[ SECRET POST #2408 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2408 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #344.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[mekkio]

Oh, for Pete's sake, you don't need to read every single issue of everything DC and Marvel has put out. That's what's Google is for. Reading a Superman book and don't know who Kon-El is when he pops up in the story? Google him. Cloned human/kryptonian hybrid who was once made as a weapon but is now Superboy. Done. Moving on with the story. I know this works because I just started getting into the Superman series. It's not rocket science. It's comics.

If you don't want to read the comics, rock on with your bad self. But don't make it sound like those of us who do are no life nerds who never do anything but read every issue of everything.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

What is the point of reading at all if you have to Google the details?

[(Anonymous)]

I was wondering the same thing. That kind of takes the fun away of flopping down and reading a comic when you have to have your laptop/PC/tablet/phone by your side to understand what the fuck is going on.

[(Anonymous)]

This,
If I have to go to google or wiki what's the point?

[mekkio]

That's just it. You are not going to be googling every other page like the OP implies. Just once in a blue moon. The comics aren't that complex. They're fun, mind you.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Really depends on the superhero you've chosen to read about. Mine, well I think I'm going to give up soon because even 15 issues inwards from the last tie-out, giant bits of information are cropping up and I've no idea why. Not a happy camper*

*comicer?

[dazzledfirestar]

Thank you! Jeeze.

Anyone who tells you you have to know every detail ever of every character ever is a douchebag that can't live up to their own standards. Read what you like, fuck the rest.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

My issue with Marvel issues (heh) is say I've chosen a particular superhero A and I'm reading happily and issue #25 finishes on a cliffhanger, I go get issue #26 and I discover that the clffhanger has been resolved, a war started and ended, half the dead characters are alive, the alive ones are dead and we're smack bang in the middle of a new plot. It gets quite frustrating reading a series where a large portion of that current series is cut out and placed in another series, or special event series or or or

/angry tl;dr rant from someone who just wants their bookshelf to be pretty and organized with one series.

[(Anonymous)]

That kind of stuff is usually confined to big crossover events. Because they're crossovers.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

...and they (Crossovers) happen way more often than is necessary per series, ruining the whole point of having a continuous, completed series (it's not complete if several story conclusions are elsewhere!) :( There is just no-way to sit down and just enjoy a specific superhero's* run without hopping around to other series or wikipedia.


*except Hawkeye, apparently. According to elsewhere in the thread. I wouldn't know, not interested in Hawkeye (sorry Hawkeye)

[(Anonymous)]

THIS.

I got into Marvel comics through the movies and could only read what Marvel had on the digital comics site (which is A LOT but not complete). I went through the wikias for the series I was interested to read and chose a starting point that way, then used the wikias to fill in any blanks.

It's one the best things I've ever done for myself. I have decades of material to read and just about every issue Marvel has ever released has an in-depth wikia article and so does every character, no matter how minor. Not only am I never lost when I read, but I frequently find new issues to add to my reading list.

[dazzledfirestar]

High five, anon. :) This is what I love about comics right here! :D

Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe you don't need to read all of it, but personally, I can't get into anything half way. If I'm interested enough to be in a fandom, I need it all.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I think it's easier than ever to get into long-running comics. Not reading the entire 50-year run of Thor does not in impede my enjoyment of current issues.

And if you simply don't want to do that, check out independent publishers.