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Any Comic nerds here?

I've fallen out of the loop so bad. I don't know how many runs I have to get behind before they revoke my nerd card. I'm just having a hard time staying interested. I'll still pick up stuff and read it if my bf talks a run up or if I see a cover that looks really good or if something gets great reviews. But honestly I was never that big on the capes, my first loves were all published by Slave Labor and they've kinda dried up. Vasquez is talking about an animated JTHM project but... he's a flaky little shit. But as for having a "I need this every Wensday as soon as the shipment comes in" I just don't really have one anymore. There aren't even any manga runs that I'm obsessed with unless it's stuff that will get greenlit and then not appear for another six months to... ever. Some shit never appears ever. Labyrinth #3 anyone? Every month my bf will give me the Diamond catalog to look through; tells me to circle shit I want, and honestly most of what I want is clothes or figures; I rarely ever get a book.
 
Is this whole comic book love in just a North American thing?

I can honestly, hand on heart say that I've not once seen someone reading a comic book.

Nor have I seen a comic book store.
 
i'm old. i barely read shit anymore because i really have to be in the right mood to deal with that kind of silliness at this point in my life. that being said i am happy to report that the various x-men titles are still mostly enjoyable now that most of the damage from the idiotic 90's has passed. still, i'm like a year out of date at this point.

also, fuck wolverine. he still makes it hard to like that shit. decent character who is way the fuck overused. that's kinda why i preferred all-new x-men last time i indulged my inner dweeb.
 
iamshaun said:
Is this whole comic book love in just a North American thing?

I can honestly, hand on heart say that I've not once seen someone reading a comic book.

Nor have I seen a comic book store.
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Where are you?
 
iamshaun said:
I'm in the UK.

The comic book culture has never existed in my city.
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That' weird; y'hall got your own version of Dennis and some of the UK Disney comics are worth a mint over here, because the English love them some Disney comics for some fucking reason, and y'hall get shit we don't.
 
CandiCame said:
That' weird; y'hall got your own version of Dennis and some of the UK Disney comics are worth a mint over here, because the English love them some Disney comics for some fucking reason, and y'hall get shit we don't.
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Yes it is weird. Usually what is happening or goes in the US isn't far behind over here.

But in terms of comics, like I said not once have a seen it.

Shame really, it's a smart way of getting youngsters to read while not making them think it's a chore.
 
to be honest, there aren't too many around here anymore either. when i was a dorky teen there were two good comic shops in my hometown, but last i checked only one remained and they're more a general hobby shop. where i live now there aint shit.

but whatever. i have cbr and tpb is full of comics.

i especially love the ones that gather up all the huge crossover events that i could never afford to read in their entirety when i was a kid. that's fun and fuck you , marvel. poor kids like comics too, you money grubbing bastards.
 
pointless said:
to be honest, there aren't too many around here anymore either. when i was a dorky teen there were two good comic shops in my hometown, but last i checked only one remained and they're more a general hobby shop. where i live now there aint shit.

but whatever. i have cbr and tpb is full of comics.

i especially love the ones that gather up all the huge crossover events that i could never afford to read in their entirety when i was a kid. that's fun and fuck you , marvel. poor kids like comics too, you money grubbing bastards.
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Dailyscans is KILLING the tiny comicshops. You gotta do cons and have a dedicated fanbase of subscription customers; and a really good location. Because most of your foot traffic is just gonna buy clothes and accessories, figures and whatnot. People just don't buy paper books anymore.
 
i wouldn't doubt it. the 90's killed the collectors market and, honestly, it's just really convenient to read comics on my laptop without having to worry about creasing or the cover coming off the staples.
 
That's it isn't it, convenience.

Thats why so many people have things like the kindle. You have all your books on a light portable device. Besides, as mentioned previously was the cost. It is cheaper also to just download a book, comic, journal or any other reading material.

I have to admit I buy a lot of books still, and will probably never stop doing that.
 
yeah, the costs add up. i mean comics are still not exactly expensive, but three to four bucks a pop adds when you're interested in reading more than just twenty pages for fifteen minutes a month.
 
I got Marvel Unlimited recently and plopped it on my Kindle. Pretty cool, read pretty much whatever you want for a decent price. Not a collector, just like the stories....
 
pointless said:
yeah, the costs add up. i mean comics are still not exactly expensive, but three to four bucks a pop adds when you're interested in reading more than just twenty pages for fifteen minutes a month.
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I really feel like I need to defend paper books because that's my man's business. But I can't think of a way to do that... If mine weren't free I wouldn't get them. The $4 is for an American comic. I read a lot of manga, and that shit is $13-$20, sometimes $30 an issue. And the retailers don't really have that much of a mark-up. It's insane.
 
CandiCame said:
I really feel like I need to defend paper books because that's my man's business. But I can't think of a way to do that... If mine weren't free I wouldn't get them. The $4 is for an American comic. I read a lot of manga, and that shit is $13-$20, sometimes $30 an issue. And the retailers don't really have that much of a mark-up. It's insane.
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i hear that. back in the day i really, really wanted to actually read akira after watching the living shit out of the movie, but then i saw how much it would cost me and that ended that idea real fucking quick. i think it was like ten dollars a book (the epic reprint, if i remember correctly) and that was more than fifteen years ago. i felt not a tinge of guilt when i downloaded the whole damned thing a year or so ago.

sadly, i still haven't read it all the way through. i should really get on that.
 
god, i just realized that that wasn't even an import. god, i hated that comic shop. they were such assholes. i remember trying to sell them toys and they never even came close to offering a good deal.

and they always put a massive mark up on it. like well above the actual value.

pretty much tells you why that joint closed.
 
pointless said:
god, i just realized that that wasn't even an import. god, i hated that comic shop. they were such assholes. i remember trying to sell them toys and they never even came close to offering a good deal.

and they always put a massive mark up on it. like well above the actual value.

pretty much tells you why that joint closed.
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Yeah. See, my man is freaky obsessed with transformers, so the figure thing I kinda get because he does a LOT of trade in TF figures, and some of that shit is about 3x what you would think it would be. Like, Perceptor is my favorite tf, and he's really rare because apparently nobody likes him but me. So if you order a case you'll get like 40 optimuses, 20 bumblebess, and 1 Percy. Because I'm blowing the owner, I get the Percy for free. If I wasn't, I'd have to get him offline because some ASSHOLE who didn't even want him would go in, buy him, and list him knowing that they were rare.

People like that are ASSHOLES and it sounds like the store owners were people like that. Fuck them. Fuck them with an original metal megs in their robot hording asses.
 
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