It focused less on the character's crime-fighting career and more on their everyday life? I mean, Anthony Stark runs an international corporation and Peter Parker has to struggle with being a young man in trying to find his way in the world. Wouldn't these make interesting stories, or are we too far invested in the characters' lives as Superheroes and forget that their people?
You make it sound like all comics are about super-heroes. I read plenty of comics about regular people who don't fight crime, so I guess the answer is yes.
Assuming this question is confined solely to superhero comics...no, I wouldn't. When I'm reading a superhero comic, I'm reading it purely for superhero action and escapism. I don't care about Bruce Wayne running his business, Clark Kent trying to write a Pulitzer-winning story or Peter Parker's pathetic, dateless existence living with his aunt and wasting his scientific knowledge as a newspaper photographer. That was one of the reasons I liked the pre-new52 GL titles: Very little wasted time on the characters' civilian lives, just epic space opera stories and grand action. And they still managed to get in some good character development too, proving that it's easily possible to flesh out the characters and still keep the focus on the superhero stuff, where it belongs. Granted, I'm not a big fan of slice-of-life stories. But, if that's what I'm were looking for, I'd prefer to read an independent title or a comic where it's the primary focus, rather than shoe-horning it into a superhero comic.
I suppose I should have specified that this question refers to superhero comics. Thank you for the responses nonetheless.
A good colic relies on story, not the tights. There are some great iron man comics where Tony never gets in the suit.
But would you want to read it if it was boring civilian life. Such as: Steve Rogers on his day off is caught in a massive traffic jam and spends the issue sitting in his car only to finds out it was a rubberneck delay caused by an accident that was cleaned up hours earlier Peter Parker, wanting to save a few bucks, spends most of an issue in Walgreens deciding on which laxative to buy Aunt May. One has more FL Oz in it but one is cheaper. Which is the better value? Poor Cyclops. Dude just wanted a Big Mac with no cheese & no lettace. So he went through the drive through. Of course, they put extra cheese and load it with lettace. Cyc then spends 6 pages driving back and arguing with the manager before getting another burger. Ronald gets the last laugh as they hardly put any special sauce on it. Tony Stark spends 2 issues in his workshop working on a Chevy. Pepper shows up every 5 pages and brings him an ice tea. Bruce Banner sits in his house at least a couple issues channel surfing. No Hulk in sight. Sue & Reed Richards attend Franklin's parent/teacher meeting then go shopping for wallpaper. Bruce Wayne spends the whole issue sleeping since the previous issue was action packed. We find out Clark Kent can't cook to save his life. Lois finds out in the final page he gave up and ordered a pizza.
Partially that might be interesting, but usually I read stuff and watch movies about unrealistic things. For realistic things I can watch the world surrounding me.
I think the OP should consider reading Astro City, has a lot of "A Day in the Life of.." type stories which involve more insights into the character featured and less the crimefighting/saving the day style stories typical of superhero comics.
A nice balance would be nice, I mean Spider-man in his college years was cool because it was a decent mix of superhero action and his 'real' life. On another note all you really need to get me to read a comic is nice art (preferably similar to the cover) and big tits.
If everyday plotlines somehow or another relate to the super-hero stuff, then yeah, I could find the story interesting. However, just regular everyday stuff seems like a waste of three to four dollars.
