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Post by james on Apr 2, 2023 10:47:47 GMT -5
For the first time ever, I decided to take a break from reading at home and took recent buys(Marvel Premiere: Man Wolf) and sit at a local bar and enjoy a few beers and food and read. Does anyone else have places they like to enjoy their comics outside the comfort of their home)
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Post by Confessor on Apr 2, 2023 11:53:13 GMT -5
When I'm on holiday, my wife and I like to read books in bars and I will sometimes bring comic books with me (TPBs usually, just for ease of transporting). But I only seem to do it on holiday: I don't read comics when I'm out at my local pub or whatever. And as I say, more often than not I'll just take a paperback book with me to a bar, but sometimes I will bring a comic TPB.
Long haul flights are another place where I will always make sure I've got a couple of decent TPBs of comics with me. I'm not terribly keen on flying anyway, so comics provide a level of nostalgia-drenched comfort when I'm up in the air, but also the idea of watching film after film after film in a plane (as my wife will happily do) just seems mind-numbingly boring to me. So, it's comics, music magazines and music on my iPhone headphones for me on long haul flights.
Other than that, I don't think I ever read comics outside of my house.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 2, 2023 11:56:42 GMT -5
For the first time ever, I decided to take a break from reading at home and took recent buys(Marvel Premiere: Man Wolf) and sit at a local bar and enjoy a few beers and food and read. Does anyone else have places they like to enjoy their comics outside the comfort of their home) I don't have physical ones, anymore, other than a handful of books; but, I used to pick up mine from my local, while in college, and either read them while I waited for class, out in the hallway, or in a fast food restaurant, while I had a snack. For years, I carried reading material with me, any where I went that was going to require a wait. Still do for doctor's offices and the like. The few magazines around are crap and the tvs are usually set to news channels (I refuse to be near one displaying certain channels) or old tv shows, with endless medical ads. For a while, last year, when the washing machines were all down, in my apartment building, I was doing my laundry at a laundromat and read my trades of Vietnam Journal there. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 2, 2023 12:08:35 GMT -5
I get my new comics at a shop in Claremont Village, which is the shopping and restaurant area of Claremont, California, a college town near Pomona in Los Angeles, CA. If I haven’t had lunch yet and I don’t have anything to do right away, I will have lunch at Blaze Pizza and read my comics.
And if I’m going to be in a hotel room, I always take a few old issues of Detective Comics with me to read before turning in.
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Post by james on Apr 2, 2023 12:12:54 GMT -5
I think at my age I have decided to throw caution to the wind and read my Action Comics 1, Detective Comics 27, Hulk 181 and read some more comics out at say a restaurant and not worry about them getting stained.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 2, 2023 12:40:16 GMT -5
Before I almost completely switched to working at home, I used to read (both comics and normal books) on my commute by bus and tram.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 2, 2023 12:54:11 GMT -5
I can't remember the last time I didn't read a comic at home. There have been plenty of times that I've taken tpbs and comics with me in the car when waiting for my wife or something like that , but I always end up just scrolling through my phone.
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Post by MDG on Apr 2, 2023 13:19:41 GMT -5
Since I'm back to 3-4 days a week on campus, I've been bringing my tablet to maybe read some comics over lunch, or I'll bring it to a coffee shop to read a little after I'm done with work.
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Post by james on Apr 2, 2023 13:35:31 GMT -5
I have truly enjoyed today and I got through 2 issues of Manwolf and 2 issues of eight Billion Genies.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 2, 2023 16:00:13 GMT -5
I definitely go someplace and eat lunch with my pull pile after stopping at the store for the week sometimes. Otherwise, if I'm going to bring comics to read somewhere, it would usually be a trade, bringing a pile of single comics somewhere isn't that practical.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2023 18:18:42 GMT -5
I rarely drink alcohol, so when I do, it’s a special occasion. So I have taken a trade into a pub, to enjoy while eating a meal and drinking something. 99% of my reading is at home, though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2023 20:26:58 GMT -5
Anywhere. Even my ladies loo has a stash of VGs, mostly Archies.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 5, 2023 3:58:50 GMT -5
I have on occasions brought reading material out of the house. Before closing in 2020 there was a pub I liked a lot that I could walk to and read at. It’d be mostly stuff other than comics just because it either being annoying to bring single issues or the weight of a TPB as oppose to a paperback novel. But I do remember a conversation being struck up with a young lady noticing me reading Gon. I most quickly texted my wife to come get me. Didn’t know the ladies liked dinosaurs.
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 5, 2023 9:13:26 GMT -5
I usually read mine in bed, have no idea why, we have plenty of other spaces to lay down and read at my house
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Post by DubipR on Apr 5, 2023 9:25:42 GMT -5
Comic reading usually is in the sanctuary of my home. Its rare that I read comics or trades outside of that. The only time I do that is when I'm on vacation. You can't take the nerd out of me wherever I go. I have to stop off at the local comic shop and check out what's there and maybe buy back issues. It's usually in the hotel room for that occasion.
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