Robbie speaks wisely of comic evolution! I have been reading comic books since 1963 or thereabouts! I started reading prior to the Bat-craze that swept our fair country with the success of the camp Batman TV show! Even as a child I knew too much of a good thing was...bad for comics! Batman appeared on every DC cover possible for quite a while! You know a company has sunk as low as possible when they team Batman and Robin with Jerry Lewis!
DC comics eventually got past the Bat-craze and also had picked up a little competition in what I remember as "very dirty looking comic books" with publishing rival Marvel Comics. Oh, how I wish now that I had not snubbed those comics then! I think I started reading Spider-Man around the sixtieth issue or so! Five years that I missed out on a fledging comic universe! <sigh!>
We had comic implosions and explosions and Monster themed hero comics and stabs at humor comics and everything inbetween. A lot of good stuff came and went...as well as a lot of bad stuff! Comics continued evolving though. Gritty gave way to subtle humor to realism to escapist. There had been Crisis and old favorites were put out to pasture as the Independents tried to leave their mark on the industry! Change usually...was good. Now? We may not be able to buy new comics in a few years if the industry doesn't rethink their marketing strategy! So, Robbie...give Hawkman a look! If he's not for you...that's okay by me! I don't buy any of the animated Batman or Superman books. Why? I made a decision to stay firmly in the DC universe and not to stray in WB comic universe. The few I have read have all been very good comics. This was one way of trying to keep my habit under control, also! As it is I spend forty dollars a week now! That is a good chunk of change for a homeowner and father of four!
Gee! Look at how I have rambled! Bottom line is this! Comics have always had a diversity of product! Therein lies much of their appeal!
