>>112286715Yep, this.
I must remind y'all that comics are a unique medium. The workload is incredible because it's distributed among three of four people. Sometimes just one person does it all themselves. The amount of time they have to put in for the amount of content they finish with is astronomically inefficient, making comics an irrationally tedious labor of love. Comparing them to movies or tv or anything else is fucking brainlet level.
Production-wise, comics are fucking awful. They're fucking stupid, and no one should do them.
Yet people do, and why? Because they're an auteur's medium. An artist can tell the story they want to tell without a studio dictating terms to them. And the audience gets a direct line to a single creative vision, with all its sincerity and weirdness. That is the number one thing comics are peddling. Sincerity.
But that breaks down with the Big Two, which is why they continue to disappoint. Even the neckbeardiest of fanboys realizes this at a subconscious level, which is why they can't get over their needling discomfort when the books no longer make them feel what they felt as kids. A part of them knows the sincerity is gone. These characters have been wrung out. They are played-out as fuck. And we can all see the mouse ears; the corporation. We know the creators of this capeshit are working for paychecks and not to satisfy an artistic vision.
So while I can't say the WORST thing to happen to comics this decade, other than this continued flogging of the dead horse that is capeshit, I firmly believe the BEST thing to happen are webcomics.
You can scoff all you want, but webcomics - and some indy labels - are where the exciting stuff is happening. It's where the heart of comics is still big and beating and healthier than ever.
The capeshit that some of y'all obsess over is just a fuckin' zombie. It's got some life in the movies, but on the page? It's all fucking corpses waddling around with their spandex too far up their asses.
