Is comics the worst topic to be obsessed with?

Is comics the worst topic to be obsessed with?

If your main hobby is music, sports, politics, videogames or even anime you'll have no trouble finding peers or clubs related to the topic, no matter your country or the size of your city.

When it comes to comics, though, you're basically fucked if you don't live in America, and even then you better choose other things to socialize with. I can't even find friends to discuss this online - not even on the world wide web it's normal to follow more than 50 titles and be interested in them all. If someone likes comics it's just some mild interest like Saga or some focused niche like reading only X-Men titlles.

>tfw nobody gets the excitement of wednesdays

No offense but that probably has a lot to do with the fact that most of the big two's products suck. Just absolutely suck.

It's stale.
It's boring.
It's trite.
and everything they've done to change this has only made comics less compelling and relatable.

How, exactly, does what he said have anything to do with the big two (other than you desperately needing to stroke your hate boner)?

But it's not really a quality thing. It's a "not many people are following my interest" thing. There are other books outside of the Big Two, yet the best he can find is someone "mildly" into Saga.

Nope, it is a good, normal topi.
Comic "fans" are just pathetic morons, most of them.

>tfw just want a group of friends who make comics like I do
>everyone who makes comics online and talks about it is a total autistic thag makes cringy porn art while bitching about more successful creators
>literally every one of them is a huge weaboo that take no inspiration from other western comics

>tfw no friends because no hobbies other than comics

>Comic groups are harder to find than anime groups

I didn't want to be your comics friend anyway

The loneliness just doesnt let go, its like a shadow. I never knew it would be this hard. Sometimes I feel like this is who I am, like its more defining for me than my voice, my looks and my character. its a cross.
People seriously underestimate the severity of the pain we endure daily. Same goes for anyone belittling panic attacks.

I achieved many things in life, but all of those are empty if I cant share them with anyone. I plan to kill myself soon.

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Love his art, but he needs to lighten up. Internet people are gross. That's just how it is.

I live in the UK. The only other people that like comics are creepy autists (I obviously mean Sup Forums autists, not actual ones as they are less autistic) and smelly and gross. I like to imagine the people in storytime threads are better than those guys.

I would say Wrestling is, but at the very least we can all bond over our hatred for the WWE

>Both enjoy watching sweaty muscular men in flashy spandex suits mouthing bad writen drama
>only one of them knows how to read

Suck my balls Kobashi vs Misawa > Watchmen

>Is comics the worst topic to be obsessed with?
That honor goes to /tg/

Nobody reads what we call "good comics"

It's like 700 people worldwide

Actually reading comics is a pretty niche hobby. It's even more niche if the majority of what you read is outside of Marvel and DC. Whenever I think I'm alone in the hobby, I meet someone that reads as well. At work, a coworker noticed I read comics, turns out she's friends with one of the higher-ups at Zenoscope and inks issues for them.

My other hobbies are entomology and arachnology. I do literally everything I can to hide it from normies because their reactions are fucking unbearable. If you tell people you're into comics worst case scenario they'll just go "oh haha I don't really read them but I love the Avengers movies because I'm such a nerd xD".

I'm sure there's a lot of worse shit to be into. Hell, ask /tg/.

>tfw sports master race

Nothing beats chatting sports with the boss and getting in tight with him

I'd rather be friendless than only know a bunch of weebs.

I make comics. My influences are straight up Bronze/Silver age. Right down to my inking.

Let me tell you about my character.

>no matter your country or the size of your city.

Yeah, think again

Probably

Or you could get lucky and live near one of the places overflowing with it.

Or in the UK

because this is the big twos fault right? or moon over june? shit is shit generalizing everything wrong with the cape comics is idiotic especially since what you said is true they wouldn't own such a huge margin compared to other companies because people wouldn't buy them

I'm part of an international comics group on facebook, a sizable amount of the posters on there are filipino.

I know this feel.

I don't even like any of the other "nerdy" shit.

Meanwhile, I've been playing chess for years.

50 titles. I can't imagine dropping that much money for comics every month.

It's not really that they suck it's just that to most people the big 2 is what a comic book is, and the comics they're pushing are irrelevant. Nobody gives a shit about superhero comics. They like action movies, sure. But they don't care about buying the comics. And they don't know other comics exist.

SHOW us

Most people don't read anything comics or otherwise.
Cape comic fans are continually demonized, but in reality have kept American comics going for decades. Fans of other sorts of comics don't come in the numbers necessary to make any kind of real impact.
What is funny, is that because they manage to maintain an audience, cape comics are continually blamed for the failure of other sorts of comics to become popular.

No. I am not good enough... yet.

No...lots of people are casual comic fans so you can at the very least talk to them about basic shit, and personally I knew a few people growing up who were really into comics

Anime was worse because the people into anime were the ones you didn't want to associate with....the comic geek fuckers I knew were fairly normal but non popular guys, the anime crowd at my school were the autists

>It's even more niche if the majority of what you read is outside of Marvel and DC.
Hear, hear.
Though I've had some pretty neat conversations, too.
>Lady at Walmart whose kid was reading Tintin books in the cart
>Two kids at Barnes and Noble who were true-blue comics fans, as in they read the books
There were a couple other people as well but then, I'm trying to go to school for comics so at least I can wait until uni starts. Or talk to my little sis about them

talking about comics is the worst because its like 99% character fags that are only capable of judging a comic on its writing

>only capable of judging a comic on its writing
Except for writing and art, how else are you supposed to judge a comic?

nobody really talks about the art unless its bad in a way that gives them an easy way to feel smart, like squirrel girl

The sad fact that even outside the big two are few and far between.

If you aren't just shit posting recommend a few indy titles/

Sometimes it really seems like most people here are literally just going from word balloon to word balloon and completely glazing over the art.

Art adds the the quality of the comic in a way that most people don't notice even if it's excellent but it just adds tremendously to the enjoyment of the read without the person thinking about it.

It's the reason that some still hold Jack Kirby was the real creative genius at Marvel, even though I think it was more of a group effort.

yeah this is exactly what im talking about

This

D&D is a much more common hobby than serious comic book collecting/reading that isn't