Was sure modern comics were a money grab until a teenager changed my mind at the shop

I'm 42 and I've been reading comics since I was 8. For years I swore anything after 1995 was just reboots and variant covers trying to empty my wallet. Then last Saturday at Cosmic Comics in Austin this kid maybe 16 was flipping through a new Moon Knight run. He asked me what I thought of the old stuff and I went on my usual rant. He just nodded and handed me issue #1 of the current run and said 'try it with an open mind just this once.' I read it in the shop and man the writing actually had heart. The art wasn't crammed with crosshatching and the story flowed. I ended up buying the first three issues and now I'm catching up on runs I skipped for 20 years. Anyone else had a younger fan show them something they wrote off too fast?

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rayy8316d ago

The Moon Knight run you're talking about by MacKay is legit good. I had the same thing happen with a girl at my shop who convinced me to try the current Immortal Hulk run even though I hated what they did with the character in the 2000s. She was right, the way it deals with trauma and the multiple personalities actually feels like a natural progression from the old Peter David stuff. It's wild how these kids grew up on the internet finding all the back issues and can actually talk shop better than half the adults in the store.

spencer40716d ago

The Immortal Hulk run by Al Ewing, actually, not MacKay. Easy mix-up since they both had big Marvel runs around the same time. But yeah, you're spot on about how it ties back to the multiple personalities stuff from Peter David's old work. I hadn't picked up a Hulk book in years because I thought they'd run that concept into the ground, but Ewing found a way to make Banner's trauma feel fresh and brutal. The way he treats the Hulk as this cosmic punishment rather than just a rage monster really grabbed me. That girl at your shop sounds like she knew what she was talking about.