"Man this book sucks. I still buy it every month though..."

[Broddie]

"...because I've been buying this series for years and own hundreds of issues."

I've come across this on a couple of forums and it blows my mind how people could be so masochist. Also kind of annoying to see the same people bitching about the same shit over and over all year round when they're reading all this willingly.

Do you do this or know anybody that does this? I get it's about being a completionist but there's gotta be a point where you draw a line especially in a shitty economy.

Me personally the moment a series goes somewhere I don't like I drop it and use the money on something I actually enjoy. I've owned over 400 issues of Detective Comics since the late 80's; still have a little over 200 that I never sold off and you will never see me buy an issue of Tony Daniel's current garbage on the title.

[Earth-2 Superman]

i can understand it though. some people are just collectors.

[Dr Doom]

I've come close to it with Fraction's Invincible Iron Man run, which I collected in TPB and almost kept collecting even after the series started to fall off just for the sake of having the whole series. Didn't go through with it though.

[JxXxR]

JMS Thor i starting reading and buying here and there...even after he left i loved Gilliens.....then when Fraction took over.....i stopped buying i bought TMT #1 just cuz but smh shame Copiel had to waste his talents with Fraction imo..at least JIM is great

[gdatruth]

i've collected books sparingly so this issue doesnt come up much.
but when I was buying books it took Secret Invasion for me to see the light on Bendis books. I've always been a die-hard Avengers fan so I felt obligated to buy Bendis' Avengers titles. On top of that those were usually the certain points of the Marvel universe.

well happy to say not only do I no longer spend money on Bendis' avengers I dont even read em using alternative means. I have more productive things I could be downloading and feeling dirty after seeing.

[Broddie]

OK know what? I realized I'm kind of starting to be guilty of this my damn self. The title: Gail Simone's Batgirl.

Now here's a writer I like writing a character I loved. A character she previously helped progress and wrote competently; and yet the book is dull as fuck. It has none of the vibrancy and intelligence you'd expect from a Barbara as Batgirl book.

Instead the character is mopey and her supporting cast thus far (the lame roommate) is no great shakes. I'm hanging on though through the second arc; why? well certainly not for the sake of collection. More that the last volume of the title by Bryan Q. Miller made a character I always hated into one that I grew to adore and it took a couple of arcs for that to even happen. So to be fair I'll give this at least 2 arcs to see if it happens with vol 3.

[Dr Doom]

I feel Batgirl is suffering a lot because of the new status quo (Barbara getting used to walking and being Batgirl again, as well as setting up the supporting cast). I think that once the book is more settled in we'll start seeing a huge improvement. There's a bunch of books suffering from too much filling in the new status quo instead of getting things moving, but this is probably the most high profile book having that problem.

[Broddie]

I feel Batgirl is suffering a lot because of the new status quo (Barbara getting used to walking and being Batgirl again, as well as setting up the supporting cast). I think that once the book is more settled in we'll start seeing a huge improvement. There's a bunch of books suffering from too much filling in the new status quo instead of getting things moving, but this is probably the most high profile book having that problem.

We'll see but this is seriously not feeling like a post-Oracle Batgirl. At all. That's what bothers me. Not that she's Batgirl and walking again. The fact that the new status quo doesn't not feel in anyway like an organic evolution or even connected to her time as Oracle. They're regressing her instead of progressing here. I mean where's the seasoned intelligence and spunk? we have moping and Barbara making rookie mistakes that she certainly should know not to ever commit.

Then the moping doesn't even make sense cause the writing is so fucking inconsistent. She's all "man I'm recovering still and still traumatized and still getting used to it all again and it's not easy" bla bla bla but then she's handling Nightwing; Dick fucking Grayson one of the best fighters in the DCU with ease.

She's stopping a gang of criminals and even holding her own against that mirror guy all in the first 3 issues where she's all "man readjusting to walking and stuff sure is hard". It just feels so contrived and not well thought out on Simone's part at all. Like she forced it in there so people wouldn't be bitching about it but not because it served her script. This book is a mess right now and lord knows I do hope it does pick up more.