How many read or just buy comics?

[Limited66]

I read moderns and trades and 50s horror that I collect, but other titles like SA Caps or X-Men, I just collect and buy the "essentials" book to read.

[s-man]

Buy and read...course thats easy to do when I really buy just the one title.

[ashrael]

I have been buying TPB sets lately (Bone, Fables, Y, Walking Dead) because I miss reading comics (I buy mostly GA comics at this point).

[StarkEnterprises]

I read every comic I buy.

[kingofwhales]

I got to a point where i just did`nt enjoy reading the new stuff anymore so i stopped buying them and now have been just picking up older stuff that i do read or i have read in the past.

The last modern trade i got to read was buffy season eight.

 

[Ken Aldred]

A reader with a lot of books to catch up on.

[Korvac Saga]

oops,double vision, if any one knows how to delete one of the duplicate polls.

pm me or post here.

Actually more fun this way: you can give your actual answer AND choose the crack option!!

[jimhouston1]

I read all the comics I buy. I usually have them stacked up in the order I want to read them in the bedroom. I read 2 or 3 comics every night before I fall asleep.

[Ringfinger]

nO POINT IN BUYING IF YOU DO NOT READ.

[DarkKnightReturns]

Read

[Earl Davis]

Read.

[redneckley]

I read, but not everything I buy. I get variant copies of comics and don't read them but I do read the regular copy.

[Sal]

i don't read hardly anything i buy any more. nor am i reading moderns or what have you.

 

 

i find comics to be a nice link to my childhood, i think it's fun chasing down books that i need for my run, and i appreciate the look, feel and smell of a well-preserved (this adjective being highly subjective, depending on the age of the book understand) comic.

 

 

 

 

there are other ways to enjoy the hobby besides reading them, you know. i know it sounds counter-intuitive, but i'm not the only one like me out there

[chromium]

I aim to read each and all books I buy, but I bought over 10 000 comics during the last 6 years and If I'm lucky I can manage to read about 10 a week...so I'm way WAY behind.

[dwip99]

I read (thumbs u

[Ogami]

I read everything...

 

eventually.

[the blob]

there should be something between "buy but hardly read" and "read everything"

 

honestly, if i did not have so many gaps i would probably read more. right now i have up for sale here almost half of the "blade the immortal" series, which i bought for my nephiew, but that has been dinged by my sister-in-law, and i figured i would read them, but then when i sat down to think about it, do i really want to starts at issue #20something and have some gaps in it after that?

 

So I wind up stuff that wraps up the story in 1 - 4 issues. For that reason I like horror anthologies, old and new.

 

Image did a SMART thing this week. CHEW #1 was a surprise sell out. I managed to grab #2, the last copy at my LCS. But I was contemplating just selling it because WTF, I didn't know what happened in #1. But then walking dead 63 comes out and it's a flip-book with a reprint of Chew #1! All for the same usual price. Bright idea, because while I do not normally buy walking dead (because i missed it when it started -- I'll buy em when they're in the overstock box, which is almost never), I bought this issue! I also do not normally buy 2d or 3d prints (for full cover price at least), but this was a little different because the WD part of the book was not a reprint. Not to mention, the guys at the shop almost had a heart attack seeing me buy 2 off the rack issues (I also bought WD #61 for the Chew preview, they had one last copy)

[the blob]

WD 61 and Chew 1 were good reads.

 

Having not read the first 60 issues of WD, it was a little confusing though.

 

The comic is almost written like they're scripting out the television show. It would probably make a good WB show like Supernatural.