Comments on: LinkBlogging Worth Reading and Wonder Woman News http://comicsworthreading.com/2011/01/22/linkblogging-worth-reading-and-wonder-woman-news/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Sat, 18 May 2013 13:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Grant http://comicsworthreading.com/2011/01/22/linkblogging-worth-reading-and-wonder-woman-news/comment-page-1/#comment-117612 Grant Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:13:22 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=17358#comment-117612 That article makes some great points. If that doesn’t sum up why I stopped reading comics almost entirely for about 10 years. And it sure wasn’t stuff like Cry For Justice or Identity Crises or Civil War or Avengers Disassembled that brought me back. It was more upbeat stuff like the Palmiotti/Acuna Freedom Fighters and Planet Hulk and Busiek/Perez Avengers and Waid’s Brave and the Bold.

The thing about Anima really reminds me of the rather sickening stuff that JMS and Bendis did with the Gwen Stacy character. I can not read spiderman any more because of that.

And the torture stuff in CFJ reminds me of the things that happened in marvels Civil War, which also turned me off of many Marvel characters. Specifically Tony Stark. I enjoy the Iron Man movies and the Avengers cartoon, but I can not read a comic with Tony in it any more because Marvel did their best to make me hate the character, and they succeeded.

It’s no wonder that I cling to story collections from an entirely different era. Thank God for Masterworks and Essentials and Showcase editions.

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