Over saturation will do that. Shit happened to marvel in the mid-to-late aughts when wolverine was in god damn everything. It was why I just quit reading marvel for 6 years.
I just find the current state of DC comics in general unreadable.
Yes there the outliers but thats it
This happens with every character unfortunately.
Corporate ownership.
I just listened to a bunch of old fogeys (Iām one my self) attempting to cope with waning comic sales and scrambling to think of ways to get ex Marvel employees, who are now ex DC employees, to become new Marvel employees. Okay, sure - some people will forever be company men, and turn out good work month in and month out.
There are new avenues that are more creator friendly, and equitable to the creative teams.
Why put in your best work on something you donāt own?
I donāt even want to hear Western fans weave their foolish conspiracy theories about manga. At one point 40% of all printed materials in Japan was comics. There was not a targeted social campaign in the nascent years of their comic industry to demonize and relegate the medium to a school age children readership. There are fan made comic conventions in Japan that have a higher attendance than the bloody San Diego Comic Con, which encompasses not only comic books, but film, and video games. And Comiket attendance dunks on that.
I find it absurd that in a culture obsessed with righteousness and equity, we are so willing to overlook the absolute fuckery the comic book market in America was founded on.
Maybe itās time to stop and think, Batman and Spiderman arenāt selling; because the great, great, great, great grandchildren of the people who originally read these characters arenāt interested in reading those old characters in that antiquated medium, when they can watch a cartoon, a movie, a TV show, or a video game with them thatās not wildly overpriced for the value.
The only similarity Iām seeing in Japan presently is Go Nagai farming out his characters for new stories. However, the Japanese market does rely on Devilman, Mazinger, and Cutie Honey for sales. Itās just nice that those characters still stick around.
And on the publishing end - Rumiko Takahashi was a millionaire from making comics two decades ago. Female. Comic. Millionaire. Three words the American market would love to recite, if only characters and ideas werenāt controlled by the publisher.
I love comics, but the medium I love was founded on skullduggery. The existing model needs to fade off into the sunset, and be replaced by one that more resembles our literature market. Where publishers publish, and donāt attempt to wrestle every right from the creators and maximize their profits.
I prefer to call him The Batman Who Shops at Hot Topic. Heās such āedgyā boomer shit. I love Capulloās art, but Snyder and Capullo have been making nothing but total dad-boner comics for the the past several years now.
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Iād like the same but unfortunately two of the biggest media conglomerates in the world own almost the entire comic industry. Soā¦nothing will change.
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We canāt give up hope.
And Iām a pessimist! 
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Never woulda guessed. 
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King in Black event has not disappointed!!
Celebrating the anniversary of the Invincible seriesā¦
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The rant/speaking truth from Aris.
I assume this is in the live stream but just incase people just wanna see the teaser
https://twitter.com/InvincibleHQ/status/1352730759606398976?s=19
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Letās fucking go, FLASH!!!
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Tapping out on Superman Year One. Not an indictment of the book itself, may be entertaining to somebody else; but very much reminds me of Scott Snyderās Batman once we got past Court of Owls / Talon arcs.
Just retreading stuff Iāve read time and time again. I donāt need it.
Fortunately my Monstress collection and Superman Rebirth vols. 3&4 arrived. Wonder if the Monstress floppies are still sought after. May be worth unloading if they are.
Brazilian artist hand lettering in second language, backwards. The EDITOR(S) should have caught this instead of sitting on their asses cashing paychecks. Allegedly three of them on this book. Piss poor work.
Humble Bundle bandes dessinƩes KINO: MOEBIUS & MORE PRESENTED BY HUMANOIDS
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ā¦neat.
Knull about to catch a runback fade!!
Comic Tropes revisits an old favorite. . .
I havenāt looked into what second hand value the issues hold, if thereās a market for them; I should unload them. Still have quite a bit of sentimental value though.
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I love Chris. Heās an awesome dude. I also have a bit of bias cause heās a Seattleite like I am.
His stuff is well made, and he keeps it pretty focused. I really struggle to find decent comic book content on youtube that isnāt either a snorefest, or booty blasted man-children crying because they refuse to grow the fuck up.
Donāt get me wrong, as an oldhead comic reader - Iāve got my preferences, but I also recognize that the way mainstream comics work is not particularly conducive to consistent quality or creative equity.
So itās a rare treat when after 26 years of not reading X-Men, I can find a new X-Men comic that feels like the Claremont era; but I realize it will also be short lived and Iām just being a nostalgic old shit. 
Casually Comics is pretty solid as well, and doesnāt strike me as the gross thirst trap of other comic presenters.
