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Granted, Moore is a crazy fuck that doesn't even seem to understand why people find Rorschach a sympathetic character, and Watchmen itself being a deconstruction of the superhero genre means it probably couldn't exist without the decades of work before it building up the tropes. I simply point to its lasting legacy as a contrast to the bloated messes that Marvel/DC canon have become, and part of that I attribute to its short, self-contained storyline.
It's tough for anyone new to the medium to know how to start getting into American comics these days. Even if you pick up a book of your favorite hero, you're almost assuredly going to be in the middle of a story with no context, referencing events from stories you've never read. And God forbid you find yourself in a crossover, you'll be completely lost. That's before they do some major retcon that resets the status quo and removes any investment you might have had. No wonder comic books are in the state they're in despite the capeshit movie boom.
Bringing this back around to the topic at hand, the MCU is in a similar situation now, admittedly to a lesser extent, but the problem is getting worse. Consoomer faggots like Moviebob will claim that you don't actually have to watch everything to understand what's going on, and that's true to an extent, but that's not what Disney's marketing team wants you to believe. They put the pressure on the viewer to watch every single movie and TV show, regardless of quality, just so you stay in the loop. But with 32 movies and eight TV shows released so far, that's something like 100 hours of shit to watch if you're starting fresh, and that's a lot to ask of someone who just wants to watch a new movie. This will only get worse as more gets added to the pile.
I'm just here for the schadenfreude at this point. Slapping the Marvel logo on a movie isn't a guaranteed billion-dollar success anymore, and the Rat has too many debts to afford continued losses with the bloated budgets these movies demand. The whole Jonathan Majors debacle is assuredly throwing a major wrench in the works since they were building him up to be the new primary antagonist; turns out that hiring an aggressive woman-beater doesn't look good for a "family-friendly" company. The movies are going to look worse with dumber stories, the box office returns are going to continue to stagnate as audiences get bored and check out, and only the most diehard consoomers will continue to shill for them. The MCU is effectively dead now, and Disney only has itself to blame.
