>>83077705(forgive my blog, i'm shit at brevity)
I stopped buying monthly floppies 2-3 years ago. It didn't really take a big reboot for me, it was after Superior Spiderman, the way the saga concluded was really disappointing and looking back made me realize how most of these "BIGGEST ONE YET" stories end up shitty and ultimately pointless, especially because by the next event things have to go back to square 1 and so on
As for DC specifically, i was never really into the main continuity. I grew up as a Marvel guy, so when i read DC it's usually old stuff, not something current. The only exception was Batman, i happened to start reading more or less when New52 started. It didn't bother me much, but some things were obviously silly, like how the reboot dictated that Batman had been active only for 8 years but somehow most of the big stories already happened and his history with the bat-family was almost untouched
In the end, if i had to explain why i gave up monthly capes, it's because of the realization of how the industry and the men behind it work. OMD was the biggest sinner in that regard, with hinsight, when i was reading that story i wasn't reading a story of Spidey giving up his marriage to save aunt May, i was reading a story of Marvel desperatly seeking a way to undo the marriage and make Peter "hip" again. When a crossover happens i don't think "oh wow, i wonder what's gonna happen", i think "i wonder what gimmick they're gonna end up this time". When a book is cancelled early i know that it's because of low sales and not because that's how it was supposed to go, when a retcon happens i can tell if it's for movie sinergy or because the writer hated a story he didn't write, legacy heroes are suddenly all about pandering to this or this other race and/or demographic, and so on.
I'm checking out Rebirth to try understand if there's something i'm interested in, it's sad to see it's all yet again about retcons and pandering in the most awkward ways possible
