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Stephen Churay
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I just kinda hit me this morning. While I don't collect many comics
anymore, I still will pickup a storyline if I have interest in it. Yesterday,
I picked up the latest issue of THOR from my LCS. It's the last part of
a story drawn by Ron Garney and I'm a fan. I got the issue to my car,
I thought to myself how much I'm looking forward to reading it. Then it
hit me. I haven't read the other issues in the storyline even though I
picked them up as they came out.
Instinctively, I've been waiting to get the whole story before I started it.
The same thing holds true for the early draft STAR WARS mini that
Dark Horse has been putting out the last few months. For the most
part, waiting till I have the whole story before starting has become the
norm even without it being a conscience decision.
In fact, the only exception to this seems to be JB's books and I
wonder if that's just because I'm the forum a lot.
I've gotten so used to long, drawn out stories that don't give me any
satisfaction on a monthly basis; or I've gotten used to buying trade
collections, that this is how I read monthly comics now. I didn't even
know I was doing it.
Has anyone else noticed they do this?
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Sean Watson
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I'm the same way except for JB's stuff. There are times were I will read all the previous issues before the new, just so I can read the new one.
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Stephen Robinson
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When I was a kid, I could do both: Read comics as they came out each month and enjoy them and later read a run of them in one go, appreciating how subplots had been developed. I especially enjoyed this with JB's work on NAMOR and WONDER WOMAN.
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Peter Martin
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Decompression is one of several reasons that I don't buy comics with any frequency nowadays. It makes the market so impenetrable when there is no gratification in picking up the odd issue because so little story is delivered in 20-odd pages.
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Joe Hollon
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Instinctively, I've been waiting to get the whole story before I started it.
The same thing holds true for the early draft STAR WARS mini that
Dark Horse has been putting out the last few months
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Hm...if you're going to do this why NOT truly wait for the trade? Save you money right? I'd be upset if I bought all issues of a series then read it and hated it. I'd think, "Why didn't I read the first issue and save myself the money?"
I am NOT an advocate of "wait for the trade", I think it's killing the industry, but I definitely don't get this practice you are describing Stephen.
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Thom Price
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I don't read comics very often anymore but when I do I am inclined to let the issues stockpile; even if it's not the full story, I'd rather read five or six issues in a row than one per month.
But it's not just comic books. Unless it's a show I'm very enamored with, I'm more apt to wait for the entire season to be available before starting. I'd rather watch the entire thing, at my pace, on DVD or streaming than wait week to week, often with gaps in the schedule.
I even take the same approach with movies. From the beginning, I avoided watching any of the HARRY POTTER films, preferring to wait for them to all be on DVD.
Edited by Thom Price on 17 January 2014 at 2:49pm
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Andrew W. Farago
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I think writers are much better at producing a full issue's worth of material than they were ten to twelve years ago. Maybe it's the push toward digital content that makes Marvel and DC feel more of an obligation to produce a decent standalone experience, but there are fewer and fewer stories lately that are six issues long just because they need to be six issues long. There was a lot more padding around 2000-2005, but I think we're past that now, thankfully.
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Michael Roberts
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I've given up on monthly issues and just wait for the trade.
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Stephen Churay
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Hm...if you're going to do this why NOT truly wait for the trade? Save
you money right? I'd be upset if I bought all issues of a series then
read it and hated it. I'd think, "Why didn't I read the first issue and
save myself the money?"
I am NOT an advocate of "wait for the trade", I think it's killing the
industry, but I definitely don't get this practice you are describing
Stephen.
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Joe there ARE other factors that go into my not reading the monthlies
as they come out. Work and family both contribute to me not getting to
them. But, the practice hasn't been a plan. I didn't even realize I was
doing it. I just never stopped to think about. Thinking about it now, I
realize I've been doing it for years.
I agree with Andrew that writers aren't padding there stories like they
were. From what I can see, it's mainly due to a lot of artists not being
able to do a six to twelve issue storyline without a fill in.
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John Byrne
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"Decompression" is a fake term. What is really meant is "lazy and undisciplined writers."
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Steven Legge
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There is at least six modern issues worth of ideas and plots in any one issue of Stan and Jack's FF. Sometimes it's like getting whiplash reading those in comparison to today's books.
Comics today are all about story arcs to fill trade paperbacks. And by fill, I mean talking. Lots and lots of talking. Which is fine in a movie, or maybe even in the tpb, but when you read a single comic you feel ripped off.
You guys have superpowers! DO SOMETHING!
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Joel Biske
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I gave up buying monthly comics years ago.... I've always bought more for the art, I could "read" a well drawn, poor story but even the best story with art that didn't catch me lay unfinished. When I would pick up something by artists I loved and STILL couldn't get through them, I stopped weekly visits. I was pretty much buying JB's stuff and a couple other artists. When I couldn't find i JB book when I went... (sometimes on new comic day, because hey ONLY bought enough for the pre-orders, I went to TPB's)
More often than not, I STILL have to get those oniine.
Sad.
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