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Rod Collins
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Posted: 15 January 2019 at 11:43pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

It depends on how you define present-day comics. I mainly pick up creator-owned books and very few mainstream super-hero titles.

Modern creator-owned books are usually last a couple of "seasons" and give you the whole story before the creator moves on to something else. Compared to mainstream super-hero comics where a feeling of status quo is maintained and if not, let's hit the reset button, it feels like a better proposition at this stage of my life.
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 12:38am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Anyone who wants to see how convoluted comics are & the effect of these constant reboots on non-comic readers?

Go to Comixology & search for a title, any will do really but I did Teen Titans yesterday. I imagine Captain America will also have this desired effect.

Now look @ single issues.

& try to figure out which issue belongs to which run. The years of publication for the issue run are in brackets but the title for the issue is not long enough to show the bracketed information. So you just see a long list of issues that have the same number & get really confused as to what follows what.
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 6:44am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

If everything wrong with DC for the last forty years or so was boiled down to just two words, they would be “fixing continuity”. From the fans who’d been reading for far too long, and had convinced themselves that the continuity NEEDED to be fixed, to the influx of those fans at the “professional” level who set about MAKING those “fixes”, the past few decades have been all about navel-gazing.

Starting with something that wasn’t really broken, DC has lumbered along, smashing everything into smaller and smaller pieces until, it seems, this has become their most basic pathology. Every “new idea” is a variant of “let’s fix everything again!”

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Leigh DJ Hunt
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 7:45am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

We really should poll the group. How many of us here actually still buy and/or read present-day comics?
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Yep, just back from my LCS with a handful of this week's titles.
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Brennan Voboril
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 8:44am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

I don't buy a single ongoing series.  Simonson's Ragnarok and JB's Star Trek were the last ones.  For me, it is art books / magazines dealing with comics, reprints, along with rereading the old stuff.  Today's comics are so far removed from what I remember as enjoyable I can't relate to most of them any longer.
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 9:08am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

I stayed decades away, but a little over a year ago I got Marvel Unlimited and I'm having fun. Some of it is good, some of it is bad, some of it I dropped, tons of it are forgettable... I'm so glad that there was no internet back in the eighties to ruin it all for me with its stupid headlines and hordes of old fans complaining about everything.
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 9:55am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

I go the store weekly and pick up books, but they're not Marvel/DC super hero books. I'll pick one of those up on a whim once in awhile (like last week's Captain Marvel) but, in general, I'm mostly only interested in comics that are about new things (with some affection for the Archie horror books along the way.)
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Brian Rhodes
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 11:42am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Where I used to go to a comic shop at least monthly (sometimes weekly), now it's once or twice a year. I usually don't buy much when I go. One or two items, unless I find some interesting back issues or reprints thereof. 

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John Cole
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 12:51pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

I Took my entertainment dollars eesewhere back in 2010 I got tired of reboot of the month.
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

I buy some regulars - Star Wars mostly - & collections. All digital now. Also subscribe to Marvel Unlimited.

Rarely set foot in a comic store.
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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

I buy USAGO YOJIMBO collections to read and keep.

I bought each issue of BULLY WARS, and passed them all along to a kid when
the series was done.

I have a colleague who buys a lot of stuff via Comixology, and through him
have read PAPER GIRLS (ultimately, not for me), SAVAGE DRAGON and
SLEEPLESS (thumbs up).
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Michael Roberts
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Posted: 16 January 2019 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

I read trades of mostly Image and some IDW books. I'll read current Marvel books at the times I have Marvel Unlimited. I currently am subscribed to DC Universe, but haven't had a chance to look at the books there.
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