What comic aren't you reading at the moment

spooydermot

What title have you dropped recently?
Which comics have tested your patience and your wallet?

Here's what I will no longer be picking up:

Wolverine Origins
This issue wolverine fights a random bad guy from an old story line and is then moved onto the next clue like Fox Mulder chasing his sister for 9 years.
Considering how good the original 'Origin' was, this really doesn't deserve to carry the name.

Excalibur
Now they're in Camelot? I'm out

X-Men and Uncanny X-Men
Slow moving ,uninspired stories, what woke me up to how bad these are was actually how good the writing in Civil War is.
I was drawn onto the X titles by the House of M story lines, but neither of these has kept the same pace or resolved any outstanding issues from 'M'.

bombidol

I thought Origins was awful. As much as i love Steve Dillon his artwork just isnt suited to drawing superheroes. some of the layouts and angles he used in origins were terrible!
X-men has been totally awful since the early ninties if you ask me, too much going on at any one time to make it enjoyable.

Longshadow

A while ago I droppped DMZ. Picked if up from the start, almost everything under Vertigo is worth a shot. Absolute amazing artwork from the start, great concept, setting, idea .. But Brian Wood, hyped though he is these days, just doesn't have a high enough standard of basic story-telling. It's just not there, and neither was it in his similarly acclaimed 'indie gem' Local. Again, great concept, but individual issues just weren't strong enough, and again, the flaw was story. It seems almost bizarre to me how a writer can get so much good press, and seem to fall flat in such a basic way.
Gave up on DMZ quite a while ago, and I hated doing it, because I loved the idea of the comic so much. But in the end it had to go.
Looking likely that Catwoman will meet it's fate soon, and again, this pains me.
Brubaker's run, from issue one, was exemplary stuff. He built a title with a great cast of characters, turning Catwoman into a character that was once again strong enough to carry her own title, and not lean on Bat-scenes to push the book, though her relationship with Bruce/Batman was never ignored.
And then Will Pfeifer took over .. yeah .. The standard simply dropped. He's introduced some villains that just rate as silly, and the focus has shifted from characters to more traditional superhero mix of action etc. Such a shame to see this happen after such a brilliant run. Soon to be gone I think.
And while I'm ranting I'm not sure if I'm gonna make it through Mike Carey's UFF run. If it's one thing the Ultimate books suffer from, it's a tendency to base arcs on 'Ultimizing' new characters/villians, and it all becomes a bit monster of the week.Not a huge fan of Pasqual Ferry's art either, so this doesn't help. Already too many comics on my subscription list to be able to afford to continually indulge in this kind of thing. And then there's all those shiny new Wildstorm titles to add..

bombidol

I love DMZ myself.

spooydermot

Longshadow wrote:

A while ago I droppped DMZ. Picked if up from the start, almost everything under Vertigo is worth a shot. Absolute amazing artwork from the start, great concept, setting, idea .. But Brian Wood, hyped though he is these days, just doesn't have a high enough standard of basic story-telling. It's just not there, and neither was it in his similarly acclaimed 'indie gem' Local. Again, great concept, but individual issues just weren't strong enough, and again, the flaw was story. It seems almost bizarre to me how a writer can get so much good press, and seem to fall flat in such a basic way.
Gave up on DMZ quite a while ago, and I hated doing it, because I loved the idea of the comic so much. But in the end it had to go.
Looking likely that Catwoman will meet it's fate soon, and again, this pains me.

Quite liked the first vol which I picked up in trade form, was it the second vol that started to lag? i'm just debating now weather to pick up vol2 when it comes out?

bombidol

I like em all myself, the new issue is pretty useless. new artist isnt great.

Fysh

The last series I remember consciously deciding to drop was Jack Cross after the 4th issue confirmed to me that it wasn't going to get any better, between artwork that looked dead on the page (and seemed to repeat the same set pieces over and over again) and writing that really wasn't up to scratch for a writer like Ellis. There again, I haven't heard anything about further Jack Cross stories so maybe I'm not the only one who felt like this.

Other than that the only series I'm thinking of dropping (partly due to inability to get hold of the trades on a regular basis) is Fables. With series like Y : The Last Man heading into their last year and 100 Bullets starting on the final epoch, I was hoping that Fables would provide me with interesting new material to follow but it's starting to lag as there doesn't seem to be an overall story arc or direction (I'm six trades into the story - that seems a bit long for the story to still be at the "day-to-day lives and drama of fable characters, interspersed with reminders that The Adversary is slowly taking over all the fable kingdoms" stage).

Longshadow

spooydermot wrote:

Quite liked the first vol which I picked up in trade form, was it the second vol that started to lag? i'm just debating now weather to pick up vol2 when it comes out?

It was always the same for me, even from the start, it never 'lagged' or such. Can't remember if I even got that far into the second arc..
So if you liked the first maybe it's worth sticking with?
As for Fables, I was always very tempted to start it, as it gets good press, but after the mess I consider Bill Willingham made of Batman War Games, (I think he was mostly behind that cross-over) I decided against the idea. War Games didn't work well enough to warrant such a big event and crossover.
I did like Jack Cross though.

bombidol

War games was terrible terrible terrible. yet i bought all of em and the ones running up to it to see if i misses something.

BlaasForRafa

Wolverine: Origins - Like just about everyone else I've dropped this title. Although I like steve dillons artwork he's just not suited to this at all and the writing is rubbish in any case. Didn't like paul jenkins origins either.

Superman/Batman: Jeph Loeb left and immediately the standard plummeted. Mark verhieden came on as writer and his first 2 issues were virtual rehashings of Loebs last arc except this time including big-breasted Power Girl and Huntress involved...presumably to keep the fanboys on board. Ethan van Sciver is an overrated penciller in any case, his figures are so stiff they might as well be carved in bronze not drawn in pencil.

Fantastic Four - I dropped this as soon as J M Strascinsky started writing it. After the appaling "Sins past" storyline in Amazing Spiderman I promised myself I'd never read anything written by him.

bombidol

Fables is AMAZING