i never really cared much for comics as a kid… Calvin and Hobbes was really the only one I had books of. I watched xmen and Spiderman and Batman cartoons.
I watched a couple of the first comic book movies when CGI was really ramping up, but I just can’t get into the Good Vs Evil crap where they smash up whole cities fighting and no one gets hurt but in the end the good guy manages to hurt the bad guy and that’s that.
Shit gets so old so fast. It was fine for cartoons when i was a kid but I don’t think any adult should really be engrossed in such banal plots. I’m not saying people can’t enjoy mindless entertainment, but there’s a line between enjoying mindless entertainment and obsessing over details of shitty movies.
My issue was really simple, I like very concrete beginning and ends to stories. It always seemed to me that western comics had thirty different timelines by different authors that may or may not be connected to each other and assume you have read X amount of the other material. If I wanted to start reading say…Batman, nobody would be able to agree on where it starts. I just can’t stand it.
I read some manga on occasion (I live in Japan, basically everybody does) but western comics just never really worked for me.
i never really cared much for comics as a kid… Calvin and Hobbes was really the only one I had books of. I watched xmen and Spiderman and Batman cartoons.
I watched a couple of the first comic book movies when CGI was really ramping up, but I just can’t get into the Good Vs Evil crap where they smash up whole cities fighting and no one gets hurt but in the end the good guy manages to hurt the bad guy and that’s that.
Shit gets so old so fast. It was fine for cartoons when i was a kid but I don’t think any adult should really be engrossed in such banal plots. I’m not saying people can’t enjoy mindless entertainment, but there’s a line between enjoying mindless entertainment and obsessing over details of shitty movies.
My issue was really simple, I like very concrete beginning and ends to stories. It always seemed to me that western comics had thirty different timelines by different authors that may or may not be connected to each other and assume you have read X amount of the other material. If I wanted to start reading say…Batman, nobody would be able to agree on where it starts. I just can’t stand it.
I read some manga on occasion (I live in Japan, basically everybody does) but western comics just never really worked for me.
To be fair, I think that compared to other superheroes, Batman is relatively easy to pickup and read.