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Post by defiant1 on Jul 4, 2011 11:41:50 GMT -5
I find it interesting that our timeliness are very similar. Although we often had different reasons for quitting we were sometimes very much the same too. I think the realization that things had deteriorated around the same time although it sems to have hit you earlier and harder, the realization of what's missing and wrong is in agreement. I don't think it is a coincidence and I'm sure a lot more feel the same way. Jim Shooter claimed that Marvel was pressured by the parent company to increase volume in order to raise capital. The only issue of Secret Wars I bought was the first one. I resented having to buy a miniseries to understand what was happening in the regular title. df1 |
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Post by G on Jul 4, 2011 20:15:37 GMT -5
I didn't think that mini-series and epic events started off as bad ideas. They just got way out of hand. It started out feeling kind of special. Something comics might do once in awhile. It turned into being more of a focus than the regular comics. Each one further diluted anything special about what happened in previous mini series. It got to be played out. The focus needed to return back to the mainstream comics and I don't think it ever did.
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Post by defiant1 on Jul 5, 2011 4:55:20 GMT -5
I didn't think that mini-series and epic events started off as bad ideas. They just got way out of hand. It started out feeling kind of special. Something comics might do once in awhile. It turned into being more of a focus than the regular comics. Each one further diluted anything special about what happened in previous mini series. It got to be played out. The focus needed to return back to the mainstream comics and I don't think it ever did. I pretty much agree. I never liked the "Vision and Scarlett Witch" mini series, so that started them off early as a disappointment. Overall though, I can't point to one specific miniseries as the reason comics went to hell. It was a focus that changed over time. I had never heard the term "story arc" until after Jim Shooter was ousted from Valiant. df1 |
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