Why did you stop reading Marvel comics?

[Alan Smithee]

Fans who quit comics no doubt read this board if only to keep up with artist/writer changes, spoilers and issue summaries.

I quit reading comics with the penultimate issue of Siege. There were still a couple books I was interested in, but it seemed like a bother to go buy the TPB.

I think it was Hylerstyle who had as his sig his pull list. Each really excellent book followed with the word "canceled." I know there are people on these boards who quit buying comic books because a) they were upset with a dollar price increase in a time of economic doldrums or b) they got sick of the hype about events or c) they woke up and realized they were 34 or d) Bendis sux.

This is not a poll, but a forum for other Marvel Zombies who relatively recently quit reading comcs.

[Blue Blazes]

i stopped initially in the late 90s during the end of the clone saga (also about the time i moved away to college), came back a few years ago when Nova had the new series and have been back since. making more money has allowed me the opportunity to try several other series and i think im getting as much or more dc than marvel now.

[Dog]

Sorry. This is not a poll, but I want to know the views of other (I guess largely Marvel Zombies) just drop all books and stay here because you want to know what the hell is going on.

How specious. What a waste of time and intellectual allocation.

I'm back now (obviously), but I once stopped buying when I went to college. Booze, broads, and books were more persuasive attractors of my attention and limited capital.

[Songbird/Diamondback]

If Academy, Thunderbolts and Gen Hope all get canceled and I can't find good enough replacements, i may stop.

[mattbib]

This is not a poll, but a forum for other Marvel Zombies who relatively recently quit reading comcs.

If you quit reading Marvel comics, you're not really a Marvel Zombie now, are you? The term pretty much intimates that you blindly read Marvel comics no matter what.

[Alan Smithee]

If you quit reading Marvel comics, you're not really a Marvel Zombie now, are you? The term pretty much intimates that you blindly read Marvel comics no matter what.

Man, didn't know you had the Oxford English Dictionary for a definitive definition of Marvel Zombie.

OK: People who primarily read and have read for most of their lives Marvel comics, but who recently quit comics in general because Marvel in particular seemed like a waste of time, and that you had planned to pick up trades and a series or two but since it seemed like a hassle, quit buying comics anyway.

How's that?

EDIT:

If I quit reading Marvel comics I can't be a Marvel Zombie? Uh, which came first, the chicken or the egg?

[CyberHubbs]

What if they quit Marvel but still read Crossgen?

[Chiasm]

Marvel is what got me interested in comics in the mid 1980's. Marvel is what I bought nearly exclusively for the next 25 years, sometimes to the tune of 25-30 books a month. Marvel is the company in which I have a 400+ issue run of Uncanny X-men and 300 plus issue runs of Spidey and some Avengers books. $3.99 is the reason I ended it all. I still read the Marvel forums and have an interest in Marvel because its what I read for over 25 years but right now I'm only collecting two Marvel books: X-men Legacy and Annihilators. I'll be leaving Legacy in an issue or two with Mike Carey and Annihilators is a mini. It makes me sad but when DC is putting out equally good books for a $1.00 less I'd be crazy not to go to DC.

[mattbib]

If I quit reading Marvel comics I can't be a Marvel Zombie? Uh, which came first, the chicken or the egg?

No. One precludes the other.

Like I said, I'm pretty certain the term arose from fans who blindly follow the books. In the heydey I believe it was actually applied to those readers who bought every Marvel title, and only Marvel titles.

[Alan Smithee]

No. One precludes the other.

Like I said, I'm pretty certain the term arose from fans who blindly follow the books. In the heydey I believe it was actually applied to those readers who bought every Marvel title, and only Marvel titles.

Your "I'm-pretty-certain" level of objectivity and your overly-literal response to my OP is evidence that you:

1) Argue semantics instead of ideas. Chicken and egg, really?

Paleontologists pretty much agree for the time being that birds today are the descendants of dinosaurs. So, as far as the chicken-and-the-egg question, the answer is obviously whatever evolutionary blip made a dino a bird.

2) Argue semantics instead of ideas.

No self-respecting Marvel Zombie wouldn't be insulted by your insinuation that we didn't buy other books from the small pubs or the big deuce. I had four titles that were non-Marvel which I dropped after dropping Marvel.

Why hijack this thread with nit-picking baloney? Still smarting from that getting smoked on the MU layoffs?

[CyberHubbs]

This is about to get real good.

[Ned McDodd]

at the moment i read from Marvel only the Oz Books and picked up recently the first Crossgen trades. I used to read Spider-man, Avengers and X-men books, but i lost interest, for me it got too repetitive and i lost interest. Although, I wanna pick up the new ultimate spider-man in trade to see if it's a good start for a comeback.

[CromagnonMan]

I think if you quit reading Marvel at the end of Siege you are missing some great stuff recently. and what is a long-time Marvel reader doing reading Siege anyway? Those events are to dupe the newbie fans out of their dosh.

[C. Earl]

There were way too many books I wanted that were $3.99 and only took me five or seven minutes to read...

[Alan Smithee]

I think if you quit reading Marvel at the end of Siege you are missing some great stuff recently. and what is a long-time Marvel reader doing reading Siege anyway? Those events are to dupe the newbie fans out of their dosh.

I don't feel like I'm missing anything. And what self-respecting (ahem) MARVEL ZOMBIE would read Siege? You're saying you didn't read it? And how can these events dupe noobs into reading Marvel when readership is down? There are no noobs.