I was seriously addicted to comic books until a decade ago. I'm talking $20-$40 a week, depending on what came out and what caught my fancy in the store.
Then, I moved to California, and didn't have a car, and it was more expensive to live here. I wasn't willing to spend 1½ hours plus each way on the bus to go to the local comic book store. That, and a storyline started in the X-Men books that made me quite wanting to read them... OK, a few story lines. Of course, that meant I spent $10-$30 a week on comics. :) I get all my comic book fixes from web comics. That, and a pharmacist where I work tells me what's happening.
And, my brother hates that I moved, because now he can't bum my comics from me. He has to buy his own now... Hah!
I was seriously addicted to comic books until a decade ago.
*Nods.* My interest in Marvel Comic Books died a slow death that I think started over a decade ago. I mean I bought my first in 83'. They included Red Sonja and the Elfquest books they published under their Epic imprint. I bought my first X-Book, The New Mutants, in 86' and it was X-titles I bought until the end. Sometime in the 90's three things happened that added up to my eventually giving the books up in '01 --
1) The ease with which I could get the books drastically declined. I lost the ability to buy the books off the Newsstand. I had to buy them from an actual comic store or subscribe. The comic book store closed and I had to subscribe. Sometimes issues got lost in the mail.
2) The storylines stopped appealing to me. The last storyline I remember really liking is The Age of Apocalypse.
3) English translated manga started appearing where I could get it. I bought my first issue of Mixxzine at a newsstand. It's also where I bought my first issue of Shonen Jump. What I buy these days is mange from Viz and Tokyo Pop mostly in tankobons, but I've got a subscription to Viz's Shojo Beat I purchased for Yuu Watase's Absolute Boyfriend. American comic books lost me to Japanese ones. :D
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Date: 2007-03-06 11:08 am (UTC)From:Then, I moved to California, and didn't have a car, and it was more expensive to live here. I wasn't willing to spend 1½ hours plus each way on the bus to go to the local comic book store. That, and a storyline started in the X-Men books that made me quite wanting to read them... OK, a few story lines. Of course, that meant I spent $10-$30 a week on comics. :) I get all my comic book fixes from web comics. That, and a pharmacist where I work tells me what's happening.
And, my brother hates that I moved, because now he can't bum my comics from me. He has to buy his own now... Hah!
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Date: 2007-03-06 10:26 pm (UTC)From:*Nods.* My interest in Marvel Comic Books died a slow death that I think started over a decade ago. I mean I bought my first in 83'. They included Red Sonja and the Elfquest books they published under their Epic imprint. I bought my first X-Book, The New Mutants, in 86' and it was X-titles I bought until the end. Sometime in the 90's three things happened that added up to my eventually giving the books up in '01 --
1) The ease with which I could get the books drastically declined. I lost the ability to buy the books off the Newsstand. I had to buy them from an actual comic store or subscribe. The comic book store closed and I had to subscribe. Sometimes issues got lost in the mail.
2) The storylines stopped appealing to me. The last storyline I remember really liking is The Age of Apocalypse.
3) English translated manga started appearing where I could get it. I bought my first issue of Mixxzine at a newsstand. It's also where I bought my first issue of Shonen Jump. What I buy these days is mange from Viz and Tokyo Pop mostly in tankobons, but I've got a subscription to Viz's Shojo Beat I purchased for Yuu Watase's Absolute Boyfriend. American comic books lost me to Japanese ones. :D