Falling Behind In Reading: How Far Is Too Far?!

[Prognosticator]

The irony of the thread title and the name of the thread starter is pure awesome.

 

[Prognosticator]

man ive been out of the game about 4 months but when this new job roles threw i will be tearing it up

Pooping?!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I sit in my car outside the shop and read them I only read trades on the pooper.

You must take the longest craps any human has ever taken.

 

[SouLeSS]

I read a book a ****.

 

[Fledermaus]

That's about my rate as well. It took two to read Batman 663, though.

 

[Dragmire]

I maintain a strict diet of chinese food, dr-pepper, fruit-by-the-foot, gushers, and cheese to optimize my comic/**** effeciency.

 

[Aristotle]

Dude they're like the best thing to take in there, cause then when you're done with your business you've only got however many pages worth of a comic to read, 'stead of being caught in the middle of some novel just when it's getting good.

I usually finish them. I mean, it's just a couple of extra minutes sitting on the ****ter without flushing, in exchange for a completed issue.

Also, the Onion's great for ****ter-reading.

 

[Aristotle]

It was expensive.

I cannot imagine. I don't think I even want to.

 

[Aristotle]

It's even worse when your significant other wants you to hurry up, and when you try to get up your legs are asleep and you fall down. Then she walks in the bathroom and sees you, pants around your ankles, writhing in pain while desperately clutching this months issue of Batman, not wanting to get it dirty.

Oh yeah. I, um, hate it when that happens.

You lose a few girlfriends that way, yes?

Freud tells me its normal.

You're asking the wrong fella.

You must take the longest craps any human has ever taken.

Trade-paperback ****s are great. I read Emerald Dawn that way.

Pooping?!

It's an expensive habit, man. Everyone tells these sob stories about heroin addictions, but pooping is so much more difficult. Just think of his family, man. These past few months have been the best in years, for his family. It's only gonna make it that much more heartbreaking when he starts up again.

 

[Dragmire]

Seems like the right guy to me.

 

[Aristotle]

Seems like the right guy to me.

Isn't the modern consensus that everything he said was wrong? (And yet somehow he's the father of psychology. Scary.)

Oh...that was the point.

 

[Dragmire]

He's quoted, among other things, for saying "that the only abnormal sex-life is not having one." Not wanting to alienate poor Fledermaus, I tell him it's normal for his gf to get off on him falling off the toilet.

 

[Fledermaus]

Oh yeah. I, um, hate it when that happens.

You lose a few girlfriends that way, yes?

Nope. I gained a wife.

 

[Aristotle]

Nope. I gained a wife.

I'm not sure if I should congratulate you on your find, or warn you about your find.

 

[SouLeSS]

That's about my rate as well. It took two to read Batman 663, though.

Was that the one that was like a mini-novel and not really a comic? Cause that one took me a while too. I read that at about a chapter a sitting.

 

[ToddIsDead]

i've never really had that happen, as I generally read the books the first day or so that i pick them up. although, i do find myself not bagging/boarding the books but once every few months.

now THAT is no fun. Having something like 300 books to throw in protective sleeves and file them. reading the books is an easy thing. you can read books in the car while at lights, on the john, during commercials, waiting for the pizza/dinner to be done/get there, so on and so forth.

That's the biggest pain in the ass about collecting comics. I try to put off bagging and boarding for as long as I can but then I'm always kicking myself afterwards. That just eats up hours and hours.

 

[trustyside-kick]

What's so difficult about bagging and boarding that is so time consuming?

I go to my comic shop, pick up anything I may want to try out, tell the guy my number, he fetches my subscribed comics, I go to the register, pay for my comics, pay for some backs and boards, and put them in the bags and boards at the edge of the counter after the transaction is over.

 

[ToddIsDead]

Because I usually do about 100 to 300 at a time after weeks of piling them up after reading them. And then filing them into long boxes is a whole other process.

 

[trustyside-kick]

Well, you could just do what I do: Purchase them, bag them at the store, leave, go home, read what you plan to read, and afterwards put them back in the bags and boards.

That way, whatever you haven't read is already bagged, and what you just read is also bagged once again. It isn't very difficult.

 

[ToddIsDead]

I prefer to procrastinate.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's always better to procrastinate.

 

[SouLeSS]

Same with me. I actually let a stack go to about three feet tall, and then it crashed down so i said 'alright, guess its time to bag these bad boys'.

But I only had like 10 bags. So I had to go out and buy more. Then I ran out and had to get even more of them. So i just bought like 500 of both so I'd be good for a while.

 

[Hush]

You must take the longest craps any human has ever taken.

Naw I just read really fast the longest i have spent on the crapper with a book is like 30 mins. Not bad if you ask me.

 

[SouLeSS]

I did that once with a Drizzt Do'Urden book. I literally read like 5 chapters sitting on the toiler. Dude knocked on the door and is like "you ok, youve been in there for like 45 minutes"

 

[trustyside-kick]

I couldn't do the whole "sit on the crapper and read a comic" deal. Heck, I couldn't do that with anything. I don't take long craps and I wouldn't want to sit on the crapper, reading my comic with a smell.