Well.. Just like the title said. Have you felt it before or feeling it now or will ever feel it? What it caused you to Burn Out if ever? Do you sell all your comics after feeling it? How did you managed to return back in reading/buying comics? What will make you quit comics or read/collect/buy comics again?
I felt that with Marvel's constant events. I dropped the Marvel books for a while and now I'm just reading trades when they are on sale and enjoy it much more.
That is one thing I struggle with, weather it’s to get the issues as they come out, or wait for the TPB. I’ve about decided that’s what I’m going to do for miniseries and events.
Same here. I have some books that I like to read regularly, like the Spiderman/Deadpool book, Lost Light, Aposimz, Ghostbusters, Superman and currently the Wolverine is back comics (forgot the name, but there are several books coming out right now) and the rest like X-Men, Avengers, Thor, Dr. Strange, etc. I like to read the trades. I even caught up. I was out of the loop for a long time. I think it was about the time when Siege was out or whatever... and I dropped X-Men shortly before the story wrapped up where the X-Men are the Phoenix 5. The floppies are usually too short to really enjoy the story nowadays, so just reading the trades is much better. Only Superman makes it to keep me excited every month, as it feels like a lot happens in it's issues. Everything else feels just like snippets of a story. The cool thing is, if I come back to the trades year after their release I can really binge read trade after trade. Sometimes I have weekends where I just lay in bed and from saturday to sunday I just read comics And after these recent sales I have sooo much to read...
I find trying to keep up on single issues burns me out pretty quickly. I like reading the TPB's because the month to month wait just kills my interest in the story.
Yes. I used to be a weekly comic buyer/reader, but now I mostly just get older books when comixology is running a good sale.
I'm down to just GIJoe:ARAH. Used to get a bunch of series. I was 100% getting Transformers but dropped that a year into IDWs run of MTMTE & RID.
I tend to pick up once a month and my pull list is tiny compared to what it was back in the day. Also you look at storylines and there are too many crossovers and they seem to be telling the same stories half the time. Here are two up coming books from both companies. So both their new rampaging monster characters are going to fight their swamp characters?
Well, I read more comic books than just the Big Two, Image or IDW. When I'm burned out on some titles? I switch to other books.
A bit, yeah. I went really hard into DC’s Rebirth titles when that line started, but I kept finding that I wouldn’t read a lot of the books right away, due in part to being busy, but mostly because I wasn’t excited for them. My reading list has shrunk a lot and there are only 2-3 books per month that I still get really excited about (and Marvel just cancelled one of them to relaunch with a different writer).
I burned out on comics from age 8 to 12. Never since then, although my weekly Wednesday comic shop habit is long gone. I mostly read tpb or hardcovers, and any monthly American comics, I buy digitally. I still read comics in some form every single day, but the days of bagging, boarding and a hundred long boxes in the garage are over forever. Also, while I got back into comics at age 12, if I hadn't discovered independents and Japanese comics at age 13 (specifically Love and Rockets)... if "comics" to me meant only super-heroes... there's no doubt in my mind I would have burned out completely by age 15 and never read comics again.
I did when the New 52 ended and told myself I wasn't going to start at #1 again. Well, I did start some Rebirth titles, mainly around the Justice League characters, and even ended up selling all my New 52 books.
I'm totally burned out on modern books. Just too much going on. Too many events, crossovers, and reboots. I have, however fallen in love with Superman's Golden Age books. Love the omnibuses and IDW's daily and Sunday strip releases. Nice short stories that you can pretty much understand just by quock skimming.
Wow. Good thing this topic is still alive Well I'll share my story. I started comics at 5th grade. Yeah saving up my pocket money to buy a comic every two months. I had a second hand comic books in grade school. Wolvy/Ghost Rider Acts of Vengeance, X-Factor #100 (RIP Madrox) and X-Men #1. #2, #11 and #12 (Jim Lee). Those comics started me collecting regularly until the end of my 6th grade. Bought McFarlane's Spiderman (Torment) #1 and Wolverine #75 (Kubert) & X-Men #30 (wedding). Then Wolverine #90 to #100 (kubert), I dipped at Wolverine/Gambit Victims mini series as well. I even bought Comics on Sale that have "cool covers". Then my parents noticed it. They want me to stop. So they called my aunt from NSW, Sydney and I was surprised I came home a huge box in my room. A box full of classic comics. 90's Daredevil, Silver Centurion Iron Man issues, Micronauts, 1980's The New Defenders, too many. I got choked and burned. I managed to get some Onslaught Saga comics in highschool. But I got tired. Maybe puberty hits me a lot. I just came back in comics when Captain America died & bucky took the mantle. Then I got off again (maybe the hype). I have a job that time. Then came back for Secret Invasion, Siege and AvX. Then stopped. Decided to tried it again last year only to find out Marvel jacked up the prices. That eventually led me to try DC (i've been full marvel for the longest time). Bought the 4-parter The Button, Action Comics from Oz Effect to Action 1000 & Dark Nights (main line). Then the only title i'm keeping up now is Doomsday Clock. Realization, I can never be a full-fledged comic collector again. Maybe will resort to TPBs when allowed. I tried TPBs/Hardcover collection, X-Men Mutant Genesis 2.0 is my 1st. It was on sale around Studio Series Deluxe price range. I grew up with Jim Lee's X-Men run so why not. I will just finish Doomsday Clock then I could stop.
I would burn out on comics completely in .00001 seconds if those were the only books I was reading. Part of your problem sounds like every time you come back to comics, you go right to whatever new event they're having. And event comics are always the worst things being published at any given time.
I always thought this would be too much like something someone would come up in a fanfic. I think there's already too many like Wolverine running around. It takes away the uniqueness that Wolverine had to me.
