WHY CRUEL WORLD

Dear Wal, 

I officially hate DC comics.Why?For a variety of reasons.They were already on thin ice with me because of the undoing of Oracle and the taking of Martian Manhunter out of the JLA, and the JLA’s origin in general. Darkseid is not the right villain for the JLA to first encounter in a story. I mean, the guy is pretty much the comic book equivalent of Hades only ten times worse and combined with your worst nightmares. He’s a freaking god, he’s not a good first villain! He's meant for when the League is more seasoned and has defeated other formidable villains…slightly less formidable that Darkseid, of course. You know, invading aliens, Brainiac, beings from the fifth dimension, take your pick. My personal favorite origin of the JLA is the animated series version, where J'on comes to Earth to warn Earth of a coming invasion by an alien force (pseudo White Martians) that destroyed Marz, and the JLA ends up banding together to defeat the threat.
Now, I can deal with a little fiddling with my favorite characters. Honestly, I can deal with a lot of fiddling. I’ll read or watch anything DC related, no matter how terrible. I always manage to see the good in most DC comics. I can live with Oracle becoming Batgirl if it was done right, I can live with J’on being on a different super team if the team was ridiculously awesome, I can live with Darkseid being horribly misplaced simply because it’s the JLA, but I can’t live with not having access to the comic books themselves.Let me explain.DC took all their comics off the Kindle Fire, right after I finally got one and finally had access to any comic book I could possibly think of. JUST THE KINDLE FIRE. WHY? WHY? WHY? I have no other way to access DC comics. There are no comic book stores around where I live, and I can't buy the comics directly through Comixology. The Kindle Fire was the only way for me to access comics. They took my freedom away. No, they didn't just take it away: they ground it up and stomped it out and burned it before throwing the ashes into the sun.I don’t understand why they keep doing things like this. The New 52 is all about appealing to new readers, right? How can you appeal to new readers if you insist on selling through failing comic book stores? (Sadly, the comic book store is going the way of the dinosaur these days.) Stores are in limited supply anyway. The nearest comics store where I live is about an hour’s drive away. Digital comics is the only real option to carry comics into the future. (THE FUUUTUUUURE O:)I know there are other tablets besides the Fire, but at the moment I don’t care! I finally had a way to access comics without having to drive an hour away or pay overpriced prices for comics on Amazon itself and now it’s gone. I still have all of Marvel and Dynamite, though. Both of which show no signs of making any bird-brained DC moves.Another thing that has always annoyed me (and this doesn’t have to do with DC so much as Warner Brothers) is that you can’t watch any of the DCAU shows on Netflix, or Amazon Prime, or anything. You have to get them on DVD if you want to watch them. I haven’t been able to find any channels that show BTAS or JL anymore. I can deal with that. But this thing with the Kindle is about the last straw.If I wasn’t so addicted to the characters, I would totally boycott DC right now. But I can’t give up my precious Batman and JLA. Oh, and I just re-discovered the Question as well. Sigh. It never ends.At least I still have Daredevil, who’s actually looking up for once. Good old Daredevil.
 /endrant

P.S. The discovering that the DC comic store not working on my Kindle was actually permanent ruined my entire day. I called Watson up specifically to wail in despair.