Comics and Me

I read and collected comics for years and years. Then, in my mid-twenties, I started writing novels professionally. At the same time, I realized that I hadn't read my way through my Friday stack of comics by the time the next Friday came around. I thought about this, and realized it was because my standards for enjoyable writing had changed. So I dropped comics.

Time passed, and I learned that more and more gay characters were showing up in comics. Intrigued and happy, I picked up bunch and tried to read them. I didn't enjoy them--too many flaws in the writing. (The writing in the Iceman TPB in which he finally tells his parents he's gay was particularly awful. The art was even worse. As one example.) So I stopped again. Now I'm glad to see the movies and TV shows. For those, when the writing is bad, I'm at least guaranteed good visuals!



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