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[pazos001]

SO I have been trying to catch up on the mainstream storylines from comics and I am lost. It seems everyone is rebooting again in a desperate attempt at making money while yet again trying to update continuity and I am reaally intimidated. The last comics I read monthly were The Maxx and Kelly Jone's Batman so let me try to figure this out: So now, there's a Batwoman, there is a Red Robin that is not actually Robin, Cyclops is a villain, Spiderman has an afro, Phoenix is dead again, McFarlane still doesn't draw anything, Crisis on Infinte Earths part 2 didnt really count and Wolverine has his ADAMANTIUM BACK?!?!?!

I'm a mess.

[Zenguru]

I don't read Spider-Man, so I can't comment on the afro. But yes to those other things.

Oh and Alan Scott is gay.

[Keb]

You should have just stayed reading your old comics.

[Zenguru]

Spider-Man and Mary Jane aren't married anymore. Gwen Stacy had sex with Norman Osborn.

[pazos001]

Stacy and Osborne? Got pics?

[Zenguru]

Stacy and Osborne? Got pics?

Not the kind you want to see. Trust me.

[AaronW]

You should have just stayed reading your old comics.

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Good idea!

I get more fun from reading old books than the shit they churn out today.

[pazos001]

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Good idea!

I get more fun from reading old books than the shit they churn out today.

Hmm, at first glance I would say that today's quality looks substantially better than the 90's, especially due to digital progress... but that's just at first glance.

[Keb]

Hmm, at first glance I would say that today's quality looks substantially better than the 90's, especially due to digital progress... but that's just at first glance.

I've been reading a lot of classic marvel as well as revisiting old stuff from the 90s that stunk (like Spawn) and I have to say that between the 90s stuff and what I see today, I'm not really that much more inclined to read current comic books.

[mrorangesoda]

Yeah, things are so much more confusing than the early 90s. Why did they have to bring in confusing plots and blatant money making schemes in the intervening years.

[LobsterJ]

I'd just stick to independent series and stuff that by the big two that is outside continuity.

[pazos001]

When I was collecting during the 90's "Grim and gritty/polybag" era, I thought the 80's stuff was cooler. I used to look at the Jim Shooter era of Marvel in awe. I did like Frank Miller's stuff from the 80s but not the Miller-derivative grim and gritty era. Comics like "Bone" and "the Valiant Universe" were refreshing at the time. Spawn was for the art because McFarlane's writing was a headscratcher... on Spiderman and Spawn. The guy was drunk with power calling the shots at Spiderman and getting all of the leeway. What an apex for an artist. Enviable.

[pazos001]

I am not a hobo killer.

Oh, now I am a tiptop dancer.

[Keb]

Yeah, things are so much more confusing than the early 90s. Why did they have to bring in confusing plots and blatant money making schemes in the intervening years.

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.

[mrorangesoda]

Comics like "Bone" and "the Valiant Universe" were refreshing at the time.

Valiant's relaunch is kicking ass right now.