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Tried reading Batman comics in release order, stopped after 1989
I decided last month to go through Batman comics from the start, like all of them. I made it to the end of the 80s before I gave up. There's just too much crossover nonsense. You need three other titles to understand one story arc, and half the time the issue numbers don't line up. I wanted the full experience but I ended up spending more time looking up reading orders than actually reading. Anyone else ever attempt this and hit the same wall around that era?
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patricialee24d ago
My buddy tried the same thing a few years back. He got to the "Knightfall" era and just snapped. Showed up to work one day with a three ring binder full of printed reading orders and color coded tabs. His wife made him see a counselor about it. Last I heard he only reads standalone graphic novels now and refuses to touch anything with a cross title. Claims he saw things in that binder that still haunt him.
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