do you read comics or just collect them?

[techvoodoo]

been curious about this. i've meet several folks who don't actually read comics they just collect them, and infact don't own a single non-slabbed comic. i'm just wondering which there are more of here?

 

i'm a reader first and a collector second. if you only collect, why?

 

thanks

[sufunk]

I read and collect although i do have boxes and boxes and boxes of 90's drek that have never been opened

[techvoodoo]

I read and collect although i do have boxes and boxes and boxes of 90's drek that have never been opened

 

i don't have boxes and boxes but i know what you mean. i actually just got around to reading the original run of spawn comics. the first 10 or so issues (maybe 12) weren't bad then it went in the crapper and i stopped by issue 20 or 24 or there abouts.

[The Troll King]

Collectors don't read. Readers are hoarders.

[JazzMan]

What? There's something inside of them to read? I thought they were just like baseball cards with a front and back!

[techvoodoo]

What? There's something inside of them to read? I thought they were just like baseball cards with a front and back!

 

atleast baseball cards have the stats on the back you can read, comics just have a pretty front and an advertisement on the back.

[conditionfreak]

I have only read about 10 books since the mid 1960's. So, I am a collector and not a reader of comic books.

[comicdonna]

I collect mostly for the cover art. All of my books are currently slabbed, although I do prefer to purchase them raw, so I can examine them before slabbing.

[oakman29]

I'm still a regular at my LCS every Wednesday.

[Flaming_Telepath]

What about 'Read And Don't Collect'?

[aunt agatha-migration]

I love the old Archie comic books. I don't have any Archies after they put in the bar codes.

 

Most of my Archies are 12 and 15 cent covers.

 

To me, those were the good old days. I love reading them.

[hbo_boxingfan]

used to be only a collector but recently have been getting into reading some EC horror's and bought a few golden age timely masterworks to through. Just the reprints though as I normally only buy cgc books.

[Unca Ben]

I read and collect although i do have boxes and boxes and boxes of 90's drek that have never been opened

+1

[budsbundy]

BIG TIME reader, and not just comics.

I try read one book a week, and three comics a day.

 

At my current rate, if I don't buy another new comic ever, I should be caught up with reading what I currently have in about 1.5 - 2 years.

[dupont2005]

For a long time my collecting was just a side effect of my reading. Now with digital and TPB's available it's not really the case, but I still only collect what I like to read.

[JazzMan]

BIG TIME reader, and not just comics.

I try read one book a week, and three comics a day.

 

At my current rate, if I don't buy another new comic ever, I should be caught up with reading what I currently have in about 1.5 - 2 years.

 

You should be in the 1000 comics in a year thread.

[Ryan.]

I used to read and collect and collect and read until the boxes of nonsense overtook my apartment and pinned me to the floor, Skinner-style, where I was forced to bounce a nearby basketball to retain my sanity until I was rescued. Then I decided alcohol was far more important than funnybooks, sold off each and every comic except for like 7, and drank my way through my twenties, buying the occassional TPB or HC of something that looked interesting enough to read. Then I discovered these weird slab things and became reinvigorated to collect them in all the CGC colors of the rainbow. Now there's no turning back. The end.

[gyro-1]

Read TPB and colect comics !

 

[budsbundy]

BIG TIME reader, and not just comics.

I try read one book a week, and three comics a day.

 

At my current rate, if I don't buy another new comic ever, I should be caught up with reading what I currently have in about 1.5 - 2 years.

 

You should be in the 1000 comics in a year thread.

I didn't know there was such a thing.

I just searched that and couldn't find it.

Link?

[TheWatcher]

BIG TIME reader, and not just comics.

I try read one book a week, and three comics a day.

 

At my current rate, if I don't buy another new comic ever, I should be caught up with reading what I currently have in about 1.5 - 2 years.

 

You should be in the 1000 comics in a year thread.

I didn't know there was such a thing.

I just searched that and couldn't find it.

Link?

 

Link