Crisis on 196,833 Earths!
Jun. 23rd, 2009 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyNot too long ago, I had the Comic Collector's Mid-Life Crisis. That's the part of your life when you decide that all the comics being published today are utter crap, and they just don't make comics they way they used to. Usually this crisis makes you (a)Forget about new comics entirely so you can concentrate on ciollecting full runs of everything printed up to that moment that you deem to be "The End", or (b) giving up on comic books altogether and instead focusing on stuff like Travel (see "Comic Book Villains" staring DJ Qualls on DVD for example).
The very last NEW comics I felt compelled to buy were the "Identity Crisis" storyline. After that I started yelling at The Damn Kids to keep off my lawn and swore I would never buy a new comic book again, ever.
So far, so good... but...
The Snohomish and King County Library System is pretty darned awesome. They have TONS of very recent Trade paperbacks and hard-back collections. On accident, I checked-out one of the gazillion "Crisis" event collections and read it.
And WOW is it good! I had heard lots of complaints from reviewers and whatnot about how you REALLY had to know your obscure DC Universe history to understand it, but i was amazed at how well they pulled it all off! I'm reading pretty much everything out of order and it's still making sense to me, so that's good... have to try and find "52" and then I think I'll be close to complete...
...And it's REALLY making me want to get back in to recent comics :(
The very last NEW comics I felt compelled to buy were the "Identity Crisis" storyline. After that I started yelling at The Damn Kids to keep off my lawn and swore I would never buy a new comic book again, ever.
So far, so good... but...
The Snohomish and King County Library System is pretty darned awesome. They have TONS of very recent Trade paperbacks and hard-back collections. On accident, I checked-out one of the gazillion "Crisis" event collections and read it.
And WOW is it good! I had heard lots of complaints from reviewers and whatnot about how you REALLY had to know your obscure DC Universe history to understand it, but i was amazed at how well they pulled it all off! I'm reading pretty much everything out of order and it's still making sense to me, so that's good... have to try and find "52" and then I think I'll be close to complete...
...And it's REALLY making me want to get back in to recent comics :(
