Hex08
Hero
As far as the Spider-Man movies go, they were reboots if the actor changed. Marvel just retrofitted Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield into the MCU. The same mostly holds true for Batman as well although I think Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney maybe were all supposed to be the same guy. The Nolan/Bale Batman was its own self-contained story, the Snyder/Afleck version was also new and part of the DCEU and the recent Reeves/Pattinson The Batman is a whole new thing and not part of the DCEU. If you're not an uber-fan and don't keep up on this stuff I think it's totally reasonable that you looked at it the way you did. I also think that Marvel's over-reliance on in-universe continuity and overarching stories will serve to just eventually confuse the average viewer. That's why I liked the DC approach post-Snyder where each movie was self-contained but loosely connected (with some exceptions like The Batman and Joker being totally removed) but who knows what will happen now with Warner Discovery's 10-year plan.as a casual fan of dc i didnt realize there was a separate universe. i knew the actors were different but no idea they were different . Theres so many batmans i just figured they were just different directors with new actors. Same went with spiderman (until the last movie i thought it was just reboots)
for me in america i see comics mainly in comic stores . Graphic novels can be seen in book stores/online stuff.
My local comicbook chain (3 stores i think) reminds me of the simpsons comicbook store and there is stuff on the shelves over 10 years old (heroclix stuff thats not legal in current games etc) while the big chain store sells music/comics tshirts/some D&D stuff etc. The cvs/walgreens which replaced most mom/pop drug stores havent sold comics in a long long time
off topic but i thought was cool. Listening to this radio dj the other day and he was talking about icecream trucks when he was a kid (probably within last 15 years) and his icecream truck guy sold comics plus pizza. Never saw that but as a kid would have loved that
I'm an old fart and never had an ice-cream truck sell comics, I'm kind of jealous of that.
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