Feb 29 2008

Death to Comic Books

Published by Jared Meijin at 10:28 pm under Jared's Chess, Sci-Fi, and Video Games

Working six days a week is rough.  This is my third week of doing it.  And to make it even worse, I’ve actually had to work while at work and haven’t had much time to post on the website.  But I set myself a goal to post something, yesterday.  Even though I didn’t make my goal, I’m still going to post something today.

I stopped by a book store yesterday and took a minute to flip through some comic books before going to work.  I’ve discovered something, most comic books are now fingerpainted by six year olds.  Or at least, thats how it looks.  I realize that people are reading comic books less and less and the publishers are starting to lose money, but hiring cheaper artists is not going to help increase sales.  Neither is hiring hack writers and replacing them every 3 months like they did with the X-men comics in the late 90s.  Boy did the convince me to quit wasting my money.  In short, comic books have been killed the publishers.

Some of the larger publishers have tried to break into Hollywood.  Marvel comics has put out tons of movies based on their comics, though I haven’t been impressed by any of them.  DC has put out a couple good Batman movies, the one with Michael Keaton and the one with Christian Bale.  I just hope that comic book companies don’t do to Hollywood what they did to comic books.

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