Comments on: Some Simple Rules

By: Xiphias133

Xiphias133 — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:36:00 +0000

Rule number three makes the loudest statement for me. I’ve got like 3 issues of captain america where he dies, and two where spider-man bites it. I feel that now, it’s just some sort of adrenaline surge to get readership up again because everyone KNOWS that they’re not going to cancel the comic because the hero dies. He’ll always turn out to have a spare clone body, his soul be in another dimension, or forming a cocoon underneath the brooklyn bridge only to burst out perfectly fine.
Rebooting comics in my opinion is a cheap cop out on actual story progression. Peter Parker was actually evolving as a charater ( he was a science teacher, the ” Other” arc expanded his super powers) when all of a sudden, someone at the marvel studios got cold feet and decided to POOF make it all not happen and revert him to the daily bugle-photographer-aunt-may schmuck that we’ve been living with for 40 years. IMO, it was a devastatingly bad show of creativity that such leaps and bounds had been taken with a character only to be, quite literally, erased from existence. I call bullsh*t, and if atomic robo is standing above all that nonsense with great writing, art, and most importantly, PRINCIPLES, i will gladly support it.

Ah, sorry for the rant; I got a bit carried away…

By: Bill4935

Bill4935 — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:47:00 +0000

I already own Robo TPB #1, but based solely on how much I approve of your cheesecake rule, I’m buying the rest. Comics as a medium won’t grow up until we have equal numbers of female fans & creators, and that won’t happen without some basic respect.

ps. I was sorry to hear that you became a fan of comics in the 90s. I was lucky myself to be a fan only up to 1989, and missed the abysmal “hypermuscle and giant guns” years that really warped a lot of young minds.

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Meanwhile, in the future…. « Spectre Collie — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:37:25 +0000

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By: Mathias Emil

Mathias Emil — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:50:56 +0000

Great example of this “deep angst”:
I was reading a “What If” comic today, “What if the Impossible Man got the Infinity Gauntlet?”
Infinity Gauntlet, in my eyes, was awesome. There was no angst, no drama, merely a problem, an unsolvable problem, and they had to beat it. And the Impossible Man? How can this not be great? And what do I read but a plothole-riddled sob story about the Silver Surfer, instead of what should be a very intertaining miscreant with god powers.

Long story short, you guys make comic book fans everywhere proud. Keep up the good work.

By: FU_JQ

FU_JQ — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:21:55 +0000

I was a big Spiderman fan back in the early 90's, then I stopped buying for almost ten years. Why? Two words. CLONE SAGA. It was one thing to do crossovers with all four titles for major events, like “Maximum Carnage”, but they started doing it for EVERY ISSUE. You had to buy four comics every month just to follow the story that made no sense and wasn't going anywhere anyway. Eventually I realized I just didn't care any more. I got back into it when I noticed JMS was writing, and I started loving it again. Then “One More Day” happened. I am now boycotting ALL Marvel comics and merchandise until they un-F*** up Spiderman and get rid of Joe Quesada. Just because he's got mother and wife issues doesn't mean he should be screwing up every Marvel character by forcing his neuroses on the readers.