Comic Book Signing

Yesterday there was a huge DC Comics writer signing session at the Times Square Midtown Comics location. Geoff Johns was there. As were Mark Waid, Greg Rucka, and J.B. Jones. Grant Morrison was to be there too, but he cancelled. No matter, I didn't go.

First of all, I think autographs are really retarded. "Hey! I saw you on the teevee or something! Can you put your name on this here piece of paper? Gawrsh!" What does that prove? Especially nowadays when you can just go on the internet and buy them off of eBay. Stupid.

Secondly, and more importantly, I don't know how I feel about these big-time DC writers right now. Sure, they all write some interesting stories and I'm sure they're all wonderful people, but...I'm afraid my love of new comic books is being slowly strangled. It's a situation that's been building up for years, the continuity of the DC universe and it's characters (such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Shazam, Plastic Man, Flash, etc.) is morphing into a tightly interwoven mess. In order to follow any character's adventures you have to know what happened in issue number this or issue number that. It's been that way for awhile and we comic-nerds love it, but it's become increasingly so, to the point now, where even now there is a weekly series called "52." Along with this series, which by the way all five of the writers above are working on, you have to know what's going on in every other super-hero comic they put out. You end up having to buy about five million comics a month! Then it doesn't help when all this continuity you've been reading and collecting into is all of a sudden wiped clean and started all over. It's like, "Um, we don't like this new origin of Dr. Fate any more than the last couple Dr. Fate origins we had, so, um, let's start it over! But instead of having this character be Dr. Fate we're going to kill him off and start off with another version. Yeah! Screw the guys who've been reading this for years. Woo-hoo!" You see, I'm a comic-geek and I've been able to follow a lot of the comings and goings of characters. I could tell you the origins of Hawkman or Wonder Woman or Krypto the Superdog. But things have gotten so rewritten and revamped so many times and all the stories depend on the happenings of other stories that even I am totally confused.

There are three things I've come to the conclusion I must do:

1. Keep reading some of these comics because I am truly addicted and could never give them up completely.

2. Start creating my own stories. Ones that I will enjoy and treasure and not feel ripped off by.

3. Start a comic-book blog about all the comics I have read. There I can go off about what I love and hate about the medium without boring my Bull Roar fans who couldn't give a rat's ass about Aquaman and Mera getting back together or who the new Wonder Woman is. (Personally, I think it could be Sue Dibny, the dead wife of Elongated Man, who rumor has it, is about to be resurrected. Hmmm!) Any motions to second this idea?