I was told as a youngster that you can't reheat a souffle.
I loved DC and Marvel back in the late 50's and early 60's. I've come to view them as a body of work with a beginning after WWII and ending with the horrible Batman TV show, which seemed to make comics campy. Especially DC. I own what I liked from that era, and every few years I reread a few just for the nostalgia.
I believe good comics, whether comic books, newspaper, editorial, should reflect our society, our lives, our dreams, and frustrations. Comics are both a direct means of communication, as well as a more subtle story-telling medium. Comics can be light and cheerful or dark and foreboding, and all points in between. Comics are also an artform, and when executed by a master, can be trans-formative.
I purchase about 50, maybe 60 comic titles per month. In that group, there are three DC (Mister Miracle, Doomsday Clock, and The Terrifics) and no Marvels whatsoever. I also purchase 2 or 3 graphic novels per week, depending on what's out there. i read everything I buy each week, and I don't buy anything for "investment."
Having read comics straight from the 1950's, having owned multiple comic shops, having worked in the direct sales department of Marvel comics, and having worked for comics and games distributors, I will unequivocally state that the best comics I have ever read in my life are being published right now. No doubt in my mind. I can't wait for Wednesdays.
The wonderful comics of my youth, and those prior which are lovingly deposited at this site are still entertaining me the way they first did all those years ago. I don't read Marvel now cuz I think they suck and are nothing but little marketing gimmicks. I stay away from most DC for the same reason, although I will read Bendis on Superman just to see how that "artist" handles the franchise. If it sucks, I will stop reading it and never look back, or complain about it. Obviously, I truly believe there is so much good stuff, new and reprint, that I can keep reading great stuff for the rest of my life. I hope this medium still exists in 2050, cuz I plan to see that year, and I plan to be reading comics, and pulps, and all kinds of stuff.
But Superman Red and Superman Blue? Steve Ditko on Spiderman? Russ Manning on Magnus? I know where to find them if I want. Matter of fact, I don't want anyone trying to do comics like that again. They'll screw them up. You had to be there to understand the magic. How it all fit together with my Hoola Hoop, and Silly Putty, and my soap box racer.
In the words of the great Sam Cooke, "Gotta keep movin', keep movin' on, life is this way."