So recently, I wrote a long post on the POTSY AND THE TURD Facebook page about how I really had wished DC Comics had left the universe the way it was and started an "Ultimate" universe of their own with the new 52, only in reverse...
Let the main universe condense down to a single editor's load, 4-8 books a month, with a weekly series leading the way with what is going on in the rest of the universe.
Obviously, this is one fan's opinion, but truth be told, it would work, it wouldn't have forced longtime readers to decide if they wanted to stay or give up on a longtime history, and it would have sold to the core audience that isn't getting younger, but still needs to be catered to, if you want their money (we are, in fact, the audience with funds to buy paper or digital copies).
It's a fairytale or pipedream, and I won't get what I or what thousands of other fans clamor for, because we aren't the audience they want, but unfortunately, we are the audience they have.
Marvel has lost me, too, recently. I've taken to reading maybe 3-4 books a month, when at the height, I read EVERYTHING. I mean EVVVVERYTHING. Their BIG EVENT mentality, having to buy all the books to get the whole story, while attempting to tell you that isn't the case is ridiculous. I know better, I want the whole story. What bugs me even more is when they can't figure out how to put characters together in the first place, so they "ScoobyDoo" it, buy having all the characters having a steak with old Nick Fury... Dude has been gone for a long time, and you suddenly just have him eating a steak at a diner with Cap, Wolverine and the Black Widow? I'm calling BS. (I'm calling out ORIGINAL SIN, BTW)
See, its stuff like that, it shows that the writers are not using what is available to them, not creating an entry point that's worth my time, and as such, I'm bored, tired, and not wanting to waste my time reading your nonsense. It's too bad, too, because I'm your biggest advocate, your highest praiser, the guy who wanted to do your job twenty years ago.
If you don't have a beginning, a climax and an end for a story, don't do it, because at this point, I'm done reading it. We have wasted enough of each other's time, and this relationship is over.
That's what comics appear to be to me recently, a girlfriend that has stayed too long, made me bitter, and taken half my stuff...
And if anyone is listening, I can tell you how to fix it, but not here...not tonight. To right is about venting the frustration, and I hadn't even stated that Bendix posted a picture of Miles Morales with the "All New X-Men" ...which in my opinion should be called "Brian Bendis' bastardization of what Stan and Jack created...when will Marvel wake up and take him off these books?
This nightmare has taken 15 years, folks. Please...give me back my comics and my love.
