Comics from the Year 2000!

Comics from the Year 2000!

I continued to collect comics very casually, picking up a comic here and there between 97' to around 2002. Nothing really caught my attention that much. Around 2003 I went to my first comic con in Chicago and it was energetic! Burst with the culture of artists. The usual companies were set up like Marvel and DC but also some new companies like Top Cow and Cross-Gen. Filmmakers and Video game creators, I even met Stan Winston! The whole experience was an awesome and amazing experience, it renewed my interest in comics. 

So I started collecting again and met some other collectors at a new job I had recently started and we would talk a bit about them. Particularly a comic named House of M this became my new Infinity Gauntlet. The story involved mainly the Avengers and the X-Men but effected the whole of the Marvel world. Scarlett Witch who is crazy like a fox alters reality recreating it to favor mutant-kind with her father Magneto as the King of all of it. Very few people recall how the former reality actually was but due to Wolverines healing factor he begins to remember and suspect something is terribly wrong. Fast forward a few issues and we find there is a girl with the ability to reinstate people's memories of the past and slowly they make our heroes realize the fault of their current reality. 

This was such a great series and was over too quickly. I collected comics titles I had never collected before until then just so I could get more story. I think that's where comics fail the most. They don't give us enough of the stories that are really great and instead  move on to new arcs, meanwhile in the search for new stories to tell their concepts start to come across as contrived.

The next year Marvel would begin Civil War and I followed for a few issues, I would like to discuss this more but I would probably write two to three of these blogs. Then the following year was the Skrull War and then the next year Hulk War, see a pattern here? It's not necessarily that these were bad arcs either but maybe that they were such good ideas that they neglected them a bit to move on to the next one. Then again mainstream comics follow a certain formula that works to an extent. 
 
The House of M


 Independent comics do not always follow 'the rules', as an example I would differ to Kevin Eastman (Creator's Bill of Rights) and rebellion against the comic code. Though that's the more legalistic side of comics it does support the difference between more established comic companies and independent comic creators.

I think ultimately for me I have to wrap my head around the fact that there is a difference between writing for comics, cartoons, TV, and movies. The medium disguises the pace of writing and how events are depicted also the audience is different and maybe comic writing appeals to a certain attention span, I'm not sure. I would like to explore all of this and get your opinions on your favorite stories and specifically how they are told.

As Always Thanks Again for Reading!
CoolCatM

P.S. Sorry for this being late.

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