Thread 150915853

none of you can consider yourselves comic book fans. you dont go to comic book stores, most of you pirate, you skim storytime threads hoping to see something to complain about, you dont go to cons or care much for ACTUAL comic industry news or ways the industry can improve, barely any of you draw or write. Most of you dont read comics and even if you do its only big two shit there is so much more out there. you're all posers.

and you couldn’t be more obvious a shill if you tried

>>150915853 (OP)
>you dont go to comic book stores
I do.
>most of you pirate
90% of the things I bought in the last 5 years is because of a /co/ storytime.
>its only big two shit
Weapons of Mass Diplomacy bitch. Also bought because of a /co/ storytime.

>>150915890
being passionate about comics makes me a shill ?

>>150915853 (OP)
>you dont go to comic book stores
I'm short on cash so I don't have a pull list but I do visit when looking for gifts to give and I peruse an LCS when I can when out of town if they have anything out of print
>most of you pirate
True but I also visit libraries
>skim storytime threads
I make storytime threads
>care much for ACTUAL comic industry news
I pay attention to monthly solicitations right on the dot
>ways the industry can improve
It's a broken record at this point
More attention and promotion for non-cape and non-licensed comics
Animated adaptations help
>barely any of you draw or write
I tried

>>150915853 (OP)
Every time I got back to my hometown I see my childhood comic book store has consumed another storefront in the strip mall it's situated. Puts a smile on my face every time

>>150915853 (OP)
Comic stores don't really exist any more. Every one I go to in the last 8 or so years are really just a shitload of funkos, statues, and old figures. Barely a comic in any of them.

>>150915853 (OP)
>you dont go to comic book stores

And how do you suppose you know that, faggot?

>>150915853 (OP)
There probably isn't a "comic book store" within 200 miles of me, meaning a store primarily focused on comic books and not /tg/?

stop being such a fag op

In my country we buy comics in bookstores.

>>150915853 (OP)
>none of you can consider yourselves comic book fans.
Sure, since I prefer webcomics, indie comics and non-industry comics not made by the alphabet cult or endless cape shit. Hell, manga is better than the industry atm.
>you dont go to comic book stores, most of you pirate
Barely any exist, and the few that do are usually card/hobby shops that have a shit selection, that and you can do it all online now. None of the mainstream drivel is worth buying to begin with.
>you skim storytime threads hoping to see something to complain about
I mean, it's NOT hard to, especially the last big one was the Harley Quinn fart comic made by a fetish lesbo.
>you dont go to cons or care much for ACTUAL comic industry news or ways the industry can improve
Stopped going when wokies started spewing on the panels about "decolonizing writing and culture" in the industry. Also, the weird juxtaposition of families and then half-naked cosplayers with their vags and tits sloppily hanging out and strutting around, around families. Then you are a creep if you even give a side-way glance to the whores on display. It's like they kicked the actual fans out to safe-guard degenerate whore cosplayers and then appealing to families at the same time and then humping after the approval of wokies.
>Most of you dont read comics and even if you do its only big two shit there is so much more out there. you're all posers.
The real posers are the fags who took over and began corrupting almost all niche hobbies into rainbow flag vomit inclusion.
>barely any of you draw or write
I do, and I used to go to cons at the end mainly for the workshops and seminars, and subsequently stopped going when the panels were filled with, and I shit you not, lesbos and troons talking about "decolonizing" writing and hiring sensitivity writers and lecturing and expecting writers attending the workshop to be inclusive. One workshop was about worldbuilding and it was shitting on European influences in fantasy.

>>150915916
Same with the first two points. Comics are often extremely expensive for what they are and like all collector hobbies take up space. If something is actually good I will very happily support them

>>150915853 (OP)
I haven't bought a Big 2 comic in years

>>150915996
>consumed another storefront
they expand? in a time when most comics stores are closing ?

>>150916611
it's more likely the strip mall itself is collapsing and the rent is cheap

>>150915853 (OP)
Unused to go to the comic store, but mine closed down. Plus it was getting too expensive.

>>150915853 (OP)
I love the medium, but I can't call myself a fan of comics. I probably read more than 99% of comic book posters here, but I also dislike more comics than anyone else. I want comics to be good, not pretend comics ARE good.

/co/ is full of outrage tourists who constantly out themselves. It is impossible to properly talk about comics here. They are a niche of a niche. Even a dumb mainstream series like Absolute Batman gets more traction when it's connected to politics (the Chuck Dixon situation). And most people commenting on shit like Absolute haven't read it and just make surface level comments about how it looks.

>>150916611
Yep! They've blown out the walls and taken over like 3 out of the six shops. Supposedly they even own the club that's shop number 4 and allow it to keep existing.

>>150915853 (OP)
I occasionally go to the comic store. Like once or twice a month. Usually to buy only one series. I can only keep up with one series at a time. This time it's Emma Frost White Queen, which ends this month at 5 issues long.

Trade paperbacks and hardcovers take up shelf space, which I don't have. When I buy something new, something old has to go.

My eyesight is getting bad too, so I can't even read many print comics.

But I do go to the comic stores ):
The old man even knows me and puts stuff to the side if I ask

>>150915853 (OP)
I buy comic books at the store
Then I check storytime threads to if anons also hooted and hollered at whichever pages

But they didn't because no one reads anything besides what the week's clickbait title is

im selling all my comics.

>>150915853 (OP)
Even if I had a local comic store to vote with my wallet at, I've been profoundly disappointed by modern comics so many times that it would be financially retarded to keep buying them, and even if I were to support something I believe is genuinely good, what difference would it make when the new #1 relaunch of a hero that's been relaunched a dozen times in the last 3 years hits the #1 spot and sends the publisher chasing that shit for the next year.

I've tried to support comics and even when they were tolerably good, the publisher still mismanaged things, shit the bed, fired the writer, replaced them with someone worse, and because it was a new #1, it sold well enough to guarantee that the next year of comics wasn't worth paying a cent for.

>comic book stores
anon most of 4chan especially /co/ are third worlders . places like that dont have american style comic book stores

>>150915853 (OP)
There's a local comic convention coming up at the end of the month in my town. It's a convention held twice a year.

And I don't think I'll go. I have way too many comics as it is. I usually don't find good deals there. There are no guests I really want to see either.

And it's just depressing seeing how fat, single, unhealthy, and out of shape so many of these comic fans are.

>>150915853 (OP)
I visit a comic shop once a week to shoot the shit with my friends, I just went to a con yesterday, I've been reading Absolute DC, PKJ Hulk, Fraction Batman, McKay Moon Knight, Ewing Thor, Battle Beast, and Transformers.

By the way at the con I said hi to Mike Hawthorne, met PKJ, and had Francine Delgado draw me something (nice woman).

>>150915853 (OP)
>you dont go to comic book stores, most of you pirate
There are collectors with longboxes full of things they've never read and have no idea the creative teams behind only the cover price and speculative value of the title. I'm not going to even start with the grating fuckwits behind the desk or in ownership of most LCS. Not all, but more than enough to make an impression.
>you dont go to cons
Worthless gathering of shallow exhibitionists and aimless consumers, unsurprised you consider this an affront
>or care much for ACTUAL comic industry news or ways the industry can improve
The editors and executives have already made their decision on the matter decades ago regardless of how up to date anyone keeps

Be silent you weekend engagement starved reactionary imbecile.

>>150915853 (OP)
You don't like comics, you like IPs. You're no comic book fan either.

>>150915853 (OP)
I don't get people who aren't sick but still wear masks in 2025? It's always the most limp-wristed faggiest cocksuckers too huh?

>>150915853 (OP)
Fuck off nigger. I own way more books than you do, poor fag. Of course I don't go to comic stores anymore, they're cringe af. Most of you virgins don't understand how to contain your power levels. Get good.

>>150920783
that image is from 2021

>>150915853 (OP)
I used to have pulls, but then the comics went from mediocre to terrible and the prices went up on top of that.

>>150920898
It's actually insane how the price of new floppies are double that from 15 years. They reduced the prices in 2008 due to the recession and this lower price point combined with the fact that 2008-2014 actually had some legitimately great runs had me actually buying quite a few. It's such a shame that they got so expensive on top of going from 5-6 good runs to maybe 2-3 if I squint really hard

>>150915853 (OP)
>or care much for ACTUAL comic industry news or ways the industry can improve
>ways the industry can improve
>>150919145
>The editors and executives have already made their decision on the matter decades ago regardless of how up to date anyone keeps
We could talk about the industry, but tranny jannies will delete the threads asap and ban you on the spot. BUT?!?! We can't address the elephant in the room because 4cuck has been compromised and it's considered "le culture war" or /pol/ which is just bullshit reframing of the culture war to try and snuff out any opposition voices to the artificial culture we're being forced to consume simply by being to it proxy. Fuckin bullshit and so too is this cucked website when back in "ye olden days" you could discuss this shit at LENGTH on /co/, and then they just shut that shit down and expect anons to go to /pol/ to discuss /co/ topics. Bullshit.

>>150915853 (OP)
There are people who are fans of any number of things without caring how sausage is made - few Taylor Swift fans read industry trades and if they do look at something, it's for a review, it's very specific news (probably some of the lawsuit stuff), or it's ticket sales for the tour, the movie(s), albums, etc. Ditto for say fans of John Cena, Brad Pitt, Sidney Sweeney, Selina Gomez, or any other actor.

And fans of these people don't feel like they need to act, or perform, or sing, or write screenplays, songs, or movies, to be 'real fans.'

As for the rest of your laundry list, it's an annoying shit post that doesn't actually say anything and thus doesn't actually mean anything.

>>150915924
Post photos. NOW

>>150920898
i had a pull list at my local store and it was annoying. sometimes i would get the wrong comics or not get anything despite asking for a comic coming out that week. the owner uses leagueofcomicgeeks so anything i pulled on there was supposed to be on my pull ist. you would think that would make it easy for him to know exactly what i wanted but no there were mistakes made quite often

>>150915853 (OP)
Any and all entertainment industries in current year are fucked and anyone trying to get into them or wasting their time on promoting or creating for them are idiots wasting their lives. Simply put, there's 0 incentive and no matter how passionate you are, reality bites eventually and you can't be a hamster in a wheel trying to necrobump an industry that's been dead in the water for decades and decades. Just let it go.
>>150917494
Comics are the medium with the most potential that simply has not been realized, not even close. Manga offers a glimpse of what that could look like but even the Japs are on a downard spiral. If you're not making bottom-of-the-barrel trash, you don't make a dime. Globalism ruins everything, as is obvious.

based

>>150915853 (OP)
name anything new that has the quality of Lone Sloane or Arzach and I'll buy it and read it

>>150923981
what is this photo supposed to prove other than your shit taste ?

>>150915853 (OP)
>none of you can consider yourselves comic book fans.
I do, and can
>you dont go to comic book stores,
I go to my local store a few times a month. I buy the issues I'm following and some old ones there I find on sale.
>most of you pirate
I mean some really old shit, yeah. Stuff I wouldn't be able to buy at my LCS anyway. I also sometimes buy comics online.
>you skim storytime threads hoping to see something to complain about
I skim storytimes to see if I want to buy the book or not. Sometimes, if I like the book but not even to pay 5 bucks a month for it, I just read it intently on here. Like with the new Supergirl run.
>you dont go to cons
Comic con isn't really about comics anymore. I doubt it really has been in several decades.
Not that I'd even be interested if it were all about comics. Conventions suck.
>Nor care much for ACTUAL comic industry news
I mean, I care about which books are coming out and if I want to read them or not.
>or ways the industry can improve
why is that my job?
>Barely any of you draw or write
What fucking standard is this? 'You claim you like TV, but where is your screen play?'
It's a medium about consumption.
That being said, I do write.
>Most of you dont read comics
I do.
>Even if you do its only big two shit
So you're calling us posers, calling us shit comic fans, and you hate the two largest and most popular western comic companies?

b8 detected

>>150915853 (OP)
>none of you can consider yourselves comic book fans.
I never did. I have a few comics, but I don't find the medium inherently entertaining to just consume it for the medium's sake.

>>150915853 (OP)
Bob- Bob Wood, National Programme Director of the Chum Group, worked with us in producing...

>>150917561
Why would I subject myself to woke slop anon?

What's /co/'s pull list this month? I'm buying a lot of comics but it's all back issues at the moment. I'd love to get into some ongoing titles.

>>150918169
we have bookstores. monthlies are rare but other formats are available

>>150915853 (OP)
I've bought the majority of comics that I want to own.

>>150923973
Check out Linnea Sterte

shut up nerd

>>150925837
Right now my pull list is Aquaman, Absolute Wonder Woman, Moon Knight, and Absolute Martian Manhunter. Though AMM is on break until December.
I would like to read more indie comics, but I'm not into the license material that most of the more prominent ones are based off of. I'm a zoomer so I don't particularly care about either Transformers or G.I. Joe.

I am reading Supergirl as it's been coming out in storytimes on here. And I bought issue 6, this month's issue, since I liked how it really had something to say about the new direction of the character.

>>150915853 (OP)
You missed the part where industry member deaths and accidents bring me immense joy, queer.

>>150925163
?

>>150915853 (OP)
i was there helping oaush and philly translate bedés right here in this board ya plebmeister

>>150925837
Nothing, because I trade wait.

RIP ed piskor

>>150915853 (OP)
i used to every week
then jim lee decided to sell wildstorm and discard everything i cared about, then dc decided to new 52 and discard everything i cared about, then marvel decided to now and discard everything i cared about
comics pushed me away, and now i don't buy anything
i'm not going to give money to shit that ruined everything i liked about comics

>>150915853 (OP)
This shit is the only one left in my city, never been there though. I cop my things online.

>>150929061
He sold WildStorm in the late 90s.

>>150929068
looks nice whats the problem

>>150929651
yeah i know i was there
those are the things that made me stop buying comics, the time in which they happened is irrelevant

>>150929651
and has done nothing since. what a bitch

>>150925209
The average book is not woke at all. The average book is just boring or bland.

im sad

>>150915853 (OP)
>none of you can consider yourselves comic book fans. you dont go to comic book stores, most of you pirate
True, so what?

>>150933170
>you dont go to comic book stores
that's a GOOD thing direct market is killing everything

>>150915853 (OP)
Yeah man, because the current industry is totally putting out the good stuff
>Lame, gay and ugly modern capeshit
>Licensedshit
>Black and white autobiographical indie comics about being homosexual
Manga won. Dav Pilkey too.

>>150915853 (OP)
ok

>>150934099
Manga and Dog Man are also trash. Everything is trash right now.

>>150915853 (OP)
No I go to my local comic shop
And I get mad at bad comics I was tricked into buying. NEVER doing that shit again, ALWAYS reading the first issue online before buying.

>>150925837
Absolute martian manhunter
Sonic
Ultimate X-men
Ultimate Spider-man
Spider-girl
Godzilla destroys the marvel universe
Megaman Timelines
Spider-man torn.

I feel like an idiot for skipping out on absolute batman and batman and robin year one... Got those two for batman day and actually really liked them.

>>150935820
>Manga and Dog Man are also trash.
I am reading an ongoing manga named Veil which is pretty good.
>Everything is trash right now.
There still are good indie video games.

who does this guy think he is ?

>>150915853 (OP)

This is a weird attitude some Richard C Meyer types have. Like "fans" have an OBLIGATION to support all things that come out no matter how unfun and trashy they get. I think you should remind yourself that it is the industry's job to win us over, not our job to carry the industry on our fucking backs.

>>150929061

Same story as me. I was a big fan in like 2000. Then the big companies flat out discontinued every comic that I liked. I can't buy the comic if you don't fucking SELL me the comic.

>>150937450
Hear hear.
Fuck anyone that thinks otherwise.

>>150915853 (OP)
>you don't go to LCS
yes i do.

>pirate
no i don't

>storytimes
absolutely yes. there's no way i could have found every single issue of AvX, Messiah Complex, illuminati, Uncanny X-Force and Necrosha arcs in any kind of timely fashion on a budget. same goes for darth vader 2017, dark horse star wars and various indie shit. storytimes are what make /co/ superior to other boards

>hoping to see something to complain about
don't hope for it, but sure, yeah i'll bitch about something that's poor quality because people should be able to refute it or form a consensus.
example: there is a consensus that krakoa is utter dogshit

>don't go for cons
i don't live in a big city and i'm on a budget

>comic book industry news
the big two suck up most of the action which actually suffocates everything else
>ways the industry can improve
literally get better writers, or comic companies could offer bounties and sweepstakes for story ideas or literally pay actual fans to write shit. the fuck is it called, archive of our own is literally thousands of fanfics from women, and dipshit comic companies can't cherry pick even a few good stories and pay these people? fuck right off for thinking fans don't have the best ideas for perpetuating an industry. it's also incredibly fucking obvious that successful mangas spawn anime, which is not live action schlock. suck a fucking tailpipe.

>barely any of you draw or write
drawing is a talent that you already have, that you can THEN work at getting better. writing isn't something newer generations bother with because it means reading and zoomers don't fucking read

>most of you don't read comics
morbius omnibus, absolute wonder woman, sha and i'm waiting on vampire chevalier to come in the mail

>you're all posers
people on other social media are FAR more likely to be posers than here. suck my dick.

You right lil nigga, I don't support anything and I put in zero effort to find it, I don't call myself a "fan" of anything because that's gay as hell lil nigga, I bet you actually own at least one funko pop post ironically, I pirate everything and discuss how much I hate it anyway just to piss people like you off lil nigger.

>>150915853 (OP)
>you dont go to comic book

I dont even leave my house and being an extreme wizard NEET must give me some sort of credibility

>>150915853 (OP)
I worked at a comic book store in the 2000s. I have more cred than you.