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Post by hondobrode on Apr 7, 2015 23:08:47 GMT -5
Believe it or not, I'm more a reader than collector, but, like spoon, if I see a good deal I usually buy it, like recently seeing a good Bendis sale on Daredevil as well as Gail Simone's Atom on Comixology.
I don't have my collection cataloged, which in itself will take a long time, but once I have it done, and accessible, I'll be reading more. Right now, getting my insurance business established is taking most of my time.
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Post by fanboystranger on Apr 7, 2015 23:15:50 GMT -5
Up until about a year ago, I would have said all of it, but I have three huge stacks of collected editions sitting on my nightstand. Some of it is stuff I've read before, but most of it is new to me. It's the product of my LCS offering severely reduced prices on unsold collections and an Amazon Prime membership. Hell, it the past three days, I've recieved A Sailor's Story, Zenith: Phase 3, Dan Abnett's Dark Ages, the final HC of Azz/Chaing's Wonder Woman, and the second tpb of Ms Marvel. Granted, that's an unusually large week for me, but next week the Simonson Orion omnibus is coming and Groo vs Conan. Then Miracleman: Olympus the week after. April's been a huge month.
Of course, part of this is just that publishers are starting to collect more stuff that I'm interested in compared to a few years ago. A lot of stuff I buy is Humanoids and Rebellion/2000AD stuff that hasn't been collected or, in the case of the Humanoids stuff, released in an English translation. Or, say, The Usagi Yojimbo Saga omnibii or Dynamite finally collecting the Helfer/Sienkiewicz/Baker Shadow run. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 23:38:19 GMT -5
In preparation for my midlife crisis big read I cataloged all my comics and genre fiction into one giant to read list-every comic issue (whether as floppy or in a trade), every short story, novella, novelette, and novel, every comic strip daily or Sunday, etc. etc. I had been tracking what I read since 2010, so I marked off as read anything I had read from 2010 forward and the result is that I have only read 15% of the list. Now I have actually read a great many of that 85% of "unread material" just not since 2010. In that 85% is the entire run of the Avengers Vol. 1, Gaiman's Sandman, Moore's Swamp Thing, and other treasured runs I have read, just not since 2010...
A good third to 40% of the list is prose fiction not comics or comic strips too, so the tally doesn't exactly fit, and skews the tally some as reading 1 comic counts as much as reading 1 novel to the percentage read. It also doesn't account for the vast amount of stuff I read since 2010 that I decided not to keep and have given away/sold/traded and thus removed from the list. If I had estimate how much of the stuff there has been read pre-2010 I would be a lot closer to 50%. But I am only tracking post-2010 as I hope to reread a lot of those treasured runs in the months and years to come, so the official tally for now is 15%. My goal is to break 20% by year's end, but we'll see. That's a lot of reading to get to.
-M
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 8, 2015 8:24:37 GMT -5
Just about it all. It depends mostly, at least as far as buying more than I can read, on my income to necessities ratio. There are a handful of comics I bought many years ago when ebay was bright and new, and I would buy these lots of 100-300 comics for pennies on the dollar, and there was books in there that I just absolutely had no desire to read. That's probably 5% at the most.
I haven't bought anything in about 4 years now, but even when my disposable income was greater, I always read what I bought before I made another purchase. The only things I don't I've read that I bought intentionally is Showcase Vol 1 of Challengers of the Unknown. I couldn't get through it, before it stated feeling like a chore. I have a first HC of Fables that I haven't read in 4 years mostly cause I was afraid if I liked it I couldn't buy the rest so why torture myself. But that's about it.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Apr 8, 2015 8:56:25 GMT -5
Almost everything. According to the program I track my collection on I just went over 8900 comics. Other than a few series, like Static that I don't want to read until I find that one last issue, a Thundercats mini from years back that I bought for my daughter but she never read, and the two new comics I bought last week, I've read pretty much everything. Sometimes I'll let them pile up for a few months so I can read a longer stretch at once, but right now I'm caught up.
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Post by Dizzy D on Apr 8, 2015 9:05:14 GMT -5
Also almost everything. Still have a few comics left from this month that I didn't get time to read yet, but I'm at about 98%.
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 8, 2015 9:10:44 GMT -5
Of the 4,100+ comics in my paper-and-ink collection, I've read everything except the fourteen issues of Shogun Warriors waiting on my desk to be indexed. Of my virtual collection (19,300+ comics and sill growing), I'd guesstimate I've read between a third and a half (still have a ton of DC war, western and horror titles to plow through, not to mention hundreds of Dells and Gold Keys).
Cei-U!
I summon the excellent question!
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 8, 2015 9:27:47 GMT -5
I read all my comics as soon as I get them. If I buy a big stack (such as the time I bought Detective Comics #801 to #825) I read a few every day until I've read the whole bunch.
Although I admit that sometimes I'll read something from years and years ago that I don't remember at all.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 8, 2015 9:42:05 GMT -5
I started a thread that got locked about hoarding vs. collecting.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Apr 8, 2015 16:12:26 GMT -5
Bit over 90%
I have about 75-150 books that have yet to be "officially" categorized as being part of my collection (this involves me adding them to my collection on comicdb). I read every issue, give it a grade and then make sure it has a nice bag and board before I file it away. I do revisit books from time to time and sometimes I read what I buy right away (if it is something I was dying to have). But towards the end of last year, I picked up a lot of stuff just because I was in buy mode. I am slowing down this year a bit though, in hopes of honing my focus in on some books that I really really want and also so I can get caught up on last year's leftovers. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 8, 2015 16:21:15 GMT -5
At one time it would have been 90+ percent. But I went on a binge of buying trades, especially Essentials and Showcases. And I haven't read a ton of them.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 9, 2015 8:37:23 GMT -5
I have a copy of The H.A.R.D. Corps #1 slipped by mistake into my pull-list which I have never read. That remained my only unread comic for a long time. Then I began buying slabbed books. Many of these, like Avengers #4 or ASM #5, I had read in the past or had handy in some other format. I bought a cover-less copy of Flash #129 at the same time I bought a graded copy so I could read the story.
Alas, it wasn't always feasible to do so, especially with some of the rarer Golden Age books I was buying. As it stands now, I have around 40 - 50 slabbed books which I have never read (I have around 3,000 total comic books).
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 10, 2015 19:18:20 GMT -5
At one time it would have been 90+ percent. But I went on a binge of buying trades, especially Essentials and Showcases. And I haven't read a ton of them. I forgot to include the Essentials and Showcases. It's amazing how many books you can compile. I have to admit that the black and white bores me sometimes. |
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Post by fanboystranger on Apr 10, 2015 23:20:53 GMT -5
At one time it would have been 90+ percent. But I went on a binge of buying trades, especially Essentials and Showcases. And I haven't read a ton of them. I forgot to include the Essentials and Showcases. It's amazing how many books you can compile. I have to admit that the black and white bores me sometimes. Yeah, that's why I have a lot of collected editions piling up. I normally read a tpb per night, but when you're dealing with Essentials, Showcases, Epics, or other comps, it can take several days. It took me about three weeks to finish Showcase Presents Legions of Superheroes, vol. 5, but I had to take breaks between stories as the plot construction was so formulaic between issues. (Not the plots themselves, many of which were imaginative, but how they were constructed. Very same-y after three or four in a row. Especially the "twist" ones.) |
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Post by earl on Apr 10, 2015 23:38:46 GMT -5
It kind of depends on if you are asking if I ever read it before or read the copy I have now. I got tight for cash in college and sold my whole collection in 1990 and after i got hooked back in the hobby a few years ago kind of rebuilt my original collection, at least from a reading standpoint as I will never own an actual Avengers #4 again but I have it in a Marvel Essential. There are bunches of my collection I read as a teenager, but I have gotten again that I haven't 're-read' but I figure that I got between now and the grave to get around to reading again.
I got bunches of comics that I haven't read, but of the collection I have, I have read quite a bit.
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