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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 ...

  Batman 3-D (1990) Written and Drawn by John Byrne        The 1990’s was a distressing time for comics. The rise of the young Image artists with their aggressively grim and dark characters like Spawn and Youngblood. Marvel struggling to stay relevant with a ridiculous assortment of gimmicks, such as holographic and glow in the dark covers, while most of their best talent quietly left for rival DC Comics. The worst was by far DC, who took part in the gimmickry and was still being outsold by both Marvel and Image. The big 2 had become the big 3 with DC taking home the bronze. This is one of those gimmicks.     I would describe the story but there really isn’t much of one. A simple murder mystery with the Joker, Penguin, Two Face and the Riddler as the suspects. Nothing that hasn’t been done a million times before and in a lot of cases it was done better. The book also has Batman pin ups by some of the best artists of the time, and a classic 1940s B...