$5 for 104 pages of material?
That's $1 per 20 pages and change. That's like $1 per comic. You wouldn't buy 5 comics for $5?
Not in addition to the $4 this and the $5 that that's also coming out along with this $5 comic. And I'd rather they were 5 $1 comics so I can choose the stories I'd actually want to read. If I have no interest in a story then I don't want to pay for it. It's like when I get a 22 page comic with 2 or 3 reprints in the back that I've already read or don't care about and I have to pay $4 or $5 for a 22 page story.
If this were a one time thing then I don't think there'd be a problem but I don't think any comic is worth $4 or $5. They're all over the place now and if I choose to buy a few comics at that price then I have to drop a $3 priced comic, which is closer to where I feel they are worth so I'd rather support that.
To put this in perspective: Some of the trade paperbacks that come out these days are collections of 5 comics: That's 110 pages of material. This single issue is 6 pages shy of some trade paperbacks. You're saying that Marvel is charging too much by offering readers almost a TRADE PAPERBACK'S WORTH OF MATERIAL for $5?
I don't buy trades either. Can't afford them. But it's a principal for me. To me, comic books should be something that everyone can enjoy. If a kid wants to read Spider-Man, he should be able to walk to his nearest retailer and buy it, not have to save a few extra weeks of allowance to afford it (exageration, but you get the drift).
Okay, that's a different matter. If that's how you feel 20 months later-- about a comic that came out from a different creative & editorial team before this current creative & editorial team took over-- there's nothing I can do about that. Your feelings are your feelings-- and all the power to you.
Yeah, it's nothing against you or the others who work on the book, but to me it's all fake. The characters that I watched grow for 16 years and could relate to have suddenly changed so dramatically for the worse that it's not the same book or characters anymore. For example... I didn't have much of a father figure growing up so, as sad as it is, I learned my morals from reading Spider-Man. Sad but true. I had no concept of a happy marraige but I loved seeing it when I grew up reading Peter and Mary Jane. I wanted a loving relationship like that. Andnow apparently Peter's morals allow deals with the devil and giving up your marraige for someone who wants to die and is going to die of age soon anyway. Complete slap in the face for me, and thats just some examples.
It's like some big unimportant What If now? I skimmed every issue for the first year or so and tried to give it a shot with New Ways to Die and American Son and they just make me mad at the book and Marvel in general so I threw them away. What happened with Spider-Man ruined any faith I have in Marvel to deal with the characters I've put so much faith into over the past 18 years now and my buying list is slowly dying away due to this.
Again, nothing you've done wrong, but Marvel made this decision, along with the price hikes, and it's killing my interest in the medium.
