- Vulpes Vulpes
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Congrats Endless Mike!
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- Vulpes Vulpes
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There's a comic shop near me that keeps a couple shelves of used genre paperbacks, but they're shelved two deep and it annoys me to an unreasonable level that I would have to take down the first layer of novels to see what's behind them.
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- Vulpes Vulpes
- Apr 28, 2013
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There's an old quote from Paul Pope that I can't track down, but it went something along the lines of when he was a kid, his dad brought him Bring on the Bad Guys, reprints of stories with all the big Marvel baddies. He says that as a kid, he didn't know that there was continuity that went on after these stories, and always regarded them a nihilistic morality tales where the bad guys always win. I think about that idea a lot as I grew up reading comics that rarely had any resolution- I'd read my dad's old comics where the Avengers would be at the mercy of the Lion God or whatever and never read the resolution because he had just never bought the next issue in the mid 70s. It got even worse when I'd buy the odd comic off the spinner in the 90s and everything was an interminable "Part 6 of 15 Saga" or something, but I've always thought there was something particularly interesting about it that. As an adult it would drive me crazy, but as a kid there was always a sense of mystery that was so exciting- I was never going to know how that story ended because I didn't have the pocket money to follow the series, so I'd end up just making up my own theories.
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