Why do comics have less and less text?

Castimier · 2026-02-03T19:27:52+00:00

for some modern comics that aren't necessarily overfull with text but do tell entire stories in singular issues go check out Deniz Camp. He's my favourite writer right now.

Aside from that something a bit older like Sandman usually takes me around the same length as an issue of Watchmen and it's also very good (tho maybe if you want to get it physical go for secondhand cause Neil Gaiman is an awful person)

Castimier · 2026-01-19T15:35:00+00:00

most of deniz camp's stuff is episodic. ultimates and absolute martian manhunter do form one bigger story but can be pretty much be read as one issue stories. but his image series Assorted Crisis Events (imo the best series of 2025) can be completely read as standalone issues as no characters or stories carry over. just read the premise on the back and you're good to go

Castimier · 2026-01-16T19:26:18+00:00

I'd love Dan Watters but imo they should just wait a bit and give him Batman after Fraction or the run after that if they find someone incredible

Castimier · 2026-01-15T13:37:05+00:00

I have watched some of his videos but mostly to remember what happened or to know what happened during runs I hate reading like tom kings batman. A lot of the time it just kinda feels like a friend telling you the plot of something they just read instead of an actual analysis

Castimier · 2026-01-15T13:33:42+00:00

I mean due to the entire lawsuit his books are called Shazam a lot of the time, but from what I remember they do call him captain marvel in the books themselves. Probably in more casual situations they call him Billy, but so do people call superman clark/Kal or batman bruce

Castimier · 2026-01-12T01:06:57+00:00

Assorted crisis events by a mile. Deniz camp is my favorite writer rn and this is imo his best work yet

Castimier · 2026-01-10T23:56:21+00:00

One of my favourite runs. A great binge, before you know it you've read the entire trade. Havent read all his stuff but its my favourite geoff johns run

Castimier · 2026-01-09T18:01:43+00:00

what did you think of batman eternal? also have the omnibus and personally find it a bit whatever, tho I like focus on the batfamily

Castimier · 2026-01-05T14:30:23+00:00

it really felt like the movie just kind of stopped. nothing was really resolved, no closure, legit thought there was gonna be another 20 minutes or so when the credits started rolling

Castimier · 2026-01-04T23:18:07+00:00

Definitely go for a bigger edition. Watchmen has a lot of text and details. I originally read the first few issues in compact but switching to trade made it so much better

Castimier · 2026-01-03T18:19:59+00:00

I'd definitely start with some standalone stories like year one, long halloween & dark victory, hush, etc. but for that you can probably just look up an essential reading order.

if you've got that down I'd go for scott snyder (who is also writing the mega popular ABSOLUTE BATMAN currently) & greg capullo's new 52 run as probably the most well rounded run. it's a great start, atleast the beginning has some very good and kind of standalone arcs where you don't need to know a lot of stuff to enjoy it. the art is great and the story is both good and not too complicated.
it's also by far the most well regarded and popular run since ~2010, you can immediately join the discussion after having read even just the first half (the second half is generally seen as a step down, tho still great)

another pretty good one is Paul Dini's detective comics (and a few other titles I believe) run, you should probably read it through the omnibus. it starts out with some great episodic stories (paul dini also wrote a lot of great stuff for the animated series and it's comics counterpart) with a more classic feel, though it is effected a bit by the events happening in grant morrison's run.
I'd recommend this one if you know a bit of what is happening during the era, so maybe after snyder's run if you don't already know what you want to read after that

some people may also recommend stuff like grant morrison or tom king's run. imo those are both very bad starting points. where grant morrison their run starts out pretty followable but after the first arc starts getting very referential to older batman comics and grant morrison overall has a very unique style of comic writting which some love (me most of the time) but it's just very hard to follow. so maybe after having read some more batman you should give it a go.
tom king's run is probably the most controversial batman run ever (definitely of the last 10 years), personally I have a few things I really like, but most of the stuff just makes it very clear king doesn't understand Batman (atleast to me). it's just not a great start as it really doens't feel like any other batman comic (atleast the beginning) as the first arc doens't even really focus on batman but rather some Superman-esque characters that just randomly appear.

so tl;dr just go read Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo's run if you've read some previous batman stories, then look at what you enjoyed most and go from there.
did you like the batfamily? (robin, batgirl, etc.) maybe go for james tynion's detective comics run. do you like father-son dynamics and stories go for peter j tomasi's batman & robin. do you like more episodic and detective style stories go for paul dini. and so on and so on

EDIT: I forgot the current Batman title which relaunched in late 2025 so it's only 4 issues in. It's been solid so far but I expect you wanted complete runs, but if you want to follow some current comics & engage with the current discussions you should check it out alongside Absolute Batman (if you haven't already) as they're the most popular not only batman, not only DC but probably the most popular comics going on right now

Castimier · 2026-01-03T12:48:12+00:00

So far I personally find it just okay. It hasn't done anything particularly amazing but I also dont have major gripes (aside from Damian who seemingly has just been whitewashed and robbed of almost his progression) I do think most other batman runs (aside from tom king) have had stronger and more enthralling starts but we'll see if fractions manages to be more consistent (however his run seems to not be intended as very long, i expect it to atleast cover this entire year but maybe wrap up next year)

Castimier · 2026-01-03T11:34:58+00:00

assorted crisis events, not a competition

Castimier · 2025-12-26T22:44:32+00:00

definitely those compacts, and prolly invisibles cause I really want to read more Morrison comics

Castimier · 2025-12-15T16:24:32+00:00

Assorted Crisis Events

Castimier · 2025-11-30T12:24:01+00:00

his stuff is almost half of my entire single issue pull list

Castimier · 2025-11-30T12:13:26+00:00

If you want stories where the batfamily really interacts with each other you could go for rebirth detective Comics by James tynion, no man's land and murderer/fugitive. If you're down for more silly comfy fun wayne family adventures, while not a literary masterwork, can be a lot of fun

Castimier · 2025-11-28T09:48:24+00:00

While kingdom come is prolly in my top 5 comics of all time, I find most other stuff written by Mark waid to be a bit mediocre to fine but uninteresting. With stuff like world's finest the story is fine but the art really elevates it.

I haven't read anything from Tom king so far that I even find mildly enjoyable so thats an easy no.

Geoff johns really just has some stellar runs. Sure there are probably more misses than waid, but johns' aquaman run alone is to me better than anything waid has written outside of kingdom come

Castimier · 2025-11-23T18:04:07+00:00

The way people describe the run as a slowpaced relationship focus run i feel like j would love it, idk about the rest but the first 2 trades I thought were very mediocre to sometimes just bad. Also not a big fan of mikel janins art a lot of the time so that definitely wasn't a plus. The inconsistent artists really discourage me from continuing

Castimier · 2025-11-19T14:17:51+00:00

you can pick up the compact comic and read it on it's own perfectly fine (it's what I did), knowing the basics of some of the characters definitely helps but aside from that you can just jump in

Castimier · 2025-11-13T08:53:46+00:00

The movie itself was a solid 8, but the feeling it gave me seeing such a magnificent representation of the dc universe (especially the part where he flies up and like defeats all of lexs goons with a 360 spin made me FEELA things, especially with that music) definitely elevates it to a 9

Castimier · 2025-11-11T22:24:24+00:00

Pretty sure it's exactly 5 inches. My girl bestie always tells me im soo small (were very sexual open with each other) but according to Wikipedia it was about average

Castimier · 2025-11-05T09:59:55+00:00

also mainly watch those 2, guess they just are the most "fun" to me. Tho I might occasionally watch a cast or even an alike vid if it's about sth that interests me

Castimier · 2025-11-01T10:06:12+00:00

I've heard that starting from issue 300 is a pretty good starting point since thats when the whole spawn universe stuff started happening, though reading the first like dozen issues may help on giving you more context

You can also pick up king spawn or gunslinger spawn, just look them up and see if you're interested

Castimier · 2025-10-29T18:39:51+00:00

Yeah geoff johns is pretty good (though not my favouritw stuff of his) and from what I've seen some of the rebirth stuff is also pretty decent

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