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Im thinking of dropping comics for a bit ... i can get daredevil hawkeye saga manhattan projects and others via trade.

dosn't justify a trip to the store each week. amazon!

my local cbs is a corporate demon anyway. they mark up the variant covers and put them behind the counters.

frackers.

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i was feeling the same....but i bought an issue of Brave and The bold starring Starman and Black Canary (and Wildcat in a cameo), which I had never read before.....and I realized with this 1960s story why I still read and love comics.

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Emby, you forgot to tell us about the story! You can't just tease us like that.:)

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Those two B&B issues, along with the two Dr. Fate & Hourman issues of Showcase are what got me interested in the Justice Society in the first place.


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I love those issues as well! The Fate / Hourman issue with Solomon Grundy has one of my favorite covers of all time.

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last time i went to the comic store i spent over 40 pounds!

I got some good stuff.

Hawkeye the dog issue. priceless.

Daredevil triumphs!

and more!

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Well... drat.

I was over comics. I hadn't really bought anything new since shortly after the "new 52" started, but then I just read that Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams are doing a new Sandman mini this October. Damn you, late 80's nostalgia... damn yooooooooou!

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I'm gonna race you to the CBS for that one!

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Actually, I might try to wait for the trade ... might enjoy reading it that way better.

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There are artists whom I used to automatically buy any comic they drew.

Until several months ago, Steve Epting was the last holdout of my personal artistic pantheon (not counting the artists who are inactive, retired, or deceased.) Then I stopped buying the Action Comics storyline that he was drawing after only the second installment -- not because there was anything wrong with his art, but because it was announced *after* the storyline had gotten rolling that it was basically the prologue to a DCU event storyline (Leviathan Something else or Something else Leviathan, I don't remember anymore and *I don't care!*)

Now? DC has just announced an upcoming event storyline spinning out of a bunch of *other* event storylines, and...Steve's the artist on the event's core book!

https://www.comicsbeat.com/dcs-year-of-the-villain-leads-to-hell-arisen-by-tynion-epting/

There was never any question that I was going to give this one a hard pass, but to have Steve drawing it adds insult to injury.

And let me make it clear, I'm actually happy for him that he finally got an event storyline gig, and I hope he makes lots of money out of it. He's a great talent who has paid his dues.

But it wasn't that many years ago that I *would* have bought any event storyline's core installments sight unseen if they had been drawn by Steve. Shit, I'd have bought it even if it had been an earlier DCU event, and it's no secret how much I have come to dislike the modern DCU over the past 10 years or so.

Now? I just don't care anymore.

I've never felt older than I do right now.


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I'm not sure it's an age thing rather than a quality thing. After so many years of being served up with poorly conceived and executed Events (that impact the storytelling of normal issues), only an utter masochist would keep going back for more*. Nothing wrong with still liking the art (the strongest part of DC) but being unwilling to buy a book that you don't care for just to see it.


* he types while waiting for Millennium #2 smile


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I too was disappointed with the relatively recent DC events such as Convergence and Dark Metal.

However, in defence of the current events, I am quite enjoying Leviathan so far. It is well written and well drawn, especially the Superman connections.

As for Year of the Villain I am unsure yet. The main instigator's motivations are setup in Justice League and I am finding Snyder's writing there to be a hard slog to work through. I know he has many fans, particularly amongst the batfreaks, but it isn't working for me.

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Thanks, Thoth. And I, too, am tolerating Millennium in hopes of a half-decent Legion ongoing. smile But there is definitely a sense of event fatigue.

Which brings me to Stile's post -- to reiterate my position, *I don't care how well-drawn and/or well-written an event is anymore!* I just can't bring myself to care anymore. I'm glad that you still can, and that thousands of other people still can. Have a ball. Just don't expect me to join the festivities.


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Originally Posted by Ann Hebistand
Thanks, Thoth. And I, too, am tolerating Millennium in hopes of a half-decent Legion ongoing. smile But there is definitely a sense of event fatigue.

Which brings me to Stile's post -- to reiterate my position, *I don't care how well-drawn and/or well-written an event is anymore!* I just can't bring myself to care anymore. I'm glad that you still can, and that thousands of other people still can. Have a ball. Just don't expect me to join the festivities.

Fair enough. The events happen more than not just "because" these days instead of there being a good story to write, so I can perfectly understand you being sick of them.

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