I think Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead wasn’t a good read: when I last read it, it focused less on the ‘walkers’ and more on how humans are the REAL monsters with so many humans setting bad examples for themselves, and what does that have to do with zombies roaming the earth and all that? I know about Rick Grimes and The Governor the farthest I’ve read into the series and it’s very bleak and violent and it spawned an ongoing franchise to boot.

I used to read Spawn by Todd Macfarlane, but that series played like a serious drama between Spawn (Al SImmons) and Terry Fitzgerald since the latter man married Wanda and I eventually got tired of reading it just because I couldn’t stand all the drama between two guys fighting over one wife.

Invincible (also by Robert Kirkman) is supposedly all the rage, but I find it violent, trendy, subversive, and a composition of superhero tropes and cliches because modernism is popular with the current generation, and although I know who Omni-Man is now I’m afriad of reading it because he outright performed an ultra graphic Fatality on Homelander from Dynamite Entertainment’s The Boys with is pretty much the same thing as Invincible except written by a creator who explicitly hates superheroes and God yet somehow made lots of money with his television series and popular comic book franchise.

Me, I’m willing to read what Dark Horse has because since I like Hellboy for being a good work by a good man in my opinion (we’re both Catholic) and I while I withdrew from the manga communities on Lemmy I’m sort of debating going back to reading manga if only I could handle actually reading it: my last few manga works were Bleach, which going to Hueco Mundo was stupid on everyone’s behalf and yet it advanced the plot; there’s Berserk, which I kind of respect as a fellow Dark Horse published work but I don’t know if I can pick it back up again due to how graphic and intense it was (no offense, Guts); and then there’s Sankarea, which had a dangerous premise of zombifying a girl because the boy has a fetish for zombies (which somehow translates to necromancy…why do so many zombie works involve necromancy yet the zombies are still DEAD? cough cough Zombie Land Saga cough cough And that’s not all…they go to a research facility being run by a psychopathic bad guy who murders people and then Rea bathes with a girl younger than her.

And that’s how I ended up resetting my Fediverse accounts, because I wanted to avoid the stigma I created about the stuff I don’t like.

But generally, I don’t read manga anymore unless I can read something from Dark Horse I can actually handle this time…until then, Hellboy it is: I seem to be handling that series much better in my opinion due to my sensory input as an autistic adult…oh yeah, I’m autistic too: I even switched to Autism Place.

I hope discussing manga doesn’t infringe on discussing comic books, but I did grow up on manga and anime before growing out of it and becoming religious, which is how I ended up enjoying Hellboy so much thanks to Mike Mignola being a creative genius in my book. But that’s my take.