The Web Haunt of Ryan K Lindsay

There’s a reason I love comics. They give you something not a lot of other things can. They give you a type of entertainment that is very specific to the medium and the culture.

They give you a story that might not end. That may seem annoying to some people, and yes they complain (that’s what the wwInterweb was built for, apparently), but it is something that I wholeheartedly love about the system.

Some titles, Preacher, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, even Criminal and Casanova to an extent, have mapped out endings or self-contained story arcs that can be enjoyed on their own, and I dig those titles. But to get through them, especailly when you are there, at ground zero every month, can take you years. I am reading The Boys every month, and I know it has a planned ending, and I cannot wait to get there, but I love that every month I get a little bit more, I get to tease it out. I get to enjoy this show for years.

Then there’s just the plain monthly. I read Daredevil, and every month I get to enhoy it, and will continue to enjoy it. I stay with the character/s that I love and it never ends. So many times I have wanted more from a story and not gotten it. The Shawshank Redemption ends and you just want it to continue. At the end of Chasing Amy I want to follow all three characters and see what they are doing, even though that’s really not the point of the ending. Every zombie movie I watch ends and I just want it to keep going. Which is why I love The Walking Dead, and Resurrection is set after the alien invasion, a great idea from Marc Guggenheim.

With comics the fun never has to end. Not like a novel which will end, and I only get a few days/weeks/months of pleasure, with a comic the fun is, ostensibly, never ending. That’s why I love comcis, because there are some characters that I don’t want to walk away from at the end.

It’s only a few bucks each month, and I’ve cut my pull list down so it’s very budgetarily affordable, and most people would spend that on random bottles of 7-Up or Snickers bars. I don’t eat snacks, but I read comics. And at the end of a few months you’ll have something that has added up to make a great story, with great art, and you have enjoyed it. That’s what it is all about for me.

The other reason I love comics.

You don’t get this in movies, or books, or cartoons. You get it in some art, but how often do you get it right in the middle of a story, or even better, right throughout a story.

The artwork in comics is really artwork these days.

And if it’s art on a grand scale, then Alex Maleev is a king of all he surveys. Marvel.com just released more teaser images of Maleev’s Spider-Woman and man do they get me ready to go. His style is awesome, and one day i want him to illustrate the cover to one of my books. Be it a comic or a novel, I want him to do it! I got dibs in now. Over the coming weeks I will sneak these images in here, basically because I like love them.

I hope you enjoy too.

Posted on February 24th, 2009 by ryan
Filed under: comics