Go for the cash! The bound editions are easier to read.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!
Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!
Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.
Laga - Feb 04, 2007 2:52:53 pm PST #137 of 5059
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Polter-Cow - Feb 04, 2007 8:35:06 pm PST #138 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
If you do sell them, use the money to buy more comics.
I think that's about the only way I would be able to part with them, if I had collected them in the first place.
Sean K - Feb 04, 2007 8:39:51 pm PST #139 of 5059
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm going to hop on the "sell them" bandwagon, Jilli. You might keep them, but you'll either rarely (if ever) get the joy of reading them again, or you'll destroy any resale/investment value they might have. Their value might go up over time (actually, they almost certainly will), but unless you want to wait several decades to sell them, they probably won't be rising dramatically in value suddenly or soon.
There's certainly a case to be made for keeping them, but money is better than comics.
Most of the time.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2007 9:07:06 pm PST #140 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If money is better than comics, why do I keep giving it away to get more of the damned things?
Right now, having lapsed in purchasing, I'm looking irritatedly at much of my current collection. I know a fair bit of it (X titles, I'm looking at you) will never be read again. But here it is, taking up space. I did quite want to read it the once--but that's all. It's no more a waste of money to buy and toss a comic than it is to buy and never touch it again, but there's no way I could countenance the former.
Do I not resume buying all those titles? But I want to digest the narratives!
It's annoying me. Thankfully I have nowhere to put long boxes. I think.
esse - Feb 04, 2007 11:22:55 pm PST #141 of 5059
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Sell 'em, Jilli. They can buy you more *new* comics. And if you have it all in other formats anyway...
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 05, 2007 7:28:17 am PST #142 of 5059
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If it weren't a series you were crazy about I'd agree with the above posters, but to me the corresponding Sandman issues have sentimental value and I don't want to part with them. Those very comics, physically, are the ones I was holding when Neil Gaiman pulled me into that world.
An aquaintance of mine who worked at a comics store years ago asked me if I was in the market to sell my original issues, and I just walked away laughing.
esse - Feb 06, 2007 11:49:47 pm PST #143 of 5059
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I make no claims about the content of this website, other than a kind of freaked-out fascination. (Very likely NSFW.) Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day Archive
Connie Neil - Feb 07, 2007 5:42:22 am PST #144 of 5059
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From the above archive
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A) I wonder how the Man of Steel title ownershp was decided
B) His briefs have rivets
C) Dicky in the Magic Forest ????
DavidS - Feb 07, 2007 5:53:49 am PST #145 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Check out this issue of Mystery Men Comics - featuring "Joss-Head Demons"
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 07, 2007 6:32:29 am PST #146 of 5059
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand