Re: Darkseid, Superboy Redux

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ck) wrote in
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> In article
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johanna
> Draper Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>>  "Devlin Tay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 
>> > I was upset again when they ended v4 and gave us the
>> > post-boot - which for a while, really, really made me mad - I
>> > actually stopped reading Legion for three or four years.  

>> I was... well, not upset, just thoroughly not interested when
>> they ended the reboot run and gave us Lost. I stopped reading
>> the Legion and haven't come back. Not because "it's not *my*
>> Legion anymore", but because the stories are badly done and the
>> characterization is poor. IMO, of course.

>...

> in that case, why do you still post here?  this is a serious
> question, not an attack.  when i leave something, i leave it. 
> i'm trying to understand why someone who stops reading a title
> and thinks it's poorly done, etc., spends time around its
> discussion group. john

Speaking only for myself, not Johanna: The newsgroup topic is the 
LSH, not the most recent issue or the current run.  There's 
generally a fair mix of discussion of the LSH both present and 
past.  I don't read the current series either, but I find enough 
here that's interesting to read and participate.  I haven't "left" 
the LSH in the sense of losing interest.  (I've certainly spent 
more annually on LSH-related material in the years since I dropped 
the monthly-- mostly Legion Archives, though of course the Legion 
Companion is on the list as well-- than I did before.)

Similarly, I wouldn't have ceased to be interested in _The Lord of 
the Rings_ if I hadn't liked the movies, or in _Dune_ because I'm 
uninterested in the sequels being churned out by Herbert's son.  
Interest in the subject doesn't necessarily require liking what's 
being done with it at the moment.

In any case, if I'm ever going to decide to pick up the book again, 
it's likely to be based on what I read about it here.  Thus far, it 
hasn't happened, but who knows what the future will bring?

Mike

-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS
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