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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 11, 2015 9:13:40 GMT -5
I did back in the day when I first was into comics. Hell I'd read all $40-50 a week I'd buy in one evening. Especially when out of school and I worked second shift and was use to being up late. Now two boys warring for my attention I am doing good to do anything uninterrupted that last for any amount of time.
I think most recently, 4-5 years ago when I was first buying Cerebus I read most of all the first five TPB (as I got them in) I had in two sittings, as I liked them so much. Especially after Gerhard started helping on art chores. Couldn't put em down.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 11, 2015 9:17:20 GMT -5
I read the first 5 issues of The Walking Dead when those were coming out, then I stoped buying it since it moved a little too slowly for my tastes. 3 years ago, I borrowed the TPBs from a friend and read 1-91 in one go without break. Is that even possible?  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 11, 2015 9:23:52 GMT -5
I read the first 5 issues of The Walking Dead when those were coming out, then I stoped buying it since it moved a little too slowly for my tastes. 3 years ago, I borrowed the TPBs from a friend and read 1-91 in one go without break. Is that even possible? I got that first TPB for my 12 year old son from the library, that had that many issues, and he plowed through it in probably 4-5 days. I don't get it either buy at least he's recently read Jurassic Park and Lost World novels, so I know he has some good taste in fiction. :-) |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 11, 2015 9:26:07 GMT -5
Yet, I remain certain that the very best books of the 80ies-10ies are much more dense read then the best american comic books of the 50ies-70ies
I was thinking of a good exemple for that : the 50ies EC comic books had stories with an average of 8 pages. The best equivalent for odern comics I could find would be those Vertigo anthologies (Gangland, Weird War Tales, Flinch, etc...). Tose had some so so stuff, but mostly top notch. And the story page count was most of the time 6 pages, yet, those took sometimes a lot of investment.
So I mean, it's all about your picks : you'll find contemporary reads as dense and involving if not more as the very best of the golden age, and you'll find absolute lightspeed reading material such as most Warren Ellis superhero stuff. Some of my fave EC stories barely took 3-4 mn to read eihter.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 11, 2015 9:29:48 GMT -5
I read the first 5 issues of The Walking Dead when those were coming out, then I stoped buying it since it moved a little too slowly for my tastes. 3 years ago, I borrowed the TPBs from a friend and read 1-91 in one go without break. Is that even possible? Have you read the comic? Most issues take less than 5 mn to read... I think I started around 22:00 and was finished around 5-6 in the morning. It's as easy to read as Rob Liefeld comics might have looked awesome to an 8 year old kid back in hte late 80ies. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 11, 2015 9:32:24 GMT -5
Is that even possible? Have you read the comic? Most issues take less than 5 mn to read... I think I started around 22:00 and was finished around 5-6 in the morning. It's as easy to read as Rob Liefeld comics might have looked awesome to an 8 year old kid back in hte late 80ies. Maybe that's why my 12 year old son likes the show. (Doesn't explain why my wife does though.) :-) |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 11, 2015 9:33:06 GMT -5
I've been known to read an entire Essentials or Showcase volume at a sitting, which averages 20-25 floppies per book. I also seem to recall deciding to read my entire 6000+ (at the time) collection from beginning to end around 1983. Took me about 2 and a half weeks reading 5-6 hours a day. Wouldn't have the stamina for that today. Cei-U! I summon the marathon madness! That's about 100-110 hours spent on 6000 issues. which would be like one hour per 60 issues. What did your collection mostly consist of back then? I'm genuinely interested  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2015 9:36:07 GMT -5
Marvel Masterworks: Fantastic Four Vol. 1
It would take me about an average of 90 to 120 minutes to read the entire Volume 1 of this Marvel Masterworks to recount the early days of the Fantastic Four. On a rainy day, nothing on TV, and everything caught up of my daily errands - I can read 2-3 Marvel Masterworks in a single afternoon from 1 o'clock to 5 o'clock in the afternoon enjoying the fine works of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
I do this on a monthly basis. BTW, I have the complete set of all the Silver Age Classics of the Fantastic Four Masterworks.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 11, 2015 9:37:56 GMT -5
I plan to start sometime in the near future a binge read of all Dark Horse Aliens comics that I own (and that is almost all of them but Colonial Marines and a few one shots), as well as Hellblazer 1-300 plus all miis and specials. I 'm sure I can pull it off, but I'm also pretty sure I will be proven wrong.
I started to read my complete collection of Neat Stuff/Hate/The Bradleys/etc recently, and I average at 2 books a day, purely for timing questions, so that means that I'll have to organize myself in advance in a major way if I want those two other goals to happen.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2015 9:44:44 GMT -5
Hellblazer 1-300 plus all miis and specials. I 'm sure I can pull it off, but I'm also pretty sure I will be proven wrong. That's a pretty impressive collection there of Hellblazers ... wow! |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 11, 2015 9:50:26 GMT -5
I plan to start sometime in the near future a binge read of all Dark Horse Aliens comics that I own (and that is almost all of them but Colonial Marines and a few one shots), as well as Hellblazer 1-300 plus all miis and specials. I 'm sure I can pull it off, but I'm also pretty sure I will be proven wrong. I started to read my complete collection of Neat Stuff/Hate/The Bradleys/etc recently, and I average at 2 books a day, purely for timing questions, so that means that I'll have to organize myself in advance in a major way if I want those two other goals to happen. How recently have you bought any Aliens comics? I was a big fan of the movies before I got into comics and loved most of them. I started petering off when they had the three character crossovers and the Xenogenesis ones around 2000. But the early series ... Salvation being one of the best comics, period ... those are gems of story-telling. A lot of the novels are well done too. Music of the Spears especially. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 11, 2015 9:57:59 GMT -5
I was recently considering doing a "AGS reads Aliens comics" thread, as I noticed that most of those were much much more than mere license milking. The recent crossover with Prometheus and Predator was pretty odd, probably in a good way. John Arcudi's mini from like 5-6 years ago was very disturbing. I will also probably buy the upcoming relaunched series they have planned as the creative team seems very capable of delivering intriguing stories (Brian Wood and Tristan Jones)
I agree though that those Xenogenesis ones seem to be terrible, and I feel lucky I passed them. but until those, it's probably the best licensed comic ever IMHO.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 11, 2015 10:04:19 GMT -5
Hellblazer 1-300 plus all miis and specials. I 'm sure I can pull it off, but I'm also pretty sure I will be proven wrong. That's a pretty impressive collection there of Hellblazers ... wow! I always hoped and thought Hellblazer would be the very last comic book I'd quit. Sadly, DC decided to quit on my dedication. I tried the Constatine comic but had to quit after 2 issues. The new series is probably much better, but I'm happy with that run of 300+, probably the most consistant mainstream comic ever : There were creative teams or arcs that annoyed me, but nothing I could qualify as bad (well, maybe Warren Ellis' run though, as it was pretty insignificant) |
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 11, 2015 10:13:28 GMT -5
I've been known to read an entire Essentials or Showcase volume at a sitting, which averages 20-25 floppies per book. I also seem to recall deciding to read my entire 6000+ (at the time) collection from beginning to end around 1983. Took me about 2 and a half weeks reading 5-6 hours a day. Wouldn't have the stamina for that today. Cei-U! I summon the marathon madness! That's about 100-110 hours spent on 6000 issues. which would be like one hour per 60 issues. What did your collection mostly consist of back then? I'm genuinely interested Hmmm, my math (as usual) must be suspect because no way did I read 60 comics an hour, even with my skipping letters pages, Bullpen Bulletins, etc. As for my collection, it was about 80% Marvel titles at the time, the rest being a mix of DC, undergrounds and the odd Gold Key, King or Charlton. Cei-U! I summon Evelyn Wood! |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 11, 2015 10:26:57 GMT -5
In general, I'll happy to read about a trade or so worth of comics at a time, up to 10 or so, but not a whole lot more than that. I definitely recall in my formative days buying 6-10 issues of Wolfman/Perez Titans or MIchilinie/Layton Iron Man along with my weekly pull and dying to get more then next week. I'll read that amount 2 or 3 times in a day if I've got a quiet day, but usually different stuff. Novels, OTOH, I love to read all at once. I think the biggest chunk was reading the middle 3 Wheel of Time books on a business trip to LA in about 48 hours. Then there was a 3rd Ender's Game book, which I bought on the day it came out on the way home from work, when home, ate dinner, then read cover to cover before going to bed (briefly) at about 4 AM... not totally recommend on a work night |
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