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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 16, 2014 21:42:18 GMT -5
I'd mark this in the corner for in favor of digital: great sales. For instance I've been wanting to try the Goon for a while now and Dark Horse Digital just came out with a mega bundle collecting every issue of the Goon for 39 bucks. I've never seen a deal that good at my lcs. I disagree completely. Sure, they have .99 sales and such, but only for very specific stuff.. you do much better with most backissues via $1 bins, e-bay, online retailers, etc by and large. |
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Post by comicscube on Jul 16, 2014 21:50:00 GMT -5
I'm from the Philippines where bootlegging is huge, pretty much to the point where I see bootleg CDs of scans sold at conventions. As long as you keep backups, it's easier to find what you're looking for and you'll never lose it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2014 22:16:02 GMT -5
I'd mark this in the corner for in favor of digital: great sales. For instance I've been wanting to try the Goon for a while now and Dark Horse Digital just came out with a mega bundle collecting every issue of the Goon for 39 bucks. I've never seen a deal that good at my lcs. I disagree completely. Sure, they have .99 sales and such, but only for very specific stuff.. you do much better with most backissues via $1 bins, e-bay, online retailers, etc by and large. Not in my experience. Most $1 bins nowadays are filled with 90s Image and Ultraverse. Or What-Ifs. DC just finished a digital sale for classic Suicide Squad at $1 a piece. |
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Post by Randle-El on Jul 16, 2014 23:38:50 GMT -5
Comixology's sales are often timed to coincide with a movie release or something similar. When Amazing Spider-Man 2 came out, they had a huge Spider-Man sale. Or they're designed to get you caught up from the beginning so that you can jump on and follow the series. For example, they've have several sales for The Walking Dead starting from issue #1. They've even done that as recently as within the last year or so, meaning that they first 100+ issues were on sale.
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Post by travishedgecoke on Jul 17, 2014 5:22:17 GMT -5
While they're kinda kindle-specific, Amazon likes to periodically put collections up for like one to four dollars. My digital of Year One was a dollar purchase. I've got some very very cheap digital collections of Waid and Slott stuff that way, too. The Ellis/McKone Avengers ogn was like foour bucks.
And, with digitals of single issues or collections, you're never worrying about yellowing, chipping, rarely do you have to worry if a better, cleaner edition will come out later, because most of the services will upgrade your edition if fixes are made, without surcharges.
if you're delicate with your comics, that's not really an issue, but I'm rampantly indelicate with comics. I read in the bath, while I eat. I'll haul comics on plane trips or up mountains. Lend'em out. So not risking coffee rings or ripped corners anymore is, for me, a big bonus.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 7:26:37 GMT -5
That's another thing, the HD tablet screen makes the art look so great, it's kind if weird for me to read printed copies now
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 17, 2014 8:36:07 GMT -5
I disagree completely. Sure, they have .99 sales and such, but only for very specific stuff.. you do much better with most backissues via $1 bins, e-bay, online retailers, etc by and large. Not in my experience. Most $1 bins nowadays are filled with 90s Image and Ultraverse. Or What-Ifs. DC just finished a digital sale for classic Suicide Squad at $1 a piece. That's my experience as well, most of the stuff in the dollar bins is garbage and there is never more than maybe two consecutive issues per title and while I've gotten some pretty good deals on ebay and amazon in the past its never as often as I do through Darkhorse digital or comixology. |
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 17, 2014 9:39:32 GMT -5
Not in my experience. Most $1 bins nowadays are filled with 90s Image and Ultraverse. Or What-Ifs. DC just finished a digital sale for classic Suicide Squad at $1 a piece. That's my experience as well, most of the stuff in the dollar bins is garbage and there is never more than maybe two consecutive issues per title and while I've gotten some pretty good deals on ebay and amazon in the past its never as often as I do through Darkhorse digital or comixology. 100 % agree with thwhtguardian here. In fact, the sales are so good, and thankfully I have a wide swath of stuff I like, I'm spoiled buying issues around $ 1 or less.
The Goon ? That bundle was the complete Goon with 50 issues. I already had 8 of them, and still bit on the deal, paying $ 39.99, no sales tax or s/h, and got the other 42 issues I needed. Awesome ! I love the Goon, and figured they'd do a bundle at some point.
I bit on Comixology's Jason sale yesterday and got the complete Fantagraphics bundle of 18 graphic novels for $ 99. I already had 3 and the normal retail would've been $ 208.82.
Between Comixology and Dark Horse I've bought over 5,000 comics in the last 18 months, most of them in deals like this, and have been introduced to some amazing stuff I didn't know about Strange Girl, Girls, Deadly Class and Apocalypse Al.
Yeah, it feels weird reading paper comics now, but like everyone else, I love that smell.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 17, 2014 15:37:26 GMT -5
While they're kinda kindle-specific, Amazon likes to periodically put collections up for like one to four dollars. My digital of Year One was a dollar purchase. I've got some very very cheap digital collections of Waid and Slott stuff that way, too. The Ellis/McKone Avengers ogn was like foour bucks. And, with digitals of single issues or collections, you're never worrying about yellowing, chipping, rarely do you have to worry if a better, cleaner edition will come out later, because most of the services will upgrade your edition if fixes are made, without surcharges. if you're delicate with your comics, that's not really an issue, but I'm rampantly indelicate with comics. I read in the bath, while I eat. I'll haul comics on plane trips or up mountains. Lend'em out. So not risking coffee rings or ripped corners anymore is, for me, a big bonus. "Upgrading" is another issue I have. What if, say, in 5 years, disney decides comics are too sexualized, and they start changing the art? (And don't say it can't happen... Marvel was (and perhaps still is) editing out cigarettes, cigars and pipes out of collections not that long ago)... or they decide they want it to be more kid-friendly, and start editing language? Nothing you can do about it. As far as the sale thing goes, it's nice, sure, but not if you want to read something specific. For example, I decided to get some of the 80s Legion stuff (which I've never read) after the Great Darkness Saga came out.. thanks to 2 good e-bay auctions and a mycomic shop purchase, once my box comes in I'll have over 100 straight issues to read that I paid around $70 for. That's not happening digital. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 17, 2014 15:48:56 GMT -5
Not in my experience. Most $1 bins nowadays are filled with 90s Image and Ultraverse. Or What-Ifs. DC just finished a digital sale for classic Suicide Squad at $1 a piece. That's my experience as well, most of the stuff in the dollar bins is garbage and there is never more than maybe two consecutive issues per title and while I've gotten some pretty good deals on ebay and amazon in the past its never as often as I do through Darkhorse digital or comixology. You guys are looking in the wrong ones... I haven't seen Ultraverse in forever (I might pick it up if I did, actually).. or Image. My last $1 bin purchases were Fraction's Iron Man, 70s Conan, some Marvel Fanfare, and some late Valiant Era Harbinger and HARD Corps. I recall some other good stuff I passed on (Rom, Micronauts, a good FF run I already had, etc) At least 1/2 of my comic collection is from either bargain bins or cheap ebay lots. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 15:50:15 GMT -5
Dark Horse Digital has a sale right now, every Goon comic for $40
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 15:52:53 GMT -5
I agree that the dollar bins I've found have not had great runs, but on eBay just about every modern comic of the past 25 years or so can be had for a buck. Just find a seller with enough comics you want to justify the shipping cost. I've bought near complete runs of several titles at a dollar each or less online. To me buying back issues is often times cheaper than paying cover price for a TPB. But I hardly pay cover for trades either.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 16:02:10 GMT -5
While they're kinda kindle-specific, Amazon likes to periodically put collections up for like one to four dollars. My digital of Year One was a dollar purchase. I've got some very very cheap digital collections of Waid and Slott stuff that way, too. The Ellis/McKone Avengers ogn was like foour bucks. And, with digitals of single issues or collections, you're never worrying about yellowing, chipping, rarely do you have to worry if a better, cleaner edition will come out later, because most of the services will upgrade your edition if fixes are made, without surcharges. if you're delicate with your comics, that's not really an issue, but I'm rampantly indelicate with comics. I read in the bath, while I eat. I'll haul comics on plane trips or up mountains. Lend'em out. So not risking coffee rings or ripped corners anymore is, for me, a big bonus. "Upgrading" is another issue I have. What if, say, in 5 years, disney decides comics are too sexualized, and they start changing the art? (And don't say it can't happen... Marvel was (and perhaps still is) editing out cigarettes, cigars and pipes out of collections not that long ago)... or they decide they want it to be more kid-friendly, and start editing language? Nothing you can do about it. As far as the sale thing goes, it's nice, sure, but not if you want to read something specific. For example, I decided to get some of the 80s Legion stuff (which I've never read) after the Great Darkness Saga came out.. thanks to 2 good e-bay auctions and a mycomic shop purchase, once my box comes in I'll have over 100 straight issues to read that I paid around $70 for. That's not happening digital. The only proper response is to panic |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 17, 2014 16:12:27 GMT -5
That's my experience as well, most of the stuff in the dollar bins is garbage and there is never more than maybe two consecutive issues per title and while I've gotten some pretty good deals on ebay and amazon in the past its never as often as I do through Darkhorse digital or comixology. You guys are looking in the wrong ones... I haven't seen Ultraverse in forever (I might pick it up if I did, actually).. or Image. My last $1 bin purchases were Fraction's Iron Man, 70s Conan, some Marvel Fanfare, and some late Valiant Era Harbinger and HARD Corps. I recall some other good stuff I passed on (Rom, Micronauts, a good FF run I already had, etc) At least 1/2 of my comic collection is from either bargain bins or cheap ebay lots. Occasionally you can find good deals, I've found many, but not with the regularity I have digitally. For instance, the Goon bundle I got yesterday(and mentioned by dupont) had all 44 issues of the regular series, Nothin' But Misery #1-5, the Chinatown gn and the criminal macabre crossover which brings it to like 70 cents an issue which is a steal. And the sale isn't that unique either, as similar bundles are offered at least once or twice a month. I've rarely encountered a sale that good either online on ebay/amazon or in any of the brick and mortar shops I frequent. I've never once found anything close to a full run of a title in the dollar bins and online bargains like the one I got at dark horse are few and far between and and even then you have to pay shipping. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 18, 2014 0:59:43 GMT -5
From the bit that I've paid attention to, it does seem like you're alot more likely to get a good deal on indy stuff digitally.. though I have (especially at small shows) found really popular indy stuff practically being given away by dealers who don't care about anything that's not Marvel and DC. That's fewer and farther betweeen than digital sales.
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