1000 comics in 2011 book club

[Norrin_Radd]

Inspired by the discussion in this thread.

 

Who else is going to try to read 1000 comics in 2011?

 

<---- My focus.

[Mr 9.8]

Inspired by the discussion in this thread.

 

Who else is going to try to read 1000 comics in 2011?

 

<---- My focus.

Not gonna happen.

At most I've read maybe a little over 300 comics in a year & that was from last year.

[dupont2005]

I don't think so. I haven't read a comic in days, ever since I got the missing book in the Dexter series I needed to continue reading through. I will probably read somewhere around 300 as well.

[Scrooge]

 

You beat me to the punch, Dave.

 

I had already set-up the ticker in my sig yesterday.

 

So far ... 1 down ... 999 to go

 

The first one was Savage Sword of Conan # 180 ... even though at 54 pages of story that ought to count for more than one

[sufunk]

Great! Now you tell me.

 

I just read Walking dead compendium one in the last few days. Can I get credit for those 48 issues???

[AlexH]

Well,

 

After a brief spurt at the end, I came up way short. I won't pin it on one problem, but I do recall there being several times were I started reading a title that was really crappy, and I didn't want to continue reading the rest of the story arc, even though it was in my collection.

 

One of the main reasons I did this was because I am years behind in my reading of some titles. While I did catch up with some, I am still way behind in others.

 

I am not sure what advice I can offer you, but good luck to you. Maybe I will restart my totals and try again. Not sure. I don't think I can get to 1000 in a year. But I hope you do it.

 

Alex

[Scrooge]

I have no illusion that I can do it. There is no way with a 14-month old and, even without her as an excuse, I still don't think I could ... but it's a worthy experiment. Maybe I should buy more Bendis books to help along the way and cut down the reading time

[genrlzod]

I'll give it a shot. If nothing else I'll know how much time I spend reading.

[Norrin_Radd]

When I heard Batty Scrooge talk about downloading a torrent of all Detective comics, I became fascinated with the idea of reading every Batman story from Detective 27-current (870). Should be a interesting journey.

 

 

I made my ticker yesterday, too.

 

 

 

[Fazybones]

I don't think I could read 1,000 comics in a year and it would be fun trying.

I still try to read atleast five comics on my days or nights off. I wish I

received more days off.

[Scrooge]

Great! Now you tell me.

 

I just read Walking dead compendium one in the last few days. Can I get credit for those 48 issues???

 

I hear you. I read quite a bit over the past week ... but that would be cheating. I count them as warm-up though.

[chromium]

I read 17 comics today...but I'm thinking it won't go that way every day this year...

[binarysunrise]

I became fascinated with the idea of reading every Batman story from Detective 27-current (870). Should be a interesting journey.

 

What about all the crossover issues? Ignore them and just read Detective straight?

[Norrin_Radd]

I became fascinated with the idea of reading every Batman story from Detective 27-current (870). Should be a interesting journey.

 

What about all the crossover issues? Ignore them and just read Detective straight?

Ugh! Crossovers. Not sure if I will or not.

[Reno McCoy]

There's no way I'll get to 1000, but I'm in. Should be interesting to see how many I actually read each year.

[paperheart]

I'm in; now if someone could PM me on how to set up the snail race i'd appreciate it. BTW, don't know how anyone else counts but if i read a TPB that covers six floppies, i count six.

[chromium]

It's midnight here, so I thought I would see how far I could get today...

 

This is what I read today :

 

Strange Adventures #117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, 135, 136, 138, 141, 144, 147, 150, 153 156 and 160 (16)

V for Vendetta #1 - 10 (10)

Journey into Mystery #87 (1)

Daredevil #159 #160 (2)

The Brave and the Bold #40 (1)

Marvel Premiere #15 (1)

Batman #108 (1)

 

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total 32 comics !

 

Pretty sure I'll never beat this. it's not everyday I'm home from work while the wife pulls a double shift, the kids are staying over at my folk's house and I have a fridge filled with leftovers...ah comic nerd heaven

[Scrooge]

I'm in; now if someone could PM me on how to set up the snail race i'd appreciate it. BTW, don't know how anyone else counts but if i read a TPB that covers six floppies, i count six.

 

That's a legitimate count of 6, of course.

[Scrooge]

Btw, for the ticker, just go to www.tickerfactory.com and create your own. At the end, it will give you the code to paste into you Sig Line here under My Profile. :thumbsup:

[nocutename]

When I heard Batty Scrooge talk about downloading a torrent of all Detective comics, I became fascinated with the idea of reading every Batman story from Detective 27-current (870). Should be a interesting journey.

 

 

I made my ticker yesterday, too.

 

 

 

A poster over on the DC boards is re-reading his collection from BA to current mainly Batman titles. He is somewhere around mid-90's and it took a few years.