100 Things I Hate about Comics

1. Overpowering, too-dark computer colors

2. Fear of sound effects

3. Fear of cover dialogue or blurbs

4. Pinup covers

5. Contemptuous creators

6. Big events

7. Events that promise to "forever change" the status quo of a character or title, but never do

8. Pointless, endless and enormously expensive (to the reader) crossovers

9. Gratuitous killing off of characters

10. Degrading treatment of female comics characters

11. Degrading treatment of female comics creators

12. Decompressed, writing-for-the-trade storytelling

13. Lack of visual story-telling chops

14. Endless retreads of past comics events and storylines

15. Multiple "takes" on characters

16. Violence, nihilism, soft-core pornography and fratboy humor that masquerades as "sophistication"

17. The aren't we-cute-and-ironic practice of re-ballooning old war/romance comics

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