Category: Comics

Apparently I haven’t written about comics in almost a year. I knew I hadn’t written a lot – I’ve been slacking on the blog in general this past year – but really, no posts about comics for that long? I suppose my review of Kick-Ass was kind of comic-related, but I never read the book.

My lazy blogging habits are one culprit. Aside from a crippling bout of writer’s block (which isn’t really writer’s block, because there’s no such thing; I just loathe everything I write lately), Twitter sucks up a lot of my thoughts and sentences. I spend more time redesigning my blog than I do writing for it. (Played with Movable Type for a while, partly to learn it for work; went back to WordPress because I like the plugins.)

But the biggest comic-related change is that I finally stopped caring about what Marvel & DC do in their superhero books. I used to have a passing interest, thanks to decades of reading them; I tried to keep up with what was going on, and picked up a book here and there if it had a creative team or concept I liked. But every time my hopes got up a little, they were slapped back down by a book that was either mediocre or dedicated to telling shared-universe stories in which I have no interest. At some point (Infinite Crisis seems about right), I even lost interest in Grant Morrison, who could make me care about epic fisticuffs. (I still happily bought a used copy of Absolute All-Star Superman over the holidays. Damn fine book.)

That was interesting. And surprising. And it looks really pretty. I want to read more now.

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