I admit that I only got interested in marvel/DC comic books after watching some of the movies. I've considered buying the Guardians of the Galaxy comic books, but upon reading how the plot is handled, I gave up.
And no. I'm not saying the stories are bad. On the contrary, actually.
I'll try summarize what drove me away from superheroes comics: There are no self-contained stories.
For example, from what I read, there's a plot with Thanos that starts in a comic, then jumps to another, then jumps to another, then have its own mini series, then jumps to another and have its final moments in a Guardians of the Galaxy comic. Then, they add some mini series and have Starlord come back in an Anvengers comic and then back to GotG comic. Then, there's another plot that starts in x-men comic, then jumps to GotG, then back to X-men.
It makes it a chore to discover where a story actually begins and where it ends, since the plot is all over the place. Not to mention the pain that it is to organize the comcis. Should they be organized by their numbers (like any decent book/manga) or by plotline?
I think it's a very cool concept to have charcaters from a comic to bump into charcaters from another comic at any moment. However, why don't they make the beggining, middle and end in a single comic series? A practical example: suppose the avengers had just defeated an enemy. then Iron man says that they should go on a vacation. On the next avengers issue they are back to their normal activities. Meanwhile, in a Spider man comic, Aunt May takes Peter to a beach where he bumps into the avengers and fight off against a random vilain (all the interation and plot line would be concentrated inside of Spider man comic).
I, however, know why they do it: to force people to buy comic series from heroes that they don't like solely to get the full story of the charcaters they like.
Imagine if you were to read the Lord of the Rings books and, on page 43 you had to stop, buy another book because the plot suddenly jumped there, read pages 102-150 from that second book, then go back to the LotR book to stop reading again on page 83 to buy ANOTHER book and read the first twenty pages of it because the plot jumped there, You guys understand what I'm trying to say here? This policy is absurd and, sadly, makes me avoid Marvel/DC comics altogether.
Sorry for any grammatical mistake. English ins't my first language.
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