TPBs Bought/Thought Thread

[Mladen]

Question.....Can I ween myself off of comics and only onto TPBs?

If I do this right......Can I still have around 2-4 TPBs every week waiting for me?

Thats currently what I'm doing, but you'll really have to branch out to non-superhero fare (which is hardly a bad thing).

There are so many excellent stories from Vertigo in TPB that you should be able to keep buying them indefinitely. I'm having a hard time resisting buying the indiv. issues of DMZ (I'm only getting the trades at the moment). I've just finished all 9 volumes of Preacher and am now going to move onto the Hellblazer trades, and there is seriously a ridiculous number of those, so there'll always be a new one to pick up each month.
I also regularly pick up a a couple of currently running Manga titles like Dragon Head or Blame! or The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service as they come out.
If the mood strikes me, I'll buy a Tintin comic.

At the end of the month I end up buying anywhere from 2 to 10 tpbs, depending on how much free time I can spare to read them. I've hardly ever not had a tpb which I wanted to buy every month.

If you only read superhero comics I don't know if you could do it, but there's always at least 2 trade paperbacks of SOMETHING superheroey coming out each month isn't there?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

A good motivation for weening yourself onto only TPBs is the desire to help kill the comic book industry as a whole.

 

[Mladen]

A good motivation for weening yourself onto only TPBs is the desire to help kill the comic book industry as a whole.

so you're only buying comics out of a sense of obligation to two massive corporations which consistently dominate the comic book market? nice.

I'm a consumer, and I'm buying the product which I prefer. DC and Marvel and every other small comic publisher wouldn't offer trade paperbacks if they are 'killing the comic book industry' as you claim. Frankly they're gaining more outside customers by offering these cheaper and more readable trades as a cheap and quick way for outsiders to get into comics. If sales in singles drops, they obviously aren't finding it a problem (especially since the market share in the US of single issues is 80% to tpbs' 20%).

I don't download comics online (unlike a lot of comicbook 'fans' on here), and I don't steal from my local store. So shut up.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Wow, you assumed a lot about me from one statement.

 

[Elijya]

Wow, you assumed a lot about me from one statement.

Isn't it also alot to assume that trades are killing the industry? if that were true, why would all the companies continue to make them, at an increasing rate over the last decade no less?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, but I was being a bit facetious. I'm just worried that if too many people start reading solely trades, the comic industry could go from having monthlies as their primary publications with trades as secondary collections of the monthlies to just trades. We've already seen the industry change itself from top to bottom to facilitate more standardized trades--creators conceiving and plotting arcs to fit convenient six- or eight- or twelve-issue trades, comics getting delayed so slow artists can get their issues out because a fill-in would ruin the flow of the story in trade form, even de facto ongoing series getting published arc-by-arc in mini-series that can then easily be collected into trades, etc. Seems like a potential danger in the future to me, but I'm paranoid in general.

 

[Anubis]

I think you should buy the actual comics for indie stuff and books that don't look like they'll last long from the big two. With the way the industry is going, where books don't get much of chance past the first three or four issue, you have to support em right away, otherwise there will be no second trade.

 

[GNR]

Any Checkmate lovers here?

I'm one chapter into the first trade,and I'm hooked.

 

[Anubis]

I've been picking it up since #1. It is....teh awesome.

 

[GNR]

I'm pondering picking it up in trade only.Is it good as a monthly read?

 

[Anubis]

I don't have a problem with it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Pretty much everything reads better in trade form, since you get more story in one sitting. Checkmate might actually benefit even more from that if you have trouble keeping political stuff straight, since there's a lot of changing allegiances and subterfuge and sabotage going on at any given time. But I certainly couldn't wait for six months to get the next Checkmate arc. It's one of my favorite reads every month.

 

[Erzengel]

My friend lent me the 1st 3 Walking Dead tpbs. I read them all within an hour.

 

[Anubis]

Devoured them like freshly scooped brain matter huh?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

My friend lent me the 1st 3 Walking Dead tpbs. I read them all within an hour.

The Walking Dead is awesome.

 

[Erzengel]

Now I have to snag the rest. I don't know when's the next time I will see him though.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

You could just buy the hardcovers. They work out cheaper than buying the individual trades, plus, y'know, hardcovers.

 

[Erzengel]

Or, I could just borrow my friends' for free?

It was worse with me catching up with Invincible though. I became enamored with that series.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Worthless freeloader.

 

[Erzengel]

Frugal.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The Walking Dead is worth your money at least twice over.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I may not like The Sentry,but i've decided to buy the original paperback.I heard it was extremly good..along with some Essentials.

 

[Anubis]

I wouldn't say extremely. Good, but not extremely good.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Certainly the best of all Sentry-related material to date, though.

 

[Anubis]

If they really wanted him to be awesome, it wouldn't be all that hard. Take him off Mighty Avengers, give him his own ongoing, and get Kurt Busiek or Alan Moore to write it with art from Lee Weeks. Actually, that would be damn near impossible.