LogFAQs > #932904879

Sci-Fi is easily my least favorite - while I've always liked Isaac Asimov, I tend to not really get into sci-fi unless it's hardcore time travel stuff or really Science Fantasy in disguise (which really isn't sci-fi no matter what pop culture in general thinks).

The other two are harder to choose from - I do like comic book/superhero stories (and I've been a hardcore comic geek for like 35 years), but that can be really touch-and-go. I've disliked most of what Marvel and DC have been doing for the last decade or so in the actual comics, and there really isn't much by third-party publishers that appeals to me at all right now (though I loved Valiant in the past, before it went to shit). And I've never really strayed too far from the superhero genre - lots of people love comics that push the envelope, or deal with radically different genres, or which are deconstructionist narratives about why comics suck, but that's never appealed to me all that much.

But with fantasy, there's a LOT of terrible genre trash out there. For every 1 good fantasy novel there's about 999 bad ones. Which can make it harder to really get into new stuff. Fantasy movies tend to be a safer bet, but there's still a fair number of terrible ones there as well.

I have noticed that I've mostly stopped reading comics entirely, and I read far fewer fantasy novels than I used to. Aside from the occasional re-reading of stuff I read years ago, I'm mostly reading academic historical stuff now (like right now, I just finished reading about the old Persian Empire, and I've started reading something on the Peloponnesian War). Most of my comic/fantasy interest at this point is more based on stuff from years/decades ago than anything new. Or stuff like the Marvel movies.

I suppose if I had to pick one, I'd probably have to pick fantasy, just because I DO still tend to favor that as a setting in RPGs.
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