Comics X-Men comic fans - do you read other comics?

[Elijya]

I just got into Cable&Deadpool and am up to issue#22 at the moment. It's a great title and Deadpool is awesome. I got confused and lost sometimes b/c of the whole advanced sci-fi stuff, but I still love it.

Just read Ms Marvel #1 yesterday. Got me hooked right from the beginning.

I read Ms. Marvel #1 last night, and found it to be completely mediochre.

 

[Dark Beast]

Last non x-men comicbook was Catwoman: When in Rome.
But I only buy tradebacks and hardcovers, basically....

 

[Arach Knight]

Hey, I grew up with Marvel too, and the majority of books I still read are Marvel. But I've branched out. Sure, you can love the characters, but why would you read a completely peice of **** story starring a character you like then an amazong story starring a character you're not yet familiar with? The Former sounds like a much bigger waste of mjoney then the latter.

I like Spider-Man, but I'm not gonna get suckered into buying a completely crappy story just because he's in it.

I guess it is just the level of commitment that one is willing to make to a character. I stopped reading Spidey for about six months, and next thing I know, when I come back, he has armor from Tony Stark. You keep reading, so that you can not fall out of the loop. Imagine how confused somebody will feel, if they have been on a longer sabatical. Hell, I completely missed out on the whole Spider Stinger thing, so now I have to read the Other trade, just to find out how he obtained the powers. I imagine that goes for somebody like Sebita. You just follow your character and see where they go. I guess I treat a lot of Marvel books that way. I mean, I really hated Ultimate Carnage, but if I were to have skipped the book because of that one bad story, I would have missed all of the greater stories that followed, including Ultimate Spider-Man Annual.

 

[Elijya]

I guess it is just the level of commitment that one is willing to make to a character.

But people act like there's some value to "commiting" yourself to a character. There isn't. All you're doing is getting suckered in because companies know they can serve you a pile or horse crap whenever they want, and you'll still buy it cause it has Spider-Man in it.

 

[Valechan]

I oance willingly stopped buying X-Men comics. My last issue was X-Men 118. I HATED Morrison's take on the X-Men, those people weren't X-Men inmy eyes. Then, given economic problems on my country I had to give up altogether on comic books. A year and a half later, or so, the ReLoad came along, and just a few months before that I had found my way back into comcis. When I started buying X-Men again, you know what was the first thign I did? I went back and bought all those Morrison books I did not (and still don't) like. Why? Because I don't want to not know what happened to my X-Men in 40 issues. Because I don't want to have a 40 issue hole in my collection. I have them all now, and I've barely read them once.

I've bought crap stories, crap issues, by the hundreds, but when you collect a certain book, you can't not buy an issue, it leaves a hole in your collection. That's why the hobby is referred to as comic book collecting, you just gotta buy them all...

 

[Elijya]

no, you don't

 

[canned_raccoon]

no, don't buy them if you don't like them! nothing gets through to publishers faster than a drop in sales to get rid of a writer! if you need to know that badly the issue summaries on uncanny xmen.net are updated really regularly.

and i'm mostly an x-men fan, but branch into batman and thought that grant morrison's we3 was fantastic, i'd been really unsure of quietley's art on new x-men, but it was brilliant on that series, i think vertigo brought out a tpb of it last summer..

 

[Nightwolf]

For me, i just read X-Men. I follow these characters not creators, artists or even stories to a degree. If there is a story i dont like and dont want to read thats fine but i wouldnt replace it with another book, id just read one less but for the most part, even if its mediocre or bad i dont really care (except milligan). I know virtually all the history, the relationships they have between each other and ive been following them for years. Sure there will be better stories, there are always better stories but its like supporting a sports team. Sometimes they may be doing terrible and you may even hate them for it, but that doesnt mean you stop supporting them because when they do get back on top and do start kicking butt again theirs nothing like it.

 

[Elijya]

But it's NOT like supporting a sports team, because these are fictious characters, it's not real at all. Even if sports are just a game, at least real people are involved.

Again: you're hooked into this idea that being "loyal" to a bunch of ficticious characters has any value whatsoever. It doesn't.

 

[Manic]

Supporting the characters isn't like supporting a sports team. Supporting a writer, penciller, inker, colorist, and editor is like supporting a sports team. Supporting the character is more like supporting the ball. You may be fond of the ball, but not every team will kick it in the goal.

 

[Sugarculted]

Mainly read...

Cable and Deadpool. Easily my favourite of the moment.
Any comic with TF on it, cept for the whole GI Joe thing that went on with DW.
The Ultimates. Basically because I love the stories.
Ultimate X-Men. I've only got the paperbacks, but I adore all of it.
Ultimate Spidey...when I have the money.

Need to buy the Exiles comics, because I've read all of reviews online. Oh, and I'm a huge Sliders fan...so I enjoy the whole different world thing going on.

Never been into DC. I don't know why. I grew up loving Spidey and the X-Men. Even though there were several Batman toys scattered across the floor as a kid, I don't enjoy the comics that much.

Would anyone recommend any others? Heard She-Hulk is good.

 

[grey_jeanie]

No not really.

 

[Nightwolf]

Lol, ok maybe it wasnt the best analogy ive ever made, i dont even watch sports.

'Again: you're hooked into this idea that being "loyal" to a bunch of ficticious characters has any value whatsoever. It doesn't.'

Maybe not for you, but these characters hold a great deal of value to me. The word value is a relative term and you can get as much or as little out of it as you choose.

 

[Manic]

Here's my stance: If you're a fan of a character, get the character a better writer. Don't support writers who treat your favorite characters like trash. Don't give them your money. Stop buying the comic. Write letters. Tell others who feel the same way to follow. If everyone who didn't like the Golgotha arc in X-Men had just stopped buying the book, Milligan never would've made it past the Decimation.

 

[Valechan]

I totally agree with Nightwolf. The X-Men are the reason I buy the books. It's like a marriage, you gotta stick through the good times and the bad.

 

[Elijya]

NO IT'S NOT! A MARRIAGE IS REAL! THE X-MEN ARE FAKE! Their feelings are not "hurt" if you realize their stories suck and drop them for awhile. It's not infidelity if you read some other comics.0

The only one you hurt is YOURSELF and your wallet when you buy stories you know you hate

 

[Valechan]

I know their feelings aren't hurt, but yours are. How can you allow yourself to not know what happens to characters you care about? I hated what happened in some issues, but I would have hated more not to know what happened there.

 

[Elijya]

How can I allow myself? when what's being done to them is bad storytelling

 

[Valechan]

Still even if it's bad storytelling, those are events that happen to the characters.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I know their feelings aren't hurt, but yours are. How can you allow yourself to not know what happens to characters you care about? I hated what happened in some issues, but I would have hated more not to know what happened there.

That's how I am. I couldn't stand to have a story going on about Colossus or Cannonball or any other of my favorites and not read it. If it sucked, it sucked and that was money wasted but I understand another small piece of history about the character.

I'm an X-****e, but I don' limit myself to X-books.

 

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

Umm yes, but I wouldn't consider myself a huge X-Men fan. But I do enjoy the series, depending on what is going on in the story line(s).

 

[Arach Knight]

I do enjoy characters in a story, but I do not consider it loyalty. I won't make the mistake of comparing it to something much more serious (like marriage) but I can say that there are valid (or at least considerable) reasons, to following characters that you enjoy. As already stated by myself and Sebita, you never really want to have a gap in your books, where you are missing details that may pertain to later events. But for me, a character may have a certain appeal, and that keeps you with that character. For instance, I think Superman is essentially a huge *****e. I've read Superman stories that I like, such as Our World is at War (my library checks out Graphic Novels as well) but I can tell you, that i'd still never follow a Superman book, because even with a great story, I just despise the character. On the other hand, I enjoy Spider-Man...I enjoy Storm. So i'll follow a crappy story, and just take it as an event that further pains or develops the character that I enjoy.

 

[MakeMinesMarvel]

I've been reading X-Men over from the beginning and I'll branch out with New Mutants/Wolverine/Alpha Flight/Excalibur/Xfactor/X-Force/Cable etc

 

[Leo Zelinsky]

My current pull list

Uncanny X-Men
Extraordinary X-Men
All New Wolverine
Deadpool vs Gambit
X-Men '92
Uncanny Avengers


Highly anticipating X-Men: Civil War II

 

[Iceman]

I will always eventually catch up and read everything X-related. But I love the other team books, Avengers and JL and their derivatives too.