Two very awesome EMT dudes show up and get him off the floor, run his vitals, and just pretty much smooth everything out. He’s ok, back in bed, and I’m just now letting myself exhale.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the longer tales too, but it would be so nice to be a more casual reader across multiple titles. You’d get to impulse buy more often. I bet you’d hear a lot more of things like “Eh, I liked the cover” as the reason for checking it out.
That’s why every social and political disagreement gets framed the way it does now. That’s why every asshole in the country and online doesn’t have to realize that they’re the asshole anymore. They have a team of other assholes telling them that it’s ok.
To me it all stems from that. All your incels, all your comicsgate, all your “alt-right”, all your MAGA, all your all of it. Because Murdoch, the Koch’s, and Mitch McConnell framed it as franchise devotion, like a sports team, and huge swathes of people bought it all.