Not only is the quality of modern comics awful, the price is also absolutely awful. The amount it costs for how little time it entertains is an abysmal value. I really miss being excited for Wednesday. Those were the days.
I mainly read the Bat family/JL stuff and a few years back I was getting lost in hte massive mish-mash of titles and stories running. It was costing too much and DC Unlimited hand't came to the UK yet. So now I use "alternative" means to read comics. And I never feel bad that I didn't waste money on The Batman Who Laughs or Batman Eternal.
@@Atom.Storm. And you'll get into a smaller storyline, like Nightwing or Animal Man, and then a big crossover happens and destroys the whole plot. Some big dumb pose down Justice League splash page collection decided to nuke Bludhaven, and you're like, i guess that Blockbuster thing worked itself out.
@@InverseofAbstersive One of my all time favourite stories was All Star Batman where he had to take Two Face across the state while everyone was trying to kill them. Simple, small, amazing. Didn't need every comic character under the sun or world changing events.
@@Atom.Storm. ...and don't get me wrong. I love pose down, just like i love grim and gritty. I don't condemn things by genre. I've always loved Kingdom Come and i'm one of the few people that will defend Hush. Sometimes you just want to look at beautiful images of characters doing cool things. But i hate it when they take the lesser stories for granted.
10:22 I’m sorry, but when a comic has a panel where a hero talks about how “awesome” furry parties are in any situation, I’m not reading it. What about that is necessary to the scene or the character? Even if the writer went for it as a joke, it’s just cringe and lame.
The worst part about it is that it was apparently the best clap back a fully grown adult (in his 30s) found for a weak taunt made by a teenager he is training. Any kind of self-respect Nightcrawler might have had left after Krakoa is down the drain.
I noticed both the new Ultimate universe, Energon Universe, and Absolute Universe are getting high acclaim and sales mainly how it feels like writers and artist told a cohesive universe that has major impact in the industry. I can see alot of possibilities in the new universe as long they don’t mess it up with constant bad decisions
The common trait is simple: they are fun, dumb exciting stories. For too long comic book writers see themselves as some moral compass and need to shove their own reality and ideology inti every comic. Like in the kodern videogames scape where every game has to have some profound message, space marine 2 is just simple dumb fun and it sells.
@@StevenZephyc I don’t necessarily agree with at sentiment in that regard. Marvels new ultimate universe deals with alternate history and how it affects everyday lives, people, cultures as seen by numerous natives characters, and how the past was taken away. These are heavy themes but what I think Ultimate Universe did right is the messaging doesn’t get away from the world building and story. Actually it adds depth to it mainly unlike 616 it goes back to the status quo, the stories can evolve.
The dialogue thing, I think the normalization of fandom might have made the distinction between canon and fanon get blurrier and blurrier. I say this because you can tell when you're reading fanfiction for example when the character is clearly speaking as per the writers head-canon rather than actual canon. But in fanfiction, you can give it a pass cause it's a fanfic. But it seems this inability from writers to distinguish what's simply a headcanon/fanon from what can actually pass for canon has transferred over to comics writing.
When the MCU was going strong, I used to buy the $1 Marvel True Believers reprints that tied into what the current MCU movie was for a few of my coworkers. They usually highlighted the new characters appearing in the MCU movies that were releasing &/or the story the movie was adapted from. Eventually the MCU projects became unrecognizable from the stories/ characters in the True Believers reprints. One of my coworkers actually went to the LCS I'd get them from to check out the current day comics. It's World's Best Comics in Sacramento, California, the shop I've gone to since I was a kid in the 90s. He said he stayed for about 30'ish minutes. He checked out the Marvel True Believers and DC facsimile reprint racks, but for the most part he didn't recognize the characters in the current books, and when he picked them up to check them out, he thought the artwork looked ugly compared to the reprint books I'd been giving him. He spent most of his time looking at the classic reprints and the manga section. He checked out some of the classic trade paperbacks, but thought they were way overpriced compared to the manga collections he normally buys.
Read valiant comics, absolute universe dc is honestly amazing, pretty much xmen, nightwing, superman, and the batman superman worlds finest books are all good
The Energon, Absolute, and Ultimate universes have been a lot of fun. There is also Ghost Machine which consists of books like Geiger and Rook Exodus which also make for a great read.
The big problem is that comics have ran for decades now and titles have to run every single month. Quality has to eventually suffer. And when you have characters with multiple titles every month, it just turns to a mess. Authors don't put out books every month and those who put out two books a year have now diluted their own brand quality by doing so. Comics geuinely do need a form of gatekeeping. Imagine if there was one Batman story and only 12 issues per year. You bet your arse that they would make sure it was 12 of the best written, planned and drawn issues, every single year.
Makes me think of how a lot of classic literature was released as weekly or by-weekly chapters (like W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair). Something about too much quantity makes you automatically jump to the conclusion that it can’t be too high in quality, which has kinda been proven so many times in the past.
Bullshit. Marvel and DC have had a lot of titles before, and they were quality. Yeah, the stories might be stupid, but they weren't writing stories disregarding continuity, turning gay out of nowhere, and over use of deconstruction on heroes
15:02 It actually was explored before, plenty of times really. But the big problem always circles around how Nightcrawler considers Rogue like a legitimate sister... But not the very girl he was raised with in his adoptive family, the Szardos. Because of Krakoa, we also know that Nightcrawler actually has romantic feelings towards Rogue so on top of him viewing the very girl he was raised with as a legitimate love interest, Rogue is now also added into this mix of dubious writing moments. Like Nightcrawler and his adoptive sister also used their weird family relationship in their flirts and now he's more brotherly to Rogue than he's ever been in decades of stories ?
Modern comics have gone done hill and are dying in quality which is why manga is doing well in manga sales people now moved on to manga and stop reading comics, because manga is fiction at its best
I still read and enjoy some newer comics (I mostly read in digital trades because I am not paying for monthly prices on physical issues that I’ll have to store or toss) but manga is more consistent and I’m more excited for manga more frequently. Plus, the communities around discussing each manga chapter or what they love and hate in series are much more fun to me. I know some communities, people say are kinda crazy with shippers and such, but the ones I’ve been around are more chill and I don’t feel like I have to walk on egg shells to clarify that I’m not trying to make a political statement by saying I don’t like various things in Marvel or DC or risk getting blocked or banned.
No, manga are doing well cause they are quite cheap and easy to pick up compared to a single issue comic book series with convoluted reading orders. Mangas are also released on a much tighter schedule most of the time, coloring is not a question, they barely have any liberty on when stuff has to release compared to the west. Ranting on x or arguing with your editor are things they barely have time for, japanese work culture is quite toxic but effective.
Editing has/is becoming a lost art. It was never only fixing mistakes, but a good editor helped a writer turn an idea into the best story it could be. A lot of stuff we’ve been seeing in comics for several years now is stuff that should have been scrapped by an editor when the pitch was made.
Lately I've just been reading a comic or two a month but Im genuinely excited about Hush 2 and Absolute Batman and Wonder Woman. Its been so long since I've felt like this 😭
They became unreadable by the mid 2010s. I did try Gargoyles, Creepshow and the new EC comics this year. Gargoyles was good but the others were infested with the same heavy handed politics modern comics are notorious for. No subtlety at all and generally poor writing in general. If you're going to push ideologies or propaganda you need to be subtle with it and make it entertaining. Most people working in modern comics and media in general don't have the talent to do that but don't seem self aware enough to realize. Oh and so much of the art is ugly now.
I have to pick and choose which comics I read since while I'm well versed in comic FILMS, I'm still slowly integrating into comic BOOKS for three or four years, simply because this art form is a mixed bag for me. There are things I enjoy, where I love something like Batman: The Killing Joke or Watchmen. But the only modern comics that have really caught my attention within the last two or three years are Batman: Three Jokers, and The Batman Who Laughs. Other than that, it's like I'm fishing for a comic to enjoy in a sea of mediocre or bad books, or books I just simply have no idea about.
Just to offer some historical perspective, i fell in Love with the 90s X-men Comics (the one with the fold out Xmen pool party) but then the Cartoon (compared to the comics) was PG'ed and Juniorized so Wolverine's claws were reserved for Doors, Robots, & Alarm Clocks.
I think there always have been good to great comics over the last decade of the dark years. The problem is that you have to wade through a bunch of nonsense to find them, and fewer and fewer of them are coming from the "Big" Two. Daredevil has almost always been great for some reason (his last mediocre run was with Mark a decade ago). I think they're smart to try to bring in the tried and true veterans again, and I agree that they need to foster new up and coming talent, but they both need to change how they do business and clean house of the editors and a bunch of the once-new writers that they hired over the last decade to fifteen years before they do. They hired a bunch of people from social media and the YA novel space who either didn't give a rip about comics (not the characters or their continuity), which only resulted in the industry getting taken over by either hack writers who don't understand the medium, grifters who just used comics to try to get Netflix deals, or activists who treat it like a plaform the air all of their pet issues and personal fetishes at the expense of everything else. Business-wise, they need to refocus on actually making sales and take a few lessons from the manga, bande dessinee, and indie comic spaces that than actually work and adjust accordingly.
I find there are some good modern comics, but thankfully there are enough old comics to keep me busy forever. The problem though is that there is such an overload of garbage from Marvel and DC that I wonder how any new readers are getting into comics at all. I certainly don't think I would be
I'm completely down for more of this. Please keep making these vids. These were very fair and well-thought out reviews overall. Will be checking out Absolute Batman. Thanks! 👍
10:22 yeah, that really sounds like a self insert, and personally i've been writing a fan fiction with me and my friends, where my main character is a mutant who looks like a rat man. Personally, my character is actually up disgusted by their community in the world because he sees them parading around, pretending to be animals while he's having a horrible time in life because he looks like one and it's a physical detriment to him.
After wading through 14 issues of Tom King's Wonder Woman, I can say yes. It is miserable. Though, that may be a special case considering the writer's track record.
The art in that Uncanny X-Men book is a big turn off for me. Current day Marvel comic artwork just feels so grimy/ inconsistent. Like you were saying about the bad dialogue, the artwork pulls me out of the story. Another channel I watch focuses mostly on the Incredible Hulk, he's been keeping up on the current Hulk storyline and the artwork just looks gross/ inconsistent to me. I keep my ear to the ground, waiting to hear if things have changed enough to wade back in. I really want to like Marvel/ DC comics again. I feel a large part of the problem is that they're subsidiaries of Disney and Warner Bros. They don't have the drive/ hunger to catch readers' attention and the need for success to keep their companies going. If they suck or succeed, it doesn't matter to them.
Rise of Arsenal #3 is one of my favorite comics of all time. It's the one with the dead cat. It's like if a mormon tried to write taxi driver. It's like if James Gunn hired Neil Breen and he cast himself as Speedy. So great, so great. Young Justice even references that issue. The rock bottom episode where Red Arrow meets Lian for the first time, they show the cat alive in the ally. The cat isn't dead yet, and neither is Lian...yet. I love how they took something so famously dumb and made something so dark and clever out of it.
Hopefully Marvel repairs the damage done to the X-Men by the Krakoan era Absolute Batman was enjoyabke when the issue shifts to the Party Animals The action was quite good albeit too violent
The only modern comics i enjoy was chip zdarksy's daredevil and recently 2024 ultimate spider man. This is when you write good stories, instead of using comics as platform pieces
Last comic I wanted to buy was Archie comic's Mega Man comics,when they lost the license and had to cancel it,I was done with comics. I use to enjoy Spider-Man comics until Marvel totally screwed up his character.
Simone also created the character that gets killed in the first five minutes of the second suicide squad movie. Savant, i think, the one with the blond hair. That guy experiences every moment of his life for an eternity. So he knows everything about everything that he experiences, because he has infinite time to observe and think things over. He gets abducted and tortured once, so he experience torture for an eternity. Sick Simone shiz, i love it.
Not really reading comics myself, but not a fan of the Batman artwork at all. Other than that, I thought your overall breakdown was fascinating and very interesting and insightful.
Honestly I think Rogue breaking down cause of the kid makes sense. It was her touch that killed him, as he killed himself by purposely touching her before she could react and control her power.
Image Comics/Skybound’s Transformers is amazing and I’m loving the Absolute Universe so far. Batman’s new story is something I’m very interested in and I did like Absolute Wonder Woman And I’ve heard great thing’s about Skybound’s Void Rivals Also, when you got to that Rogue line, I’m southern, from Mississippi like Rogue, and I don’t know where the idea that we talk like that came from but that’s not even close
Today's zeitgeist in comics is like cross a deep swamp: you can keep your head clean for some seconds and think everything is ok, but you will sink again soon! If the dialogue is bad, the story is bad, and if the story isn't, is just a matter of time! Modern comics are DEAD!
Gail Simone is always chasing trends in a 'hello fellow kids' way, and has the industry weight to get not edited very much, which is why the dialogue is like that.
Yeah, getting into comics for me has just been making me feel horrible. I've also been trying to get into the x men (with the like 9 comics they have seriously That's a lot) and just the process of getting caught up because I haven't read comics at all. It just kind of made me feel depressed about them. Especially x man, for some reason, it always feels like they're on a giant circle of being on the cusp of being accepted or being nearly extinct
If you're reading Gail Simone and you're shocked, shocked! that there's fetish in it, then you haven't read much Gail Simone. Put down what you're reading and go get Secret 6 v3. I think you'll get it a little better. But what broke me on Simone was, it was either Secret Six or Birds of Prey, where she had a five issue arc that took place in three time periods simultaneously, and after three issues i was was confused and angry. It was so difficult to read and the gimmicks never paid off. You couldn't get emotionally invested because you're already seeing the future. Her Wonder Woman about the wittle babies was pretty sick and awesome. She dove right into, what would an island of childless, sexless women look like. How would an entire nation with empty womb syndrome function? Turns out, in the extreme, pretty bad. Oh and she was the famous, "women in refrigerators" lady. That was hers. I never read it, but Kyle Reneiers girlfriend ends up dead in his refrigerator. So Simone compiled a list of the fates of every superhero wife, girlfriend or female sidekick, and the list was pretty grim. Turns out when hack writers run out of ideas they kill women. My only counter argument is it doesn't often work out for boy wonders, but it's hard to deny the double standard when you look over the list.
Other than Wolverine, everything Marvel has been horrible. The Superman titles have been very good and some have been great. Comics like Wonder Woman have been atrocious. I feel like DC is slowly increasing in quality while Marvel dies.
Have you read comics from publishers other than Marvel and D.C? They have fantastic stories that are not just superheroes. Something Is Killing The Children is pretty damn awesome along with its spin-off House Of Slaughter. Boom Studios and IDW publish a variety of good books. Maybe if you try comics outside of the big two it may change how you see modern comics. Oh and Animal Pound by Tim King was also really good.
To be fair, those 2 were going downhill before their corporate overlords stepped in. Need we forget the 90's which was nothing but edgy torture porn comics with evil versions of all of our favorite heroes? Need we forget the lost comic known as "The Rape of Wonder Woman" which was going to feature a 21 page rape scene.
@@sammysstopmotionoas1996 Thank you; people love to put the rose colored glasses for pre-Disney Marvel, not realizing they nearly put themselves out of business… at least now a mistake like that is not an existential crisis.
@@sammysstopmotionoas1996 It was the animated shows that helped elevate the comics. Back then, people had expert creative licenses. Cheshire’s mask, for example, came from Teen Titans, and X-23 came from XME. Now, they hire based on ideology and not on the love of the source material. The OG comics had much better to provide than the current. The problem is greed/hiring people for all the wrong reasons.
😅 I've been wanting to get back into comics over the years I think the only ones that are new eyes that I've read are the X-Men ones the X-Men galas and maybe a couple of others that I've seen but I just gave up on comics so many years ago because every other year especially with DC comics over the years they reboot them after like 4 or 5 years and you get used to one story line that gets dropped especially when you get attached to certain characters I especially wanted to stay with certain stories especially ones regarding the Titans and especially the character Raven but every other time I look up her story or a new story about her would come out Even with marvel comics even though I've come to like some of the characters in marvel I've always liked X-Men and have tried to keep up with their comics sometimes I just feel lost reading them I think that's why I've always stayed with manga more even though for about a year or two I wasn't really reading manga cuz a lot of the mangas I read wrong hiatus but a lot of the mangas I used to read are coming to an end or have sequels out or have switched to coming out once a month or coming out four times a year and to fill that Gap I thought I would maybe go back to comics but it just doesn't feel worth it so I go back and reread oh my goodness that I used to love that ended years ago and that's helped me fill the void I do miss comics it really does feel like it's a dying industry despite all the hype behind movies and such I see I don't know maybe something big will come along like how marvel was big up to endgame it seems and maybe people will be back into superheroes again but I think during the pandemic people just got burned out with superheroes and stuff Cuz even in the manga community there's the manga my hero academia which is mainly based off of superheroes and it feels like we got burnt out on that even with cartoons related to superheroes and stuff like miraculous ladybug people are still into that due to how the Lord and the show is set up and the Creator is always on Twitter or causing fights so of course people are going to stand in vested 😂 But I don't know I do miss comics and seeing all the characters I like it's just hard to get back into them
Hey, and Good Day, JesterBell! I love your comic talk and writings so super stoked for your insight! Also, if you guys haven't seen, JesterBell did a positive discussion with her possible clone/possible sister (I'm not not positive!) in her "The Best Comics You'll Ever Read!! (with a Hot Guest)."
These characters have been damaged beyond repair. Doing Ultimate/Absolute Versions is a stopgap measure at best. The X-Men have too much baggage coming off of the disasterous Krakoa Era, whatever they do and where every they go from here will forever be tainted by that era. The Mindset that made comics hugely popular way back when is gone, and that mindset is what needs to come back for them medium to survive IMO. But how can it comeback when the "Creatives" believe themselves to be bigger than the characters they write? When these "Creatives" believe that they are the greatest to ever write in the medium, without the sales to back them up? They believe Canon doesn't matter, that Consistency doesn't matter, all the things that Made comics what they were at their height Don't Matter. How can they come back when this is still the prevailing mindset?
I've been a comics reader, particularly Marvel, since the early 70's. Through the decades, it was a niche hobby that got you made fun of. No girl ever was into them in my experience. Not the cool girl, so-called nerd girl, the goth girl, stoner girl, no girl. All these clicks had one uniting force. Girls dunked on you for it and definitely got you nerd labeled. Pretty much cool guys too, but they at least privately dug comics too. just couldn't admit it outloud due to the street cred taking hit. Comics were made for outsiders like me, boys being the main overwhelming majority of their audience because this sizable quota were a demo that weren't in the inner circle, the 'it' crowd and this was all we had. If you didn't like sports or get along with people who openly terrorized you, including girls. This was a fantasy world to escape into. It saved me. In the late 80's, with D&D having become popular and other fantasy content like ElfQuest, a thin sliver of fringe girls would pop up in once men dominated gatherings to play or nerd out with. And no comic nerd guy ever gatekeeped ever. A chick showed up, she was royalty. Which jadedly I suspect was the majority of the reason most of these supposedly hardcore comic girl fans showed up was for the attention and unadulterated adulation of ever guy there. But in the mainstream and real world, the quick go-to response to Star Wars/Star Trek/Comic book fans was mockery and really bad by girls, women, any female media. The lines were clearly drawn as late as 2002. That's when Spiderman by Sony was released and changed everything. As a lifelong fan, I always dreamed of worldwide acceptance of our nerd boy fringe hobby to feel legit. But, turns out, that would be the worst thing ever to happened to the thing we loved the most. Remember, comics was our nerd default thing due to a rejection by the mainstream and popular crowd. We didn't gatekeeper. We would've loved the opposite sex to care deeply enough to want to join and be a part of this universe in any capacity. Not sarcastically and stereotypically write us off as some cliche idea in their head what they thought we were. But as soon as Superheroes was profitable, and could be exploited, the girl blood suckers showed up in full force and diversity wreckers of all things, infiltrating when it was an open door policy, saying we were exclusive when nobody gave two craps about us or our interests, hijacked our interests and kicked us out, and for poetic license to it all, saying we were raciest homophobs who lived in our parents basement and ate paste. First off, the paste thing: one time! Second, we just want our niche hobby back that nobody cared about for decades and was our only escape. The people in charge of it now don't even like comics. o superheroes. Or themselves. They hate the position in the field they're in. It's just a stepping stone to get to the actual career in the medium of entertainment they really want to be in. So the utter destruction off this precious thing we once loved and kept alive for years and years is for these apathetic narcissists with a cut throat business acumen for a soul just a mere blip in their overall career trajectory. The short answer: comics still suck enormous hippo ass.
I never want to hear people at Marvel say they can't write a happy, non-boring married couple after seeing Rogue and Gambit in Uncanny. I do agree a lot about the dialogue.
Glad you're enjoying David Marquez's X-Men art. I really don't care for any main superhero comics continuity past Peter Tomasi's and Patrick Gleason's DC Rebirth Superman (I had the DC Rebirth Superman 7 Jorge Jimenez Superman art as my wallpaper when I was buying it), which was my favorite since Geoff Johns' New 52 Aquaman, and I remember really liking Paul Dini's and Alan Burnett's Batman Adventures Continue Season One but don't remember why I didn't continue reading....I have a guess though. Thanks for your insight. I hope you keep enjoying but those comics aren't for me, including Hickman's Ultimate Spider-man (I tried). I liked Brian Michael Bendis' Ultimate Spider-man though! I skipped through some of it, but overall they were my favorite comics I read from him. Thanks again. Hope you and your family have a nice day, JesterBell!
due to the pandemic(and the lost of both my jobs)l didn’t have as much disposable income,l had to end my decades long subscription service at my local comic book store 😥presently l occasionally purchase a few titles but not as much 🤓
Comics definitely peaked in the 80s, but I still think the 00s were a really good decade overall. Maybe it's just because that's when I started following comics, but there were a ton of great storylines.
@Tyler_W there definitely were good stories in the aughts and even the 90s, Kingdom Come, Grant Morrison's Animal Man, Justice League The New Frontier, Batman Hush, All Star Superman, but honestly what really kept Super Heroes and comic characters alive in that time were the Cartoons. The Fox Marvel stuff in the 90s and the DC Cartoon Network stuff in the 2000's.
When you mention you got sick of the writers inserting their fetishes, I immediately think of the New 52 Suicide Squad. Wouldn't be surprised if that's one you're thinking of, too haha
I recently got into marvel comics, just got avengers disassembled, house of M, the children's crusade and the first two installements in the Scarlet Witch solo series by Steve Orlando, last door and Magnum opus, I'm a bit of Scarlet Witch stan if you can't already tell😅
Comics will never go away due to one simple fact, ink and paper are cheap. It's a rounding error on a major media conglomerates' books. And you never know when it going to lead to a billion dollar piece of ip.
There are some good comics, you just have to give them a shoot... im enjoying Void Rivals, Transformers, Rook Exodus. Conan The Barbarian, The Sacrificers.... im still buying some DC/Marvel but since the stories have been mostly sht im.more mindfull on how I use my money(this prices are getting ridiculous😅, im also checking absolute batman it was ok)
I stopped reading comic books back in 2018 when I realized they were going for the politics and stuff and the stories were getting boring ya never again.
Absolutely Batman is great! I highly recommend checking out the new Ultimate Spiderman, it’s an alternate reality where Peter becomes Spider-Man in his 30s and he’s already married to MJ and they have kids. It’s very well put together well worth your time.
Look, I tend to think deliberate bias is at work in this channel. I've read a lot of DC. This is a channel which intentionally promotes Marvel. That's ok if that is what you want, but I don't detect impartiality or genuine criticism. An axe to grind here.
The Ironic thing is that the best comic I read lately it was "Disney's Minnie & Daisy - Spy-Power" and the funniest part is that it was made by Italians and have zero woke content.
Comic book characters shouldn't have adult sexual relationships. Also, did you really just say that a child dying from cancer isn't enough motivation to be sad?
If this is the best art work and character design you have seen then Pepe Larraz would like a word with you but while decent, it's nothing compared to the draftsmen that is Larraz.
Not an X-fan so I wasn’t interested. Found Absolute Batman to be decent but not interesting enough to continue. Absolute Superman is the best of the three Absolute first issues, IMO. Really happy with Action Comics right now and the first issue with the new creative team on Nightwing is very good. Green Lantern has been good for a while. Conan is really good!
Hey i just wanted to say, I know the views are lower right now, but they’ll go back up! It’s this way for a lot of creators right now. Love your videos, don’t give up ❤ RIP modern comics. They’re making fun of their audience atp.
I’m really digging the new uncanny run, although the “100% x-men” line def threw me way off on my first read thru. Plz check out the new witchblade run! It’s not just a sexy lady cover book! I think you’d really get behind the story.
From what ive seen of one modern comic the art seemed a bit dark & washed out think because it was digital but that is just one example tge rest are probaly good...hahah. .it is weird the weird bits being written into the stories good vid thanks.
DC's Absolute universe seems good, although there are only 2 issues thus far. If the Absolute universe turns to trash, I'll just go back to buying reprints and facsimiles of old comics that I had when I was younger.
I prefer to buy graphic novels from the past. I have 6 versions of Kingdom Come. I am tired of politics and race bating in my entertainment. I want to read comic and watch movies to escape my reality. I don't want to spend money for watch or read something that tells me about my own reality.
Between X-Men Green among many others, the fact that comic “pro’s” pushed a man to self deletion has turned me away almost entirely.
😢Rest in Peace 🙏 🪦 Ed Piskor 🙏 😢 🎉❤
Which "pro's" pushed him?
Not only is the quality of modern comics awful, the price is also absolutely awful. The amount it costs for how little time it entertains is an abysmal value. I really miss being excited for Wednesday. Those were the days.
I mainly read the Bat family/JL stuff and a few years back I was getting lost in hte massive mish-mash of titles and stories running. It was costing too much and DC Unlimited hand't came to the UK yet. So now I use "alternative" means to read comics. And I never feel bad that I didn't waste money on The Batman Who Laughs or Batman Eternal.
@@Atom.Storm. And you'll get into a smaller storyline, like Nightwing or Animal Man, and then a big crossover happens and destroys the whole plot. Some big dumb pose down Justice League splash page collection decided to nuke Bludhaven, and you're like, i guess that Blockbuster thing worked itself out.
@@InverseofAbstersive One of my all time favourite stories was All Star Batman where he had to take Two Face across the state while everyone was trying to kill them. Simple, small, amazing. Didn't need every comic character under the sun or world changing events.
@@Atom.Storm. ...and don't get me wrong. I love pose down, just like i love grim and gritty. I don't condemn things by genre. I've always loved Kingdom Come and i'm one of the few people that will defend Hush. Sometimes you just want to look at beautiful images of characters doing cool things.
But i hate it when they take the lesser stories for granted.
@@InverseofAbstersive People dislike Hush???
10:22 I’m sorry, but when a comic has a panel where a hero talks about how “awesome” furry parties are in any situation, I’m not reading it. What about that is necessary to the scene or the character? Even if the writer went for it as a joke, it’s just cringe and lame.
Because almost all modern day comic book writers are old perverts or edgy perpetual teenagers.
I hate any form of media wasting my time like that. If I wanted bad jokes, I can tell them myself looking at the bathroom mirror.
The worst part about it is that it was apparently the best clap back a fully grown adult (in his 30s) found for a weak taunt made by a teenager he is training.
Any kind of self-respect Nightcrawler might have had left after Krakoa is down the drain.
I noticed both the new Ultimate universe, Energon Universe, and Absolute Universe are getting high acclaim and sales mainly how it feels like writers and artist told a cohesive universe that has major impact in the industry. I can see alot of possibilities in the new universe as long they don’t mess it up with constant bad decisions
The common trait is simple: they are fun, dumb exciting stories. For too long comic book writers see themselves as some moral compass and need to shove their own reality and ideology inti every comic. Like in the kodern videogames scape where every game has to have some profound message, space marine 2 is just simple dumb fun and it sells.
@@StevenZephyc I don’t necessarily agree with at sentiment in that regard. Marvels new ultimate universe deals with alternate history and how it affects everyday lives, people, cultures as seen by numerous natives characters, and how the past was taken away. These are heavy themes but what I think Ultimate Universe did right is the messaging doesn’t get away from the world building and story. Actually it adds depth to it mainly unlike 616 it goes back to the status quo, the stories can evolve.
I have no hope for modern Harley comics but it's good to see that there is good comic content coming out
The dialogue thing, I think the normalization of fandom might have made the distinction between canon and fanon get blurrier and blurrier. I say this because you can tell when you're reading fanfiction for example when the character is clearly speaking as per the writers head-canon rather than actual canon. But in fanfiction, you can give it a pass cause it's a fanfic. But it seems this inability from writers to distinguish what's simply a headcanon/fanon from what can actually pass for canon has transferred over to comics writing.
When the MCU was going strong, I used to buy the $1 Marvel True Believers reprints that tied into what the current MCU movie was for a few of my coworkers.
They usually highlighted the new characters appearing in the MCU movies that were releasing &/or the story the movie was adapted from.
Eventually the MCU projects became unrecognizable from the stories/ characters in the True Believers reprints.
One of my coworkers actually went to the LCS I'd get them from to check out the current day comics. It's World's Best Comics in Sacramento, California, the shop I've gone to since I was a kid in the 90s.
He said he stayed for about 30'ish minutes. He checked out the Marvel True Believers and DC facsimile reprint racks, but for the most part he didn't recognize the characters in the current books,
and when he picked them up to check them out, he thought the artwork looked ugly compared to the reprint books I'd been giving him.
He spent most of his time looking at the classic reprints and the manga section. He checked out some of the classic trade paperbacks, but thought they were way overpriced compared to the manga collections he normally buys.
The short answer is yes.
The long answer is essentially, yes.
What did you think of indie comic?
Read valiant comics, absolute universe dc is honestly amazing, pretty much xmen, nightwing, superman, and the batman superman worlds finest books are all good
The Energon, Absolute, and Ultimate universes have been a lot of fun. There is also Ghost Machine which consists of books like Geiger and Rook Exodus which also make for a great read.
The big problem is that comics have ran for decades now and titles have to run every single month. Quality has to eventually suffer. And when you have characters with multiple titles every month, it just turns to a mess. Authors don't put out books every month and those who put out two books a year have now diluted their own brand quality by doing so. Comics geuinely do need a form of gatekeeping. Imagine if there was one Batman story and only 12 issues per year. You bet your arse that they would make sure it was 12 of the best written, planned and drawn issues, every single year.
Makes me think of how a lot of classic literature was released as weekly or by-weekly chapters (like W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair).
Something about too much quantity makes you automatically jump to the conclusion that it can’t be too high in quality, which has kinda been proven so many times in the past.
Bullshit. Marvel and DC have had a lot of titles before, and they were quality. Yeah, the stories might be stupid, but they weren't writing stories disregarding continuity, turning gay out of nowhere, and over use of deconstruction on heroes
@@deadpilled2942 You just said the stories were quality, and then said they were stupid. Opinion rejected.
I'm mainly just here for your Kirby shirt
Just had a thought. What if someone designed a Kirby shirt in Jack Kirby's style, with the crackle, etc.
15:02 It actually was explored before, plenty of times really.
But the big problem always circles around how Nightcrawler considers Rogue like a legitimate sister... But not the very girl he was raised with in his adoptive family, the Szardos.
Because of Krakoa, we also know that Nightcrawler actually has romantic feelings towards Rogue so on top of him viewing the very girl he was raised with as a legitimate love interest, Rogue is now also added into this mix of dubious writing moments.
Like Nightcrawler and his adoptive sister also used their weird family relationship in their flirts and now he's more brotherly to Rogue than he's ever been in decades of stories ?
2:21 Oh yeah I remember this artist.
He spent his time drawing Nightcrawler with the wrong number of fingers in every close-up panels.
Modern comics have gone done hill and are dying in quality which is why manga is doing well in manga sales people now moved on to manga and stop reading comics, because manga is fiction at its best
I still read and enjoy some newer comics (I mostly read in digital trades because I am not paying for monthly prices on physical issues that I’ll have to store or toss) but manga is more consistent and I’m more excited for manga more frequently.
Plus, the communities around discussing each manga chapter or what they love and hate in series are much more fun to me. I know some communities, people say are kinda crazy with shippers and such, but the ones I’ve been around are more chill and I don’t feel like I have to walk on egg shells to clarify that I’m not trying to make a political statement by saying I don’t like various things in Marvel or DC or risk getting blocked or banned.
No, manga are doing well cause they are quite cheap and easy to pick up compared to a single issue comic book series with convoluted reading orders. Mangas are also released on a much tighter schedule most of the time, coloring is not a question, they barely have any liberty on when stuff has to release compared to the west. Ranting on x or arguing with your editor are things they barely have time for, japanese work culture is quite toxic but effective.
Editing has/is becoming a lost art. It was never only fixing mistakes, but a good editor helped a writer turn an idea into the best story it could be. A lot of stuff we’ve been seeing in comics for several years now is stuff that should have been scrapped by an editor when the pitch was made.
Lately I've just been reading a comic or two a month but Im genuinely excited about Hush 2 and Absolute Batman and Wonder Woman. Its been so long since I've felt like this 😭
You mean hush 3
@@revolutionarydragon1123 or 5.
They became unreadable by the mid 2010s. I did try Gargoyles, Creepshow and the new EC comics this year. Gargoyles was good but the others were infested with the same heavy handed politics modern comics are notorious for. No subtlety at all and generally poor writing in general. If you're going to push ideologies or propaganda you need to be subtle with it and make it entertaining. Most people working in modern comics and media in general don't have the talent to do that but don't seem self aware enough to realize.
Oh and so much of the art is ugly now.
I have to pick and choose which comics I read since while I'm well versed in comic FILMS, I'm still slowly integrating into comic BOOKS for three or four years, simply because this art form is a mixed bag for me. There are things I enjoy, where I love something like Batman: The Killing Joke or Watchmen. But the only modern comics that have really caught my attention within the last two or three years are Batman: Three Jokers, and The Batman Who Laughs. Other than that, it's like I'm fishing for a comic to enjoy in a sea of mediocre or bad books, or books I just simply have no idea about.
Does Gambit still have the cats? My priority will always be the cats.
yes
Just to offer some historical perspective, i fell in Love with the 90s X-men Comics (the one with the fold out Xmen pool party) but then the Cartoon (compared to the comics) was PG'ed and Juniorized so Wolverine's claws were reserved for Doors, Robots, & Alarm Clocks.
I think there always have been good to great comics over the last decade of the dark years. The problem is that you have to wade through a bunch of nonsense to find them, and fewer and fewer of them are coming from the "Big" Two. Daredevil has almost always been great for some reason (his last mediocre run was with Mark a decade ago). I think they're smart to try to bring in the tried and true veterans again, and I agree that they need to foster new up and coming talent, but they both need to change how they do business and clean house of the editors and a bunch of the once-new writers that they hired over the last decade to fifteen years before they do. They hired a bunch of people from social media and the YA novel space who either didn't give a rip about comics (not the characters or their continuity), which only resulted in the industry getting taken over by either hack writers who don't understand the medium, grifters who just used comics to try to get Netflix deals, or activists who treat it like a plaform the air all of their pet issues and personal fetishes at the expense of everything else. Business-wise, they need to refocus on actually making sales and take a few lessons from the manga, bande dessinee, and indie comic spaces that than actually work and adjust accordingly.
I find there are some good modern comics, but thankfully there are enough old comics to keep me busy forever. The problem though is that there is such an overload of garbage from Marvel and DC that I wonder how any new readers are getting into comics at all. I certainly don't think I would be
I'm completely down for more of this. Please keep making these vids. These were very fair and well-thought out reviews overall. Will be checking out Absolute Batman. Thanks! 👍
10:22 yeah, that really sounds like a self insert, and personally i've been writing a fan fiction with me and my friends, where my main character is a mutant who looks like a rat man. Personally, my character is actually up disgusted by their community in the world because he sees them parading around, pretending to be animals while he's having a horrible time in life because he looks like one and it's a physical detriment to him.
After wading through 14 issues of Tom King's Wonder Woman, I can say yes. It is miserable. Though, that may be a special case considering the writer's track record.
The art in that Uncanny X-Men book is a big turn off for me. Current day Marvel comic artwork just feels so grimy/ inconsistent.
Like you were saying about the bad dialogue, the artwork pulls me out of the story.
Another channel I watch focuses mostly on the Incredible Hulk, he's been keeping up on the current Hulk storyline and the artwork just looks gross/ inconsistent to me.
I keep my ear to the ground, waiting to hear if things have changed enough to wade back in. I really want to like Marvel/ DC comics again.
I feel a large part of the problem is that they're subsidiaries of Disney and Warner Bros. They don't have the drive/ hunger to catch readers' attention and the need for success to keep their companies going.
If they suck or succeed, it doesn't matter to them.
Great video, fair and well balanced. Good to see a creator talk about the good AND bad.
Rise of Arsenal #3 is one of my favorite comics of all time. It's the one with the dead cat. It's like if a mormon tried to write taxi driver. It's like if James Gunn hired Neil Breen and he cast himself as Speedy. So great, so great.
Young Justice even references that issue. The rock bottom episode where Red Arrow meets Lian for the first time, they show the cat alive in the ally. The cat isn't dead yet, and neither is Lian...yet. I love how they took something so famously dumb and made something so dark and clever out of it.
Hopefully Marvel repairs the damage done to the X-Men by the Krakoan era
Absolute Batman was enjoyabke when the issue shifts to the Party Animals
The action was quite good albeit too violent
Uncanny X-Men reads like a Rogue solo series with the X-Men as guest stars
So far, I'm underwhelmed
So far, still an accurate description.
Yes, yes they are. DC's new villain. 😂💀
The only modern comics i enjoy was chip zdarksy's daredevil and recently 2024 ultimate spider man.
This is when you write good stories, instead of using comics as platform pieces
Last comic I wanted to buy was Archie comic's Mega Man comics,when they lost the license and had to cancel it,I was done with comics. I use to enjoy Spider-Man comics until Marvel totally screwed up his character.
Simone also created the character that gets killed in the first five minutes of the second suicide squad movie. Savant, i think, the one with the blond hair. That guy experiences every moment of his life for an eternity. So he knows everything about everything that he experiences, because he has infinite time to observe and think things over. He gets abducted and tortured once, so he experience torture for an eternity. Sick Simone shiz, i love it.
Not really reading comics myself, but not a fan of the Batman artwork at all. Other than that, I thought your overall breakdown was fascinating and very interesting and insightful.
Nightcrawler likes furry parties... Did an ai write that? 😅
Honestly I think Rogue breaking down cause of the kid makes sense. It was her touch that killed him, as he killed himself by purposely touching her before she could react and control her power.
My issue is that Rogue came here without any of her usual skin covering gear which is uncharacteristic of her.
Image Comics/Skybound’s Transformers is amazing and I’m loving the Absolute Universe so far. Batman’s new story is something I’m very interested in and I did like Absolute Wonder Woman
And I’ve heard great thing’s about Skybound’s Void Rivals
Also, when you got to that Rogue line, I’m southern, from Mississippi like Rogue, and I don’t know where the idea that we talk like that came from but that’s not even close
Gail's been around for a while, too. There might be a litte, how do you do fellow kids, to the twitter speak.
Today's zeitgeist in comics is like cross a deep swamp: you can keep your head clean for some seconds and think everything is ok, but you will sink again soon! If the dialogue is bad, the story is bad, and if the story isn't, is just a matter of time! Modern comics are DEAD!
13:12 Gambit looks cool as fuck in that left panel
You should check out the new Ultimate Spider-Man comics and the Nightwing Fallen Grayson story from Tom Taylor
Gail Simone is always chasing trends in a 'hello fellow kids' way, and has the industry weight to get not edited very much, which is why the dialogue is like that.
Yeah, getting into comics for me has just been making me feel horrible. I've also been trying to get into the x men (with the like 9 comics they have seriously That's a lot) and just the process of getting caught up because I haven't read comics at all. It just kind of made me feel depressed about them. Especially x man, for some reason, it always feels like they're on a giant circle of being on the cusp of being accepted or being nearly extinct
If you're reading Gail Simone and you're shocked, shocked! that there's fetish in it, then you haven't read much Gail Simone. Put down what you're reading and go get Secret 6 v3. I think you'll get it a little better.
But what broke me on Simone was, it was either Secret Six or Birds of Prey, where she had a five issue arc that took place in three time periods simultaneously, and after three issues i was was confused and angry. It was so difficult to read and the gimmicks never paid off. You couldn't get emotionally invested because you're already seeing the future.
Her Wonder Woman about the wittle babies was pretty sick and awesome. She dove right into, what would an island of childless, sexless women look like. How would an entire nation with empty womb syndrome function? Turns out, in the extreme, pretty bad.
Oh and she was the famous, "women in refrigerators" lady. That was hers. I never read it, but Kyle Reneiers girlfriend ends up dead in his refrigerator. So Simone compiled a list of the fates of every superhero wife, girlfriend or female sidekick, and the list was pretty grim. Turns out when hack writers run out of ideas they kill women. My only counter argument is it doesn't often work out for boy wonders, but it's hard to deny the double standard when you look over the list.
It's been years since I bought a comic from the big two, tbh. But if they keep improving, maybe I'll be back
I think Ultimates and Ultimate Spider-Man is pretty good, but I haven’t read anything else new to be honest
I would read the ultimate spider man 2024 run, instead of the ASM run
So, we're going to basically ignore the existence of comics not published by Marvel or DC ?
Cause I'm more of an indie/alternative comics guy.
Other than Wolverine, everything Marvel has been horrible. The Superman titles have been very good and some have been great. Comics like Wonder Woman have been atrocious. I feel like DC is slowly increasing in quality while Marvel dies.
There are inexpensive collections that Humble Bundle posts periodically, if it's anything made after 2000 I pass
Have you read or check out the Absolute Power storyline that was going on in DC this year?
Have you read comics from publishers other than Marvel and D.C? They have fantastic stories that are not just superheroes. Something Is Killing The Children is pretty damn awesome along with its spin-off House Of Slaughter. Boom Studios and IDW publish a variety of good books. Maybe if you try comics outside of the big two it may change how you see modern comics.
Oh and Animal Pound by Tim King was also really good.
Don't inform people of other publishers, they might actually stop complaining
I'd say for the most part? Yes. But I still see one or two that catch my eye. I'm at least still looking forward to the Two Face solo run coming soon.
Besides reading anything Gambit is in, I'm also trying to give Ackerman's Iron Man run a chance. Will report back once I get the new issue.
Disney has destroyed Marvel and WB has ruined DC completely.
To be fair, those 2 were going downhill before their corporate overlords stepped in. Need we forget the 90's which was nothing but edgy torture porn comics with evil versions of all of our favorite heroes? Need we forget the lost comic known as "The Rape of Wonder Woman" which was going to feature a 21 page rape scene.
@@sammysstopmotionoas1996 Thank you; people love to put the rose colored glasses for pre-Disney Marvel, not realizing they nearly put themselves out of business… at least now a mistake like that is not an existential crisis.
@@sammysstopmotionoas1996 It was the animated shows that helped elevate the comics. Back then, people had expert creative licenses. Cheshire’s mask, for example, came from Teen Titans, and X-23 came from XME. Now, they hire based on ideology and not on the love of the source material. The OG comics had much better to provide than the current. The problem is greed/hiring people for all the wrong reasons.
Jfc. I would dnf if I had to read the most repressed catholic character after Matt Murdock talk about furry parties.
With that word blurb next to you…I wasn’t sure what kind of video we were getting 😆
😅 I've been wanting to get back into comics over the years I think the only ones that are new eyes that I've read are the X-Men ones the X-Men galas and maybe a couple of others that I've seen but I just gave up on comics so many years ago because every other
year especially with DC comics over the years they reboot them after like 4 or 5 years and you get used to one story line that gets dropped especially when you get attached to certain characters
I especially wanted to stay with certain stories especially ones regarding the Titans and especially the character Raven but every other time I look up her story or a new story about her would come out
Even with marvel comics even though I've come to like some of the characters in marvel I've always liked X-Men and have tried to keep up with their comics sometimes I just feel lost reading them I think that's why I've always stayed with manga more even though for about a year or two I wasn't really reading manga cuz a lot of the mangas I read wrong hiatus but a lot of the mangas I used to read are
coming to an end or have sequels out or have switched to coming out once a month or coming out four times a year and to fill that Gap I thought I would maybe go back to comics but it just doesn't feel worth it so I go back and reread oh my goodness that I used to love that ended years ago and that's helped me fill the void I do miss comics it really does feel like it's a
dying industry despite all the hype behind movies and such I see I don't know maybe something big will come along like how marvel was big up to endgame it seems and maybe people will be back into superheroes again but I think during the pandemic people just got burned out with superheroes and stuff
Cuz even in the manga community there's the manga my hero academia which is mainly based off of superheroes and it feels like we got burnt out on that even with cartoons related to superheroes and stuff like miraculous ladybug people are still into that due to how the Lord and the show is set up and the Creator is always on Twitter or causing fights so of course people are going to stand in vested
😂
But I don't know I do miss comics and seeing all the characters I like it's just hard to get back into them
Hey, and Good Day, JesterBell! I love your comic talk and writings so super stoked for your insight! Also, if you guys haven't seen, JesterBell did a positive discussion with her possible clone/possible sister (I'm not not positive!) in her "The Best Comics You'll Ever Read!! (with a Hot Guest)."
Looking forward to another year with no more than three movie tickets within twelve months.
These characters have been damaged beyond repair. Doing Ultimate/Absolute Versions is a stopgap measure at best. The X-Men have too much baggage coming off of the disasterous Krakoa Era, whatever they do and where every they go from here will forever be tainted by that era. The Mindset that made comics hugely popular way back when is gone, and that mindset is what needs to come back for them medium to survive IMO. But how can it comeback when the "Creatives" believe themselves to be bigger than the characters they write? When these "Creatives" believe that they are the greatest to ever write in the medium, without the sales to back them up? They believe Canon doesn't matter, that Consistency doesn't matter, all the things that Made comics what they were at their height Don't Matter. How can they come back when this is still the prevailing mindset?
I really adore the cody Zeglar miles morales comic run
I've been a comics reader, particularly Marvel, since the early 70's. Through the decades, it was a niche hobby that got you made fun of. No girl ever was into them in my experience. Not the cool girl, so-called nerd girl, the goth girl, stoner girl, no girl. All these clicks had one uniting force. Girls dunked on you for it and definitely got you nerd labeled. Pretty much cool guys too, but they at least privately dug comics too. just couldn't admit it outloud due to the street cred taking hit. Comics were made for outsiders like me, boys being the main overwhelming majority of their audience because this sizable quota were a demo that weren't in the inner circle, the 'it' crowd and this was all we had. If you didn't like sports or get along with people who openly terrorized you, including girls. This was a fantasy world to escape into. It saved me. In the late 80's, with D&D having become popular and other fantasy content like ElfQuest, a thin sliver of fringe girls would pop up in once men dominated gatherings to play or nerd out with. And no comic nerd guy ever gatekeeped ever. A chick showed up, she was royalty. Which jadedly I suspect was the majority of the reason most of these supposedly hardcore comic girl fans showed up was for the attention and unadulterated adulation of ever guy there. But in the mainstream and real world, the quick go-to response to Star Wars/Star Trek/Comic book fans was mockery and really bad by girls, women, any female media. The lines were clearly drawn as late as 2002. That's when Spiderman by Sony was released and changed everything. As a lifelong fan, I always dreamed of worldwide acceptance of our nerd boy fringe hobby to feel legit. But, turns out, that would be the worst thing ever to happened to the thing we loved the most. Remember, comics was our nerd default thing due to a rejection by the mainstream and popular crowd. We didn't gatekeeper. We would've loved the opposite sex to care deeply enough to want to join and be a part of this universe in any capacity. Not sarcastically and stereotypically write us off as some cliche idea in their head what they thought we were. But as soon as Superheroes was profitable, and could be exploited, the girl blood suckers showed up in full force and diversity wreckers of all things, infiltrating when it was an open door policy, saying we were exclusive when nobody gave two craps about us or our interests, hijacked our interests and kicked us out, and for poetic license to it all, saying we were raciest homophobs who lived in our parents basement and ate paste. First off, the paste thing: one time! Second, we just want our niche hobby back that nobody cared about for decades and was our only escape. The people in charge of it now don't even like comics. o superheroes. Or themselves. They hate the position in the field they're in. It's just a stepping stone to get to the actual career in the medium of entertainment they really want to be in. So the utter destruction off this precious thing we once loved and kept alive for years and years is for these apathetic narcissists with a cut throat business acumen for a soul just a mere blip in their overall career trajectory.
The short answer: comics still suck enormous hippo ass.
Marvel doesn't have editors.
Love these videos
I never want to hear people at Marvel say they can't write a happy, non-boring married couple after seeing Rogue and Gambit in Uncanny. I do agree a lot about the dialogue.
Glad you're enjoying David Marquez's X-Men art. I really don't care for any main superhero comics continuity past Peter Tomasi's and Patrick Gleason's DC Rebirth Superman (I had the DC Rebirth Superman 7 Jorge Jimenez Superman art as my wallpaper when I was buying it), which was my favorite since Geoff Johns' New 52 Aquaman, and I remember really liking Paul Dini's and Alan Burnett's Batman Adventures Continue Season One but don't remember why I didn't continue reading....I have a guess though. Thanks for your insight. I hope you keep enjoying but those comics aren't for me, including Hickman's Ultimate Spider-man (I tried).
I liked Brian Michael Bendis' Ultimate Spider-man though! I skipped through some of it, but overall they were my favorite comics I read from him. Thanks again. Hope you and your family have a nice day, JesterBell!
Never did I think I would ever hear "Bat-Axe" before as a tool
I think the Big 2 are. But Image is pushing out diverse and quality stories.
due to the pandemic(and the lost of both my jobs)l didn’t have as much disposable income,l
had to end my decades long subscription service at my local comic book store 😥presently l occasionally purchase a few titles but not as much 🤓
My comic isn't terrible. But I'm biased, lol.
Comics peaked in the 1980s and then went downhill in the 90's, and have been going downhill ever since.
Comics definitely peaked in the 80s, but I still think the 00s were a really good decade overall. Maybe it's just because that's when I started following comics, but there were a ton of great storylines.
@Tyler_W there definitely were good stories in the aughts and even the 90s, Kingdom Come, Grant Morrison's Animal Man, Justice League The New Frontier, Batman Hush, All Star Superman, but honestly what really kept Super Heroes and comic characters alive in that time were the Cartoons. The Fox Marvel stuff in the 90s and the DC Cartoon Network stuff in the 2000's.
When you mention you got sick of the writers inserting their fetishes, I immediately think of the New 52 Suicide Squad. Wouldn't be surprised if that's one you're thinking of, too haha
I recently got into marvel comics, just got avengers disassembled, house of M, the children's crusade and the first two installements in the Scarlet Witch solo series by Steve Orlando, last door and Magnum opus, I'm a bit of Scarlet Witch stan if you can't already tell😅
:::awaits inevitable Magneto/Rogue relationship criticism:::
Comics will never go away due to one simple fact, ink and paper are cheap. It's a rounding error on a major media conglomerates' books. And you never know when it going to lead to a billion dollar piece of ip.
I've never been into comics, but I did start reading the new Ultimate Spider-Man, and it's great, so far
There are some good comics, you just have to give them a shoot... im enjoying Void Rivals, Transformers, Rook Exodus. Conan The Barbarian, The Sacrificers.... im still buying some DC/Marvel but since the stories have been mostly sht im.more mindfull on how I use my money(this prices are getting ridiculous😅, im also checking absolute batman it was ok)
I stopped reading comic books back in 2018 when I realized they were going for the politics and stuff and the stories were getting boring ya never again.
Absolutely Batman is great!
I highly recommend checking out the new Ultimate Spiderman, it’s an alternate reality where Peter becomes Spider-Man in his 30s and he’s already married to MJ and they have kids. It’s very well put together well worth your time.
I stopped reading comics since the end of avengers vs x men.
Look, I tend to think deliberate bias is at work in this channel. I've read a lot of DC. This is a channel which intentionally promotes Marvel. That's ok if that is what you want, but I don't detect impartiality or genuine criticism. An axe to grind here.
The Ironic thing is that the best comic I read lately it was "Disney's Minnie & Daisy - Spy-Power" and the funniest part is that it was made by Italians and have zero woke content.
also pick up the other book in the Absolute Universe they're really good
Ayy, I voted on the poll for the title
Comic book characters shouldn't have adult sexual relationships.
Also, did you really just say that a child dying from cancer isn't enough motivation to be sad?
If this is the best art work and character design you have seen then Pepe Larraz would like a word with you but while decent, it's nothing compared to the draftsmen that is Larraz.
Immortal Thor’s pretty good.
Not an X-fan so I wasn’t interested. Found Absolute Batman to be decent but not interesting enough to continue. Absolute Superman is the best of the three Absolute first issues, IMO. Really happy with Action Comics right now and the first issue with the new creative team on Nightwing is very good. Green Lantern has been good for a while.
Conan is really good!
Tell me, is Paul Dini’s Gotham City Sirens run worth reading?
Hey i just wanted to say, I know the views are lower right now, but they’ll go back up! It’s this way for a lot of creators right now. Love your videos, don’t give up ❤
RIP modern comics. They’re making fun of their audience atp.
I’m really digging the new uncanny run, although the “100% x-men” line def threw me way off on my first read thru. Plz check out the new witchblade run! It’s not just a sexy lady cover book! I think you’d really get behind the story.
From what ive seen of one modern comic the art seemed a bit dark & washed out think because it was digital but that is just one example tge rest are probaly good...hahah. .it is weird the weird bits being written into the stories good vid thanks.
Good job, J.B.!
DC's Absolute universe seems good, although there are only 2 issues thus far. If the Absolute universe turns to trash, I'll just go back to buying reprints and facsimiles of old comics that I had when I was younger.
I'll just stick with the old comic book stories
Support my upcoming indie graphic novel and you’ll be convinced to come back into reading comics
Anyone here read Batman: The Adventures Continue, written by Paul Dini and Alan Burnett?
I prefer to buy graphic novels from the past. I have 6 versions of Kingdom Come. I am tired of politics and race bating in my entertainment. I want to read comic and watch movies to escape my reality. I don't want to spend money for watch or read something that tells me about my own reality.
Don't know, I'm too busy reading manga.