What's the worst mistake you can make as a beginner comicbook reader?

>>136902011 (OP)

Not reading 2000AD/Heavy metal magazine

Not reading the original iron man run 

Reading digital recolors

>>136902011 (OP)

Taking advice from /co/

>>136902011 (OP)

Reading superhero comics, especially if exclusively.

This.



case in point

Starting with Watchmen

Liking anything by Geoff Johns or JMS.

I kind of made this mistake, but it's really more of a positive.

It was one of my first ten or so cape comics, and it totally spoiled me. Now, I hardly like anything else in the genre, so I focus on other genres and comics from other parts of the globe.

Geoff's Green Lantern is the best GL has ever been.

>>136902011 (OP)

Listening to fags who say pirating is wrong

>>136902011 (OP)

>What's the worst mistake you can make as a beginner comicbook reader?

Having expectations based on liking something from other media.



Comics are the fucking wild west, and different writers use established characters to fulfill their own fanfiction that just happens to be official product, a lot of comics you think you will like, you won't, because it's just one guys idea of what something should be, which may not line up with what you think it should be.

Stop having such a shitty taste.

>>136902011 (OP)

taking advice from comic book websites to read le dark and serious shit

Get into cartooning before you go for Heavy Metal/Capeshit. If you don't get what makes peanuts or dick tracy great maybe comics ain't for you.

Develop your taste for graphic design in multiple genres

What about caring for what's canon and reading stuff in chronological order?

Wait wtf

>>136902011 (OP)

Not understanding that comics change with the time periods.

Don't bother with DC &amp; Marvel superhero crap.

If you have to read that garbage, go with TPB instead of Floppies.

Focus on reading popular runs with readers, not with critics or /co/ faggots.

Otherwise read cartoony comic strips, Europoor comics, Murican graphic novels and manga.

All good mistakes to not make

At this point none of that really matters if all you're looking for is entertainment, the canon is a mess in Marvel to the point continuity may as well not exist, and DC has rebooted itself over and over



Hipster faggot, you're not special

>>136902011 (OP)

getting invested in big 2 comics

AVOID Chris Claremont X-Men comics. They're overrated as hell. An absolute waste of time.

thinking that DC/Marvel superhero "continuity" actually matters

>Get into cartooning before you go for Heavy Metal/Capeshit. If you don't get what makes peanuts or dick tracy great maybe comics ain't for you.

>Develop your taste for graphic design in multiple genres



This is probably the best advice so far. You don't have to like a lot of comics but you have to get what makes them work

>>136902011 (OP)

Reading cape comics for the characters.

>>136902011 (OP)

Reading DC or Marvel comics made after 1999

*after 1991

Never get attached to the characters, some hacks will come along and destroy everything you ever loved about them and their universe. Look up lots of scans of old and new comics, read as much that catches your eye as possible. Once you find writers and artists you like, seek out their work wherever they go. You'll spare yourself years of bullshit. Don't be afraid to try Euro comics, or funky old manga.

>>136902011 (OP)

Being a character fag

expecting consistency

Comic Book Plus and the Digital Comic Book Museum have lots of public domain older comics to read. Archive.org has plenty of newer things.
