Any interest in a comic "book club"?

[iesika]

Okay, this reboot thing is managing to terrify and frustrate me - retconning Babs back into Batgirl? And who the hell knows what else? Presumably deleting younger characters I love all along the way?  I can't even throw my hands up and say "AAARGH! DC I AM NOT BUYING YOUR BOOKS ANYMORE, TAKE THAT" because I did that when Lian was fridged, and they

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[nev_longbottom]

I grew up with Connor and Tim. nd just when they seemed to switch to aging character normally, I thought of them and Cassie and Jaime as my peers. Almost like cousins really, that I'd hear stories of their wacky adventures and we'd all complain ont he phone. Just before I heard about the reboot, I was raving to everyone about how right now is my favorite period in Batman comics. Nearly everyone sort of sulks in their favorite series and claims the bit before was better, I did it too, but then Dick and Damian and Steph and Cass and Tim had this DYNAMIC this sense of family and being fucked up but caring about each other and the city because that is what people do and they don't have to be meta to help the world. And I love every issue of it. I went around telling everyone and spending all my spare cash on the comics and sort of daydreaming all the time about their marvelous futures. About Kara and Steph's hilarious friendship and how Kara won't take nonsense from Damian who is like a very startled rattlesnake (terrified of

[shiny_glor_chan]

I wanted to do this too. I'm just terrible at doing things like this. >>;; I say we read the first run of the New Teen Titans. Or some New Titans with Roy in charge. Though, most people wouldn't agree with that being a good run. Or we could the first run of Titans. >>;;

I'm totally in a Titans head space, if you can't tell.

[iesika]

Well, it's a better run than a lot of things! I was sorting comics earlier And I have a terrible scattering from the first run of NTT. While i lack NTT #!, I do have #2 (Slade's first appearance) and when I found it in the box got all excited until I realized the comic was too low a grade be worth the comic price guide amount, lol. I have a LOT of Titans, because it was ongoing during my personal golden age of comics (Back when YJ was running, Tim was a dork in his own comic, Steph was new and spunky, Nightwing and BoP overlapped every third month or so, and Cass, Bart and Kon had their own series!)

NTT and Titans will go in the poll! I think I am going to collect the things people say here and use them to make a first vote for what we should read first. My vote goes for Starman. STARMAN! WHY HAS NO ONE READ THIS BOOK? It drives me crazy. I would read that book just for Bobo Bennetti. And Good Grundy! And the motherfucking art deco <3 <3 <3

[lyanth]

I would totally be up for this!!!

Newer comics have really been frustrating me, for many of the same reasons you listed. I'm interested in pretty much anything pre-90s, though if we could find some of the original Blue Beetle stuff (Dan Garret), I'm rather interested in that. Or really any BB comics, for that matter ^^;;;;;;;;;;

[iesika]

*Whistles innocently* Like maybe this 1960s Charlton BB collection I've maybe had for a while without ever getting around to reading it?

Shoot me an email and we can talk about sharing :P.

I'll add Dan to the poll list!

[lyanth]

ahhhhhhhhhhhh I would totally read that! Last time I actually had a chance to /read/ comics I was working through Ted's solo run when DC first picked him up. ALSO: NTT! Perez and Wolfman stuff is pretty top notch, imho, so I am totally there~

(then, after reading NTT, we can all watch Teen Titans GO! and die a little inside).

[acechan]

If it makes you feel better, between the reboot announcement mentioning Cyborg, Jaime and the new Batwoman as still existing and the fact that Morrison has barely started his planned two-year Batman Inc. run, I'm pretty sure this "reboot" amounts to slapping "#1" on a lot of covers, maybe tweaking some backstories so they can keep pretending Bats and Supes are under forty, and absolutely no other real changes. ...That being said, I still can't blame you for being ticked.

[iesika]

Oh, I know there's probably more hype than anything...and I'm less ticked than I am feeling a sense of loss. I just really haven't liked the track DC has seemed to be on for the last few years, and it seems to have been accelerating lately, so my assumption is this is going to be more of the same. What that means, for me, is that I won't be excited about new things coming out. What it means for fandom me is that I might end up losing touch with friends due to loss of common interest - this is the thing that makes me most sad and afraid

[acechan]

I can totally understand that--honestly, I think the lack of a library-equivalent might be hurting the industry as badly as the whole sixty-year-continuity thing. Looking into older comics is probably as good an idea as anything else.

there I go mixing up replies...

[irrelevant]

I can't... I'm not... I'm not sure it's even possible for me to articulate how I feel about this... horror. I love the old stories, the ones I *grew up* with -- and I'm talking pre-Crisis, here -- but I *also* love the dynamic Dick and Tim and Steph and Damian and Babs have got going on right now (the only thing really missing is a well-written Jay), and it's -- it's like hacking vital bits of myself out to imagine a DCU without that dynamic, without *them* (no Damian? no *Steph*? NO BART?) in it. It hurts. So. Much.

It'd be good to get some mental distance from it all.

Long story short: comics club for older, not so well known titles = great idea. ♥

(Also, if you want someone else to talk comics with on MSN or AIM, just ask Meg for my email/ID. You'd be most welcome. XD)

eta: Are Marvel titles welcome or just DC?

[iesika]

Well, I'll be super busy/ incommunicado for the next week, and after that I'll be climbing all over kirax2 for a weekend and starting a new job... After that, we can definitely be chat buddies

[irrelevant]

I'm guessing next week is your moving week? I really, really hope everything goes as smoothly as possible for you. I hope SD works out for you! (Are you by any chance going to SDCC this year?)

And no worries about IM, I just thought I'd throw the offer out there. I'm terrible at communication (as Meg and Kira can both tell you), but I try. =)

Re the new comm: your overall plan sounds like a good one. It'll be nice to share the actual reading and interpretation of comics with other fans. And I'm always eager for good, reliable recs. Like you I'm wary of throwing money at books I have less than a fifty percent chance of finishing, much less liking.

And I'll probably toss some Marvel into the possibility hat. The more DC disappoints me, the more Marvel I read.

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