Personal Comic Preferences?

[Brita21]

Which do you personally prefer to collect, the single comic book or the graphic novel with a collection of stories? and why?

I lost my collection a few years back, and want to start rebuilding. I'm leaning more towards the book cause I love how neat and orderly they are, and being cost effective... but I think I'll be buying single versions of my favorite prints

 

[Brita21]

anyone?

 

[Gee]

I used to be a trade waiter but I've been buying singles when New 52 started. I picked some Marvel here and there. When an Image series begins and it interests me, I pick the issues for the first arc and then wait for the trades to come out. Though, Paper Girls is still on my pull list.

I still buy trades mostly from Image and DC/Vertigo (new editions, deluxe hardcovers, miniseries).

 

[XMANSUSIDE50]

does anyone please know when the new supergirl comic book comes out
thanks in adavance

 

[WereCoyote]

Supergirl came out yesterday.

On the trade versus singles, it depends on when it came out for me. If I am just starting and there are a ton of issues out already like Walking Dead, when I started, then I buy the collection. But if I get in at the beginning, I prefer the singles.

 

[Babillygunn]

I'm a nostalgic fool and remember waiting all month as a kid to either get a comic in the mail or to buy it from the drug store, so I prefer singles.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Trades. I like how they look in my bookcase. I get a majority of them for 25-50% off or more. I always fall behind on my reading when I read floppies. I like a lot of 70's-early 2000's stuff and it's cheaper and more convenient in trade form.

 

[Brita21]

Trades. I like how they look in my bookcase. I get a majority of them for 25-50% off or more. I always fall behind on my reading when I read floppies. I like a lot of 70's-early 2000's stuff and it's cheaper and more convenient in trade form.

Agreed!! They just look so neat and orderly on display. It's very satisfying lol.

 

[CLARKY]

Single issues for me because that's the way they are written,so I have to wait one month to read the end of a cliffhanger. But for those that I miss or don't buy I go with trades of course.
I alos buy TPB whenI trust the authors, like G.Johns and Gary Frank on Superman, I bought the origin story without thinking twice because I had most of their work in single issue, and I was not disappointed.
Still, reading the TPB ruins the fun a bit : in each chapter, they do a recall of the previous issue, or when someone is going to die at the end of the chapter ... ... ! ! ... well I read the solution escape 2.254 seconds later while turning the page.

I'm not following any kind of logic, but I thought you question was interesting

 

[Fouldz]

Gotta be singles for me. I love the idea of picking up my favourite titles every new comic book day and the suspense that each issue can have depending on the story. But like a lot of people have already said, any stories I've missed or just ones that I never knew existed, I'd go with the novels, just makes it all easier

 

[dru-zod2501]

Gotta be singles for me. I love the idea of picking up my favourite titles every new comic book day and the suspense that each issue can have depending on the story. But like a lot of people have already said, any stories I've missed or just ones that I never knew existed, I'd go with the novels, just makes it all easier

I cosign all of this!!

But if we're posing questions, digital or physical copies? Except for the rare important milestone books (like N52 reaching Detective Comics 27) I'm completely digital. DC27 was the last physical book I bought.

 

[Batmannerism]

When possible I always go for graphic novels or self-contained stories in collected editions ( e.g. DKR, Kingdom Come, The Nail ) - or collected editions of entire story arcs (e.g. Sinestro Corps War, the Return of Barry Allen ).


I'm a sucker for a whole story - beginning, middle, end.

I still think DC does a better job with its elseworlds stories than Marvel ( Red Son anybody ?).

 

[gohei_]

Considering that I do not have a physical store nearby to buy comics, and that I am not reading the current comic runs I always buy collected editions. The big hardcovers look nice on the shelf but the paperbacks are more comfortable to read.
The only time I buy single issues is when those particular issues haven't been in a collected edition.

 

[AnneFan]

Trades. I like how they look in my bookcase. I get a majority of them for 25-50% off or more. I always fall behind on my reading when I read floppies.

This for me, too.