Thread 150053760

You ever just finish reading a classic run on a character then get really depressed remembering the absolute state of them now?

>>150053760 (OP)
That's why I don't really follow characters, because I know this is what happens. I don't get depressed, but I lose respect for the character's handlers. Marvel and DC have lost all my respect at this point.

>>150053760 (OP)
Daily, why have you doubled that frequency by inquiring?

>>150053760 (OP)
What is the absolute state of Captain Britain now?

>>150053760 (OP)
More often than you can possibly know. I have, since the day I could read, been a massive X-men fan. The last 20 years have been torture.

>>150053760 (OP)
Pretty much every time I read an old comic. I can't think of one character that is better now than they were 20-30 years ago.

>>150054281
Venom? You may hate Cates all you want but Eddie from the last decades of comics reads more like a person than the 90s Eddie.

>>150054071
He's not allowed to be Captain Britain anymore and the entire Corp was remade in Betsy's image

>>150054054
Because last night I finished reading Moore's and Davis's work on Captain Britain then the first thing I saw on /co/ was that thread about Betsy being a lesbian and everything set in

>>150054383
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaTD-SvP-q0

>>150053760 (OP)
Her highs weren't anything special, but sometimes, I briefly recall that there was a time where I didn't recoil in horror whenever I caught a glimpse of Squirrel Girl.

>>150054768
What's so horrifying about her now? I only know there was an ugly-looking series in the 2010s, but it's been years since then.

>>150054383
I think the Fury and Jaspers show up again but they made them really lame.

>>150054351
>the entire Corp
There's a corp?

>>150055748
It's from Moore's run.

>>150053760 (OP)
You really just need to ignore modern comics.

>>150053760 (OP)
>You ever just finish reading a classic run on a character then get really depressed remembering the absolute state of them now?
My friend got sad when Disney said that the old Star Wars EU would be made non canon. I always thought, who cares? If you enjoyed a story, enjoy that story. (The real issue was the nu-EU was shit, not that the old EU was no longer canon.) Letting what editorial or whatever dictate what canon is and letting that ruin your enjoyment of that story has to me always been a (you) problem. I see that as being no different to people letting on going cape comics ruin their enjoyment because they got obsessed with bad stories. Like the good stories, ignore the rest.

>>150056208
This is the ideal mindset. Howver nerd circles are heavy with the canon autism so it's something that weighs heavily.

>>150056242
It is sometimes amazing that the stereotype of nerds being intelligent exists. Getting retarded over such ideas just reeks of midwittery. The whole thing about superhero comics is they are never ending ongoing soap opera, generally. People who can't wrap their heads around that are silly. Everything is fixable (or ruinable).

>>150056208
At the end of the day it is a bit silly to get into a fight over what work of fiction is "real" fiction and it's true the old stories never go away but at the same time it's rough to watch something you spent so much support on basically tell you it doesn't matter. You do need to eventually step back and wash your hands and take your leave but it still sucks.

>>150057108
>it doesn't matter.
But it did matter. How you felt when you read those stories mattered. The mistake people make is the feeling that if something ends badly or continues badly then nothing else mattered. People place ridiculously high expectations on things and don't see them for the thing itself.

>>150056208
>I enjoyed thing
>I would like more thing
>There is more thing
>It's shit
>This makes me sad
Seems pretty simple to me chief

>>150057657
You don't get it but this attitude is why the thing gets ruined. Follow creative teams etc. When you follow similar things over and over against, you'll have a bad time. The lesson is always that variety is the spice of life.

>>150054351
I mean, at least he's allowed to chill at home with his hot wife? Doing much better than certain other characters in that department, that's for sure

>>150056036
This.

>>150056036
Everyone gets there eventually. No one regrets it when they do.

>>150057717
>Follow creative teams

This NEVER works. NO ONE is consistent in comics.

>>150053760 (OP)
Yeah, pre-Bendis Luke Cage.

>>150053760 (OP)
Every day. The past is never coming back. The future itself receedes. Everything you ever held dear has been humiliated and butchered at the altar of generalization. Let hope die and embrace oblivion. Keep it alive in that flicker. Maybe someone will take that flicker and turn into a fire again, at some point or another. That's all there is to it.

>>150053760 (OP)
yeah sometimes

>>150060284
Jesus anon, do people have to add a million caveats and addendums to their statement or else an autistic will misinterpret? Leapfrogging: looking at creators and what else they did, who they worked with and who influenced them, is a good way of finding books to read. I never said: blindly support creative teams until they die. Yeah, no one is consistent in life but generally you can find stuff to read.

>>150061445
Ignore him.

/co/ is a chris claremont board.

>>150063179
No. Claremont is shit.

>>150056036
>>150059584
I can't even understand how these are the same universes anymore.

>>150060398
Namor says this about Hulk but if Hulk came underwater to wreck shit I bet he would fight and not just bend over. So he's just making an excuse to ditch.

>>150060210
Unfortunately not everyone.

>>150064084
I think that's from Hickman's Avengers.
See Tony's armor and Beast being there.

>>150053760 (OP)
Not big on capes, so not really.

>>150053760 (OP)
Sort of. More depressed that they hardly use the Special Executive team from that run to be honest, I thought War Dog, Cobweb and Zeitgeist seemed like a cool mercenary team but Alan Moore created them so i suppose thats why they dont reappear

>>150066862
It's for the best.

>>150067416
Yeah

>>150063179
I liked Excalibur