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What's your favorite comic book and what's the last one you've read?
Rando:
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How come you stopped at 5 and didn't instead cutoff at 10? I thought issue #10 was really a interesting book featuring Cerebus and a lot of other Comic characters, at least in theory. Not necessarily an interesting SPAWN book mind you, and doesn't impact the overall story, but gives an interesting view of the industry and the beliefs held by Todd McFarlane and his cohorts that recently split from Marvel at the time.
Not saying it's groundbreaking, but worth reading for a glimpse inside the creator(s) heads.
Bootay:
I was a huge fan and collector in the 80s/90s. Haven't really read anything regularly since about 98. I did read all of The Walking Dead and Marvel Civil War recently. I enjoyed both. I think that the art and especially the stories have gone downhill for the most part in a lot of the regular series in both Marvel and DC. I stopped collecting regularly shortly after the Spider-Man Clone Saga. Now I strictly read the hardcover graphic novel collections. But I find myself buying the collections of old books more than current stuff. Like Marvel Masterworks and DC Archives.
I was mostly a Marvel guy but I did enjoy Batman and other occasional DC books. I still have all of my comics...about 6 long boxes full all of them bagged and backed too in great condition. I have been thinking about selling them because I really haven't even looked at them in 10 years. I have a crap ton of Spider-Man, X-Men, X-Factor, Avengers, West Coast Avengers, Spawn, Punisher, Captain America, Daredevil...the list goes on ..too many to name. Actually...I have a few from the Death of Superman era...I couldn't follow that story, it was kind of lame. And I remember everyone freaking out over that too saying it was going to be worth money. I knew it wouldn't be. The only ones worth any real money are the ones from WWII era and older. Ones from the 50s-80s can be worth something depending on what it is. But anything from the 90s on up aren't worth crap. Cover price usually. If you're lucky it might be worth $1-2 over cover price. I never collected them because they were worth something though. I liked the stories, and still do.
kahlid74:
My problem with Marvel/DC today is two fold:
* It costs just as much on release for a digital copy as it does for a physical. I understand you don't want to bite your bread and butter by undercutting them but this is the damn information age. The entire cost of printing that book should not factor into my cost for it digitally. While the price discrepancy is probably not huge we should be thinking green. If a released comic is $3, the digital should be at most $2.
* If I want to follow a specific comic, X-Men for example, I have to follow the cross-overs too. If I don't, things can change instantly when I go from issue 76 to 77 where in the middle, civil war bazillion killed off night crawler or something else ridiculous. So then I follow the crossover but to truly know what's going on I have to buy every damn lead in/tie in. So to know everything that happened in Cross Over X I have to spend $300+ on comics I don't give a crudmuffins about. It's stupid ridiculous. What happened to cross-overs that ONLY had one story line and one series. I harken back to the Infinity Gauntlet because it did it right.
Donkbaca:
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on April 13, 2012, 09:05:04 am ---My problem with Marvel/DC today is two fold:
* It costs just as much on release for a digital copy as it does for a physical. I understand you don't want to bite your bread and butter by undercutting them but this is the damn information age. The entire cost of printing that book should not factor into my cost for it digitally. While the price discrepancy is probably not huge we should be thinking green. If a released comic is $3, the digital should be at most $2.
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Yeah, they are aware of this, its a tricky situation. They don't want to kill the comic store, and lots of them are barely hanging on. Last I heard they were kicking around some sort of deal where the digital copy entitles you to a variant cover hard copy, etc. They are sort of complimentary goods in a way, since a lot of people like to keep their comics minty, so they would like to have a way to read the stories without getting their grubby, doritos encrusted hands on the actual comic. But I agree, digital distribution would be a HUGE money grabber for them. Imagine signing up for a subscription, say 15 bucks a year and a digital copy gets pushed to you every month and you have access to back issues for say 5 more bucks a year.
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* If I want to follow a specific comic, X-Men for example, I have to follow the cross-overs too. If I don't, things can change instantly when I go from issue 76 to 77 where in the middle, civil war bazillion killed off night crawler or something else ridiculous. So then I follow the crossover but to truly know what's going on I have to buy every damn lead in/tie in. So to know everything that happened in Cross Over X I have to spend $300+ on comics I don't give a crudmuffins about. It's stupid ridiculous. What happened to cross-overs that ONLY had one story line and one series. I harken back to the Infinity Gauntlet because it did it right.
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That doesn't bug me that much, but I haven't read any of the newer crossovers. I think crossovers can be good, they bring continuity to the whole universe across books and are a good way to check out books I otherwise may have overlooked.
kahlid74:
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* If I want to follow a specific comic, X-Men for example, I have to follow the cross-overs too. If I don't, things can change instantly when I go from issue 76 to 77 where in the middle, civil war bazillion killed off night crawler or something else ridiculous. So then I follow the crossover but to truly know what's going on I have to buy every damn lead in/tie in. So to know everything that happened in Cross Over X I have to spend $300+ on comics I don't give a crudmuffins about. It's stupid ridiculous. What happened to cross-overs that ONLY had one story line and one series. I harken back to the Infinity Gauntlet because it did it right.
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That doesn't bug me that much, but I haven't read any of the newer crossovers. I think crossovers can be good, they bring continuity to the whole universe across books and are a good way to check out books I otherwise may have overlooked.
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I enjoy crossovers, my issue is with all the useless stuff. Why is there a 5 part Runaways Civil War Crossover tie-in where a main character dies? I couldn't care at all about the Runaways but now to see what happens I have to spend $15 bucks on characters they are trying to force down my throat. These crossovers only purpose is cross brand contamination. They try to get you hooked on other books you couldn't care less about because they think about money more than anything else.
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