The wider variety of art style and content are novel and unique compared to Marvel or DC putting a faint generic spin on one of their cape books. That desire to read comics is why publishers like Image or Boom!, webcomics, and other alternative distribution methods have become more interesting to me. All I really want to do is read comics, write about those comics, and make some fanart out of them highlighting the queer characters out there, not buy a dozen variants out of some strange kleptomania. The biggest change for me as a reader over the decade has been dropping single issues, $3.99 and more for 20 pages is not a good deal when you can be patient and buy collections for cheaper than the price of single issues(that’s without figuring in ComiXology Unlimited discounts.) With recent data leaks from Diamond the direct market seems even more like a market rigged for self-dealing and exploitation on all levels, not the cultivation of a customer base that actually reads books on the part of publishers. I’d eventually fall out of habit with DC and Marvel, but with the rise of the MCU and DCEU (or whatever it is they’re calling it) on all the screens did I really break a habit or did they just takeover pop culture? That takeover would be a positive for me as it has helped give me an object of study to focus on as I go through graduate school. Even when they “were my thing” via Comixology it wasn’t a big pull list. I really got into comics with the New52, I’d buy the random collection here and there but single issues were not really my thing up to that point.

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