I don't know when exactly it started, but it's slowly happening. Maybe when I started Conan, I don't know. I always used to be really interested in superhero comics, even if I wasn't reading them-I'd keep up to date with the current going-ons with each major title and storyline just to be in the loop. But they've been losing their appeal to me and I don't know why.
 
The last big Marvel event that I read was World War Hulk. I can't even remember the last time I honestly kept up with a DC comic (might've been Blue Beetle from a few years back). I was into Invincible and read everything up to the Conquest saga until I dropped that, too. I've tried to keep up, but for the life of me I couldn't tell you what's happened in Blackest Night or what the hell is going on in Siege, and the extent of my superhero comic reading is just story-arcs that I heard were good from a ways back(New Ways to Die, and Wolverine: Enemy of The State/Agent of SHIELD were the most recent ones).
 
I don't want to say that I've "outgrown" superhero comics, but more that I've lost my taste in them. They still fascinate me and I want to get back in Invincible, but the ridiculously large super-events and massive crossovers, retcons, etc., got frustrating and I guess I've had enough? Whereas self-contained stories and books like Conan, Star Wars, and Scott Pilgrim became much more appealing. I'm wondering if this has been happening to other people, moving on past the massive waves of mainstream superhero comics and going towards smaller, or more indie books.
 
It's not that I have anything against superhero comics now, of course, I still enjoy some, but when people get all hyped about some big event or some upcoming story I'm pretty passive about it. I might get around to reading it later but I probably won't stay current.
 
Anybody else have this happen to them? Anybody else have this happen to them and then were dragged back it?