The Comic Book Thread (spoilers)

[Your Mom]

Yes. There is a picture of the cover in with Kirkland's order thingie.

[TKz]

It can't be that bad, mine hasn't arrived yet, but all of the Original Sin tie ins have been pretty inoffensive thus far. I imagine this is just going towards revealing the new female hero with Spidey powers, which plays a part in what Slott wants to do with the comic anyway.

[Your Mom]

Yeah that sounds good. I just know in the past tie ins have been really hard to follow. But that makes sense

[Johnny Latino Heat]

She's not a hero, is she? From what it's been seen in the comics thus far, doesn't seem like it.

[TKz]

With the current push for diversity and female heroes, if she's not one now, she will be. If she's popular, she will be.

[=BK=]

I too was a little bugged when I saw that Spidey was a tie-in but I guess the tie-ins are doing their job since I'm now going to read the main OS book since at least 3 of my books(Spidey,DD and X-Men) will tie into it.

[Your Mom]

I too was a little bugged when I saw that Spidey was a tie-in but I guess the tie-ins are doing their job since I'm now going to read the main OS book since at least 3 of my books(Spidey,DD and X-Men) will tie into it.

Oh who cares what you do? You don't actually buy them

[=BK=]

I buy more Marvel stuff when I have cash if I like them though At some point I do want to buy a lot of what I read. But I have no money regularly, know of no place that sells comic books that aren't trades and don't like the idea of buying digital since I want actual comic books.

[Your Mom]

Digital is the best. The only reason I even buy my Marvel stuff at a shop anymore is Marvel gives a free Digital copy

[probablyoliver]

I bought ten of the Civil War trade paper books and still felt dirty for torrenting the ones I couldn't find. In fact I'm deliberately putting off reading it until I can buy proper copies of the ones I'm missing.

[TKz]

I don't really have a problem with torrenting comics, I torrent quite a lot of the older ones that would be impossible to read in their entirety.

But the ridiculous amount of money I spend on comics a month helps with that. I'm honestly running out of room for comics. I have two piles laying just in the corner of my room, up to my knees, because I don't have any storage space left. >_>

[Avenged Probably]

That exact reason is why I switched to digital.

[TKz]

At the moment, it's mostly because on my trip to Florida I found a giant comic book shop and spent $400 in one day exclusively on comics. >_>

[probablyoliver]

Yeah, older comics or things I legit can't find are a different story, I don't mind torrenting them if absolutely need be, but I'm a bit old school and just much prefer the feel off a book. Plus I'm ridiculously OCD and prefer tpb's because they just look nicer on a bookshelf. Hell, I've fallen behind spoiler free on Walking Dead because I have the first two Compendium's a refuse to switch to the tpb's. I'd just much rather wait until next October.

[Gabriel]

I torrent everything, but I also spend a ridiculous amount of money on Trades. When I have extra cash, I usually go crazy and order a bunch of books I'm trying to keep up on, as well as a bunch of stuff that's on sale at the time.

I have this obsessive issue with refusing to pay for something I can't physically have. I understand the appeal of digital for most people, I just can't do it. If I'm going to give someone my money, I want something in my hands, that I own, that they don't reserve the right to take away from me later on.

[TKz]

I actually prefer digital as a reading medium now - it's a lot easier to take all 30 odd issues of a run with me to work for lunch on my iPad - but I purchase the single issues of whatever runs I'm currently reading. Case in point, I just spent like £30 on picking up the first 5 issues of Daredevil Marvel Now and New Warriors, because I read them and want to collect them.

The only currents runs I torrent that I don't buy are the ones Mrs. TKz buys. Or DC. Fuck DC. (except Grayson and Teen Titans) >_>

[=BK=]

You don't like Earth 2?

[TKz]

Not really, it's a fairly generic DC title from what I read.

[Your Mom]

This is just me personally but I don't think you should torrent anything you could actually go out and buy. Maybe if you live in a country where they don't really import much and it would cost you $20 for a new issue or something but if you have the ability to buy something and you instead do it through torrents that's essentially stealing.

[TKz]

There's no essentially about it, it's stealing. I just don't really mind, I'm paying for a lot of comics already. Anything I download is old stories I otherwise wouldn't have bothered with.