What really grinds your gears about Marvel comic books?

[arp2008]

My fellow money squanderers, what grinds really your gears about these fifteen minutes of entertainment we love to dive into on a weekly basis? What is it about this books, their publishers, or the industry in general that gets under your skin to no end and would probably make the experience of being a comic a little more pleasent?

You know what really grind my gears, Hulk. Joeph Leobs massive **** you to all the respect, however litle it may be, the better and more respectable books of the medium have been earning using strong stories, compelling characters, and deep, powerful plots. JL Hulk is what is wrong with comics today. And to add injury to the massive middle finger he's pointing at engrossing books like Cap and DD and others, it $4! Who the **** is buying this to the point that it can be raised to $4? What is wrong with you! And that ladies( any girls in the house?) and gentlemen, is what grinds my gears.

How about you? What grinds your gears?

[Fat Cobra]

The way action scenes are drawn now at days. Its like they are trying to go for photo realism or something.

[CyberHubbs]

The fans.

The comics I like just fine.

[Guest_1001]

Waiting times between issues. Oh, and I know I'm in the minority here, but there really isn't enough on my pull list.

[Joe Acro]

How about you? What grinds your gears?

Two things:

1) Poor editing. I'm tired of mistakes in the art or lettering.

2) The lack of storytelling in many cases. More often than not, characters just don't look like they're saying what they're saying (just as an example).

[RolandJP]

Comic Book elitists who hate fans.


I will make my money off of you.

But I hate you.


:GAG:

[G. Wayne]

The fans.

The comics I like just fine.

Comics are too stagnant! The status quo never changes! We need something new and exciting!

...

What?! How DARE you
-kill character A
-give character B a new costume
-depower character C
-create character D
-give character E a new name.

Your work is a slap in the face (You want a phrase that should be banned for a while? There's a 4 word one for you.) to the fans! You hack!! Where do you get your ideas from?!

[Grapeweasel]

People who think the creators are more important than the characters.

Especially since most of those people tend to be the creators themselves.

[Rev. Calibos]

Variant covers.

A minor gear grind for me but it drives me nuts to see a title churn out dozens of variant covers throughout a year.

I steer clear of them and try to pick a cover that I enjoy the best.

For instance, the ASM Obama cover? F that, a choice between the Obama cover and a cover by Romita Sr.?

Romita Sr. wins all day.


It doesn't bother me THAT much as no one is forcing anyone to buy these things, but the variant covers are there for ONE reason, to nab those folks who have that collector's mentality and feel that they 'gotta catch 'em all' and end up 4 copies of the EXACT same comic.

[Gitaroo_Dude]

Waiting times between issues. Oh, and I know I'm in the minority here, but there really isn't enough on my pull list.

Nah, I'm in the same boat. There's way more books I'd like to add to my list and read than I can afford.

[artiepants]

just the $3.99 cover prices on books i want to read but am not. i figure Marvel's now losing out on 3-4 books per week i'd otherwise be getting.

Major continuity gaffes.

Fans that can't see past whatever there favorite 'era' of something is.

[Comet Man]

The fans.

The comics I like just fine.

Comic Book elitists who hate fans.


I will make my money off of you.

But I hate you.


:GAG:

People who think the creators are more important than the characters.

Especially since most of those people tend to be the creators themselves.

Yes, yes, and yes again!

Oh, and DECOMPRESSION!

[Ex_]

The fans.

The comics I like just fine.

That's really all I came to say. Nice.

[Sighphi]

Bendis' New New Avengers

Most of the team has had some sort of military training and to try to show the world that Osborn is really a bad guy the plan they come up with is to get into a fight with him because villains usually talk about their evil plans........ and when that doesnt work one of them does an editorial one TV saying that Osborn is bad because he says so........

What the hell is this? This group of Avengers should really be called the Special Force Avengers from all the crazy training most of them have but that's the best they got? This comic should be all Tom Clancy Rainbow Six like but instead they just end up looking worst than the Young Avengers when they teamed up. It's horrible.

[mikekerr3]

Ther seemingly intentional trashing of continuity and the fact that they have thrown away the idea ofa shared time-line/universe/

The Vacation time that Spidey took after OMD and the month that he just disappeared from the planet in ASM , make his appearances in the NA anachronisms.

The Break the X-factor took, month passed but they are somehow still in sync with the rest of the MU without missing a beat?

They trough Characterization to the winds with the CW and in its aftermath they are throwing away much of the rest of what made the MU such a compelling place.