or is it like, a separate thing

asking as a creative person who can only dream of getting her shit adapted someday

yes, because the pages have started following the cinematic in some cases.

there are several factors that go into this (including the fact that comics writers seem to always get manhandled into incorporating movie beats) but yeah absolutely

general overexposure also never helps

i still read comics and graphic novels but i moved away from the marvel things i had been following because they started having movie bleed very obviously and it affected the stories being told there.

yes and no. yes for when comics blatantly follow movie storylines and logic to rewrite characters for their movie audience (and doing it poorly like killing off rhodey briefly, the maximoff twins, etc etc). no because while the big two comics aren't the same as their movie powerhouses, they are historically not great to talent and the industry either

Ahhh this is interesting. So yall seem to feel frustrated mostly only if film bullshit is leaking into the comic books canon, not a more generalized superhero burnout or anything like that?

I mean, I quit superhero comics every few months or so when they roll out Big Terrible Crossover Event Where Everyone's Characterisation Goes To Die but comics are generally better at having things like limited short runs, interesting art, stronger writing and followup

Lmao fair

Would yall mind sharing some of your fav comics that got "ruined" and which movie/era you noticed started to turn you on it 👀

uhh pretty much every marvel crossover event. axis, secret wars, the hydra cap stuff, civil war 1+2, avengers vs x-men,,,,

I think I read some of House of M a million years ago

house of m is up there

It's weird cuz I recall that was around when the x-men films w Jackman were coming out but... As far as I can tell, the industries weren't doing that forced pollination yet

Yeah I remember reading it like "what the f"

they couldn't because fox had the rights

and they didn't want to do things that would increase fox's sales

that's why for a long time, the x-men were basically non-existent in comics until recently

And sorry to clarify I mean, what comic book hero/storyline did you like until the mcu/dceu started screwing it up, and do you remember when did that burnout point happen? Like was it a particular movie, or...

OH. That's easy lmao. mcu!kamala for one.

Ohhhhh for sure

they recently killed her off in the comics for pointless reasons because they want to reset her as a mutant to match whatever the fuck the mcu is doing

I hate it

Screams omg

Somehow didn't expect comics to sink that low

oh they have absolutely sunk that low

when the civil war movie was happening, they did a comic crossover and they were going to kill rhodey. ta-nehisi coates wrote a long letter telling them not to do that

and they ... did it anyway

(he came back, but what a garbage thing to do!)

Lol that dovetails horribly w rhodey's treatment in secret invasion

wouldn't be surprised if that happened in the comics too as well

I think I did get general superhero burnout in addition to the bleed tbh

but I suffer from overexposure in general lol, my brain is a little contrary like that

That's more what I was expecting, fey. A shame!

Yeah! Though I still enjoy comics in general and will come back for a specific run on occasion, but still!

I think the marvelization of Mattel will crumble away faster and feel less frustrating but we'll see

haha well we'll see. they've been trying for a while, this is their first big success. who knows how well it'll carry over