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Originally Posted by xg4bx
i was just talking to my dad about comics and i expressed amazement that they're even still around, at least in the printed form. i would have figured that they'd all be digital and borderline animated by now.
i remember when comics made the jump from $1 to $1.25, it felt like the end of the world lol.
the last time i looked at a comic they were hovering around the $3-$4 mark and had the page count of a pamphlet. add in the constant reboots,restarts and crossovers youre looking at a nice chunk of change for what generally used to be a dirt cheap hobby. what was wrong with 12 issues and an annual?
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Although the increasing prices and the increasing number of crossovers are a factor, for me what has hurt comics the most are the continual reboots and restarts. Used to be, it was easy to follow a series. There might be an occasional crossover but it wasn't a problem if it was handled well (especially if the characters are related in some way, such as the friendship between The Flash [Barry Allen] and Elongated Man).
I'm mostly a DC Comics reader, and since I started collecting in 1975, I've been through four reboots (Crisis On Infinite Earths [COIE], Zero Hour - Crisis In Time, Infinite Crisis, and Flashpoint/The New 52). Each has added more complexity and more confusion, and things that should be simple no longer are. Often, the simplest questions take many paragraphs to fully answer.
To provide an example, I'm a long-time fan of "Legion Of Super-Heroes" (LSH). When I started reading it, it was a great series that kept me coming back issue after issue. For me when it was at its best, it was on par with movies like "Star Wars" and TV series like "Star Trek."
However, after COIE LSH has gone through so many changes that, before "Flashpoint," there were three different versions of the Legion and each of them was in continuity. Now, once again, the series has been rebooted and I'm not sure what is going on (Which is now the real Legion? What is its history? How many of the previous stories are still valid?).
For this reason, I'm finding it more and more difficult to invest myself in this series, or any series. I'm getting to the point that there's no point in it since what I enjoy might soon be rebooted away once again.