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Post by wickedmountain on Sept 30, 2015 1:42:21 GMT -5
I'm curious how you guys and gals buy your comics floppies or TPB's  |
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Post by wickedmountain on Sept 30, 2015 1:43:19 GMT -5
Floppies so far for me but Iv'e been in a comic Lull lately  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 1:52:31 GMT -5
A mix for me. Older stuff I get in floppies when I can afford it, but trades when I can't (Silver/Golden Age stuff). Newer stuff I mostly trade wait (or in Marvel's case-wait for it to hit Unlimited). I stopped buying new floppies last year, but even before that I had started only buying series I wanted to financially support-mostly creator owned stuff-and trade waiting on the rest of it (and eventually getting trades of that creator-owned stuff as well and trading originals off as they rose in collector prices to fund getting more stuff).
I prefer to buy outside Diamond's distribution when I can as I do not want to support their business practices any longer, so usually buy my trades from the book distribution sector of the market, not from those getting supplied by Diamond. I make a few exceptions for books I want to see survive or for moves by publishers I want to show support for (like buying Coates & Stelfreeze's upcoming Black Panther or the upcoming Dr. Strange series from Marvel, and when I do I have decided to buy direct print subscriptions when available to show support for the entire run of the book, not just the initial issues with their inflated sales from variants and retailer speculation.
So trades except for special occasions now.
-M
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 30, 2015 7:18:46 GMT -5
A mix for me, too. I don't buy contemporary comics so that particular point is moot. For back issues, it's usually the dollar boxes for those series I want the original runs of and trades--especially Showcases and Essentials--for everything else.
Cei-U!
Takes what he can get!
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 30, 2015 7:54:13 GMT -5
Both for me as well. I still buy two or three (on average) new comics a week, and trades of things I didn't get into initially that sound good now (currently, Hawkeye). For classic comics, I try primarily for floppies on the cheap.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 9:38:05 GMT -5
I get very few floppies these days and I'm pretty much reading my Comics online and I don't do trades anymore and if I have a Comic Book needs to get rid of - my Comic Book Store will buy them and place them in the various bins throughout it's store that anyone can buy them at their own convenience. In 2-3 years from now, I should get down to 50-100 floppies that I don't want them sold at any price.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 30, 2015 9:40:46 GMT -5
Floppies for the handful of current books I collect. Get them from the LCS, as I want to support his business.
Floppies for the classic stuff as long as I can reasonably afford it, trades for when I can't or won't pay market rate or if I don't want to take the time and effort to track down all of the issues. I have the first 6 Daredevil Masterworks (most of which I got for at least 60% off retail price), because I didn't have the interest in spending the time or money getting all of those books; same goes for Thor, Avengers, and Iron Man.
Only ongoing book I ever trade-waited was Fables. I got into it late and picked up the first 6 trades on eBay for a steal, then bought the rest off of Amazon, except for the last three, which I got from my LCS.
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Post by Randle-El on Sept 30, 2015 9:42:52 GMT -5
Mix of floppies, trade, and digital.
Floppies: I have a small pull list at an LCS, mostly populated with books from Image and other independent publishers. If it's on my monthly pull list, it means that I find the story to be engaging enough that I want to keep up with it month to month, and/or I want to show that I support the book and want it to keep going. For older stories, if they are from the newsprint era (pre-mid 90s), I prefer to have floppies unless they are exorbitantly expensive.
Trades: Anything from the glossy paper era that I missed in floppy form. Usually it's stuff that's older (but still recent) that I've heard good things about that I don't want to bother with tracking down floppies for. For example, I just picked up the Jeff Lemire run on Animal Man in TPB for about $20 at Baltimore Comic Con. Also for stories that I really enjoyed that I want to have in a nice hardcover form.
Digital: Usually for stuff that I just want to sample without ending up with piles of books that I'm not interested in keeping. I also have a subscription to Marvel Unlimited, so if there's anything from Marvel I want to read, I usually just wait for it to come out there. Sometimes there will be issues that I enjoyed enough on digital that I will want to track down the rest of the run as a physical copy. I also use digital for vacation reading. I just take my iPad wherever I'm going and I have more than enough reading material than I could ever hope to finish during the trip.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 30, 2015 10:48:30 GMT -5
I think I last bought a floppy in 1999.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 30, 2015 11:52:07 GMT -5
I no longer buy anything new. I'll get TBDs from the library.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 14:42:49 GMT -5
Some I still get floppies, but very few. I mostly like the extra large trades or hardcovers, 300-700 pages.
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 30, 2015 17:40:07 GMT -5
If it's a new comic, it will be a floppy.
It will never be digital.
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Post by coke & comics on Sept 30, 2015 17:48:25 GMT -5
You should add a poll to the thread.
I stopped buying new floppies 8 years ago.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 30, 2015 18:23:44 GMT -5
For me its' floppies all the way. The only trade/HC I'll buy will be for strips, like Pogo or Little Nemo.
If it's too expensive in floppies, I'll find a way to read it until I can afford to buy it, but I will not buy trades. And If I can never buy it because of price or availability, well, I got enough already at home to keep me happy, you can't get 'em all.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Sept 30, 2015 18:31:12 GMT -5
Floppies for me! Only trade I have is Watchmen.
While I know I will never likely have a lot of classic, I assume someday I will have to buy some trades but for now, I like looking for older reprints or unique reprints. Something different but still nostalgic like the Pocket Books from the 70's that reprints the first 5 FF issues or the Treasury sized comics that reprint Golden Age books I will (likely) never own.
I am like you^ I love individual comics and there is enough I can afford to keep me going. Maybe I will read Iron Man #55 some day, maybe I won't but unless it's in a cool reprint or original ish, I'm not buying a giant omnibus just to say I have.
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