Anger

Everything seems to be irritating me recently. Real-life stuff which I'm not going into, but also online stuff. I can't upgrade from Firefox 2 to FF3 because several of the UI "improvements" annoy the hell out of me (plus, it would finally force me to change from AdBlock to AdBlock Plus, and there are loads of things about the latter that, yes, annoy me). Newsarama's revamp drove me so nuts I've practically stopped visiting the site (CBR's revamp shortly before, oddly, barely registered). IDW's new Transformers revamp (All Hail Megatron) is incredibly crap - but not only did that lead to a rant on their MB, I then flamed their EiC... over the 2004 Legion rereboot, after he called it "the best LSH in years". The one that had me spitting for months back then, and is still a sore spot (see also below, in the "Comics Ennui" post - no, Legion of Three Worlds isn't a good thing, since it's just going to end with (most of, at the very least) them getting killed off (again), since Geoff Johns is writing it, and using his pet killing-characters-he-doesn't-like tool. Yes, this annoys me.)

Combined with the-RL-stuff-I'm-not-going-to-describe, the effect of all of this and more is to leave me in a permanent state of... crankyness, at best. I can't relax, I can't enjoy stuff I know I *should* be enjoying (right now, DVDs of A Bit of Fry & Laurie. Although even S4 of Who was, as a whole, better than S3 at any rate). Getting a new cat (Rocket), helped for a couple of days, but right now, I just want to scream, hit something solid, or both.

And that's annoying.

Comics Ennui

I can't be the only one feeling this - a sense of "well, what's the point" about comics. The range of current titles I'm actually interested in shrinks ever more - DC's been dead to me since the Legion rereboot and all the palaver they were doing in their core universe at the time with Green Lantern, Infinite Crisis, et al, and while Marvel's never quite reached the same stage of "I can't be bothered with this any more", they're achieving the same sort of thing through salami-slicing - OMD/BND being the latest straw to snap completely (unlike a lot of people, when I said "I won't be buying any more Spider-titles", I meant exactly that. I'm stubborn that way, which is why I haven't even looked at the Legion rereboot three years later - I knew when I said it that "I won't read or buy any new Legion comics until they reverse this" almost certainly meant in practice "I'll never read or buy any new Legion comics ever again". So?), and the X-titles are straining even if they're not quite at that point yet. Even the miniseries, like Agents of Atlas, Livewires and Scorpion: Poison Tomorrow (the last technically not a mini, but...), which gave something comics-related to look forward to even if they were guaranteed to sell like crap are drying up.

Sure, there's the odd Nova even now, but right now I'm "properly" following about six titles - Nova (mid-table ongoing), Annihilation Conquest (mini), Incredible Herc (ongoing I expect to be free-falling pretty soon), Cable/Deadpool (cancelled), New Warriors (sinking), X-Men First Class (low-selling). I may or may not go back to X-Factor post-Messiah Complex, and the books I'm "casually" following - Thor, Cap, Marvel Adventures Avengers, Terror, Inc, IDW Transformers - I'm more likely to go to "not following" than "properly following".

I feel like I haven't moved away from comics, they've moved away from me...

[PS: If anyone was reading this, I'm sure they'd be thinking "what about 'independent' comics? Fact is, I read comics for superheroes - I watch TV, read books, etc for other mediums.