So, how'd you "avoid" that one, pun'kin?

Besides the plot isn't everything. It's the journey in entertainment, not just the destination that matters!

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maybe i should have someone read them for me? then tell me about it..yes what a journey that would be !!

This is what I wrote in another thread on the same subject. My thoughts are still the same.

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Let's continue something started in the "Joe da Q etc. etc." thread.

I have thought this for years, but rarely I talk about this... Internet changed several things for comics readers. Some changes are good, others not quite.

Little look back: in 1996 the Italian editor of FF announced in the february issue that Jim Lee would have drawn the title late that year. I, a simple reader, could see this new project... once released. If I wanted to know something about the current storylines, I had to search for infos in magazines or newspapers. Even better, reading the American books (very hard for me, without comic shops).

When in 2000 I bought my new pc (the same I'm writing on) with Internet... Everything changed. I could know the conclusions of every plot, I could see interviews where authors announced every single word of their stories, I could see the first 4 pages of the books still to be released!

I don't think this is a good thing for comics. Comics are fun, they are something I like "to discover" when a new issue is released... Well, I know that NOW spoilers and previews are part of the game, so I can accept them (if interested in something I ask infos), but I'm sure that, without all this "reign of the Internet" stuff reading comics would be funnier than now.

I remember when Spider-Man was relaunched by JB and Howard Mackie: I didn't knew ANYTHING about the project, except for the renumberings and the names of the authors! So, the return of aunt May and Spider-Man revisited origins were surprises. Yes, surprises... A word I never use in this period.

Any opinions?

P.S.
One of the good things in the JBF is that there aren't previews, but only comments about the books actually READ by the users. Thank you, as usual!

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In the December issue of ASTONISHING X-MEN Kitty discovers that she was really adopted, and goes on a quest to find her real parents. Four issues later she learns that her biological father is Charles Xavier.

So, how'd you "avoid" that one, pun'kin? <<

Likewise, Comic shops have ruined comics - you can GENERALLY avoid spoilers by not going to look for them, but going to any kind of social gathering devoted to comics can make them unavoidable - to whit, i've easily avoided knowing the new JLA line up until I read the books online - but this past week going into the comic shop, people wouldn't shut up about it - so, really, People talking about stuff you don't know yet isn't an Internet exclusive/created problem.

The Internet hasn't ruined comics.  Greed, speculative events that manipulate readers' patience, loyalty and pocketbooks, abandoning young readers and failing to attract new ones of any age, impenetrable storylines, creators who openly mock the conventions of the genre for which they are writing...IMO, these are amongst the issues that have "ruined" comics.

The Internet has just provided better coverage of everything and given anyone with a connection a platform to anonymously offer uninformed comments.