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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 12, 2016 13:56:48 GMT -5
I like TPB's for the convenience, plus it's generally the lower cost move than back issues. However, I do get more enjoyment from reading back issues. It takes me back in time more, with the letter columns, bullpen bulletins, the old ads, and the smell of the old comics. Plus, yes, I do like my four color newsprint. If I had my druthers, i'd go for the back issues, but I am generally fine with the TPB's and do read them as well.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 14:33:04 GMT -5
I own quite a few collected editions for ease of reading, but nothing beats actually having the original comics. To me, a collection of trades isn't really a collection, somehow. If I were to "collect" comics again, I would collect original art, everything else is a reproduction of the original in some format, whether it's a comic (which even a first printing is not an original just the first reproduction of an original and not unique since there are literally thousands of them produced and had all sorts of non-original material like ads and letters pages added to it to make the publisher money that the creators did not benefit from), a book, or a digital file. So it's just a matter of which reproduction form you want to read (or can afford to read) since unless you have all the original pages you will never read it in its original form, just a mass produced reproduction of it. So for me it's a matter of convenience and affordability. Which format is easiest for me to access and most cost effective. In some cases it's in the comic format it was first released in, other times it is in trade, and other times it is as a digital file. I have a healthy stash of trades, a healthy stash of comics and access to digital files via a subscription service, so I read all of the above. My actual preference to read is magazine or treasury size editions to allow the art the space it needs to have an effect. After reading those, reading comic sized pages often feels like reading comic strips in the tiny scrunched up format they get in modern newspapers instead of the glorious presentation they got in the newspaper strips heydey where one strip could take a half or whole newspapaer page. -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 12, 2016 15:58:56 GMT -5
I actually prefer trades at this point. Cheaper, easier to deal with. I'm a reader, not a collector. And trades are just a whole lot easier.
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Post by berkley on Nov 12, 2016 17:32:53 GMT -5
I dislike the recolouring of the Marvel Masterworks and most other reprint collections. If it weren't for that I would look for more of that kind of thing.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 12, 2016 20:05:40 GMT -5
For me it's a matter of affordability. I much prefer the original issues, as long as they're not too expensive. A lot of the time they are though, so trades or hardcover collections are the only practical way to go. I have the first 90 issues of Fantastic Four in three omnibus volumes, for instance, because owning the original comics would be way too expensive for this cheapskate collector. If money was no object, I would only buy original issues.
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Post by RikerDonegal on Nov 12, 2016 20:47:38 GMT -5
I'm a reader, not a collector. Same here! I have a few thousand floppies and understand the attraction. Judging from posts here, a lot of it is just nostalgia. And that's fine. I understand that. But I LOVE the Marvel Essentials line. I have almost all of them and simply adore them. They make it possible to read lots of comics, in order, without breaks. And - sometimes - where I have the originals I dig them out and read them. But not all that often. I've just started getting the Epics from Marvel and, have to say, I love the colours. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 0:16:38 GMT -5
I mainly collect Trades & Hardcovers & digital. I started buying a few Omnibus books, but DAMN, those things are just too big, heavy & hard to read & I feel that if I pick them up wrong they are going to break! LOL!  Floppies are great, nice to own originals, but...like others have said, get's too expensive, so I decided to finally give up on floppies altogether. I bought my first Epic a few weeks ago, "X-Men: Children of the Atom", nice book with great colors! So now I have to decide, how many epics do I want to collect?? I will probably just get the early X-Men, FF & Spider-Man ones for now. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 11:04:18 GMT -5
Archie digests are technically TPBs, just smaller. I have over 800 of them,and love the double-digests.
The recent 1000 pagers are awesome too.
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Post by MDG on Nov 13, 2016 11:12:41 GMT -5
I pretty much don't buy many comics or TPBs these days, or for years, and have started to get Kindle versions of things. There are a few folks that I'll buy hard copies (Kim Deitch, Clowes, though I still have to get "Patience," reprints of Kurtzman). And, of course, I'll pick up things on sale at shows--hard to pass up things with a $15-$40 list price at 5 for $20.
But most of thee time I just want to read, not own--I've reached peak stuff in my house (the main exception being mid-century nudie girl barware). But I can't think of the last time I've bought a CD or DVD when I can get 80%+ of what I want to watch or listen to on a streaming service.
But I have no interest in paying $10-20-30 for a random silver age comic just so i can read it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 19:18:51 GMT -5
I started buying a few Omnibus books, but DAMN, those things are just too big, heavy & hard to read & I feel that if I pick them up wrong they are going to break! I love the Marvel Omnibus line, as cumbersome that they are. However, they are a great way to read a long run collected in to one volume, and then put on the shelf as a sort of archive; maybe only to be picked up for reference on random occassions. They really do look lovely though! My only problem is that I need to get some bigger shelving in, as my standard bookcase won't hold them! |
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 14, 2016 8:26:41 GMT -5
I started buying a few Omnibus books, but DAMN, those things are just too big, heavy & hard to read & I feel that if I pick them up wrong they are going to break! I love the Marvel Omnibus line, as cumbersome that they are. However, they are a great way to read a long run collected in to one volume, and then put on the shelf as a sort of archive; maybe only to be picked up for reference on random occassions. They really do look lovely though! My only problem is that I need to get some bigger shelving in, as my standard bookcase won't hold them! My Captain Britain Omnibus is probably the most treasured book in my house, even though I have all the original comics. I reread it at least once a year. Love the Dalek Zeg avatar by the way, Stevo. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 14, 2016 8:47:41 GMT -5
I mainly collect Trades & Hardcovers & digital. I started buying a few Omnibus books, but DAMN, those things are just too big, heavy & hard to read & I feel that if I pick them up wrong they are going to break! LOL! Floppies are great, nice to own originals, but...like others have said, get's too expensive, so I decided to finally give up on floppies altogether.I bought my first Epic a few weeks ago, "X-Men: Children of the Atom", nice book with great colors! So now I have to decide, how many epics do I want to collect?? I will probably just get the early X-Men, FF & Spider-Man ones for now.  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 14, 2016 9:25:07 GMT -5
Back in 2010-2011 or so I started giving more TPB formats a chance. Previous to that I probably owned maybe 5 TPB in 15 years of collecting. Now I have a fairly good chunk of them. Essentials/Showcases are good for certain titles, and I buy the ones I want. In general color (or if the original material is B&W) TPB I usually reserve for series whose original issues aren't financially possible. Which started with Cerebus. After that I started warming up to TPB as an alternative. But I still prefer single issues. But I always look at TPB in the sense of cheaper, so Omnibuses (besides the 3 Starman I have I got like 85% off the MSRP) are rarely on my radar. $50 for a book is just too much, even if there is a lot of reading material in it. But I will say that at least with the Starman ones I have they are definitely quality.
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Post by MDG on Nov 14, 2016 9:34:48 GMT -5
A random question: Has anyone seen a breakdown, for Marvel and DC, as to how much of their publishing revenue comes from new comics vs. trades and other reprints of "new" material vs. various reprints of "classic" material (meaning bronze age or earlier)?
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Post by brutalis on Nov 14, 2016 10:31:55 GMT -5
Always a combination for me. Before the TPB world it was searching out the most affordable copies whether it being original single issues or reprint like Marvel Tale, Triple Action, etc. These days as i have most of what i wish to be collected i continue purchasing new monthly's that i enjoy and using TPB's for series i might not otherwise care to follow regularly or they have become "hot sellers" and price increases make purchasing back issues too costly so the TPB is the most cost effective.
For some of the newer comics which are written for trade in that their stories move slower, less writing and allowing art to show more ( Low, Autumnlands, Manifest Destiny) or the series isn't shipping regularly (like Archie Afterlife, Sabrina) then i will trade buy.
TPB's are also how i get series that i might not be able to afford collector issue pricing (Nexus, Star Wars) and also for collecting entire runs of series or story lines which jumped from series to series. Essential and Showcase have provided me entire runs that i could never afford or find like Metamorpho, Doom Patrol, Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Batman, Superman. Color trades collecting Weird World, Bozz Chronicles, Steranko Nick Fury and the likes are a joy to have together all in one treasured tome. Then there are those grand series which i started but never finished due to life and monetary issues that i am now able to afford getting: Elfquest, Cerebus, Disney,Xenozoic Tales, Savage Sword and their ilk.
And the comic book via electronic format is handy and enjoyable as well. Kirby looks spectacular in recolored electronic form (have several Kamandi's) and it is nice to have so many Archie and Star Trek f all together to read whatever version i wish.
Nothing will ever replace for me the monthly single issue joy and remembrances of youth it invokes but i will take my comic fix in whatever format i can these days.
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