A Change posted by pjallen080483

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Something different

 

Over the past few years I have found myself to become one of those people that follow the trend after getting back into comics, not picking up a book cause of the story or because I enjoy the art associated with but because it's the "in" thing at the moment. And because of this i have several comics that i have no desire keeping or sending off to get slabbed.

 

Most recently I have begun an inner battle, New 52's Action Comics and Batman, I already parted ways with Detective, Superman, Green Lantern, and a few other up to the point complete runs. With fear of missing out on the HTF or must have issue cause of a 1st appearance or plot twist i still have these on my pull list and can't break away from either titles. And as sad as it is I don't find any enjoyment in reading either title because to me the story has died off.

 

The hard choice is to or not too just cut ties and sell the series run I have, or just grin and bare it with hopes the story picks back up. And with marvel "rebooting" several of my favorite characters, mainly the spider-man universe, it makes it all that more difficult,

at one point i owned every issue of amazing vol.1 and vol.2 from #200-700, but with money issues had to sell them, so now i concentrate on completing the sets i have entirely including variants(yeah I'm one of those guys now).

 

Hopefully if i do rid myself of the comics i no longer find pleasure in having I won't regret it and worry if I will be missing out.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

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[mattn792]

Speaking from experience, I've divested myself of a number of sets that I found I really had no interest in, and I haven't looked back. While many of them were relatively minor projects I had just started and didn't give a second thought, one that has actually kept giving me a sense of happiness was ditching all the garbage that Marvel polluted, and ultimately ruined, the Wolverine series with.

 

My registry sets speak to the Wolverine fanatic that I am, and immediately upon finishing the comedically awful "death" of Wolverine, I took it upon myself to get all the Marvel Now! trash out of my collection. I found the entire fiasco to be an insult to the title and the character that so many of us had grown to love since he was first introduced in 1974. I'm just glad I got a few bucks for them on eBay, because I nearly set them all on fire in the backyard instead.

 

But the Marvel pander machine churns on, grinding up and destroying the characters we all grew up with. Seriously, there's now a "Totally Awesome" Hulk to add to Thorina, Wolverina, and all the other PC tripe that pollutes the new release rack? (Bleep) that. I'm fine living in the past when new releases were still worth buying.

 

If you're not enjoying a particular part of the hobby, why continue with it?