That is my question at the moment. Now you maybe asking: return to what? Comic Books. This year was the first time in a half dozen years I had to give up reading/buying Comic Books due to lack of funds. And soon I can return to them, but do I want to?
Some backstory: I have been unemployed for about a year or so & was using some my savings to buy stuff (like Comic Books). But then I had some massive bills come my way which need paying off. That's where most of my saving had gone to & after the bills were paid off I was left with a very small amount of money. I had to make a choice. I cut myself off & went "cold turkey" on Comic Books. It's been 6 months since I've regularly bought comics & I have now found a part time job. This means that I will start to have money coming in. So... that would means that I could start buying comics once more, right?
Yeah. I guess so. I'm just not sure. There were a number of books I was reading before I cut myself off. The books I was reading were: 5 Marvel books (Fantastic Four, FF, The Defenders, Avengers Academy, Wolverine and the X-Men) & 6 DC books (Demon Knights, The Flash, Justice League Dark, Nightwing, Red Hood and the Outlaws, Suicide Squad).
All these books have continued to put out issues over the last 6 months (In the case of Avengers Academy sometimes 2 issues a month). At about 3 dollars an issue that about 20 dollars per comic & about 200 dollars for all 11 books. That's a hefty chunk of change right there! I'm not sure I want to pay for all that. That is if I can find all the "back issues" for the comic, the store I go to might be out of a certain issue & then I'd have to search out other stores for that missing issue.
And Marvel soon to be going through their Marvel Now! thing which means a few books are being cancelled/reworked/rebooted/redone. 3 of the books that I was reading is part of that change over (1 is being cancelled & 2 are changing). There are a few of the Marvel Now! titles that do sound interesting that I'd probably check out an issue or two of.
I was looking over the books I had been reading and thinking about which ones to return to & which ones not to return to. Most of the ones I've pretty much decided to not return to have have been DC books (Those are Demon Knights, Justice League Dark & Suicide Squad). They were books that I was only partly enjoying & might of dropped by now if I had continued to read the book. That brought the total of 6 DC books I'd be reading down to 3. SIDE NOTE: When the "New 52" I started out, I was reading 15 books & the number has shrunk either due to the book being cancelled or a I lost interest in the book. There is 1 or 2 books that have come out in the last 6 months that I might like to add (I'd maybe like to add Earth 2 & Worlds' Finest they look like they might be interesting).
I've thought about just waiting for the trade paperback/collected edition of these books. Most of the Trades are about 6 issues long. It would be about the same price & I wouldn't have to worry about not missing an issue but I'm not sure I want to wait that long.
So... yeah. I still have my question: to return or to not return?
My answer is most likely that I will return. It just won't be like how it was before. They have moved on without me.
Until next time: Stay Jazzy everyone!
- Brian
7 comments:
Well I think its pretty easy to be in the loop and not a buyer. I've never regularly bought comic books. I think its apparent however that I'm a fan. Instead when I have disposable income, or have saved, or for birthdays/christmases etc I focus on getting good trades that I know enough about (or about the teams) to know I will enjoy and that they will slot into my collection and/or that will be handy to give to people to get them into comics. I think there really isn't a need to buy regularly. If you hear about a good single issue go grab it if you can. Sure you miss the joy of stumbling upon a great single issue and being taken by surprise but knowing you will be receiving quality (without having to fork out the cash for duds hoping for that one gem) is not a bad thing imo.
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