This is my first blog entry on comic vine.
its going to be my comic blog, and i'll probably post on both my own website as well as this one just for the sake of catalogging.  
 
So I'm collecting comics again lately and i have been going through a lot of ups and downs in reading them. I have been making a checklist of the comics that i have an interest in and i have actually started a pull list where i collect these books. It's frustrating though, because i am someone who read books for a long time and i get used to good writing. Not all writers though, are good. Some of them churn out garbage and write kiddy-dramas.

Now i know you're thinking, "Well what do you expect it's comics." if that was the truth then the Joel Schumacher batman movies would've done better. People want better stronger stories. A lot of the good stories and comics are making movies. People reject the ones that deviate from the comic stories to create an easy action film type product. They hate the ones that reinvent the characters, and they loathe the ones that expect you to just assume that a villain is bad or a hero is good. these are truths. yet, still they persist.

here is a brief rundown of my feelings for the books i am collecting currently:
Now. Adventure and Action comics are both in my list because of the Superboy and Nightwing story lines. The Superboy storyline is being written magnificently well, while the Nightwing storyline is very confusing, convoluted and ridiculous (i'll go into detail about this stuff in a later blog).
This leads me to Batman and Robin, the former Nightwing is now batman and the new robin is a child assassin that is a cloned embryo of Bruce Wayne mothered and trained by Talia Al'Gul that desires nothing but to follow in his father's footsteps and has the will and courage to do it. People don't like him, readers i mean. I understand that, i don't like him either, you're not supposed to. but i love reading him. The book is good, but we're running into some inconsistencies in the story to further the story of late. i like it, but i don't like it.
Red Robin has the same problem; from-the-hip writing. Just when you start to understand a character, they suddenly kill or remove them from the story.
The Amazing Spiderman gets into peter's life and head and gets awesome, i was addicted for at least 5 issues or so and then boom. clones. I quit reading Spiderman because of clones last time. now i cant follow the story at all. Sorry Spidey, I'm removing it from my pull list... again.
The Sinister Spiderman is a great book. Mac Gargan is the Spiderman you love to hate. you know deep down he is eating these girls he is macking on. You know he is worse off now with the modified symbiote than he was with the original venom symbiote (which anti-venom destroyed) but you keep reading and waiting for them to say it.
X-force is a good book and could be better if they'd give it some breathing time. but no, its action action action. That's good and everything. But why should we care about Laura or the HAMMER agent who's she's running with if we don't have any reason to sympathize with them or care about them really. Oh oh.. more effing clones. clones of Laura, the clone they said they couldn't clone when they introduced her. Removed!

(am i being too harsh?)

Fantastic four... amazing. Artwork = Amazing. Writing = Amazing. Character Development = Fantastic. i don't even like team that much and the book has been great.
Iredeemable: This book is great. The story is riveting and its one of those nail-biter titles that leaves you wondering how the characters are going to make it out of whatever jam they're in. Thank you Mark Waid. Thank you, sir.
Invincible: This is the best superhero drama i have ever read and i mean that sincerely. Kirkman knows how to do a book about superheroes, as opposed to a crappy superhero book where everything is always exploding around them and numerous villains are always trying to kill them.

Planetary... the last issue came out last week. so... yea. I'm kind of down about that.

i have decided to write about these books. Not so much because i think you care, but moreso because i want you to have somewhere to come when you need the opinion of a dissatisfied hater. I have always been interested in the hater myself. I used to be a wagon-riding fan boy and i became deeply cynical. When superman died i was floored, then he came back to life and a bit of my soul died when he returned. Hal Jordan did the same. Now Barry Allen, Captain America and soon Bruce Wayne will killing me. The X-men destroyed my idea of the shelf-life of good book and good characters as people kudo'd gambit, boo'd Nightcrawler, and vanished Longshot. for five years i shunned comics baffling people with my vast comic book knowledge coupled with my deep loathing of them and my comic nerd brethren. well I'm back. and now i wish to do what every good older nerd does... point out the foibles and flaws of other writer's jabs and efforts at writing characters we love.

by the way... my comic nerd brethren... i love you all and i strongly urge you to take pride in who you are and what you do. you are the elite members of an elaborate fraternity of imagineers, the likes of which have shaped both the music and movie industry if not the whole entertainment industry itself. I'm serious about this. on a personal note, i was friends with and went to school with Calvin Irving while he was drawing Chapel and then working for Danzig's comic label. I don't think i'll ever know what happened with him, as we lost touch on and off when he moved south to work for image, but one day i was shocked to hear after recently recieving a call from him and even seeing him, he had comitted suicide. we all get depressed or down from time to time. i just really dont think you should let it get to you. life is hard, but if you get through it, it can be awesome.