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Just realized reading comics issue by issue beats waiting for the trade
I used to be all in on waiting for trades. Cheaper, fits on the shelf, no ads, all that. But last month I read Jason Aaron's Thor run single issues first instead of the collected books and the whole thing hit different. Every issue ended on a cliffhanger and I actually had a week to sit with it and guess what came next. With the trades I just barreled through 12 issues in one sitting and half of it blurred together by the next day. It cost me more, like $4 an issue at my shop here in Milwaukee, but the waiting and the guessing is the fun part I was missing. Am I the only one who switched back the other way?
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john4304h ago
Reading issue by issue also keeps you talking to other people at the shop between drops, which trades kill since you finish in a night and have nothing to say. Half the fun of Thor was arguing with the guy behind the counter about where the story was headed. Monthly books turn reading into a shared thing again instead of a solo binge.
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