#like let me borrow some copies then! i eant to know so much more about these characters than the movies could ever cover

[yeslordmyking]

When do we stop shaming people for not having read the comics? Dead serious. It's time to accept that maybe not everybody can find every Moon Knight, Spiderman, and She-Hulk issue cover to cover and read it.

Cuz my Marvel Comics app charges like $15 per issue when there's oh maybe about 12000 comics from the past 50 to 80 years I need to read to understand the MCU and I only get the first 4 pages of each for free. I have no choice but to google the most iconic pages of Civil War or YouTube videos that have to paraphrase 45 X-Men issues in 12 minutes to explain the ToP 15 EaStEr EgGs YoU mIsSeD iN tHe fInAlE oF lOkI, or Marvel Wiki in hopes to understand slivers of the dynamic of character's relationships, the scope of their powers and abilities, every B list character's background story, who hasn't Tony Stark gone out with, the moral ambiguity of the Punisher, who joined the Avengers and then quit and then rejoined and then quit again, why Felicia Hardy is an Iron (?) Cat (?) etc etc etc and hope to understand characterisation, tone, and accuracy of events in order to judge the quality of cinematic adaptations to source material I only have access to like 6% of.

So next time you want to explain how every MCU movie is unwatchable and when someone who likes it disagrees you retort with "they've never read the comics" like please send a check for three hunnit to get them started on some comics, Mr Geekier-Than-Thou Comic Guru. C'mon buddy, help me out, open your purse. Otherwise like honestly shut up. I can't speak for everyone, but my lack of comic reading is because I'm lower middle class and don't have hundreds of dollars to gain access to a century of comics. Not because I'm an illiterate neanderthal that can only take in information through pretty moving pictures or whatever elitism fans with access to comics have. I have many hobbies that I can't sustain financially. Others don't have enough time to sit down and read 90 Fantastic Four issues. Some people just don't care because paper pages don't explode on in 3D with action music blasting in the background.

And thank you to all the nice geeks that don't gatekeep Marvel and make helpful videos or internet posts that are meant to help guide people into better understanding of the comics and how the movies pertain to them. Especially the ones that were there when the MCU was just in phase one. And even the OG Spiderman, F4 and X-Men films before then. It couldn't possibly cover everything, but it's helped a lot through the years ❤️

#i dare to talk about my hobbies again 😱 and a bit extensively too #just like you have to accept that the movie fans intake the marvel characters differently than comic readers #it's not for lack of trying that we don't understand what people claim is mischaracterisation or misconstrued plots etc etc #there's a lot of mcu fans that have at least some understanding of the comics #but you can't expect everyone to have deep vast understanding of every character and event of varying popularity #or expect every mcu fan to WANT to know. i do but a ton of people just want to watch cool movies and be entertained for two hours 🤷🏽‍♀️ #if trekkies watched the star trek movies with me they'd pull their hair out because i really only care about chris pine 😂 #so yeah anyway i'm so tired of the 'never read a comic book' phrase being an insult #like let me borrow some copies then! i eant to know so much more about these characters than the movies could ever cover #yeah ok geek rant over byeee #marvel #marvel comics #mcu #mcu fandom #marvel fandom #comic books #film adaptation #super secret fanfirl queue