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« on: May 11, 2008, 06:39:41 PM »
Since I've been reading comics since the 70's, I've probably read something from EVERY style of comics published at one point or another. In order to truly appreciate an artistic medium you have to have exposure to the entire medium, not just what's being presented currently, so I have a bunch of Golden Age hero reprints (well, to be honest I actually own one Golden Age comic too, "Young Allies #20"), I love the Silver-Age of comic, especially DCs of course. I'm not all that fond of the Marvel Age/Bronze Age, even though those were still being published when I was a lad and it's what was current when I first started reading - though there are some great books that came out during that time period - ESPECIALLY Amazing Spider-man (Specifically #121 and #122).
I started collecting with the Marvel toy Licenses of the late 70's and Star Wars, but that was only the beginning. I loved The Micronauts, and that took me to my first Comic Book Store in 1982, and at that point my addiction was fed on a regular basis. I've followed both the business and the creative side ever since.
These days with a growing family I can't afford to purchase much anymore, the days of being able to buy a stack of books for $15 on Friday afternoon (a lot of people don't remember that New Comic Day USED to be Fridays before the age of Diamond being the only distributor) are long gone. $15 gets you 4 comics these days, if that.
I still read a bunch of books, but nothing regularly anymore. It's just too expensive for me, and I don't have the space anymore. My collection has over 6,000 comics, which is more than 20 long-boxes. Most of them are in my storage unit because I don't have space in my apartment with an 18 month old running around.
The only books I'm buying currently are:
Grendel
Nexus
Dresden Files
Serenity
That's it. Four mini-series. I buy no on-going series. If I want to read an ongoing I wait until it's collected, or I read them digitally.
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