| The State of Comic Books.
You know, I've just had it with mainstream comic books in general. Not to sound like I'm channeling the Comics Journal, but goddamn the mainstream industry is a disaster.
Look at Civil War. While the initial idea was pretty interesting (although it smacks a bit of Watchmen for some reason), the overall writing was terrible, the dialogue was very, very bad, the execution and finale was just a mess, the tie in books were overdone and mostly poor, and the art was interminably delayed and overall pretty mediocre. I mean, the series featured a goddamn clone of Thor, the return of Captain Marvel and his installation as head of a gulag (WTF?), among other terrible plot points.
The worst part? The 75k or so fat old bald dudes who are eating it up like it's the best story ever told. It's a financial success, which is the worst part.
No wonder the comic book industry is locked into a solipsistic ghetto. No wonder it literally has nowhere to go but telling the same old stories again and again.
And the 'fans' love it.
The whole thing makes me kind of sick, actually. I've been reading comics for about 25 years now and I've never been embarrassed for the medium before. Now I am.
Time to give up mainstream comics, I think. | 