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Unpopular opinion: I tried getting my nephew into comics with a modern book, but it totally backfired.
Gave him a brand new #1 issue with a shiny variant cover, thinking the art would hook him. He looked at it for about ten seconds, said 'cool pictures,' and went right back to his phone. Anyone else find that the old 'hand them a single, complete story' method works better than the latest event comic?
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victorcoleman2d ago
That "single, complete story" thing is the key. Modern life is all fractured attention, so a finished tale you can hold in your hands feels like a real event. It's the opposite of another endless phone scroll.
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margaret_singh12d ago
Yeah, total waste of a variant cover. Kid just wanted a story, not a collectible.
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Grab a cheap trade paperback of a classic story next time. Honestly, a full arc with a clear start and end is way more satisfying than a single floppy issue. Tbh, that shiny cover was just a fancy wrapper for half a story.
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