Vent: My nephew proved me wrong about digital comics after 30 years of paper collecting

I've been buying physical comics since 1985. Always said digital was for people who don't appreciate the real thing. But last month my nephew showed me his iPad with a backlit page at 2am during a power outage. He had the entire 1987 Miller Daredevil run downloaded for $20. I paid over $200 for those issues in bags and boards. Still love my paper copies but now I get why someone with limited space would go digital. Anyone else make the switch after swearing you never would?

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noahbaker1mo ago

Isn't it wild how a kid can just flex on your whole collecting philosophy like that? I had almost the exact same moment when my niece loaded up a run of X-Men on her tablet during a road trip, and I realized I was lugging around a short box like a caveman. Digital isn't better or worse, it's just a different tool for the same habit, and that's a hard thing to admit after three decades.

fox.jesse1mo ago

Man, that's the part that really gets me - the "different tool for the same habit" thing. Do you ever catch yourself feeling almost guilty for not having the physical copy, like you're cheating on your past self or something? Because I do that constantly. Like if I read a classic run on the app, part of my brain still whispers "yeah but you don't really have it." And I know that's dumb logic, especially when the alternative is paying rent for literal boxes of paper, but it's hard to shake.