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by **spidertour02** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:36 pm

The Amazing Spider-Man. I've dropped damn near everything off of my pull list, but I continue to read this one out of habit and loyalty.

by **GLX** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:41 pm

bkthomson wrote:I buy about 200 books a month I'm a realist that not all are going to be great but I'm a comic book whore.

by **Dragavon** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:18 pm

Uncanny X-Force. It started out so good but the last arc has been utter crap.

I don't buy anything for completion.

by **HNutz** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:22 pm

Zechs wrote:Thunderbolts. I'm tired of the time traveling arc. It was fun for the first two stories, but the current one just isn't doing it for me. I kind of want a one team dynamic again.

It's going to be one Dark Avengers team soon.

by **Zechs** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:29 pm

HNutz wrote:
It's going to be one Dark Avengers team soon.

Nope. They're still doing time travel hijinks during that book too. I just feel exhausted with this time travel arc. I enjoy Ghost and Troll in all, but I also miss the dynamic Parker originally had in the book.

by **GHERU** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:36 pm

Dragavon wrote:Uncanny X-Force. It started out so good but the last arc has been utter crap.

I don't buy anything for completion.

the Iceman one off was pretty damn cool

by **Ntikrst** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:27 pm

Up until last week I was still buying...

JL
WW
GL
Aquaman
Flash
Incredible Hulk

Mostly out of loyalty/habit/wishful thinking that things would improve. But JL is without merit, Jae Lee shouldn't get paid to draw, and Flash is pointless. I'll trade wait Aquaman and GL, but they're both so decompressed the monthly instalments aren't entertaining on their own.

Then there's WW. I dunno, the art's good, the story is ok but the whole storyline is just conveniently plodding along without being driven by the characters or their interactions. Things just happen on cue because it's time for the narrative to advance, like a badly written Morrison comic. WW will probably get dropped after this arc is done.

by **mrorangesoda** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:20 pm

I don't buy shitty books. The bottom of my pull list are books that are just almost good. Right now, Demon Knights is really riding the fence. I haven't gotten last month or this month's shipped to me yet, but this first arc is so frustatingly almost good that I'm dropping it if 7 and 8 haven't fulfilled that.

by **Greg** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:23 pm

GHERU wrote:how many issues do you give a book before you decide you don't like it?
is one bad issue enough?

for me, depending on my expectations, I tend to give books a fair shot
so, if I didn't like 5 issues of a book I decided to give a 6 issue try to its technically a book I buy that I don't like

At most, 2 issues. Usually I just need one, but if there's some sort of promise, like an idea or premise I'll check out one more issue.

by **GHERU** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:26 pm

Greg wrote:
At most, 2 issues. Usually I just need one, but if there's some sort of promise, like an idea or premise I'll check out one more issue.

I used to read Savage Dragon, you're telling me there was never two bad issues in a row?

by **Greg** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:35 pm

GHERU wrote:I used to read Savage Dragon, you're telling me there was never two bad issues in a row?

I haven't picked up the recent issues due to money, but I love the heck outta that book.

by **Gladiator X** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:38 am

Moon Knight. I wouldn't say that's shitty, it's just the crappiest book I'm currently buying.

This won't be the case after next week though.

by **chap22** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:47 am

up until this past week, for me it was JL and Incredible Hulk. i have now dropped both. so probably one of Bendis's Avengers books is the current correct answer, and neither of those is "shitty" at the moment, just painfully mediocre.

by **mrorangesoda** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:49 am

Sromkie wrote:For me, it's Teen Titans, Superboy, JLI, and Dark Knight. I plan to drop DK after the owls arc and JLI at the end of the current arc. But TT and Superboy... I just WANT to like them so much that I am having a difficult time giving up on them.

Hurwitz is coming onto Dark Knight after the owls.

by **xshane666x** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:05 am

Victorian Squid wrote:Not buying any shitty books currently. Why would you?

Why should "I don't know how much more I can stand" ever be a good reason to keep buying something.

Green Arrow is one of my childhood favorites. I really want it to turn out good. I was hoping the creative switch would do it...but it hasn't. Sometimes i just hope, i suppose.