They’re right behind the Fantastic Four

All the mutants will die from gout during this event. Mutant gout.

I assume the mutants are off to the side in each picture, just out of frame.

Hi this is perfect, and now I’m waiting for Cruz to just yell “SMEAGOL” in his best Andy Serkis voice.

Tell me about it. I’m mid- book 6 and very little is happening. 8 more to go

I don’t remember when I tapped out but one night I finished one of the books and realized I couldn’t think of any significant plot points of the book I just finished. Then I realized I couldn’t think of any from the previous book either.

Gods, yes, the latter Jordan-penned ones were just atrocious meanderings of woolly-headed braid-twisting. Sorry to be sacrilegious but Sanderson was a godsend to this series wrapping up with some semblance of cohesion.

And then Robert Jordan died, and I said ‘Fuck this” and quit reading them

My VERY FIRST thought, exactly. I was just about to post it, but you beat me to it.

Completely agree, I hit book 5 (I think it was) where it felt like all they did is argue about what they should do for the length of the book. I was done, very little happened and character development slowed to a crawl. At that point I figured nothing would happen until book 12 and I didn’t care enough.

Came here to post this not surprised to find it first up

well... that’s disheartening to hear since I recently finished the first book and just started the 2nd.

When there are entire books (over 800 pages!) where you don’t even see hide or hair of the Chosen One in your fantasy epic....Yeah. That series went off the rails.

I quit the series after one where one of the (many, many) characters began the first chapter in a room, and at the very end, however many zillion pages later, was just about to leave the room.

Yes yes yes! And very appropriate to use the cover of Winters Heart, one of the worst offenders in a series that starts strong, and finishes strong, but really gets bogged down in the middle. (Coming from someone who has read this whole series multiple times).

Came here specifically to mention this if it hadn’t already. You provided. WoT started off strong, got better, slowed to a crawl, got worse, got even worse, then got horrible. Then I stopped reading.

The Wheel of Time: still serving as a caution to all writers of series.

I remember plowing through as many as I could. It was book 8 when I realized I couldn’t even recognize any characters I cared about anymore and stopped cold turkey.

This series is so old, I remember when its Usenet group was first formed! Before that, whenever a new book came out the fans would flood rasfw with lots of comments along the lines of “ooh, we didn’t get an answer to E, F, G, but now we have questions H, I, J to think about!” Main reason I never touched it - a series…

Honestly this goes without saying.