10 Most Harmful Trends In Comics Today

9. Fanboys...

Some comic book fans are so jaded these days that you wonder why they even bother reading comics at all (and yes, we are aware of the irony of that comment coming from a rant piece about modern comics!).

If you are a regular comics reader, it is likely impossible to overstate just how many times you€™ve read a comic, thoroughly enjoyed it and then headed over to the Internet, only to find every reviewer on earth slagging it off ad nauseum.

€œBoring! I€™ve read this one already, back in 1986!€

Well, here€™s an idea, fanboy, maybe you shouldn€™t be surprised if a long-running serial repeats itself occasionally.

Sometimes, it€™s as if they don€™t actually want to enjoy the story and only spend every free penny they have on comics just so they have something to complain about.

The other thing fanboys do is aggressively question the logic of the storylines and how €˜impossible€™ the events being depicted are.

Hurm.

It€™s a story about a science nerd who gets bitten by a spider and is then able to climb walls whilst wearing spandex. We don€™t think €˜realism€™ was ever really on the menu, do you? What you mean is, you believed in it when you were five and now, as an adult, you have lost your imagination. This is not Spider Man€™s fault; it€™s yours.

Contributor
Contributor

I am a professional author and lifelong comic books/pro wrestling fan. I also work as a journalist as well as writing comic books (I also draw), screenplays, stage plays, songs and prose fiction. I don't generally read or reply to comments here on What Culture (too many trolls!), but if you follow my Twitter (@heyquicksilver), I'll talk to you all day long! If you are interested in reading more of my stuff, you can find it on http://quicksilverstories.weebly.com/ (my personal site, which has other wrestling/comics/pop culture stuff on it). I also write for FLiCK http://www.flickonline.co.uk/flicktion, which is the best place to read my fiction work. Oh yeah - I'm about to become a Dad for the first time, so if my stuff seems more sentimental than usual - blame it on that! Finally, I sincerely appreciate every single read I get. So if you're reading this, thank you, you've made me feel like Shakespeare for a day! (see what I mean?) Latcho Drom, - CQ