Here we go again!! It's been a while,
but after going through some of the posts on the old
blog(conveniently located here) with JT recently(mainly to laugh our
asses off at how terrible most of them are!), I was kind of/sort of
bitten by the blogging bug once more. Now, that's good, fine and
dandy, but the problem is, I don't read ANY new comic books any
more... I stopped around the time Marvel was doing whatever the hell
the death of the Watcher event was. That event(Ugh, ANOTHER Marvel
event.........) coupled with DC's(at the time) stubborn insistence
that they were sticking with the New 52, which I hated from the
start, just drained me of all of my comic reading enjoyment. Marvel
wouldn't stop doing events(I mean, it was like 6 months between each
one!), they were pushing characters I never liked(Hello Inhumans!),
DC was bastardizing characters I truly enjoyed reading about, while
pumping out lousy stories, it was all just too much. Yeah, Image was
doing good to great stuff, but it honestly just wasn't enough... And
with that, I bid my local comic shop adieu, and stopped collecting
new books... But, the cool thing about owning a metric shit ton of
back issues is that after a few years, you tend to forget certain
story elements, or hell, entire stories from certain books... I
mean, I have no frigging clue what happened in Legion of Super-Heroes
#35, Avengers #265, or Young Justice #14 off the top of my head. I know Alpha
debuts in Amazing Spider-Man #692, but I don't remember hardly any of
the panels inside that book. Basically, I can cherry-pick a full
series from one of my comic boxes, sit back and read something I
honestly enjoy. And that's great.
That also brings us to the present,
with JT and I going through some of the stuff we did on the other
blog. In between laughs and shots at each other, we both admitted
that we missed the blog for different reasons. And that got me
thinking, I wouldn't mind doing a little writing here and there. But
then the question becomes, writing about what? I mean, I can't write
about new books, I don't care about them... But what about old ones?
Is there an audience for that? Probably not, but that's cool,
because I know JT will read whatever asinine junk I post, so I'll
happily play to a one man audience, especially when that one man is
my best friend. So with all of that crap out of the way, let's get
back to the reviewing!
