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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 12, 2015 21:32:50 GMT -5
I've read well over a dozen many times.
I don't have the time...or really the patience to do that much any more. But I have done it in the past.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 22:19:30 GMT -5
I also enjoy reading the older stories as they usually concluded in one issue or two. More happened cover to cover in one issue as opposed to today's storylines that last 10-12 issues with some promise of earth shattering events or shaking things up and nothing really happens. It's like a one and done issue of Superman from the 60s would take 2 years to tell today. I'd much rather binge on a bunch of golden age, silver age, or bronze age comics than today's books. And with the Archie books, they are just plain fun to read! I like seeing the art from the past and how it reflects the fashions, trends, and fads of the times.
When I have an omnibus or collection of older stories, I will read one at a time so I can soak up the details and the art.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Nov 19, 2015 16:52:03 GMT -5
I read almost exclusively on my tablet now, mainly for convenience as its impossible to take a bunch of single issues to work, and I hate how trades get knocked around in my bag or locker, and I just aint got the room for a good collection of REAL comics.
The tablet enables me to have decent sized runs available to choose from, my attention span is appalling which I attribute to comics...you know...15 minute bites of entertainment...its screwed up my movie watching for sure.
I read a LOT, 300 issues a month this year(or thereabouts), so thats 10 per day on average. Damn I have no life...
However I can read 6 or so issues at work, 2 each break, so its only 4 a day at home.
I prefer the modern story type, multi issue extravaganzas as that gives me 1 story to read at work, but also get sucked into binging on runs as my attention is grabbed. As an example a couple of months ago I read about 150 or so issues of Cerebus, but have since got bogged down in boredom with the Oscar Wilde issues and havent got back into it. My current obsessive read is the magnificent Scalped which I have been gulping down 2 trades at a time.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 17, 2016 12:47:55 GMT -5
Probably five-ten issues a day, fifteen maybe if I'm up to it, also depends on how engaged I am with the story. I usually don't bother with annuals because they haven't really added all that much to on-going runs in ages. And half the time they're just pure reprint fodder, so it's really quite confusing
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Post by Mormel on May 17, 2016 14:08:17 GMT -5
I don't remember specific numbers for the most part, but I did read my Essential Uncanny X-Men vol. 2 from #132 all the way down to #142 (I think), so that's 11 issues... and it was the first time I read Dark Phoenix AND Days of Future Past. I was already an X-Men fan, so you can imagine why I could NOT put it down.  Also, whenever I took the train to Berlin, which is a 6 hour travel, I always had an Essential with me to read. I average about 3 issues an hour with 22-page issues, so that's about 18 issues on the train. Sometimes less, sometimes more. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2016 14:28:32 GMT -5
I've related before, I think, back during the CBR days, that one Sunday during probably my senior year in high school (1976-1977) I found myself waaaaaay behind on my comics reading & decided to catch up in one marathon session. Must've read, I have no idea, maybe 3 or 4 dozen comics. Maybe even more than that. In any event, I guess I fell victim to sensory overload, because that night I had what I can only describe as an inability to distinguish between reality & what came off as waking dreams. Still the closest thing I've ever experienced to any sort of drug trip.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2016 17:28:13 GMT -5
On any given day - I usually read 2-3 Marvel Masterworks at one time and I do that with the DC Archives too.
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Post by Confessor on May 17, 2016 18:52:13 GMT -5
Like some others here, I used to binge read way more than I do now. I can remember reading 6 or 8 issues of early '70s Amazing Spider-Man in one sitting and I read most of Alias (I'm gonna say about 16 issues of it) in one go as well. These days, I find that I start to get sleepy or my attention wanders after about 3 comics. I guess that's old age kicking in.  |
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Post by batlaw on May 17, 2016 18:53:00 GMT -5
I'd be amazed if it was ever more than 10, maybe 12 issues in one sitting for me. Even in my younger more ferocious reading days. I've almost always read about 3-5 a pop before at least taking a decent break.
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Post by shaxper on May 17, 2016 19:02:35 GMT -5
When I was re-reading Usagi from the beginning a few months back, I know I read as many as 30 issues in a single sitting at times. That series is just really hard to put down.
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Post by Action Ace on May 17, 2016 23:35:20 GMT -5
My best guess is about two dozen comics.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 18, 2016 6:04:15 GMT -5
Like some others here, I used to binge read way more than I do now. I can remember reading 6 or 8 issues of early '70s Amazing Spider-Man in one sitting and I read most of Alias (I'm gonna say about 16 issues of it) in one go as well. These days, I find that I start to get sleepy or my attention wanders after about 3 comics. I guess that's old age kicking in. Yeah, I have trouble staying awake after 3 or 4 comics. I find the sleep to be more fun. |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 18, 2016 13:20:38 GMT -5
Like some others here, I used to binge read way more than I do now. I can remember reading 6 or 8 issues of early '70s Amazing Spider-Man in one sitting and I read most of Alias (I'm gonna say about 16 issues of it) in one go as well. These days, I find that I start to get sleepy or my attention wanders after about 3 comics. I guess that's old age kicking in. Yeah, I have trouble staying awake after 3 or 4 comics. I find the sleep to be more fun. Sleep is like "Death with benefits" as one tumblr user put it |
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