Ranting meme revisited

[seandc]

Rant about how you've become addicted to buying comics, the ones you now buy because of someone getting you interested, and just how much it costs you. :D

Okidokie. I've been a comic buyer for nigh on... 13 years now - since I noticed DC's ol' Star Trek and TNG lines in A&R, and remembered a few weeks later there was actually a comic shop down by the EntCent. My collection was mainly Treks and other shows, never got into the mainstream hero ones (back then I was broke, and seeing all these books with stories that wound from one title to the next, no way could I afford to keep up). Anyway, these were pretty much long gone (with the exception of Avatar's new SG1 line, but me and Stargate comics is another story) and a couple of magazines.

Anyways, in late July last year, I was talking to someone who shall remain "the fantastic and wonderful Katzchen" for reasons of anonymity (happy K? :D) as normal (we often talk). At this time, I was in my slump, and K was just getting back into one of her old fandoms, X-Men, and wanted to share the joy. Enter me, trying to keep up with who's who, until in early August K introduces me to a Live Journal community called "scans_daily" with some scans from the latest issue of Astonishing X-Men. I read, I decide to mosey on down to the comic store and see if I can get this.

There ought to be a health warning on those shops - "warning, comics buying can be addictive!"

K shoulda known about my addictive personality. ;)

So, I bought, I liked, I decided to check out a few more, saw some from the other titles in newsagent and I'm now reading 8 titles regularly, along with another I'm thinking of adding to my list, the miniserieses that I pick up... and since I need to make this into a more ranty rant... it's all your fault, Katzchen! :lol: And you didn't even keep up with me on all the titles :P

That is the how.

As for how much it's cost me: what with the large number of trade paperbacks (approx $30-$40ea), comic issues (averaging at $5.20 for the sake of calculation) and others bought secondhand, or old old ones somewhat costlier: I have spent approximately AU$1400 on X-Men comics! - less about a hundred and fifty bucks in discounts from the store. And there's more about to be more ordered from this month's Previews...

Also in addition to that, there's another $180ish on trade paperbacks I wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't reading Previews more carefully these days (eg Fray, the Gold Key Star Trek collection), and a couple of DCU ones. But so not gonna get into those as much as XM. I'd need a forklift to get all me comics home.



I included this since there seems to be a wizarding meme going around... mine seems different though...

You are The Bursar.
You are generally seen as a fruitcake, but have
been known to show keen insight... on special
occasions. Put that in your herring and smoke
it.


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