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Anyways, it’s late and I’m tired and I really shouldn’t let this get to me as much as it does but…
There is a a highly vocal contingent over at the WEF led by Warren himself who feel that comics are too buttonholed into the super-hero genre and that they could be used as so much more. They are damn right but I have to admit I don’t like the don’t buy superhero comics because there is so much more and you should buy that instead attitude. I enjoy the comics I read, that’s why I buy them and read them. I got into comics reading superhero stuff when I was young(er) and I am quite proud that I have read a lot of other stuff but I would never have were it not for X-Men. That doesn’t bother me it use to be I read about 50 individual titles a month and they were all spandex stuff, these days that is a hell of a lot less and I can’t think of a single title that I get because of the character in specific, it’s all down to the writing these days for me. Bendis gets bought, Ellis gets bought, Gaiman gets bought, Smith gets bought, Busiek gets bought, Straczynski gets bought.
But ya know looking at it like that, I bought Powers book 1 about 18 months ago I guess and I loved the book, but more than that the writing blew me away and as a direct result of that I bough the JINX line by Bendis and wow if that ain’t good stuff. “Alan Moore this, Alan Moore that” , etc. etc lead me to read Watchmen because I had to this of course lead to From Hell and Swamp Thing and the ABC stuff and you know that rocks.
But I digress, yes there is a lot of superhero stuff and yes there is too much. Yes, there is other stuff out there and yes there is not enough but give me a chance, I’m getting there and I’m enjoying the ride. The WEF has influenced my reading material more than anything else I can think of in my life and I hope it continues to do so for a long time, but ya know cut me some slack. You had to learn once too and hell lets face it the WEF would not be what it is today if Warren Ellis hadn’t written superhero comics and indeed one of the most revolutionary superhero comics in recent years (yeah yeah blah blah).