Not only is the quality of modern comics awful, the price is also absolutely awful. The amount it costs for how little time it entertains is an abysmal value. I really miss being excited for Wednesday. Those were the days.
I mainly read the Bat family/JL stuff and a few years back I was getting lost in hte massive mish-mash of titles and stories running. It was costing too much and DC Unlimited hand't came to the UK yet. So now I use "alternative" means to read comics. And I never feel bad that I didn't waste money on The Batman Who Laughs or Batman Eternal.
10:22 I’m sorry, but when a comic has a panel where a hero talks about how “awesome” furry parties are in any situation, I’m not reading it. What about that is necessary to the scene or the character? Even if the writer went for it as a joke, it’s just cringe and lame.
The big problem is that comics have ran for decades now and titles have to run every single month. Quality has to eventually suffer. And when you have characters with multiple titles every month, it just turns to a mess. Authors don't put out books every month and those who put out two books a year have now diluted their own brand quality by doing so. Comics geuinely do need a form of gatekeeping. Imagine if there was one Batman story and only 12 issues per year. You bet your arse that they would make sure it was 12 of the best written, planned and drawn issues, every single year.
I noticed both the new Ultimate universe, Energon Universe, and Absolute Universe are getting high acclaim and sales mainly how it feels like writers and artist told a cohesive universe that has major impact in the industry. I can see alot of possibilities in the new universe as long they don’t mess it up with constant bad decisions
The common trait is simple: they are fun, dumb exciting stories. For too long comic book writers see themselves as some moral compass and need to shove their own reality and ideology inti every comic. Like in the kodern videogames scape where every game has to have some profound message, space marine 2 is just simple dumb fun and it sells.
@@StevenZephyc I don’t necessarily agree with at sentiment in that regard. Marvels new ultimate universe deals with alternate history and how it affects everyday lives, people, cultures as seen by numerous natives characters, and how the past was taken away. These are heavy themes but what I think Ultimate Universe did right is the messaging doesn’t get away from the world building and story. Actually it adds depth to it mainly unlike 616 it goes back to the status quo, the stories can evolve.
Modern comics have gone done hill and are dying in quality which is why manga is doing well in manga sales people now moved on to manga and stop reading comics, because manga is fiction at its best
I still read and enjoy some newer comics (I mostly read in digital trades because I am not paying for monthly prices on physical issues that I’ll have to store or toss) but manga is more consistent and I’m more excited for manga more frequently. Plus, the communities around discussing each manga chapter or what they love and hate in series are much more fun to me. I know some communities, people say are kinda crazy with shippers and such, but the ones I’ve been around are more chill and I don’t feel like I have to walk on egg shells to clarify that I’m not trying to make a political statement by saying I don’t like various things in Marvel or DC or risk getting blocked or banned.
The only modern comics i enjoy was chip zdarksy's daredevil and recently 2024 ultimate spider man. This is when you write good stories, instead of using comics as platform pieces
Lately I've just been reading a comic or two a month but Im genuinely excited about Hush 2 and Absolute Batman and Wonder Woman. Its been so long since I've felt like this 😭
When the MCU was going strong, I used to buy the $1 Marvel True Believers reprints that tied into what the current MCU movie was for a few of my coworkers. They usually highlighted the new characters appearing in the MCU movies that were releasing &/or the story the movie was adapted from. Eventually the MCU projects became unrecognizable from the stories/ characters in the True Believers reprints. One of my coworkers actually went to the LCS I'd get them from to check out the current day comics. It's World's Best Comics in Sacramento, California, the shop I've gone to since I was a kid in the 90s. He said he stayed for about 30'ish minutes. He checked out the Marvel True Believers and DC facsimile reprint racks, but for the most part he didn't recognize the characters in the current books, and when he picked them up to check them out, he thought the artwork looked ugly compared to the reprint books I'd been giving him. He spent most of his time looking at the classic reprints and the manga section. He checked out some of the classic trade paperbacks, but thought they were way overpriced compared to the manga collections he normally buys.
I think there always have been good to great comics over the last decade of the dark years. The problem is that you have to wade through a bunch of nonsense to find them, and fewer and fewer of them are coming from the "Big" Two. Daredevil has almost always been great for some reason (his last mediocre run was with Mark a decade ago). I think they're smart to try to bring in the tried and true veterans again, and I agree that they need to foster new up and coming talent, but they both need to change how they do business and clean house of the editors and a bunch of the once-new writers that they hired over the last decade to fifteen years before they do. They hired a bunch of people from social media and the YA novel space who either didn't give a rip about comics (not the characters or their continuity), which only resulted in the industry getting taken over by either hack writers who don't understand the medium, grifters who just used comics to try to get Netflix deals, or activists who treat it like a plaform the air all of their pet issues and personal fetishes at the expense of everything else. Business-wise, they need to refocus on actually making sales and take a few lessons from the manga, bande dessinee, and indie comic spaces that than actually work and adjust accordingly.
They became unreadable by the mid 2010s. I did try Gargoyles, Creepshow and the new EC comics this year. Gargoyles was good but the others were infested with the same heavy handed politics modern comics are notorious for. No subtlety at all and generally poor writing in general. If you're going to push ideologies or propaganda you need to be subtle with it and make it entertaining. Most people working in modern comics and media in general don't have the talent to do that but don't seem self aware enough to realize. Oh and so much of the art is ugly now.
Last comic I wanted to buy was Archie comic's Mega Man comics,when they lost the license and had to cancel it,I was done with comics. I use to enjoy Spider-Man comics until Marvel totally screwed up his character.
10:22 yeah, that really sounds like a self insert, and personally i've been writing a fan fiction with me and my friends, where my main character is a mutant who looks like a rat man. Personally, my character is actually up disgusted by their community in the world because he sees them parading around, pretending to be animals while he's having a horrible time in life because he looks like one and it's a physical detriment to him.
I have to pick and choose which comics I read since while I'm well versed in comic FILMS, I'm still slowly integrating into comic BOOKS for three or four years, simply because this art form is a mixed bag for me. There are things I enjoy, where I love something like Batman: The Killing Joke or Watchmen. But the only modern comics that have really caught my attention within the last two or three years are Batman: Three Jokers, and The Batman Who Laughs. Other than that, it's like I'm fishing for a comic to enjoy in a sea of mediocre or bad books, or books I just simply have no idea about.
I find there are some good modern comics, but thankfully there are enough old comics to keep me busy forever. The problem though is that there is such an overload of garbage from Marvel and DC that I wonder how any new readers are getting into comics at all. I certainly don't think I would be
Have you read comics from publishers other than Marvel and D.C? They have fantastic stories that are not just superheroes. Something Is Killing The Children is pretty damn awesome along with its spin-off House Of Slaughter. Boom Studios and IDW publish a variety of good books. Maybe if you try comics outside of the big two it may change how you see modern comics. Oh and Animal Pound by Tim King was also really good.
I'm completely down for more of this. Please keep making these vids. These were very fair and well-thought out reviews overall. Will be checking out Absolute Batman. Thanks! 👍
Image Comics/Skybound’s Transformers is amazing and I’m loving the Absolute Universe so far. Batman’s new story is something I’m very interested in and I did like Absolute Wonder Woman And I’ve heard great thing’s about Skybound’s Void Rivals Also, when you got to that Rogue line, I’m southern, from Mississippi like Rogue, and I don’t know where the idea that we talk like that came from but that’s not even close
The art in that Uncanny X-Men book is a big turn off for me. Current day Marvel comic artwork just feels so grimy/ inconsistent. Like you were saying about the bad dialogue, the artwork pulls me out of the story. Another channel I watch focuses mostly on the Incredible Hulk, he's been keeping up on the current Hulk storyline and the artwork just looks gross/ inconsistent to me. I keep my ear to the ground, waiting to hear if things have changed enough to wade back in. I really want to like Marvel/ DC comics again. I feel a large part of the problem is that they're subsidiaries of Disney and Warner Bros. They don't have the drive/ hunger to catch readers' attention and the need for success to keep their companies going. If they suck or succeed, it doesn't matter to them.
😅 I've been wanting to get back into comics over the years I think the only ones that are new eyes that I've read are the X-Men ones the X-Men galas and maybe a couple of others that I've seen but I just gave up on comics so many years ago because every other year especially with DC comics over the years they reboot them after like 4 or 5 years and you get used to one story line that gets dropped especially when you get attached to certain characters I especially wanted to stay with certain stories especially ones regarding the Titans and especially the character Raven but every other time I look up her story or a new story about her would come out Even with marvel comics even though I've come to like some of the characters in marvel I've always liked X-Men and have tried to keep up with their comics sometimes I just feel lost reading them I think that's why I've always stayed with manga more even though for about a year or two I wasn't really reading manga cuz a lot of the mangas I read wrong hiatus but a lot of the mangas I used to read are coming to an end or have sequels out or have switched to coming out once a month or coming out four times a year and to fill that Gap I thought I would maybe go back to comics but it just doesn't feel worth it so I go back and reread oh my goodness that I used to love that ended years ago and that's helped me fill the void I do miss comics it really does feel like it's a dying industry despite all the hype behind movies and such I see I don't know maybe something big will come along like how marvel was big up to endgame it seems and maybe people will be back into superheroes again but I think during the pandemic people just got burned out with superheroes and stuff Cuz even in the manga community there's the manga my hero academia which is mainly based off of superheroes and it feels like we got burnt out on that even with cartoons related to superheroes and stuff like miraculous ladybug people are still into that due to how the Lord and the show is set up and the Creator is always on Twitter or causing fights so of course people are going to stand in vested 😂 But I don't know I do miss comics and seeing all the characters I like it's just hard to get back into them
Yeah, getting into comics for me has just been making me feel horrible. I've also been trying to get into the x men (with the like 9 comics they have seriously That's a lot) and just the process of getting caught up because I haven't read comics at all. It just kind of made me feel depressed about them. Especially x man, for some reason, it always feels like they're on a giant circle of being on the cusp of being accepted or being nearly extinct
due to the pandemic(and the lost of both my jobs)l didn’t have as much disposable income,l had to end my decades long subscription service at my local comic book store 😥presently l occasionally purchase a few titles but not as much 🤓
Glad you're enjoying David Marquez's X-Men art. I really don't care for any main superhero comics continuity past Peter Tomasi's and Patrick Gleason's DC Rebirth Superman (I had the DC Rebirth Superman 7 Jorge Jimenez Superman art as my wallpaper when I was buying it), which was my favorite since Geoff Johns' New 52 Aquaman, and I remember really liking Paul Dini's and Alan Burnett's Batman Adventures Continue Season One but don't remember why I didn't continue reading....I have a guess though. Thanks for your insight. I hope you keep enjoying but those comics aren't for me, including Hickman's Ultimate Spider-man (I tried). I liked Brian Michael Bendis' Ultimate Spider-man though! I skipped through some of it, but overall they were my favorite comics I read from him. Thanks again. Hope you and your family have a nice day, JesterBell!
I never want to hear people at Marvel say they can't write a happy, non-boring married couple after seeing Rogue and Gambit in Uncanny. I do agree a lot about the dialogue.
Hey i just wanted to say, I know the views are lower right now, but they’ll go back up! It’s this way for a lot of creators right now. Love your videos, don’t give up ❤ RIP modern comics. They’re making fun of their audience atp.
Today's zeitgeist in comics is like cross a deep swamp: you can keep your head clean for some seconds and think everything is ok, but you will sink again soon! If the dialogue is bad, the story is bad, and if the story isn't, is just a matter of time! Modern comics are DEAD!
From what ive seen of one modern comic the art seemed a bit dark & washed out think because it was digital but that is just one example tge rest are probaly good...hahah. .it is weird the weird bits being written into the stories good vid thanks.
No, they never were completely terrible, while there are mediocre and bad issues, we still have good and great comics, and I'm not just referring to the Ultimate line. The industry is not what it used to be, due to external(manga and streaming) and internal(editorial) factors, but this year promises us many interesting things to look for.
Hey, and Good Day, JesterBell! I love your comic talk and writings so super stoked for your insight! Also, if you guys haven't seen, JesterBell did a positive discussion with her possible clone/possible sister (I'm not not positive!) in her "The Best Comics You'll Ever Read!! (with a Hot Guest)."
Not an X-fan so I wasn’t interested. Found Absolute Batman to be decent but not interesting enough to continue. Absolute Superman is the best of the three Absolute first issues, IMO. Really happy with Action Comics right now and the first issue with the new creative team on Nightwing is very good. Green Lantern has been good for a while. Conan is really good!
There are some good comics, you just have to give them a shoot... im enjoying Void Rivals, Transformers, Rook Exodus. Conan The Barbarian, The Sacrificers.... im still buying some DC/Marvel but since the stories have been mostly sht im.more mindfull on how I use my money(this prices are getting ridiculous😅, im also checking absolute batman it was ok)
Not really reading comics myself, but not a fan of the Batman artwork at all. Other than that, I thought your overall breakdown was fascinating and very interesting and insightful.
I’m really digging the new uncanny run, although the “100% x-men” line def threw me way off on my first read thru. Plz check out the new witchblade run! It’s not just a sexy lady cover book! I think you’d really get behind the story.
DC's Absolute universe seems good, although there are only 2 issues thus far. If the Absolute universe turns to trash, I'll just go back to buying reprints and facsimiles of old comics that I had when I was younger.
The Ironic thing is that the best comic I read lately it was "Disney's Minnie & Daisy - Spy-Power" and the funniest part is that it was made by Italians and have zero woke content.
Comics definitely peaked in the 80s, but I still think the 00s were a really good decade overall. Maybe it's just because that's when I started following comics, but there were a ton of great storylines.
@Tyler_W there definitely were good stories in the aughts and even the 90s, Kingdom Come, Grant Morrison's Animal Man, Justice League The New Frontier, Batman Hush, All Star Superman, but honestly what really kept Super Heroes and comic characters alive in that time were the Cartoons. The Fox Marvel stuff in the 90s and the DC Cartoon Network stuff in the 2000's.
Currently, I'm enjoying Ultimate X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men and Black Cloak. Napalm Lullaby is coming back I hear and Spider-Man Reign 2 seems to have concluded on issue 4, of 5... Spider Gwen: TGS is odd, I'm not sure how I feel about it. Unwell seems to fit but I don't know. I greatly enjoy your videos. Someone has to tell me what I'm getting wrong and I'm glad it's you.
Absolutely Batman is great! I highly recommend checking out the new Ultimate Spiderman, it’s an alternate reality where Peter becomes Spider-Man in his 30s and he’s already married to MJ and they have kids. It’s very well put together well worth your time.
Gail Simone is always chasing trends in a 'hello fellow kids' way, and has the industry weight to get not edited very much, which is why the dialogue is like that.
Comic book characters shouldn't have adult sexual relationships. Also, did you really just say that a child dying from cancer isn't enough motivation to be sad?
I prefer to buy graphic novels from the past. I have 6 versions of Kingdom Come. I am tired of politics and race bating in my entertainment. I want to read comic and watch movies to escape my reality. I don't want to spend money for watch or read something that tells me about my own reality.
I've been into comic books ever since the 80s and find it rediculous that we're judging the present by the past when you consider the fact that even back then even the quality of some comics were questionable, the difference is that back then we didn't talk about it like the way we do today.
You are compromising. You love characters so much you look past the fetish crap and woke garbage to find the nuggets of gold in the s**t. Every time a comic does something woke or insert fetishes you should immediately drop it.
You know there are other genres besides superheroes, right? And publishers other than Marvel and DC? Yes, they publish a lot of crap, but what will kill the medium is people only reading certain companies, and certain types of stories.
Not only is the quality of modern comics awful, the price is also absolutely awful. The amount it costs for how little time it entertains is an abysmal value. I really miss being excited for Wednesday. Those were the days.
I mainly read the Bat family/JL stuff and a few years back I was getting lost in hte massive mish-mash of titles and stories running. It was costing too much and DC Unlimited hand't came to the UK yet. So now I use "alternative" means to read comics. And I never feel bad that I didn't waste money on The Batman Who Laughs or Batman Eternal.
Between X-Men Green among many others, the fact that comic “pro’s” pushed a man to self deletion has turned me away almost entirely.
😢Rest in Peace 🙏 🪦 Ed Piskor 🙏 😢 🎉❤
The short answer is yes.
The long answer is essentially, yes.
Disney has destroyed Marvel and WB has ruined DC completely.
I'm mainly just here for your Kirby shirt
Just had a thought. What if someone designed a Kirby shirt in Jack Kirby's style, with the crackle, etc.
10:22 I’m sorry, but when a comic has a panel where a hero talks about how “awesome” furry parties are in any situation, I’m not reading it. What about that is necessary to the scene or the character? Even if the writer went for it as a joke, it’s just cringe and lame.
The big problem is that comics have ran for decades now and titles have to run every single month. Quality has to eventually suffer. And when you have characters with multiple titles every month, it just turns to a mess. Authors don't put out books every month and those who put out two books a year have now diluted their own brand quality by doing so. Comics geuinely do need a form of gatekeeping. Imagine if there was one Batman story and only 12 issues per year. You bet your arse that they would make sure it was 12 of the best written, planned and drawn issues, every single year.
I noticed both the new Ultimate universe, Energon Universe, and Absolute Universe are getting high acclaim and sales mainly how it feels like writers and artist told a cohesive universe that has major impact in the industry. I can see alot of possibilities in the new universe as long they don’t mess it up with constant bad decisions
The common trait is simple: they are fun, dumb exciting stories. For too long comic book writers see themselves as some moral compass and need to shove their own reality and ideology inti every comic. Like in the kodern videogames scape where every game has to have some profound message, space marine 2 is just simple dumb fun and it sells.
@@StevenZephyc I don’t necessarily agree with at sentiment in that regard. Marvels new ultimate universe deals with alternate history and how it affects everyday lives, people, cultures as seen by numerous natives characters, and how the past was taken away. These are heavy themes but what I think Ultimate Universe did right is the messaging doesn’t get away from the world building and story. Actually it adds depth to it mainly unlike 616 it goes back to the status quo, the stories can evolve.
I have no hope for modern Harley comics but it's good to see that there is good comic content coming out
Modern comics have gone done hill and are dying in quality which is why manga is doing well in manga sales people now moved on to manga and stop reading comics, because manga is fiction at its best
I still read and enjoy some newer comics (I mostly read in digital trades because I am not paying for monthly prices on physical issues that I’ll have to store or toss) but manga is more consistent and I’m more excited for manga more frequently.
Plus, the communities around discussing each manga chapter or what they love and hate in series are much more fun to me. I know some communities, people say are kinda crazy with shippers and such, but the ones I’ve been around are more chill and I don’t feel like I have to walk on egg shells to clarify that I’m not trying to make a political statement by saying I don’t like various things in Marvel or DC or risk getting blocked or banned.
The only modern comics i enjoy was chip zdarksy's daredevil and recently 2024 ultimate spider man.
This is when you write good stories, instead of using comics as platform pieces
Lately I've just been reading a comic or two a month but Im genuinely excited about Hush 2 and Absolute Batman and Wonder Woman. Its been so long since I've felt like this 😭
You mean hush 3
When the MCU was going strong, I used to buy the $1 Marvel True Believers reprints that tied into what the current MCU movie was for a few of my coworkers.
They usually highlighted the new characters appearing in the MCU movies that were releasing &/or the story the movie was adapted from.
Eventually the MCU projects became unrecognizable from the stories/ characters in the True Believers reprints.
One of my coworkers actually went to the LCS I'd get them from to check out the current day comics. It's World's Best Comics in Sacramento, California, the shop I've gone to since I was a kid in the 90s.
He said he stayed for about 30'ish minutes. He checked out the Marvel True Believers and DC facsimile reprint racks, but for the most part he didn't recognize the characters in the current books,
and when he picked them up to check them out, he thought the artwork looked ugly compared to the reprint books I'd been giving him.
He spent most of his time looking at the classic reprints and the manga section. He checked out some of the classic trade paperbacks, but thought they were way overpriced compared to the manga collections he normally buys.
I think there always have been good to great comics over the last decade of the dark years. The problem is that you have to wade through a bunch of nonsense to find them, and fewer and fewer of them are coming from the "Big" Two. Daredevil has almost always been great for some reason (his last mediocre run was with Mark a decade ago). I think they're smart to try to bring in the tried and true veterans again, and I agree that they need to foster new up and coming talent, but they both need to change how they do business and clean house of the editors and a bunch of the once-new writers that they hired over the last decade to fifteen years before they do. They hired a bunch of people from social media and the YA novel space who either didn't give a rip about comics (not the characters or their continuity), which only resulted in the industry getting taken over by either hack writers who don't understand the medium, grifters who just used comics to try to get Netflix deals, or activists who treat it like a plaform the air all of their pet issues and personal fetishes at the expense of everything else. Business-wise, they need to refocus on actually making sales and take a few lessons from the manga, bande dessinee, and indie comic spaces that than actually work and adjust accordingly.
They became unreadable by the mid 2010s. I did try Gargoyles, Creepshow and the new EC comics this year. Gargoyles was good but the others were infested with the same heavy handed politics modern comics are notorious for. No subtlety at all and generally poor writing in general. If you're going to push ideologies or propaganda you need to be subtle with it and make it entertaining. Most people working in modern comics and media in general don't have the talent to do that but don't seem self aware enough to realize.
Oh and so much of the art is ugly now.
Last comic I wanted to buy was Archie comic's Mega Man comics,when they lost the license and had to cancel it,I was done with comics. I use to enjoy Spider-Man comics until Marvel totally screwed up his character.
10:22 yeah, that really sounds like a self insert, and personally i've been writing a fan fiction with me and my friends, where my main character is a mutant who looks like a rat man. Personally, my character is actually up disgusted by their community in the world because he sees them parading around, pretending to be animals while he's having a horrible time in life because he looks like one and it's a physical detriment to him.
I have to pick and choose which comics I read since while I'm well versed in comic FILMS, I'm still slowly integrating into comic BOOKS for three or four years, simply because this art form is a mixed bag for me. There are things I enjoy, where I love something like Batman: The Killing Joke or Watchmen. But the only modern comics that have really caught my attention within the last two or three years are Batman: Three Jokers, and The Batman Who Laughs. Other than that, it's like I'm fishing for a comic to enjoy in a sea of mediocre or bad books, or books I just simply have no idea about.
It's been years since I bought a comic from the big two, tbh. But if they keep improving, maybe I'll be back
You should check out the new Ultimate Spider-Man comics and the Nightwing Fallen Grayson story from Tom Taylor
I find there are some good modern comics, but thankfully there are enough old comics to keep me busy forever. The problem though is that there is such an overload of garbage from Marvel and DC that I wonder how any new readers are getting into comics at all. I certainly don't think I would be
Have you read comics from publishers other than Marvel and D.C? They have fantastic stories that are not just superheroes. Something Is Killing The Children is pretty damn awesome along with its spin-off House Of Slaughter. Boom Studios and IDW publish a variety of good books. Maybe if you try comics outside of the big two it may change how you see modern comics.
Oh and Animal Pound by Tim King was also really good.
Yes, yes they are. DC's new villain. 😂💀
I'm completely down for more of this. Please keep making these vids. These were very fair and well-thought out reviews overall. Will be checking out Absolute Batman. Thanks! 👍
Image Comics/Skybound’s Transformers is amazing and I’m loving the Absolute Universe so far. Batman’s new story is something I’m very interested in and I did like Absolute Wonder Woman
And I’ve heard great thing’s about Skybound’s Void Rivals
Also, when you got to that Rogue line, I’m southern, from Mississippi like Rogue, and I don’t know where the idea that we talk like that came from but that’s not even close
The art in that Uncanny X-Men book is a big turn off for me. Current day Marvel comic artwork just feels so grimy/ inconsistent.
Like you were saying about the bad dialogue, the artwork pulls me out of the story.
Another channel I watch focuses mostly on the Incredible Hulk, he's been keeping up on the current Hulk storyline and the artwork just looks gross/ inconsistent to me.
I keep my ear to the ground, waiting to hear if things have changed enough to wade back in. I really want to like Marvel/ DC comics again.
I feel a large part of the problem is that they're subsidiaries of Disney and Warner Bros. They don't have the drive/ hunger to catch readers' attention and the need for success to keep their companies going.
If they suck or succeed, it doesn't matter to them.
Does Gambit still have the cats? My priority will always be the cats.
yes
😅 I've been wanting to get back into comics over the years I think the only ones that are new eyes that I've read are the X-Men ones the X-Men galas and maybe a couple of others that I've seen but I just gave up on comics so many years ago because every other
year especially with DC comics over the years they reboot them after like 4 or 5 years and you get used to one story line that gets dropped especially when you get attached to certain characters
I especially wanted to stay with certain stories especially ones regarding the Titans and especially the character Raven but every other time I look up her story or a new story about her would come out
Even with marvel comics even though I've come to like some of the characters in marvel I've always liked X-Men and have tried to keep up with their comics sometimes I just feel lost reading them I think that's why I've always stayed with manga more even though for about a year or two I wasn't really reading manga cuz a lot of the mangas I read wrong hiatus but a lot of the mangas I used to read are
coming to an end or have sequels out or have switched to coming out once a month or coming out four times a year and to fill that Gap I thought I would maybe go back to comics but it just doesn't feel worth it so I go back and reread oh my goodness that I used to love that ended years ago and that's helped me fill the void I do miss comics it really does feel like it's a
dying industry despite all the hype behind movies and such I see I don't know maybe something big will come along like how marvel was big up to endgame it seems and maybe people will be back into superheroes again but I think during the pandemic people just got burned out with superheroes and stuff
Cuz even in the manga community there's the manga my hero academia which is mainly based off of superheroes and it feels like we got burnt out on that even with cartoons related to superheroes and stuff like miraculous ladybug people are still into that due to how the Lord and the show is set up and the Creator is always on Twitter or causing fights so of course people are going to stand in vested
😂
But I don't know I do miss comics and seeing all the characters I like it's just hard to get back into them
I'd say for the most part? Yes. But I still see one or two that catch my eye. I'm at least still looking forward to the Two Face solo run coming soon.
Nightcrawler likes furry parties... Did an ai write that? 😅
Yeah, getting into comics for me has just been making me feel horrible. I've also been trying to get into the x men (with the like 9 comics they have seriously That's a lot) and just the process of getting caught up because I haven't read comics at all. It just kind of made me feel depressed about them. Especially x man, for some reason, it always feels like they're on a giant circle of being on the cusp of being accepted or being nearly extinct
There are inexpensive collections that Humble Bundle posts periodically, if it's anything made after 2000 I pass
due to the pandemic(and the lost of both my jobs)l didn’t have as much disposable income,l
had to end my decades long subscription service at my local comic book store 😥presently l occasionally purchase a few titles but not as much 🤓
Glad you're enjoying David Marquez's X-Men art. I really don't care for any main superhero comics continuity past Peter Tomasi's and Patrick Gleason's DC Rebirth Superman (I had the DC Rebirth Superman 7 Jorge Jimenez Superman art as my wallpaper when I was buying it), which was my favorite since Geoff Johns' New 52 Aquaman, and I remember really liking Paul Dini's and Alan Burnett's Batman Adventures Continue Season One but don't remember why I didn't continue reading....I have a guess though. Thanks for your insight. I hope you keep enjoying but those comics aren't for me, including Hickman's Ultimate Spider-man (I tried).
I liked Brian Michael Bendis' Ultimate Spider-man though! I skipped through some of it, but overall they were my favorite comics I read from him. Thanks again. Hope you and your family have a nice day, JesterBell!
I never want to hear people at Marvel say they can't write a happy, non-boring married couple after seeing Rogue and Gambit in Uncanny. I do agree a lot about the dialogue.
Hey i just wanted to say, I know the views are lower right now, but they’ll go back up! It’s this way for a lot of creators right now. Love your videos, don’t give up ❤
RIP modern comics. They’re making fun of their audience atp.
With that word blurb next to you…I wasn’t sure what kind of video we were getting 😆
Never did I think I would ever hear "Bat-Axe" before as a tool
Today's zeitgeist in comics is like cross a deep swamp: you can keep your head clean for some seconds and think everything is ok, but you will sink again soon! If the dialogue is bad, the story is bad, and if the story isn't, is just a matter of time! Modern comics are DEAD!
Have you read or check out the Absolute Power storyline that was going on in DC this year?
From what ive seen of one modern comic the art seemed a bit dark & washed out think because it was digital but that is just one example tge rest are probaly good...hahah. .it is weird the weird bits being written into the stories good vid thanks.
No, they never were completely terrible, while there are mediocre and bad issues, we still have good and great comics, and I'm not just referring to the Ultimate line. The industry is not what it used to be, due to external(manga and streaming) and internal(editorial) factors, but this year promises us many interesting things to look for.
Hey, and Good Day, JesterBell! I love your comic talk and writings so super stoked for your insight! Also, if you guys haven't seen, JesterBell did a positive discussion with her possible clone/possible sister (I'm not not positive!) in her "The Best Comics You'll Ever Read!! (with a Hot Guest)."
Yea they are but there are some amazing comics out there
Not an X-fan so I wasn’t interested. Found Absolute Batman to be decent but not interesting enough to continue. Absolute Superman is the best of the three Absolute first issues, IMO. Really happy with Action Comics right now and the first issue with the new creative team on Nightwing is very good. Green Lantern has been good for a while.
Conan is really good!
There are some good comics, you just have to give them a shoot... im enjoying Void Rivals, Transformers, Rook Exodus. Conan The Barbarian, The Sacrificers.... im still buying some DC/Marvel but since the stories have been mostly sht im.more mindfull on how I use my money(this prices are getting ridiculous😅, im also checking absolute batman it was ok)
Ayy, I voted on the poll for the title
I'll just stick with the old comic book stories
Not really reading comics myself, but not a fan of the Batman artwork at all. Other than that, I thought your overall breakdown was fascinating and very interesting and insightful.
I’m really digging the new uncanny run, although the “100% x-men” line def threw me way off on my first read thru. Plz check out the new witchblade run! It’s not just a sexy lady cover book! I think you’d really get behind the story.
DC's Absolute universe seems good, although there are only 2 issues thus far. If the Absolute universe turns to trash, I'll just go back to buying reprints and facsimiles of old comics that I had when I was younger.
Don't know, I'm too busy reading manga.
I think Ultimates and Ultimate Spider-Man is pretty good, but I haven’t read anything else new to be honest
I would read the ultimate spider man 2024 run, instead of the ASM run
I recommend you moonknight and thor(this one is pretty meta)
The Ironic thing is that the best comic I read lately it was "Disney's Minnie & Daisy - Spy-Power" and the funniest part is that it was made by Italians and have zero woke content.
Love these videos
Comics peaked in the 1980s and then went downhill in the 90's, and have been going downhill ever since.
Comics definitely peaked in the 80s, but I still think the 00s were a really good decade overall. Maybe it's just because that's when I started following comics, but there were a ton of great storylines.
@Tyler_W there definitely were good stories in the aughts and even the 90s, Kingdom Come, Grant Morrison's Animal Man, Justice League The New Frontier, Batman Hush, All Star Superman, but honestly what really kept Super Heroes and comic characters alive in that time were the Cartoons. The Fox Marvel stuff in the 90s and the DC Cartoon Network stuff in the 2000's.
Currently, I'm enjoying Ultimate X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men and Black Cloak.
Napalm Lullaby is coming back I hear and Spider-Man Reign 2 seems to have concluded on issue 4, of 5...
Spider Gwen: TGS is odd, I'm not sure how I feel about it. Unwell seems to fit but I don't know.
I greatly enjoy your videos. Someone has to tell me what I'm getting wrong and I'm glad it's you.
Uncanny and Jeds' XMen are solid.
Absolutely Batman is great!
I highly recommend checking out the new Ultimate Spiderman, it’s an alternate reality where Peter becomes Spider-Man in his 30s and he’s already married to MJ and they have kids. It’s very well put together well worth your time.
Jfc. I would dnf if I had to read the most repressed catholic character after Matt Murdock talk about furry parties.
:::awaits inevitable Magneto/Rogue relationship criticism:::
Good job, J.B.!
Gail Simone is always chasing trends in a 'hello fellow kids' way, and has the industry weight to get not edited very much, which is why the dialogue is like that.
I stopped reading comics since the end of avengers vs x men.
Comic book characters shouldn't have adult sexual relationships.
Also, did you really just say that a child dying from cancer isn't enough motivation to be sad?
Havent read comics in awhile.
Nightcrawler saying he likes Furry parties could be him making a joke in battle. Still kind cringe i agree.
Tell me, is Paul Dini’s Gotham City Sirens run worth reading?
I prefer to buy graphic novels from the past. I have 6 versions of Kingdom Come. I am tired of politics and race bating in my entertainment. I want to read comic and watch movies to escape my reality. I don't want to spend money for watch or read something that tells me about my own reality.
I prefer DC comics. Marvel just isn't as fun.
Mmmm I don't think anything you read before can be worse than Joker 2 Lol 😂.
Depends on the comic
Yup, still crap
I've been into comic books ever since the 80s and find it rediculous that we're judging the present by the past when you consider the fact that even back then even the quality of some comics were questionable, the difference is that back then we didn't talk about it like the way we do today.
You are compromising. You love characters so much you look past the fetish crap and woke garbage to find the nuggets of gold in the s**t.
Every time a comic does something woke or insert fetishes you should immediately drop it.
Read the new marvel ultimate universe comics ecpacially ultimate Spider-Man by Johnathan Hickman and ultimates by deniz camp
You know there are other genres besides superheroes, right? And publishers other than Marvel and DC? Yes, they publish a lot of crap, but what will kill the medium is people only reading certain companies, and certain types of stories.
Read some indie comics. Marvel and DC are so infected with big money, they'll only ever produce bland garbage.
Can you review the alien romulus prequel comic?
Examples of the fetishes pls 😁
As strong as Superman ?
Yes
I hope you’ll make a video about manga books someday.
Anyone onow any good comics with magix in them ❤
YES
I've seen a lot of mediocre movies. We should have lunch. It'll be fun.
No
The artist that designed the absolute batman logo should go to jail for a long long time
Lol my sexuality is legit Power Ranger!
Power rangers has really good comics