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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9167253" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>No doubt the one thing everyone here is wondering is why MGibster stopped reading comic books. What? I'm not the main character your lives revolve around? Did I mature and outgrow the content? Ha! Ask my wife when we stop by the nerd store so I can buy some space orks. What happened is that DC and Marvel simply pissed me off as a customer for the last time and I simply stopped buying comics. </p><p></p><p>I was regularly going to the comic store to pick up a few titles on the reg (that means regular for those of you who are unhip). One of the titles was Nightwing whose storyline involved Dick Grayson going through the police academy to become a police officer in Budhaven. One month, his story was unceremoniously interrupted so he could take care of something for Batman during some storyline that you couldn't follow without picking up several other Bat-Family comic books. I didn't follow those other comic books so this stupid little divergence from Nightwing's plot served no particular purpose for me. </p><p></p><p>Obviously this was an effort by DC to get readers to give other titles a try. And it's not like I was a complete stranger to this kind of marketing. I remember Marvel's Acts of Vengeance storyline around 1989-1990 that revolved around the villains fighting superheroes they normally wouldn't fight and I enjoyed that at the time. But by the 2000s, I just decided I had enough and walked away. I don't read a lot of manga, but most of the ones I've read the stories are self-contained. If I were to buy an issue of Gunsmith Cats, I could continue the plot in the next issue without having to buy Sailor Moon or some other title. I can see why people might like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9167253, member: 4534"] No doubt the one thing everyone here is wondering is why MGibster stopped reading comic books. What? I'm not the main character your lives revolve around? Did I mature and outgrow the content? Ha! Ask my wife when we stop by the nerd store so I can buy some space orks. What happened is that DC and Marvel simply pissed me off as a customer for the last time and I simply stopped buying comics. I was regularly going to the comic store to pick up a few titles on the reg (that means regular for those of you who are unhip). One of the titles was Nightwing whose storyline involved Dick Grayson going through the police academy to become a police officer in Budhaven. One month, his story was unceremoniously interrupted so he could take care of something for Batman during some storyline that you couldn't follow without picking up several other Bat-Family comic books. I didn't follow those other comic books so this stupid little divergence from Nightwing's plot served no particular purpose for me. Obviously this was an effort by DC to get readers to give other titles a try. And it's not like I was a complete stranger to this kind of marketing. I remember Marvel's Acts of Vengeance storyline around 1989-1990 that revolved around the villains fighting superheroes they normally wouldn't fight and I enjoyed that at the time. But by the 2000s, I just decided I had enough and walked away. I don't read a lot of manga, but most of the ones I've read the stories are self-contained. If I were to buy an issue of Gunsmith Cats, I could continue the plot in the next issue without having to buy Sailor Moon or some other title. I can see why people might like that. [/QUOTE]
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