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  The Tom King Retrospective/ Why I'm Largely Done With Comics      Superhero comics have always meant a lot to me. I'll never forget finding some DC and Marvel trade paperbacks at my local library and falling in love. I had seen the heroes on tv in some of the best cartoon shows of all time, but the world of comics was something else entirely. I have been collecting comics since 2014 and I have done deep dives and discovered so many great stories, characters  and creators. 10 years on though and I feel very different about it. I don't have any drive or passion for comics or for any comics that are coming out right now. This could be just burn out that can come when one naturally overdoes a hobby, but if feels like something more. I feel that I have read almost everything that I wanted to in the field of mainstream American superhero comics. After almost 10 years of collecting I'm throwing in the towel and cutting way back. I am still reading some every now and ...

  The Invaders # 1-12 (2019) Written by Chip Zdarsky Drawn by Carlos Magno & Butch Guice        I have never really cared about the Invaders, although I do respect and understand their place in the larger Marvel Universe. To give some context, The Invaders were Marvel’s first superhero team existing in the Golden Age of comics, and being made up of the superheroes Marvel’s predecessor Timely Comics had at that time.(Although being retconned into existence in the late 60s)The team consists of Captain America, his sidekick Bucky (eventually the Winter Soldier), Namor (one of the first mutants and the King of Atlantis), Jim Hammond (the original Human Torch who is an android and not the Johnny Storm Fantastic Four version), and his sidekick Toro (also an android) as well as a host of other characters including Spitfire and Union Jack. The basic premise of the story is that Namor has killed Americans on US soil and is acting like more of a jerk (than usual ...