do you read comics or just collect them?

[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?

 

Link

Sweet! Thanks

I recall seeing this thread title now, I guess I just never looked at it.

[ChrisInBaltimore]

I'm a reader first. I only buy slabbed books that I already own as readers. In the last few months I've really dropped my weekly pull list in order to augment my back issue habits. A lot of that has to do with the quality of writing too though.

[Logan510]

What about 'Read And Don't Collect'?

 

I know one of those...

[Batman1fan]

I love to collect, but I read everything I get, maybe not right away, but eventually. I only collect what I like, which is why I only buy 2 new comics per month, Batman and Detective. The rest of the comics budget goes toward back issues.

[AndyBoBo]

I collect mostly for the cover art.

 

+1 - I pick up trades from time to time and occasionally will read through, but by and large, cover art for me. I went from collecting baseball cards to comics when I was a kid - so it always made sense to me. No one around me understands that point - glad other people out there do!

[SuperbeastCraig]

I collect the books just to collect. I love collecting my favorite heroes and various other stories, but a lot of it is cover art. Simply put, if J. Scott Campbell did the cover art, I'll buy it. Aside from that, I buy Batman, Daredevil, and Alice in Wonderland related books. Despite buying the books though, I read everything digitally. I find it easier and it helps protect the books. I never really intend on selling, but that doesn't mean I don't care how they maintain condition.

[lbtrip23]

When I was a kid I only collected for the cover art. I just recently started reading them but I still think I collect more for the cover art. I still cant believe it is $2.99 to $3.99 an issue. I read a The new Locke & Key:Grindhouse the other day and said come on thats all 16 pages of story for $3.99. I know you are paying for the art to but I still think there should be more pages of actual reading for the price of a comics these days.

[rodan57]

Read. Why else? Sheesh!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[oakman29]

Oh my God are,are those comic books?

[John Grumbledook]

Looks like mary worth or apartment 3G strips.

[Speedy-D]

I just collect 'em.

[Erndog]

I'm still a regular ever Wednesday at the comic shop although my pull list has waned a bit. I was doing around 15 titles a month- now I am down to about 7-8.

 

I love TPBs also and collect/read quite a bit of those.

 

[Buzzetta]

I am finding that I am reading more and more books digitally. It is easy to buy a bunch of things and read them on the subway. It cuts down on the moderns piling up. The only downside is that in the old days, I would just gather up the moderns and sell them all online to get back some money for newer stuff.

 

As of now my weekly pull list:

 

Batman

Amazing Spider-man

Archer and Armstrong

X-O Manowar

Bloodshot

Harbinger

 

 

Strangely my weekly pull list in 2012 is very much like my weekly pull list from the early 90's.

 

Digitally though, I wound up buying every segment of X-Men/ Avengers and all of the tie ins as well as a few other things like Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe, and many issues of various Avengers titles.

[Mark 1]

What about 'Read And Don't Collect'?

 

Yep or...

 

"Sometimes read and collect"?

 

I sometimes get in the mood and i'll read a key or a few issues but I am not an avid reader of my comics.

 

I mainly enjoy the cover art, condition, aesthetics, rather than a lot of the stories (such as I have read most of ASM run in the early and mid 70s years....but I don't reality read my JIM run except for a few issues).

 

 

[c-mack]

I read cause its for free ( i work at a comic shop ) but thats the only reason i read anything new

 

[MagnusX]

 

[font:Book Antiqua]I collect and read.

 

Sadly many times I cannot read what I collect.

 

My collection focus is mainly CGC 9.8 previous 1980 or CGC SS.

And my reading (affordable) focus is after 1980.

 

If I could find a reader copy of the book that I already have in 9.8 lucky me,

but that don’t happen often...[/font]

 

[Buzzetta]

[font:Book Antiqua]I collect and read.

 

Sadly many times I cannot read what I collect.

 

My collection focus is mainly CGC 9.8 previous 1980 or CGC SS.

And my reading (affordable) focus is after 1980.

 

If I could find a reader copy of the book that I already have in 9.8 lucky me,

but that don’t happen often...[/font]

 

 

What about digital?

[MagnusX]

[font:Book Antiqua]I collect and read.

 

Sadly many times I cannot read what I collect.

 

My collection focus is mainly CGC 9.8 previous 1980 or CGC SS.

And my reading (affordable) focus is after 1980.

 

If I could find a reader copy of the book that I already have in 9.8 lucky me,

but that don’t happen often...[/font]

 

 

What about digital?

 

[font:Book Antiqua]I don’t have a Face book account or Twitter,

so you have an idea...[/font]

 

[MODOK]

I collect high grade Bronze Age Marvels.

 

I have about 400+ "reading copies" of virtually every Marvel title from the 1st 1/2 of the Bronze Age 1970 to about 1975ish. I have many 12¢, mainly 15¢ & 20¢, alot 25¢. I stopped there.

 

I reread the stories Marvel produced then. I still think alot of the writing then blows away what is written today. Again, I am biased.

[steveinthecity]

I collect high grade Bronze Age Marvels.

 

I have about 400+ "reading copies" of virtually every Marvel title from the 1st 1/2 of the Bronze Age 1970 to about 1975ish. I have many 12¢, mainly 15¢ & 20¢, alot 25¢. I stooped there.

 

I reread the stories Marvel produced then. I still think alot of the writing then blows away what is written today. Again, I am biased.

I'm pretty much the same way. I can read virtually any Marvel comic from the 70's and enjoy it. (thumbs u