Mainstream to obscure

Is the purpose of mainstream "geeky" interests just to be an intro to finding more obscure stuff? or is liking the big names, popular for a reason, valid?
Is it immature to not move from mainstream comic books to lesser known indie and webcomic?

No, but you're immature for thinking how mainstream something is that someone likes somehow makes their tastes lesser. In reality it's usually because those mainstream heroes get more attention from the company and subsequently typically have A-lister writers put on them.

Comics were a mistake, but in terms of cartoons I can say that mainstream tastes are fucking shit.

>how mainstream something is that someone likes somehow makes their tastes lesser.
It does. Only capebabbies will disagree.

>Comics were a mistake
What did he mean by this?

Probably a toontard, ignore him.

But OP's thread is directly talking about capeshit.

If you're reading fiction concerned with whether or not what you're reading is somehow considered greater then you're literally a child. That's some straight up junior high shit.

It's faggots like you that make people who like stuff that isn't mainstream look like hipster dipshits who only like it to look superior.

There are tier of capeshit like mainstream garbage, mainstream artsy garbage, mainstream hipster garbage, hipster artsy garbage so what I said applies.

Fucking thank you.

If you are consuming a fiction of any medium for enteratinment's sake only, you are a fucking pleb. Now being a pleb isn't inherently a bad thing, you just need to be self aware about it. For example a lot of plebs who will consume plebshit tier things will claim that this is the what the highest artists achievement of respective medium looks like and what they like deserves to be up there with genuine pieces and that thinking is never ok, it's cancerous. Doesn't mean ever mainstream thing is bad or inherently worse than lesser known stuff though, don't get that idea.
Instead of name-calling, show where my statement or sentiment behind it is wrong, if you will.

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>Instead of name-calling, show where my statement or sentiment behind it is wrong, if you will.
That the fact you said that liking something that happens to be mainstream means you have bad taste.
That's where you fucking retard.

People who only like mainstream garbage do have lesser taste, that's not even arguable. I did explain the only part in the post you replied to.

>If you are consuming a fiction of any medium for enteratinment's sake only, you are a fucking pleb.
I'm sure all great minds around the world applaud you for you taste in fictional characters hitting other fiction characters. Hell, I bet you could walk into any university, explain which comics you read, and you'll walk out with a doctorate.

>For example a lot of plebs who will consume plebshit tier things will claim that this is the what the highest artists achievement of respective medium looks like
Is this bait?

So people who like Watchmen and Sandman have poor taste?

It wasn't a statement about comics but a general one. I'm sorry you only read capeshit with irony and self depreciation for lowest sensory fulfillment, graduate one day.
>Is this bait?
Are you baiting? Have you ever met Harry Potter and YA audience or Capeshit only fags? A lot of them share that sentiment my dude.

I'm willing to put money on the fact that you described yourself.

They're cream of the crop. You also have to realize that a huge portion of their reader base don't actually read comics since they are very much comics for audience that doesn't read comics (not what authors had in mind). If those people are mainstream only casuals, they definitely have lesser taste. It's like saying if you've watched Kubrick and Hitchcock and you are somehow a cinephile but you won't touch Later Nouvelle Vague, German expressionism or Soviet cinema or countless other non mainstream pieces that are just as good or marginally better than Hitchcock and Kubrick effortlessly.

Not even trying to hide it anymore.

I'm just gonna say this if you feel the need to shit on something and it's fans because it's popular and a lot of people well you're a snobbish faggot.

>tfw no argument but still got to move the goalposts

Oh fuck off I gave you an argument and your only response was "Lol nope, I'm right."
And it's clear that's your only response so I refuse to waste my time on it.

You went from saying capeshit was bad solely because it was mainstream to saying that some capeshit is good, but people who claim they are higher art (which you yourself are doing) are why it's bad. You're the one moving goalpost.

>If those people are mainstream only casuals, they definitely have lesser taste

You're baiting but no they aren't. They are indulging in the content that is most readily available to them. They'll move on once they've realized the medium is one worth a deeper look and then look outside capecomics. More importantly however trying to jerk off your superior taste becuase you've consumed more comics than your peers who have just started getting into the hobby is retarded and does nothing but make people think you're a conceited prick. I'm not going to jerk off to my friends about how I'm an intellectual for enjoying Stalker while they're plebs for not watching it.

And capeshit is fine. Nexus, Hellboy, PAD Hulk, Ostrander Spectre are all fantastic. I don't know why there seems to be a need to shit on the entirety of cape comics when they've produced amazing comics.

Sure you did.
Argument was literally if someone has mainstream taste, their taste is lesser and that's correct. I haven't really heard any argument against that. If you are exclusively consuming mainstream stuff, you are intentionally limiting yourself. How can you claim that you have same level of taste as someone who isn't intentionally restricted?

>They are indulging in the content that is most readily available to them. They'll move on once they've realized the medium is one worth a deeper look and then look outside capecomics.
First of all, majority of casuals don't do that. Second, once they've indulged in all kinds of things, they're probably not going to be defined as casuals and there will be a stark contrast of what they considered best when they consumed only mainstream stuff and once they've opened themselves (assuming they're not retarded and subjectivist/nostalgiafags).
You basically agree with me here whether you realize that is another thing.
Also I don't really consider capeshit inherently garbage, there is lots of terrific stuff in this genre, some that even transcends the boundaries of genrefiction. And stuff like Ostrander's Spectre is not mainstream, you can't even find it in fucking tpbs anywhere.