[ SECRET POST #2408 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2408 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[dazzledfirestar]

I think you're seriously overestimating the presence of the crossover events. I have a very VERY full pull list and haven't bothered with any of that crap since... oh, Secret Invasion? So... mid 2000s. And even then the arcs in specific ongoing titles are usually pretty stand alone with a vague connection to the big event anyway. And they'll give you the pertinent information for that story anyway.

If you want to dive in, just do it. Really. It is REALLY not as hard as you think it is especially with the plethora of stand alone titles out right now.

Also, it's kind of a dick move to wish death on an industry that provides a fair few people with joy just because you don't see the point. So... *shrugs*

[(Anonymous)]

My two favorite comic series, right off the top of my head. Impulse and Young Justice.

Impulse - I'm reading through, all of a sudden there'a timejump, a comic in the middle of some warehouse and OMG SHIT GOING DOWN "As we saw in the last Flash..." And then the comic ends with "To be continued in Flash #..."

And then there's the one that does the same thing, with Legion of Superheroes.

And the comic where Riddler randomly appears, which is fun, but if you don't follow any Batman...

And the fact there's background for Impulse that happened in a Batman title....

And I still have no real clue how Young Justice ended since it was mixed up in a crossover thing with (If I remember right) Teen Titans. And it had the issue where they all suddenly appeared in Hell and Angel!Supergirl had to save them.

It doesn't matter that it's 'not that hard'. Ice cream isn't that hard to make! But if I walk into an ice cream shop and ask for a cone of ice cream I don't want to be pointed at kits of sugar, cream, ice, and salt and get lectured on how it's not that hard to make it myself. I just want to buy some ready made ice cream! And then I get some condescending "Well maybe you should google how to make ice cream, it takes like 5 minutes. Duh."

[dazzledfirestar]

Well, I'm sorry DC fucked you over. I can't speak to that since I refuse to give them my money.

To continue your analogy, if you say "I want ice cream" people will likely ask "what kind of ice cream do you like?" and point you in that direction. No having to make it but you need to know what you want before you order. THAT is what google and wikis are good for. Going in informed on what you want rather than just flailing around randomly expecting people to read your mind.

And if your analogy held, you'd have to sit down, write and draw your own comics, get it printed... nobody's asking you to do that. They're trying to help by getting an idea of what you want. That is so not the same thing.

[(Anonymous)]

The analogy is that people are asking for something, self-contained American comics, and being told that if they want any of the popular well known ones they can't do that.

I suppose a better analogy would be like buying a video game console, and buying a video game, lets say "Super Awesome Shooter" and then partway through it goes "Please insert the video game Whammo Blammo to continue." and you have to go out and buy another video game, and bring it home, plug it in, play the chapter of Super Awesome Shooter, go back to the actual SAS disk, and play a bit more and then "Please insert Boom Boom to continue" and you have to go out and buy Boom Boom and put in the disk and... and then you get near the end and suddenly Hero from Dead Death Destruction pops up and you help him with his final chapter from his video game which is on the SAS disk even though it has little to nothing to do with SAS.

There's a reason the video game industry doesn't do that.

[dazzledfirestar]

There's a very simple solution to this actually. Buy trade paperbacks. I can't speak to DC but damn near every story Marvel puts out ends up in a self contained volume all together in one place.

Again, just ask clearly for what you want and there's probably an answer.

[(Anonymous)]

So comics are not for you. There are people who don't read for fun but I'm not going to take them seriously if they call for an end to novels.