Budget

ImWithTeamConan · 12-13-2012, 03:23 PM

I've been out of comics since Grant Morrison left New X-Men, I've been keeping up with them thru the internet and the occasional TPB or HC here or there.

And I've decided to come back to "floppies" for Hickman's Avengers/New Avengers (really dug the preview, loved the first issue, I'm all in) which has got me to start opening up the budget a little bit to a couple other series (gonna try out Superior Spiderman, maybe Uncanny X-Men).

But I was curious, how does everybody budget for comics? I'm looking at March's solicits and it's gonna be one of those months where I'm gonna be a little overbudget (cause of Age Of Ultron).

Spider-Jay420 · 12-13-2012, 04:27 PM

I don't really go by a budget. I just have the titles I know I'm getting that Wednesday and make sure I have enough loot. I just check TMOB's Diamond list a day or 2 before. But I only buy 5 titles a month, so I usually only spend 8 to 12 bucks at most a week. Hmmmm...I guess guys with a bigger pull list would be more helpful. Well anyway, that's how I do it.

Max J Power · 12-13-2012, 04:38 PM

That's pretty much how I am too. I buy 5 ongoings and the occasional mini, so I don't have to budget tightly for my issues. I take cost into consideration, though. If a book increases in price or ships more than once a month, I'm more inclined to drop it if I don't really love it (for example, I might have stayed on the Captain America team-up book longer if it didn't double-ship so much).

JewishHobbit · 12-13-2012, 05:22 PM

My wife gives me $100 limit a month. I feel guilty spending that much on comics because we've been a little tight for a while and are trying to get out of debt so I try to keep it closer to $80 a month, preferably less.

I wish I could count titles and make that how I determine but Marvel threw that aside when they began their random double-shippings, so now I can't just pick titles and go with it. I could make no changes to my buying and go from $85 in one month to $110 the next. Therefore, when double-shipping gets high, I start dropping books in preparation. With March jumping me from $90 to $115, I'm going to now pre-emptively start cutting things to get back down toward $80 or less again.

It's not fun.

Spider-Jay420 · 12-13-2012, 05:40 PM

Edit. Weird half hour later double posting action.

Mace Dolex · 12-13-2012, 05:47 PM

Back when I used to buy floppies I would carry a list with me and would know what titles I wanted thanks also to Previews which would list prices on stuff too that way I know to have enough money.

ImWithTeamConan · 12-13-2012, 06:17 PM

I keep it to about $25 a month, wish is six monthlies, and maybe one mini on top of that, (I mean who needs to eat right?)

I'm a bit of a completist so that's what prompted me to ask you all the question, because I'm all in on Avengers/New Avengers, but so-so on everything else I'm interested in and was curious how people navigate that.

Mr. Dent · 12-13-2012, 06:21 PM

I'm going to have to make a budget soon too. I recently got back into comics as well and it feels like I went on a binge. I'm picking up Hawkeye, ASM, Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Uncanny Avengers, Avengers, Avenging Spider-Man, Deadpool, All New X-Men, Action Comics, Superman, Detective Comics, Batman, Justice League, and TWD....and I don't want to leave any of them.

ImWithTeamConan · 12-13-2012, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Dent

I'm going to have to make a budget soon too. I recently got back into comics as well and it feels like I went on a binge. I'm picking up Hawkeye, ASM, Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Uncanny Avengers, Avengers, Avenging Spider-Man, Deadpool, All New X-Men, Action Comics, Superman, Detective Comics, Batman, Justice League, and TWD....and I don't want to leave any of them.

That's the problem I almost found for myself, I started with two titles and almost ballooned up to a dozen.

OcStat · 12-13-2012, 07:28 PM

I used to have no discretion, buying any and all titles that caught my eye.

Now, I limit it, but not by any conscious system. I just know I don't have the resources or space for amassing a collection like I used to. I haven't bought any comics on a monthly basis in years, so I am trying to fill in the back issues I missed on top of not getting further behind. And too many books still perk my interest! I have like 9 titles that are going to be added to my pull list. Ugh!

OcStat · 12-13-2012, 09:50 PM

I used to have no discretion, buying any and all titles that caught my eye.

Now, I limit it, but not by any conscious system. I just know I don't have the resources or space for amassing a collection like I used to. I haven't bought any comics on a monthly basis in years, so I am trying to fill in the back issues I missed on top of not getting further behind. And too many books still perk my interest! I have like 9 titles that are going to be added to my pull list. Ugh!

Donnie Darko · 12-13-2012, 10:04 PM

I used to spend about 15-20 dollars a week. Then I had to cut back a lot to the point that I stopped reading for almost a year. I got back into it earlier this year (and was able to get the issues of Batman and Green Lantern I missed from the start of the New 52 onward), but even when I got back into it, I got a little over what my wife and I can really budget for comic books. I have cut back again. Right now my pull list is just Amazing (soon to be Superior) Spider-Man, Uncanny Avengers, Batman and Green Lantern. With all of these new books coming out, I have been testing the waters with some (got first issues of several other Now books, as well as a few issues of some other books, like Talon).

Although I have been a big GL guy for a while, I'm currently only reading the main GL book, and that one is losing me a bit. IMO, Batman and Amazing Spider-Man have been consistently the best books I have been reading over the last year.

Anyway, to answer your question, right now I am trying to keep it between $20-30 a month, at most.

ImWithTeamConan · 12-23-2012, 09:48 PM

Okay so I'm trying to keep it right at that $24-$26 dollar level monthly which boils down to six issues a month.

2 issues of Avengers
New Avengers
Batman
Hawkeye

...are the locked in titles. But what I'm really curious about are the following titles:

Wolverine And the X-Men (was reading them as trades, but not liking some of the recent issues)
FF (Future Foundation)
Captain America
Thor: God of Thunder

Any thoughts on the latter three from the first couple of issues?

Thwip! · 12-24-2012, 04:01 PM

Thor is very very very good

hippie_hunter · 12-25-2012, 07:08 PM

I would recommend FF only if you're reading Fantastic Four. They're both great books, but from what I've read so far, they're very heavily linked with one another.

12-13-2012, 03:23 PM	#1
ImWithTeamConan Avenger of Comedy Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 2,752	Budget I've been out of comics since Grant Morrison left New X-Men, I've been keeping up with them thru the internet and the occasional TPB or HC here or there. And I've decided to come back to "floppies" for Hickman's Avengers/New Avengers (really dug the preview, loved the first issue, I'm all in) which has got me to start opening up the budget a little bit to a couple other series (gonna try out Superior Spiderman, maybe Uncanny X-Men). But I was curious, how does everybody budget for comics? I'm looking at March's solicits and it's gonna be one of those months where I'm gonna be a little overbudget (cause of Age Of Ultron). __________________ This is how we know what love is, that Christ died for us.

12-13-2012, 04:38 PM	#3
Max J Power Trash Boat Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 4,016	Re: Budget That's pretty much how I am too. I buy 5 ongoings and the occasional mini, so I don't have to budget tightly for my issues. I take cost into consideration, though. If a book increases in price or ships more than once a month, I'm more inclined to drop it if I don't really love it (for example, I might have stayed on the Captain America team-up book longer if it didn't double-ship so much). __________________ - "As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."--Roger Ebert

12-13-2012, 05:22 PM	#4
JewishHobbit Comics/Writer of the Year Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Eastern Time Zone Posts: 23,246	Re: Budget My wife gives me $100 limit a month. I feel guilty spending that much on comics because we've been a little tight for a while and are trying to get out of debt so I try to keep it closer to $80 a month, preferably less. I wish I could count titles and make that how I determine but Marvel threw that aside when they began their random double-shippings, so now I can't just pick titles and go with it. I could make no changes to my buying and go from $85 in one month to $110 the next. Therefore, when double-shipping gets high, I start dropping books in preparation. With March jumping me from $90 to $115, I'm going to now pre-emptively start cutting things to get back down toward $80 or less again. It's not fun. __________________ Support My Books! Cicada Song (Romantic Suspense) The Adventures of Flitter & Plank (Children's novel, 3rd grade reading level)

12-13-2012, 05:47 PM	#6
Mace Dolex Agent of S.E.X.Y. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 4,460	Re: Budget Back when I used to buy floppies I would carry a list with me and would know what titles I wanted thanks also to Previews which would list prices on stuff too that way I know to have enough money. __________________ "Why is daddy on a magazine with a black thing covering his peepee?"

12-13-2012, 06:17 PM	#7
ImWithTeamConan Avenger of Comedy Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 2,752	Re: Budget I keep it to about $25 a month, wish is six monthlies, and maybe one mini on top of that, (I mean who needs to eat right?) I'm a bit of a completist so that's what prompted me to ask you all the question, because I'm all in on Avengers/New Avengers, but so-so on everything else I'm interested in and was curious how people navigate that. __________________ This is how we know what love is, that Christ died for us.

12-13-2012, 06:21 PM	#8
Mr. Dent Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 3,460	Re: Budget I'm going to have to make a budget soon too. I recently got back into comics as well and it feels like I went on a binge. I'm picking up Hawkeye, ASM, Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Uncanny Avengers, Avengers, Avenging Spider-Man, Deadpool, All New X-Men, Action Comics, Superman, Detective Comics, Batman, Justice League, and TWD....and I don't want to leave any of them.

12-13-2012, 07:28 PM	#10
OcStat Side-Kick Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Flagstaff AZ Posts: 288	Re: Budget I used to have no discretion, buying any and all titles that caught my eye. Now, I limit it, but not by any conscious system. I just know I don't have the resources or space for amassing a collection like I used to. I haven't bought any comics on a monthly basis in years, so I am trying to fill in the back issues I missed on top of not getting further behind. And too many books still perk my interest! I have like 9 titles that are going to be added to my pull list. Ugh!

12-13-2012, 09:50 PM	#11
OcStat Side-Kick Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Flagstaff AZ Posts: 288	Re: Budget I used to have no discretion, buying any and all titles that caught my eye. Now, I limit it, but not by any conscious system. I just know I don't have the resources or space for amassing a collection like I used to. I haven't bought any comics on a monthly basis in years, so I am trying to fill in the back issues I missed on top of not getting further behind. And too many books still perk my interest! I have like 9 titles that are going to be added to my pull list. Ugh!

12-13-2012, 10:04 PM	#12
Donnie Darko Forgotten Pre-New 52 Hero Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 8,015	Re: Budget I used to spend about 15-20 dollars a week. Then I had to cut back a lot to the point that I stopped reading for almost a year. I got back into it earlier this year (and was able to get the issues of Batman and Green Lantern I missed from the start of the New 52 onward), but even when I got back into it, I got a little over what my wife and I can really budget for comic books. I have cut back again. Right now my pull list is just Amazing (soon to be Superior) Spider-Man, Uncanny Avengers, Batman and Green Lantern. With all of these new books coming out, I have been testing the waters with some (got first issues of several other Now books, as well as a few issues of some other books, like Talon). Although I have been a big GL guy for a while, I'm currently only reading the main GL book, and that one is losing me a bit. IMO, Batman and Amazing Spider-Man have been consistently the best books I have been reading over the last year. Anyway, to answer your question, right now I am trying to keep it between $20-30 a month, at most. __________________ March 21, 2013 marked my 10-year anniversary on the SHH forums. Thank you all for the intelligent conversations, and even more so for the stupid ones. It's been fun.

12-23-2012, 09:48 PM	#13
ImWithTeamConan Avenger of Comedy Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 2,752	Re: Budget Okay so I'm trying to keep it right at that $24-$26 dollar level monthly which boils down to six issues a month. 2 issues of Avengers New Avengers Batman Hawkeye ...are the locked in titles. But what I'm really curious about are the following titles: Wolverine And the X-Men (was reading them as trades, but not liking some of the recent issues) FF (Future Foundation) Captain America Thor: God of Thunder Any thoughts on the latter three from the first couple of issues? __________________ This is how we know what love is, that Christ died for us.

12-24-2012, 04:01 PM	#14
Thwip! Side-Kick Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Carlow, Ireland Posts: 1,498	Re: Budget Thor is very very very good __________________ My Deviantart

12-25-2012, 07:08 PM	#15
hippie_hunter The King is Back! SHH! Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Titanium Groceries Posts: 49,859	Re: Budget I would recommend FF only if you're reading Fantastic Four. They're both great books, but from what I've read so far, they're very heavily linked with one another. __________________ Titanium Groceries!!!

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