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My Frustration With Modern Comics

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Ah comics, once a medium jumping with creativity and passion, the heroes that lept from it's pages became larger than life, Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Wonder Woman, Captain America, Iron Man. They all have left their mark on pop culture, especially with the past 10 years of film. But the worst kept secret amongst nerd and fans of superheroes is that the comic industry, is fucked. Sales keep sinking lower and lower as time goes on and industry standards keep dropping in terms of those sales. Now I'm not here to speak about that, there are people far more qualified than me who can tell you about the clusterfuck that has pervaded comic books for decades. I want to talk about why I can't read comics, not that I dislike them, far from it, it's just that comics have been plagued by one consistent issue, one thing that has been, at least for me, ruining comic books. In my opinion this is a plague on the comics industry and the sooner it goes away the happier I'll ...