I just helped him find he thread, and have no responsibility for current attitude towards comics!

mmm hmm just like you had nothing to do with that crumbling column!

Is EDE's super power way out of whack and bringing down DC?!?!?!?

I don't think my love for comics itself is waning or over, but my love for the Big Two is definitely diminishing.

The Nu52 was a mess even before the Legion cancellation. The Flash is the only other title I'm reading. This upcoming villains month with all the variant covers just shows hoe desperate they've really gotten.

As for Marvel, I've lost all interest in their annual major events. With the news of the return of the Mighty Avengers title, that's 10 books affiliated with the Avengers as a group. That's insane. I just don't seem to care that much anymore.

As for Legion Archives, I would buy them, I want to buy them, but I feel soooo strange and slightly guilty paying 50 bucks for them. As EDE said, just have to check out various online deals/stores.......

I used to follow Legion, JLA and JSA with a smattering of Titans. I don't feel the love for DC anymore though. I'm just nursing my back issues now.

I still love the Legion, always will. I'm just not going to waste my money on other stuff that is here today and gone tomorrow. If DC can cancel a title with a 50 year history, then anything is one the chopping block. I'm just getting too old to invest in other short term titles. After Legion ends I'll start collecting the Legion Archives series. That way I can enjoy all of the Legion anytime I get in the mood.

Villains Month might be my jumping off point... Down to Fables, Fairest and Astro City from Vertigo. I've been buying Legion, Nightwing and Batgirl out of love for the characters, and JLDark has been the only New 52 I've enjoyed consistently... I dunno...

Justice League 3000 press release = a lot of new posts in the "Am I over comic books?" thread!

I think that, with the nature of serial comics over the last decades, sputtering in sales as they attempt event after event, and reboot after reboot, chasing sales numbers they will never recapture as long as they keep building their houses on evershifting foundations of sand, that I'm beginning to find that the only superhero fare that seems well-written and appealing to me is either animated shows like Young Justice or Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (both cut short for the same sorts of BS reasons that comics are failing), or the movies.

The printed comic book has been well and truly murdered as a viable platform by gross mismanagement.

Events and reboots. Events and reboots. It's all short term, at the cost of driving the long-term success of the medium into the ground.

It really feels like the only real raison d'etre for published monthly comics right now is to keep the characters fresh for the movie franchises. Like concerts, or music videos, back in the day, which used to be seen as a loss, more of advertising for the album sales, I think comic books as a profitable medium in their own right might be pretty much dead.

For those of you who like super-heroes and "real" books, check out the works of Michael Carroll. He clearly understands the Marvel/DC paradigm, and the Young Heroes series features teenaged heroes who would appeal to the Legion/X-Men/Titans fans among us.

The only thing missing is the pictures, and, believe me, you won't miss them.

(And, by the way, I've written my own superhero book, as well.)

The two times I stopped buying comics both followed periods of the unread pile growing (as Lash says in the first post in this topic years ago.)

Since the last time I've made do reading about comics instead of reading them directly. Seems to be enough, somehow. After you add in online communities anyway.

More fun to talk about the stories I actually liked here than to hope I'll like the ones coming out.