In the last few months with everything that has been happening in the comic book world I have noticed something, I have noticed that as in life so many people are negative and love to put down a comic, a character or a story line much more than they will praise it or even just say it was ok.

I've come to believe that the majority of comic book fans (not me or the people I talk comics with) are looking for something to be negative with, in fact there are a few who rip into everything from Marvel and DC yet praise all from Image or Dark horse which is clearly just because they don’t see them as mainstream so must be “cool”.

These comic book fans annoy me and I don’t mind telling you that at all, they are as bad as the music Nazi’s we all know, who love an underground band until they sign a major record deal and are then suddenly sell outs and crap, even though the first album is the same songs they were singing happily along too when no one knew who they were.

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Secret Identity:

“A secret identity is an element of fiction wherein a character develops a separate persona (usually adopting a pseudonym), while keeping their true identity hidden. The character also may wear a disguise (ranging from makeup or a mask, to a complete costume). A character may have several types of secret identities simultaneously (such as adopted names, pen names, undercover identities, and crime fighting codenames).”

Now one of my BIGGEST gripes when I was younger was about superheroes identities and why no one noticed that the likes of Clark Kent was Superman and that Bruce Wayne was Batman.

Now that I have thought about it a bit more for this article I now accept it and feel I can understand why they get away with it.

Obviously, first and foremost, it comes down to suspension of belief and if you are reading a comic or watching a superhero film then you like to escape to a fantasy realm and believe that for instance some humans can defy the rules of gravity and nature or that aliens can come down to earth to help protect it by using superpowers.

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Why is it that the majority of comic book fans feel the need to choose sides between DC and Marvel?

Ive pondered this question for a while now and it’s something I wondered as a kid of 14/15 too. There were 2 of us in team DC and another 4 of my friends were team Marvel. I never labelled myself as team DC but as I didn’t get any Marvel comics but did get 3 DC I just kind of became it.

It’s strange because as a kid and being in team DC I grew up with a little dislike for Marvel, I know now how stupid that was/is but I was only young and that’s what it feels like sometimes in comics, you have to choose sides. Even if I go to my favourite comic book forum it’s separated into sections of DC, Marvel, Independent and a few others (note there is no general section if you want to speak about both in same thread which is a tad annoying).

Every day on the forum there is a question in at least one of the sections that goes like “DC convert here, over from Marvel” or “I am swapping to Marvel because of the 52 reboot”, I mean; CONVERT? SWAPPING? why choose one side?

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Choosing which comics to have in your pull list can be a strenuous thing given the sheer amount of comic books released on a weekly basis and coupled with the price means you can pretty much bankrupt yourself if you are not careful.

From discussions on the interweb and in forums its clear to be seen that very few people can get every comic they want which leaves us all with the age old comic book collector question, to pull or not to pull?

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