Formally Favorite Characters

I've been reading comics for 25 years and have gone through character favorites like candy, but i always had the ones that i keep close to my heart. the ones that could do no wrong. But lately i have come to abandon some of those characters do to their inability to excite me anymore.  i once read them with awe and wonder, looking forward to each new story (good and bad). But now you would almost have to pay me to pick up one of their books, even with all the "New Directions"  these characters seem to go through.

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  1. Spider-Man

  He was the First, the one who brought me into comics, the one who i followed everywhere he went. Now i can't even bring myself to read his book and I WANT TO!!! i left him shortly after they unified all his books under the Amazing banner. the constantly shifting creators was interesting at first but soon gave way to frustrating when great story-lines were followed be mediocre ones. but the worst thing is, after Civil War i just don't see the character the same way anymore. he no embodies that everyman anymore. seeing him unmask was shocking and made for great story telling. But it ultimately changed my view of the character for the worse and he has since been lost to me.

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  2. X-Men

  If Spiderman brought me into comics, X-Men kept me there. i always loved these books and the great stories that being a mutant could bring us. but after House of M, i got lost in the ever changing landscape that was the X books. it seemed like each week a new book was released that had new characters that i didn't care about and a story line that made no sense. To me these books suffers from to much input. they overload each story with as many things as they can and it just gets confusing. they almost redeemed themselves with Astonishing X-men but that two got convoluted in its second half. (What the Hell is the Breakworld anyway and S.W.O.R.D that just screams gimmick.) now i look at the x books and i cringe, because i know if i even pick one up i will no recognize anything or anyone in that book.

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  3. Batman

  They had me with the Tim Burton Movie. i was hooked and drawn in. i even stayed with the character through some less then good stories (Jean Paul Valley anyone). but after awhile all the stories seem to be the same. they stopped being able to do anything new with the character. As a result i just stopped reading the books. and until recently haven't felt i've missed anything. although Dick Grayson becoming Batman has been very interesting. i might be removing Batman from this list.

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  4. Wolverine

  i separate Wolverine from the X-men because he i used all over the marvel universe, so he is not just an X-men. that Unfortunately is my problem with him, he's used to much. he's the all purpose weapon that the writer points at the problem when he can't come up with something else. He's been the answer to so many of the marvel universes problems that he has lost his appeal.