Did a Storytime of X-Men '97 (2026) Season Two the first issue the other day and yet amazingly enough nobody gave a fuck about it despite it being a X-Men Book. I therefore declare the time of Storytimes to be over. I won't be doing anymore in the future since I can't see the point since nobody give a shit about them.R.I.P.https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/154068594/
>BOOHOO>NO BODY GAVE ME ATTENTION FOR POSTING COMIC PAGE SO I'M LEAVING BOOHOOShut up. Storytimes are still a thing, if anons like it they will engage, doubly so if you don't act like a whiny bitch
>>154081484Anon, nobody gives a fuck about reading any current X-men. Do some 90s shit and your threads will do better
>>154081484Anon there are some niggas that story time up to bump limit and the best they get are literal bumps from the lurkers in the thread
I don’t usually have the time to read a storytime thread as it’s being posted, but I like to go through the archives and binge them on off days. your efforts are appreciated. or they would be if you posted something other than X-men because X-men is SHIT.
>>154081484I cannot express enough contempt for "people" that still read western comic books. Grow up and read manga and watch anime like normal people do.
>>154081484Eh, outside of major nostalgia titles the storytimes don't get much engagement outside of courtesy bumps. They're still the major reason I come here or to /a/, appreciate the time you took to do it even though I'm not interested in X-Men '97 at all.
>>154081484>Did a Storytime of X-Men '97 (2026) Season Two the first issue the other day and yet amazingly enough nobody gave a fuck about itbecause X-men 97 is garbage dude
>>154081484Don't fret, AnonI wasn't aware you were doing one. I hadn't caught up with the show so I didn't want to get spoilers yet
>>154081484It could just be the contentThe previous X-Men 92 book by Foxe that bridged the gap between the end of the original show and the start of the reboot was kinda shitPeople just may not be interested in his attempt to bridge seasons 1 and 2
>>154081484>nobody gave a fuck about it despite it being a X-Men BookThe real reason is that the board is becoming unusable more and more. It all comes down to the fact anons are talking about Amazing Digital Circus often. That's not all. The mods ignoring schizos and Image Dumping Faggots probably threw off more anons over time. Even the drawthreads are dying. It's a matter of time before the board gets removed or spinning-off into two seperate boards. Hell, I'm already in a depressed state, but not because of /co/ dying or deleted replies.
>X Men 97 Season 2 tie in prequel comic (a meaningless tie in slop comic with no consequences)>written by Steve Foxe (a bad writer)>NOT included in the usual weekly X Men releases storytime on Wednesdays>storytimed on a Friday nightbad comic + bad timingI still have the storytime open in another tab bc I wanted to peruse it, but I had better things to do on a Friday night
>>154081521Not him but someone did Dark Knight Returns and got few responses. I've seen the same with other classic runs and stories, new comics, Serenity and all kinds of other shit. Most of the people who use the board now are cartoonfags and especially youtubeslop enjoyers who are fine with flooding thei board with their garbage, dislike that comics are posted here at all and genuinely hate storytimes. It's impossible to get engagement on them because the people who read comics on here are now an extreme minority and everyone holes up in their generals/pseudo general for cartoon shit.
>>154082750>someone did Dark Knight Returns and got few responses. I've seen the same with other classic runs and stories, new comics, Serenity and all kinds of other shit. >the people who read comics on here are now an extreme minority and everyone holes up in their generals/pseudo general for cartoon shit.What time of day / day of the week are these storytimes posted? The actual non-retarded people who like storytimes and discussion might have a day job believe it or notI want to keep up with the weekly releases but I have to wait until Wednesday evening to catch up with that day's storytimes -- and by that point some of them have already diedThere are actual normal human beings who like comics and use this board and don't live on here, have jobs and families. But also the Amazing Digital Circus spam is insufferable. so clearly dominated by lonely teenage faggots who live on the computers in their bedrooms
>>154082693>Even the drawthreads are dying.That's for a reason that's largely unrelated. It's because of one specific poster who's been ruining the threads for years with nothing done about him.
The only X-Men comic I found decent in the post-Krakoa era was Mackay's, but it got looped into a couple lame crossovers and I just checked out entirely.
>>154082851It's not just the spam. The drawfags leaving contradicts the whole "anons leaving the board". The spammers already killed /v/'s drawthreads and relocate them to /vg/. It's sad how the drawthreads became more and more unusable if half of the posts are the same requests every thread, to the point, the number of drawfags on the drawthread decrease more and more.
>>154082814Storytimes tend to be up at all times. The actual reason is, again, the cartoon/youtube spam and the fact people don't venture outside of their generals. Nobody's willing to actually try and discover anything anymore.
>>154082733>>X Men 97 Season 2 tie in prequel comic (a meaningless tie in slop comic with no consequences)The comic featured the X-factor team which were not shown in the season 2 trailer. Maybe they wrere not shown their for a reason, Maybe their appearance in season 2 was meant to be a surprise to fans. For all we know they may star in the show
>>154083702forgot pic.
>>154083702>the X-factor team which were not shown in the season 2 trailerthey have been featured in official marketing
>>154081484I would have read it anon, I just didn't see it when I was online. I'm pretty much only here for the storytimes of new stuff and try to engage.
I always appreciate a story time but the truth is that some books just aren't worth talking about.
Ever since DC storytime anon went missing due to GPU issues, all of the DC books like Aquaman and the lanterns spent an entire month without being covered.Wednesday offtopic flood also skyrocketed without the other storytimes to keep it in check.In tbe end, it was one lonely DCfag keeping storytime day alive.
>>154081484storytimes got a lot harder when the post timer came in over a decade agowe bitched to moot about it and the timer briefly came back down to 30s for /co/ but guess what? PROBLEMS so it went back up and the number of storytimes decreased significantly, though they've never really gone fully awaynow the need for storytimes is largely over since you can just go on another site and read the comic without waiting for someone to post it, unless it's super obscurealso x-men? seriously? why not something less contentious like the hitler diaries?
>>154084950>now the need for storytimes is largely over since you can just go on another site and read the comic without waiting for someone to post it, unless it's super obscureNot the OP I like sharing stuff that I think is neat or doing things based around a certain theme hoping it'll spark some discussion which is something you can't really get reading it on RCO or anything like that. Like you storytime a certain X-Men story and hope it gets some discussion no just around that parrticular story but about the X-Men, or comics in the er it came out with or whatever. It never actually happens anymore though.
>>154081484OP i work 7 days a week and it's not our fault marvel has ruined x-men. i think x-men 97 has a lot of potential but the comics have pushed fans away from it. i asked one of the LCS owners about x-men a few weeks ago and he was like "yeah no one comes in here and reads x-men for fun. it doesn't sell. maybe one guy came in and bought the one with the pyslocke cover and that's about it"it was me. i was that guy. that was like a year and a half ago.
>>154085237They're not even bad in an interesting way anymore.
>>154081484Sad!
>>154085464It really has nothing to do with that. The anon doing the TMNT storytime gets maybe 30 replies. The Spider-Man ones barely get replies. It used to be you could storytime random shit and people would stumble on it but long gone are the days where someone could storytime an obscure comic like Underground, have the artist show up to hang ou and that storytime sells more copies of the TPB than all the media promotion ever did./co/ just has no interest in storytimes because much of the comic reading users are gone and the users that are left have no interest in comics, only cartoons and twitter screencaps, culture war shit or waifu spamming. There have been people here of late actually bitching about storytimes even existing because "nobody reads them".
>>154085175storytimes that get really big do, the scott pilgrim ones a few months ago and even the recently ended Invincible one did for sure.I've only been here for a few years though, dunno how it was before.
>>154087863Scott Pilgrim had an anime not too long ago and the storytime was done at the time a new game came out. Plus it crosses over with the crowd that comes here for cartoons due to the tumblr (or whatever it would be now) crowd and waifufags so it basically has a permanent crowd for it here. Invincible is probably the biggest animated series right now. Someone could have done The Boys (if they haven't already) and gotten plenty of responses too. Those storytimes are essentially another venue for secondaries to talk about stuff that's already popular, not because they want to read the comics specifically.
>>154088184oh, yeah that makes sense, Invincible did have a game recently and an on-going cartoon.
>>154081484>amazingly enough nobody gave a fuck about it despite it being a X-Men Book.Amusingly enough X-Men are high up on my list of books I don't give a fuck about.Look, for all you storyimers worried by the lull recall it's not just a disinterest in free modern comics here but something modern comics in the market are facing in general.The thing is you're thinking too fisher trying to use current bait to catch a big haul instead of DJ trying to gather a crowd to clubs using the whole timeline of the genre/medium. Even publishers know to throw out rereleases of their greatest hits now and then to rejuvenate interest.So, if you're really bothered and interested I think it's been long enough from a lot of them being originally posted that you could look through a list or chart of the most popular comics, not just superhero stuff either, storytime those under a name/trip to garner curiosity and interest with showing up at a specific time for storytimes that by vote or test of time have proven worthwhile or at least worth looking into, maybe write down a few post catalysts for people to muse on like what they think of the plot, characterization, dialogue, art, etc based on the hype and compared to now, egg on anons familiar with the history of the industry to chip in on what changed and why.A meta example would be someone doing Johns GL revival, then asking old and new browsers to share how they see it, stir conversation.In theory fostering a group of familiar followers from substantial threads will make it so you can later coax anons into reading and talking about whatever else you like, but remember that editorial direction is what led to now so keep a few popular ideas in the back pocket.
>>154081484someone did a Star Fox story time recently that was pretty successful(later down in this thread)https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/153670363/
>>154081484We just finished one last week>>153984905
/co/ was taken over by outrage tourists who make it absolutely clear they have zero knowledge at the content at hand. Comic content is stuck in containment threads: /shelf/, few storytimes, solicits, Win-O'-Thread. Every other thread is full of people who don't read comics, autistics, trolls, culture warriors. Effort posting, projects, recommended images, all this stuff is dead or dying.
>>154081484Foxe sucks dick, literally and figuratively
>>154088765That was basically proto-Boys and it was clearly just grabbig that audience so again it was just something for the secondary tourists.>>154088384Again, secondaries. All the examples of "successful recent storytimes" all have a common denominator of being about something else entirely meant to catch the attention of tourists.
>>154090075Comic book fans don't like modern comics.
>>154081484>>154082733
ironically this thread lasted longer than the storytimemore replies too
>>154093633Because no one cares about modern X-men. That thread had only one poster.
>>154081484There's been Bitchy Butch and Dark Knight Returns storytimes recently that I found very enjoyable and got me to go back to reading some comics. Now that RCO is down storytimes are more welcome than ever des'
>the retards are not realizing that they're posting in a thread made by the polish retardI am dissapointed in you /co/.
>>154095623Also this isn't the first time this moron has made a thread crying about his storytimes not getting tractionhttps://desuarchive.org/co/thread/151279620
>>154095623>still crying over the boogey-man when you are the boogey-man itselfshame on you!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKao_Pox5A
>>154081484I'm sorry to hear your Storytime flopped, anon...
>>154081484>Storytime a comic nobody fucking cares about>Get surprised that it fails>>154094608We still have weekly storytime threads so no
