Posted: 18 August 2017 at 9:02am | IP Logged | 1
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You know, I cannot help but see a parallel with wrestling at times (WWE).
Decades ago, one could enjoy WWE because, well, less was more. There were four PPV events a year. Then five. And a few weekly shows, all of them an hour in length (and you didn't need to watch them all as a lot of them repeated stuff or featured promos). Then came MONDAY NIGHT RAW, which began as an hour-long show, then went to two hours - and is now three hours long. Far too much.
I don't have the energy to watch all of WWE now. Not with countless shows, monthly PPV events, etc. I mean, who really has an appetite for three hours of RAW every Monday? Even when you take out adverts, that's still, what, two and a half hours? I pine for the days of an hour-long RAW.
Less is more with comics, too. I'd prefer fewer books for a character. Although I was not obligated to buy them all back in the day, I shook my head in 1995 when SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF TOMORROW was created, meaning there'd be a book on the shelves every week of the year (THE MAN OF TOMORROW was a quarterly "skip week" book). And when one of the Spider-Man titles became a twice-a-month book (around a decade or so ago), I just thought to myself, 'Go fuck yourself, Marvel.' Less really is more.
I enjoyed THE INCREDIBLE HULK many years ago. He had one monthly book - and occasional guest appearances or one-shots. But had there been 4-5 Hulk books on the shelves in the early 80s, I doubt I'd have been interested.
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