How do you buy your comics?
Botolo
I was wondering how do you buy your comics. Do you place an advance
order from Previews or do you buy them weekly? Do you buy your comics at
a LCS or online?
Thanks!
Botolo
gerard.morvan
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At first, I bought them weekly. But financial troubles forced me to move to
a monthly schedule. I give a pull list to my store, and buy them on pay day.
BTW, this month's pull list is a lot less expensive that last month's.
Thanks, DC, for helping me with my budget.
Gérard Morvan
"Kentoc'h Mervel!"
Botolo
> At first, I bought them weekly. But financial troubles forced me to move to
> a monthly schedule. I give a pull list to my store, and buy them on pay day.
> BTW, this month's pull list is a lot less expensive that last month's.
> Thanks, DC, for helping me with my budget.
The problem with the monthly list is that I so much look forward to
reading comics when they are released, that I can't wait three or four
weeks to get them!
Botolo
Ultra Magnotron
Lilith
A week at a time at the LCS. No pull list. There's no telling when I
finally reach my limit on some titles and I don't want to have to pull
something from the pull list. Plus, all the one-shots and specials
are difficult to keep up with. I'd have to scan the shelves for extra
stuff anyway, why not just grab the regular stuff I like at the same
time.
Now, if they had an online service where you could enter your pull
list on a weekly basis and modify it without having to make a hard
copy......
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Lilith
IsThisScottie
comic shop, which was followed by a period of only buying graphic novels.
Nowadays, I just read them for free at the library as one graphic novel
worth of story is roughly equal to a 23 page monthly back in the early 80s.
Botolo
> Now, if they had an online service where you could enter your pull
> list on a weekly basis and modify it without having to make a hard
> copy......
midtowncomics.com does offer this. You can modify the pull list each
week.
If you mean a website allowing you to manage a pull list, comixology.com
can help you!
Best,
Botolo
Kenneth M. Lin
myself to mail order from Westfield Comics. The shipping was cheap and I
save almost 10% on sales tax on top of discount. It was easier for me to
budget on the monthly basis and it was easier to not buy same thing twice
because I forgot to that I already bought an issue but haven't read it yet.
I feel terrible for the local stores that are struggling but it takes way
too much time for me to go through all the racks on the weekly basis.
Comics are far too expensive these days to attract new readers.
Wayne S Garmil
Botolo <bot...@notreply.net> wrote:
>
>I was wondering how do you buy your comics. Do you place an advance
>order from Previews or do you buy them weekly? Do you buy your comics at
>a LCS or online?
I do a monthly Previews order with a local comic shop, and go in once
or twice a month to get them. Every month I order less, due to lack
of space to store them and no longer interested in what is being put
out (plus Diamond dropped over half of the publishers I followed). I
am currently down to three DC's: the two Legion books and Resurrection
Man. Everything else I followed DC cancelled (not part of the reboot).
I have a strong feeling that I will switch to digital purchases once I
have an iPad so I can read them (screens on phones are MUCH too small
to read comics on). Assuming it is an actual download that can be
read offline. If it requires online access, I am not interested since
that means the content I purchase can disappear at any time. I want
to have the physical file, just like I have the physical comic book.
Wayne
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Zeb Carter
> In article<1k730hk.xaq9zuldtly8N%bot...@notreply.net>,
> Botolo<bot...@notreply.net> wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering how do you buy your comics. Do you place an advance
>> order from Previews or do you buy them weekly? Do you buy your comics at
>> a LCS or online?
>
> I do a monthly Previews order with a local comic shop, and go in once
> or twice a month to get them. Every month I order less, due to lack
> of space to store them and no longer interested in what is being put
> out (plus Diamond dropped over half of the publishers I followed). I
> am currently down to three DC's: the two Legion books and Resurrection
> Man. Everything else I followed DC cancelled (not part of the reboot).
>
> I have a strong feeling that I will switch to digital purchases once I
> have an iPad so I can read them (screens on phones are MUCH too small
> to read comics on). Assuming it is an actual download that can be
> read offline. If it requires online access, I am not interested since
> that means the content I purchase can disappear at any time. I want
> to have the physical file, just like I have the physical comic book.
>
> Wayne
>
get comics from is Books-A-Million or similar venues. My biggest gripe
for the local B-A-M is that Marvel books outnumber the DC books by a
factor of 3 to 1 it seems. I don't know if that is a local decision or
a corporate one. We do have 3 comic shops in the local area but quantity
seems to be lacking in them.
Botolo
> I have a strong feeling that I will switch to digital purchases once I
> have an iPad so I can read them (screens on phones are MUCH too small
> to read comics on). Assuming it is an actual download that can be
> read offline. If it requires online access, I am not interested since
> that means the content I purchase can disappear at any time. I want
> to have the physical file, just like I have the physical comic book.
It does not require online access. This is the way it works: when you
buy an issue, it is downloaded on the iPad. You can read it offline. You
can also cancel it, because you can re-download it as many times as you
want.
I just bought Hawk & Dove #1, new title released today by DC. I love the
idea of buying comics from my iPad, but in my opinion the reading
experience is not the same.
Botolo
Lilith
>Best,
>Botolo
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Lilith
IsThisScottie
> Botolo <bot...@notreply.net> wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering how do you buy your comics. Do you place an advance
>> order from Previews or do you buy them weekly? Do you buy your comics at
>> a LCS or online?
>
> I do a monthly Previews order with a local comic shop, and go in once
> or twice a month to get them. Every month I order less, due to lack
> of space to store them and no longer interested in what is being put
> out (plus Diamond dropped over half of the publishers I followed). I
> am currently down to three DC's: the two Legion books and Resurrection
> Man. Everything else I followed DC cancelled (not part of the reboot).
>
> I have a strong feeling that I will switch to digital purchases once I
> have an iPad so I can read them (screens on phones are MUCH too small
> to read comics on). Assuming it is an actual download that can be
> read offline. If it requires online access, I am not interested since
> that means the content I purchase can disappear at any time. I want
> to have the physical file, just like I have the physical comic book.
anytime by Apple. It already happened for ebooks:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.xml
> Wayne
IsThisScottie
Warewolf
coincidentally) and, if I happen to see something that I like, I buy it.
Because a lot of the available books, lately, have been DC or Marvel
superhero titles, purchases have been few and far between (mainly the
occasional indie graphic novel). 9_9
I may give the available manga a try if it can move beyond the 'magical
girl' and 'young boy save universe' cliches but, for now, I'll stick with
my copies of Empowered and give Scud or Bone a peek later on.
I hope that answers your question. ^_^
Signed,
Warewolf
who may have to go online for future 'mature titles'
grinningdemon
I go to two comic shops weekly to get my books...I get most of my
books at one because they give me the best discount...they just pull
pretty much everything for me and I put back what I don't want...the
other store pulls variants for me because they don't mark them up like
most stores do so I just get a few books a week there...there is also
a 3rd store that I check out from time to time because they have the
biggest selection in town and I can get odds and ends there that I
miss elsewhere...for years, I was able to get everything at one store
but then it closed down and now this is what I have to do to get the
best prices (short of ordering online).
Wayne S Garmil
Thanks for the heads up. So if I can not back-up the file from the
iPad to something else (like a USB drive), then it is NOT the same as
owning a physical copy. Good to know.
Botolo
> Does this filter down to the LCSs in some fashion?
Yes, there are many LCSs which are connected to Comixology and can
manage your pull list from there.
Botolo