Who love's super heroes's but not comics?

[MegoNinja]

Hello everyone,

I am just checking if I am the only one here that hasn't picked up (let alone read) a comic book in years. I have not read a comic properly for about 7 years and honestly I don't like comics that much, the only one's I appreciate are the one's from the 70's because all of the drawing's are so much like the Mego artwork.

However, I am obsessed with cartoons, movies, toys and games that go with characters from comics, does anyone else have a hero love that only comes from TV and never from comics?

[The Toyroom]

Nope...for me my interest springs from the four-color pages and not other media interpretations of the super-heroes. Sure there may be some cross-over interest when stuff is done decently (like WB's Legion series or the Spidey/X-Men movies) but if it's crap in a can (like Ang Lee's Hulk or Affleck's Daredevil) I tend to stay away from it regardless of my love for the character.

[kingdom warrior]

I agree. The movies just can't grasp everything that the comics can give month after month.Comics have time to develop the story.While movies can only give you a two hour time frame to work from.

I have seen that Lately there are more fans created from seeing the movies than actually reading the comics.

[PCofmisfittoys]

i like older issues,,,it went to hell for me after the series " Sandman" came out. everything after that was a copy of that series.the artwork these days is terrible to me.

[aquatroy]

I agree. The movies just can't grasp everything that the comics can give month after month.Comics have time to develop the story.While movies can only give you a two hour time frame to work from.

I have seen that Lately there are more fans created from seeing the movies than actually reading the comics.

I agree. I would imagine that all the back story in comics along with the negative "comic book guy" steriotype keep new readers away. A good solution to that, get comics back in conveinience stores & grocery stores.

[jemboy2004]

I've always loved comics but mainly just Wonder Woman (odd as her comic was in my day a poor seller). I have bought some JLA and newer stories and spawn's Angela stories and some batman and superman comics if Catwoman, batgirl, supergirl (or some other heroine that I was interested) was in it but that's about it.

I have even loved Crisis comics from the original stories and series like that but I mainly only get WW, even today.

[mitchedwards]

I like the heroes, but the new comics are almost unreadable.

[ABMAC]

"heroes's"?

Apostrophe usage

[ozcollector1992]

I watch Smallville and have seen the Superman movies but, have only read 1 Superman/Supergirl/Jimmy Olsen comic book

[huedell]

MegoNinja,
To fit in more around here--- and to find out more about the Bronze Age/Mego Age
(i.e. the era I grew up with, and comission customs of) superheroes, I get involved
with many a hero comicbook conversation around here---but honestly my roots are
pretty far removed from the actual comicbooks and are indeed very close to your
superhero TV/movie and especially TOY roots

[aquatroy]

I like the heroes, but the new comics are almost unreadable.

I would like to welcome Superboy Prime to the forums. Opps, hold on. Your going by Superman Prime now. Sorry about that.

[palitoy]

I'm much bigger into cartoons than I am the actual comics, I read the odd trade but find myself regularly upset with modern comics.

[Titan4ever]

I read the odd trade but find myself regularly upset with modern comics.

Exactly. I still follow a few titles because I do want to keep myself abreast of the continuing sagas of my favorite characters. But overall, I find myself disappointed by most books anymore. It seems that every creative team would rather put their own imprint into each character than preserve the nuances that made these characters worth reading about in the first place. While I'm not so naive to think characters cannot change--no creative team with any kind of continuity-based character can play to the status quo forever--major changes should not be made casually.

For me, Megos represent the unadulterated, more nostalgic versions of these heroes and heroines. I still play with my figures like I did 30 years ago although not as regularly. And while I won't say my versions are wholly unaffected or influenced by modern plotlines, they typically are less gritty and more like the heroes I remember than those I now read. It also helps that when a character does evolve, I tend to have another figure to represent the evolution, so I can revisit all the versions at once

[MegoNinja]

I'm much bigger into cartoons than I am the actual comics, I read the odd trade but find myself regularly upset with modern comics.

true, modern comic's just don't seem to have the fun and excitement that they did 30 years ago, nowadays the comic's are all about the art work, which might I add, I don't find very impressive since most of it is just done on a computer.
I would have to say my love for marvel and DC really come from watching Super Friends, the Incredible Hulk live action series (my favorite TV show ever) and of course the 1960's Spiderman cartoon.

[jds1911a1]

I got into superheroes from TV before I could read (batman 66 reruns and filmaiton 60's reruns) plus superfriends but I read my first batman comic before I was in school. Read comics and bought/collected through the late 80's early 90's (I have thousands literally) but the change to the darker comics and the rise in price point to 3.00 an issue on average priced me out. I have bought tpb's on amazon and ebay if they star characters I really like (JSA) and am loving the archive editons to fill the gap before I was born.

Even after I stopped buying new comics the other media versions contiued to appeal to me if done well. Unfortunately there is more crap than gold in these interpretations
Batman animated and all it's Bruce timm Decendants I love and bought em all on DVD. I tihink this show is most like the bronze age batman stories anyway so it appeals to me
Batman 89 love it hate the rest
batman begins love it
Flash 1990 series love it
Spiderman 1 & 2 are aweseom
X1 x2 awesome
Legion of Superheores is awesome

smallville I like but don't love it (won't buy it)
Superman returns - like to tribute to the donner film but if I didn't love the donner film I doubt I would have liked it a little
Fantastic four - great special effects but was a panty shot really needed??
spiderman 3 - worst of the lot especially emo peter UGHH. but still wathchable

Ghostrider - crap and I like the 70's comic but the flaming bike scenes are cool (just not enough to sit through the movie a second time)
Teen titans I can't stand
daredevil was crap even free on cable
Elektra - well Jennifer Garner is pretty but it can't carry it
hulk - junk
punisher 2005 - may be worse than lundgrens
x3 - no surprises as a xman fan of the 80's and I tihnk it needed Singer's vision like the first 2
batman returns barely watchable
Batman forever and batman & robin reallly bad