10 Ways to...Annoy...the Comics Reader
Aug. 2nd, 2013 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineWell, Newsarama writer Vaneta Rogers - or her editor(s) - used stronger language for the headline, but it fits.
This is something that's been with us all for a long time now. Generations of readers and professionals, in fact. And since a lot of people sit on both "fan" and "creator" sides of the ledger at once, it's more than a little galling. And one is hard-pressed to nail down which reasons more so than others...
I know I've called it quits as a reader with more than one title for at least a couple of the reasons in this list.
(But not over item # 3, the diversity question. I was particularly pleased with how Miles Morales, Connor Hawke and Jaime Reyes were brought into being, to name three examples )
Anyway, have a read. It might not tell you anything you don't already know, but then again, you might look at it with fresh eyes this time 'round.
This is something that's been with us all for a long time now. Generations of readers and professionals, in fact. And since a lot of people sit on both "fan" and "creator" sides of the ledger at once, it's more than a little galling. And one is hard-pressed to nail down which reasons more so than others...
I know I've called it quits as a reader with more than one title for at least a couple of the reasons in this list.
(But not over item # 3, the diversity question. I was particularly pleased with how Miles Morales, Connor Hawke and Jaime Reyes were brought into being, to name three examples )
Anyway, have a read. It might not tell you anything you don't already know, but then again, you might look at it with fresh eyes this time 'round.
