{"id":1858,"date":"2008-09-11T20:56:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T01:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2008-09-11T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T01:56:04","slug":"why-i-dont-read-monthly-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1858","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don&#8217;t Read Monthly Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, I read a lot of comics. The Hulk, Spiderman, Batman &#8212; I read them as they came out. These days any comics I do read I <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/10\/5-comics-you-should-read-right-now\/\">read as trade paperbacks<\/a>. I&#8217;ve never thought about why that is, but <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicgranades.blogspot.com\/\">Andrew<\/a>&#8216;s comment made me realize one reason why I stopped, at least for DC and Marvel comics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then, just to prove what a Fraction junkie I am, I would recommend the two TPB of The Immortal Iron Fist as another genre comic done right &#8211; at least until Fraction and Brubaker left the comic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DC and Marvel shuttle writers and artists on and off titles. The reasons are varied and wide-ranging, and I can understand many of them, but in the end it&#8217;s enough change that I lose interest. Couple that with both the way continuity is folded and stapled back onto comics and the annoyance of having to swing by my city&#8217;s far-away comic shop, and in the end I just order TPBs from Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, I read a lot of comics. The Hulk, Spiderman, Batman &#8212; I read them as they came out. These days any comics I do read I read as trade paperbacks. I&#8217;ve never thought about why that is, but Andrew&#8216;s comment made me realize one reason why I stopped, at least for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1858\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I Don&#8217;t Read Monthly Comics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}