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Soonmot posted:I'm vacationing in Seattle this weekend, any good comic shops I need to check out? Golden Age in Pike Place Market is pretty neat. Cafe Mox has this game that was basically just a box with some styrofoam guns and cards where you essentially played Reservoir Dogs, and it was a complete blast. Can't remember the name though.
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Nobby posted:Golden Age in Pike Place Market is pretty neat. Cafe Mox has this game that was basically just a box with some styrofoam guns and cards where you essentially played Reservoir Dogs, and it was a complete blast. Can't remember the name though. What the gently caress that sounds great!!!!!
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Jun 1, 2016 23:48
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What, like one of you is secretly a cop and you have to threaten each other with nerf guns and scream about someone being a rat to find out who? Because I'd play that.
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Did anyone that switched from print to digital have a hell of a time? It just feels weird to buy digital. I'm pulling the trigger on the new DC books, but man I still can't bring myself to pay $1.99 for Justice League Europe #1 when I can order the physical copy plus 29 other comics for $30 and get free shipping on that comic seller site.
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Jun 2, 2016 02:23
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zoux posted:I read this guardian article yesterday about how Mignola is giving up Hellboy to paint, what the hell? Yeah sounds great. Also not giving up, ending.
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Jun 2, 2016 02:35
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Mr Hootington posted:Did anyone that switched from print to digital have a hell of a time? It just feels weird to buy digital. I'm pulling the trigger on the new DC books, but man I still can't bring myself to pay $1.99 for Justice League Europe #1 when I can order the physical copy plus 29 other comics for $30 and get free shipping on that comic seller site. Yeah, digital does feel like a huge ripoff.
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Jun 2, 2016 02:36
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I like trade paperbacks better than anything else. If I didn't want to keep up with stuff as it comes out (or if DC would reliably collect stuff better) I might just stick with trades. Mostly I just can't justify keeping huge boxes of monthly comics around anymore. Maybe order those 29 other comics and get them custom bound.
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Jun 2, 2016 02:42
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Digital is the best. I don't have to worry about where I'm going to put a book when I'm done because single issues are the worst unless you're a collector. I'm a reader, I don't give a poo poo about the collecting aspect of comics.
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Jun 2, 2016 02:46
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Nobby posted:Golden Age in Pike Place Market is pretty neat. Seconding this, and you can't visit Seattle without taking in Pike Place Market anyway. It is probably my favorite city I've ever been to. Also check out the Experience Music Project museum next to the Space Needle (which is also worth a visit), and from there, it's a five-minute walk to the Five Point Cafe, one of the best diner/dive bars I've ever been to, with amazing food.
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Jun 2, 2016 02:52
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Mr Hootington posted:Did anyone that switched from print to digital have a hell of a time? It just feels weird to buy digital. I'm pulling the trigger on the new DC books, but man I still can't bring myself to pay $1.99 for Justice League Europe #1 when I can order the physical copy plus 29 other comics for $30 and get free shipping on that comic seller site. I went digital and never looked back.
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Jun 2, 2016 02:58
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Data has a weight. Every comic makes it heavier.
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SynthOrange posted:Yeah sounds great. Also not giving up, ending. But all the other ones are staying around? What about Hellboy and the BPRD? I haven't read Hellboy in Hell yet so I dunno if he died or gor turned into a human or some other massive status quo changing event but aren't there a ton of ongoings in that universe? I gotta say, I would kill to see what he's painting. I can't imagine what a painting that takes Mike Mignola a year to work looks like.
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Aphrodite posted:Data has a weight. Every comic makes it heavier. I know a girl who believes this.
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Jun 2, 2016 03:21
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The only time I read digital is if I bought a big collection in a Humble Bundle or from a sale. I like physical books way too much. Still haven't worked out a good way to store singles on shelves, but I mostly buy trades anyway.
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Nobby posted:Golden Age in Pike Place Market is pretty neat. Cafe Mox has this game that was basically just a box with some styrofoam guns and cards where you essentially played Reservoir Dogs, and it was a complete blast. Can't remember the name though. I've never played it, but it sounds like you're talking about Cash 'n Guns.
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Rhyno posted:I know a girl who believes this. It is true, at imperceptible levels.
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zoux posted:But all the other ones are staying around? What about Hellboy and the BPRD? I haven't read Hellboy in Hell yet so I dunno if he died or gor turned into a human or some other massive status quo changing event but aren't there a ton of ongoings in that universe? Hellboy died in 2011, and was sent to hell. The rest are staying around as its just him no longer being the sole writer/artist. Hellboy and the BPRD are stories taking place in the past in the years between him joking and quitting BPRD to hang in Africa.
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bobkatt013 posted:Hellboy died in 2011, and was sent to hell. The rest are staying around as its just him no longer being the sole writer/artist. Hellboy and the BPRD are stories taking place in the past in the years between him joking and quitting BPRD to hang in Africa. Ok thanks. I'm re-reading the Hellboy-proper trades right now and I was looking over the list of all the Hellboy-universe comics and wondered how possible it would be to read everything. Or worth it, I know BPRD is supposed to be amazing but I don't know about the other stuff, of which there is a ton.
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Rhyno posted:Yeah, digital does feel like a huge ripoff. If older comics had a $1 price point I wouldn't feel this way. $2 just feels too much and I can't explain it. X-O posted:Digital is the best. I don't have to worry about where I'm going to put a book when I'm done because single issues are the worst unless you're a collector. I'm a reader, I don't give a poo poo about the collecting aspect of comics. This is one of my hang ups. I love to collect comics, but they take up a ton of space. I'm going to have to get over it and come face it. I probably will not be able to read certain old series that interest me. CapnAndy posted:I can put as many comics on my iPad as I want and it stays the same size, weighs the same, and I can carry literally all my comics all the time because I have one magic screen that is all the media I own all the time, on command, and it glows in the dark so I can read it in bed easier. Yeah I love my Kindle and use Marvel Unlimited which is great, but buying comics digitally feels different.
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My issue with digital is I can't share it with friends.
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Jun 2, 2016 03:55
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Old comics do drop to $1 eventually.
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zoux posted:Ok thanks. Everything is amazing except the second witchfinder trade. Amazing art but pointless
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Just came back from a meeting about a library renovation, and I want to thank most of you internet folks for being a relatively reasonable crowd. Most of you should be involved in community politics/policy, help dilute the crazy. Also, Auralsaurus Flex posted:I've never played it, but it sounds like you're talking about Cash 'n Guns. If pointing guns at your friends sounds like fun, Cash N Guns is the game for you. It's fun, it's more strategic than it sounds, it's not thinky, it's very quick.
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Aphrodite posted:Old comics do drop to $1 eventually. Ehh, Marvel at least is astonishingly bad at this.
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A Tin Of Beans posted:Ehh, Marvel at least is astonishingly bad at this. They do sales all the time
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Jun 2, 2016 05:31
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I have Marvel Unlimited and read more than 10 comics a month on it, so it's a loving steal.
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If I had to go to the shop and get floppies every Wednesday, the reality of how many comics I buy would certainly hit me in a way clicking the 'yup' button in a browser doesn't.
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Teenage Fansub posted:If I had to go to the shop and get floppies every Wednesday, the reality of how many comics I buy would certainly hit me in a way clicking the 'yup' button in a browser doesn't. This can be deceptive. Three out of the four weeks you get 1 to 3 comics. That isn't too bad. the last week? BAM 12 comics you read are dropped and you realize someone has a problem. Not you of course. the publishers for not spreading out your series over the month are the problem.
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1-3 comics. You're funny.
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I get monthly stuff in digital and double-dip on trades/HCs of stuff I love. I don't like digital trades much at all.
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Teenage Fansub posted:If I had to go to the shop and get floppies every Wednesday, the reality of how many comics I buy would certainly hit me in a way clicking the 'yup' button in a browser doesn't. Yeah, I've only really been reading comics since February and occasionally I glance over at my pile and start to question my decision. I started out swearing I wasn't going to need a box or anything for them ("How am I gonna fill a whole box with comics, please, that's ludicrous") and now... I think I need a box. But I love cover art and physical media and I find out what I like by going off of random reviews/word of mouth (turns out, pretty much everything gets recommended by at least one person!) so this is just my life now. I also get digital, but only if I don't care about the art or I'm waffling on a certain book. If I don't like it, better it just takes up space on the computer rather than having the issue lying around unread.
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Teenage Fansub posted:1-3 comics. You're funny. Is this low?
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Mr Hootington posted:Is this low? This week alone, I had about a dozen single issues and a preordered digital collection. (8 Marvel titles, 3 DC one-shots, a Power Rangers mini-series and The Transformers Book Formerly Known As Robots In Disguise, Volume 9)
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Mr Hootington posted:Is this low? I normally pull at least 8 a week. This week was heavier due to Rebirth, but I think the last time I pulled 1-3 a week was when I was first getting started and only read like 6 books total.
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A small week for me it about six books, but I'd say I average around 10 a week. My lists since the start of May have had (going backwards) 6, 15, 6, 7, and 7 books. It depends on when things ship. Since a lot of that is indie stuff, shipping schedules aren't always exactly monthly.
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I need to check my pull lists but I'm around sixish a week and just started reading comics.
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I dropped 55 dollars this weekend on comics, but that is 2 weeks worth of comics (also I got some double issues because I buy for a friend who pays me back). Luckily my monthly titles are dropping a bit, but I usually find that I will have weeks with 2 comics to pickup, sometimes none at all, and then one week 8 titles come out and destroy me. As for the digital vs physical, I still buy the titles I have been buying for years at the store, but new titles I get digitally. I like it this way because if I try a first issue and don't like it I don't have to worry about storing it anywhere. Also, I have been greatly downsizing my collection. Got a question for you goons though, how often do you re-read titles. I sometimes re-read trades but I hardly ever re-read single issues anymore like I did when I was younger. StumblyWumbly posted:Just came back from a meeting about a library renovation, and I want to thank most of you internet folks for being a relatively reasonable crowd. Most of you should be involved in community politics/policy, help dilute the crazy. As someone who works in the library, I feel your pain. Did anyone in the community ask you why they should have to pay for the renovations seeing how they never use the library?
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Good lord! Even at my peak I wasn't buying more than 6 a week on average and that seemed to be too much. I did break 10 once and it triggered a pull list purge. My budget is $20 for two weeks or 3 new books a week. Any extra will go into a pot or towards back issues.
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I tried to be a current comics reader during SW but keeping up with like 30 titles month to month, it's hard to remember everything that's going on in all of them. I prefer to just wait a while and read them in big chunks.
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I have a dude buying every single DC book every week. He frequently spends $75+ per visit.
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