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Just Me Or Everyone? (A Game Of Sorts)

Eric_CEric_C Posts: 263
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So if any of you listen to Adam Carolla or Alison Rosen you probably know this game. Rosen was fired as news girl at the start of the new year, but still does her own podcast now. The reason I bring this up is to give credit to her for my idea for this thread, Just Me Or Everyone. Now it is pretty simple, for example, is it just me or everyone who is secretly a Justin Bieber supporter? We then have different opinions about the subject until it gets old or someone brings up something more exciting. If it sticks, cool, if it fades away into comic forum obscurity, fine as well, I just thought a comic/geek related version of the game would be fun. I'll start...

Is it just me or everyone who feels like I am not good enough to have Alex Ross art in my comics? This is something I have been thinking about recently, like I feel like Ross's art is so grand and beautiful, I feel like I am getting away with something just having his art in my comic book. He's not my favorite artist, but he is the guy who takes my breath away more than any other artist out there. His art is like a spectacle on some plain of existence that I'm definitely not on. Just me or everyone?
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  • luckymustardluckymustard Posts: 927
    I've never played, nor heard of, this game....

    I'm gonna guess it's just you. Alex Ross is my favorite comic book artist, but I don't understand the thinking that one doesn't deserve to enjoy an overabundance of something they like.

    Did I do it right?
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  • CageNarleighCageNarleigh Posts: 729
    Alright, I think I've got the hang of it.

    To answer your question, I agree that Alex is a great artist, but I personally don't seek out his art on my comics. Had I the ability, I'd probably buy a print or two for framing in some future house, but I don't seek it out in comic form.

    My question...

    Is it just me or everyone who feels like your DC anger might be something more? I see these solicits for new and "exciting" series from DC and it SEEMS like they're doing what we've been asking them to do since the New 52 launched. But, I feel like a slighted lover or something. Like no matter how much they've changed, screw them. They hurt me bad and I just can't seem to let go.

    Which sucks pretty hardcore because the DC universe is far and away my FAVORITE universe. I love that world. But I'm a tad concerned that my present anger is going to blind me to real and fun new lines in DC's future and I'm just going to (or perhaps already have) ended up a bitter comics fan.

    How does one "forgive and forget" when it comes to comics?
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  • Eric_CEric_C Posts: 263
    luckymustard said:

    I've never played, nor heard of, this game....

    I'm gonna guess it's just you.

    That's how it usually goes haha
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  • Eric_CEric_C Posts: 263
    CageNarleigh said:

    Alright, I think I've got the hang of it.

    To answer your question, I agree that Alex is a great artist, but I personally don't seek out his art on my comics. Had I the ability, I'd probably buy a print or two for framing in some future house, but I don't seek it out in comic form.

    My question...

    Is it just me or everyone who feels like your DC anger might be something more? I see these solicits for new and "exciting" series from DC and it SEEMS like they're doing what we've been asking them to do since the New 52 launched. But, I feel like a slighted lover or something. Like no matter how much they've changed, screw them. They hurt me bad and I just can't seem to let go.

    Which sucks pretty hardcore because the DC universe is far and away my FAVORITE universe. I love that world. But I'm a tad concerned that my present anger is going to blind me to real and fun new lines in DC's future and I'm just going to (or perhaps already have) ended up a bitter comics fan.

    How does one "forgive and forget" when it comes to comics?

    This is a better question than mine! I am a Marvel boy at heart so I am not as angry with DC for some of the New 52 stuff, I mean Batman has been amazing and I'm and Arrow addict so getting Felicity and Digg make it all worth, but that said both of those things, Snyder's writing and the new characters would have happened New 52 or not. That said. i am less excited about post convergence stuff because I was really excited for some of the New 52 stuff, Justice League and Action Comics in particular and I personally thought it was awful. I am less excited than I would be because of the fact the New 52 failed me in that respect. So I would be in agreeance with your feeling, but seeing as I am not a true DC guy my opinion probably counts less, or at least in my mind it does.
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  • compsolutcompsolut Posts: 150
    CageNarleigh said:

    Alright, I think I've got the hang of it.

    Is it just me or everyone who feels like your DC anger might be something more? I see these solicits for new and "exciting" series from DC and it SEEMS like they're doing what we've been asking them to do since the New 52 launched. But, I feel like a slighted lover or something. Like no matter how much they've changed, screw them. They hurt me bad and I just can't seem to let go.

    Which sucks pretty hardcore because the DC universe is far and away my FAVORITE universe. I love that world. But I'm a tad concerned that my present anger is going to blind me to real and fun new lines in DC's future and I'm just going to (or perhaps already have) ended up a bitter comics fan.

    How does one "forgive and forget" when it comes to comics?

    I completely agree! The beauty is that if you are a jilted lover reader, you can always get over it in a few years and hit the Con circuit to get back issues . . .

    For my question:

    Is it just me or everyone who feels that Marvel has hit it out of the park with timing? First the massive movie universe setup, now Secret Wars . . . which is brining a whole cavalcade of new #1's - just in time for the summer - to try and get a foothold of new readers.

    For me, when starting in comics, I didn't care about continuity (still mostly don't). How do you bring in readers who don't want 75 years of continuity to worry about? Make a new #1 in a clean universe! Genius timing, and the creative teams on the big books are hitting it out of the park. Hats off Marvel, you shall continue to receive my shekels.
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  • CageNarleighCageNarleigh Posts: 729
    compsolut said:

    CageNarleigh said:

    Alright, I think I've got the hang of it.

    Is it just me or everyone who feels like your DC anger might be something more? I see these solicits for new and "exciting" series from DC and it SEEMS like they're doing what we've been asking them to do since the New 52 launched. But, I feel like a slighted lover or something. Like no matter how much they've changed, screw them. They hurt me bad and I just can't seem to let go.

    Which sucks pretty hardcore because the DC universe is far and away my FAVORITE universe. I love that world. But I'm a tad concerned that my present anger is going to blind me to real and fun new lines in DC's future and I'm just going to (or perhaps already have) ended up a bitter comics fan.

    How does one "forgive and forget" when it comes to comics?

    For me, when starting in comics, I didn't care about continuity (still mostly don't). How do you bring in readers who don't want 75 years of continuity to worry about? Make a new #1 in a clean universe! Genius timing, and the creative teams on the big books are hitting it out of the park. Hats off Marvel, you shall continue to receive my shekels.
    Oh we're talking about MARVEL here? For a second I thought that was a paragraph concerning the New 52...

    ;)

    lol, anyways. Yeah. It does seem like Marvel is in a "Anything you can do I can do better" war with DC...and they're not wrong. Though I AM a tad concerned, somewhere deep in the recesses of my mind, that we might not be giving DC a chance to prove themselves (at least, their cinematic universe) simply because we think they started "too late".

    But again, that's just a tiny whisper of a thought in the back of my mind. Personally I stopped reading Marvel after JMS left Thor and didn't get back in until Amazing X-Men started (I'm a HUGE Firestar fan). I stopped with Amazing X-Men after awhile because it just relied TOO heavily on the assumption that you were reading the other X-books as well. I got EVERY issue in the Spider-Verse storyline and now I'm reading....hang on, let me go see....

    Spider-Gwen (in print)
    Squadron Sinister (trying digitally)
    A-Force (in print)
    X-Men '92 (in print)
    Thor [the female Thor run, no spoilers] (digitally)

    Oh and they're releasing the Christopher Priest Black Panther series in trade form next month. And I've been curious to learn about the character and I've heard @wildpigcomics talk about it enough to know I'm duty bound to at least TRY it... haha

    So yeah, that might not look like alot, but for a guy that was reading NO Marvel titles...
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