What gets me is that Bob says this shit trying to convince people that he was down with The Avengers from day one. Especially odd given that his formative media years would be the 90's.
Look, I don't want to knock fans of that era, but nobody gave two shits about The Avengers then. Comic shops were selling copies of Iron Man #1 for 15 bucks and nobody wanted it. I've got a mountain of old Wizards in the closets and the sales figures can prove it. The gimmicks they used to try and get interest is roundly mocked for a reason.
Bob is somehow insinuating that he's so counter culture that in an era that didnt give a fuck about books without a capital 'X' in the title that he was picking up on the tiniest of details in books barely moving copies. Tell me how awesome Black Knight and Crystal were, Bob. I'll stay put while you wiki it. Remember how War Machine was in because everyone thought Iron Man was corny? Of course you don't.
Retroactive geek appropriation is just the worst. If you're going to assume somebody else's identity, steal a good one.
Well, this was my journey into capeshit, andmaybe the same goes for most people who engaged in this shit:
When I was into the capeshit stuff, I was reading what the drugstore had in the racks, and it was the 90's, so you know, Spiderman, X-men, Spawn, the popular shit, and that was fine.
Soon X-men because too much of a mess and after age of apocalypse I taped out. I went back to read the Onslaught but even as a dumb retarded kid I could tell that it was shit. but I stuck around with Spiderman, Batman and Spawn, and some other stuff like Punisher for a while.
Then came mangas and videogames, and comics were left behind. As I got into my late teens and started making some money on my own, I discovered the back issues market and trades, and started reading the classics comics, like the Kirby run on FF and such, and even found by myself some good stuff that I never heard much before, like the original team for Excalibur, which are some of my favorite comics of all time.
And little by little I got back into reading some good runs in the 2000's, like Mark Waid's run on FF, Garth Ennis edgy shit, some DC stuff and even Morrison's X-men, but I kept things casual, just picking up whatever I saw to be interesting, as I was reading more Graphic novels and european comics.
After civil war and the Blackest Night blew their wads, I was really over with capeshit comics. Not so exasperated or mad at anything, just over it, at one point you just reach the "I don't care" phase, and it does't help that the amount of continuity and never ending plot threads and characters just make everyting a mess, on this front why not just read manga or bande dessinée and have a more consistent read?
And that was it really. I sill check on some capeshit now and then, the crazy SJW years were fun for a laugh, but this new crop of writers are just... fucking awful, but most of what I know about capeshit now comes from people complaining about it online.
Not to say that I gave up on comics, some of my favorite reads now is "Once & Future" a comic about Arthurian legends coming to life in a macabre way, and some manga, like "Monkey Peak" a story about employees from a pharma company are being killed by monkey during a hiking trip.
But my point of this whole drivel is that very few people keep up with capeshit over a long period of time, or have such investment to act as if they are a walking encyclopedia about it. I'll grant that thre are some sad souls that might be it, but I'm sure as fuck Robert ain't one of them, and this posing is just pathetic.
