Do you read all the books?

[SoonerSean]

I left comics years ago and have only snuck back to the local comic shop from time-to-time to scan the covers and consider purchases that I usually talk myself out of only to sneak back out without a purchase.

But lately I've been actually stopping to pick up a couple of books and one has been Superman.

But this Infinite Crisis or whatever it's called is ruining it b/c it crosses over from book-to-book. Why not just keep a mini-series going that might get a mention in an individual book or have some kind of effect, without actually requiring that someone buy multiple DC books?

Back when I was a hardcore buyer, the X-Books did this all the time and you'd have to go from a great Jim Lee book to a really bad X-Factor book, then to a decent While Portacio book, and then off to some other bad title. It's too expensive and really messes with the continuity of an individual book.

I guess I'm showing my age and the fact that I haven't been buying books regularly for years now... but I like books that can stick with their own self-contained stories. I guess while crossovers like this are taking place it'd be best to just put Superman back on the shelf and return when self-contained stories resume. But man... I dig the big blue guy (just not enough to buy every book DC produces).

[Guts/Batman]

I do buy all books.

All are IC driven...but all the books have their own way of dealing with it.

Adventures is full on IC. Superman is kinda. And Action just kinda ignores it.

[cmndob]

I buy 'em all and 2 years ago I wasn't buying ANY DC books. The Hype machine giveth...

[ExoKnight]

I'm generally a big DCU fan, so my subscription usually include most of the books. I probably read about 80 percent of them. There are only a few series that I don't collect like Blood of the Demon.

[Lurker]

You should read Inifinite Crisis.

Its got two Supermen in it, along with:

2 Lex Luthors
2 Lois Lanes
2 Superboys
2 Supergirls, although one goes by "Power"

It's a perverbial Super Brady Bunch!

[Young Avenger]

2 Supergirls, although one goes by "Power"

It's a perverbial Super Brady Bunch!

There is 3 Supergirls. That's if you want to count the evil Supergirl from Supergirl #3

[Lurker]

There is 3 Supergirls. That's if you want to count the evil Supergirl from Supergirl #3

Well she has yet to appear in Infinite Crisis the comic book limited series, so therefore, she wasn't included.

[Strange(r)]

The title with the best tie-ins is Firestorm. You get a complete story, even when he woke up kidnapped. Try it.

[666MasterOfPuppets]

I left comics years ago and have only snuck back to the local comic shop from time-to-time to scan the covers and consider purchases that I usually talk myself out of only to sneak back out without a purchase.

But lately I've been actually stopping to pick up a couple of books and one has been Superman.

But this Infinite Crisis or whatever it's called is ruining it b/c it crosses over from book-to-book. Why not just keep a mini-series going that might get a mention in an individual book or have some kind of effect, without actually requiring that someone buy multiple DC books?

Back when I was a hardcore buyer, the X-Books did this all the time and you'd have to go from a great Jim Lee book to a really bad X-Factor book, then to a decent While Portacio book, and then off to some other bad title. It's too expensive and really messes with the continuity of an individual book.

I guess I'm showing my age and the fact that I haven't been buying books regularly for years now... but I like books that can stick with their own self-contained stories. I guess while crossovers like this are taking place it'd be best to just put Superman back on the shelf and return when self-contained stories resume. But man... I dig the big blue guy (just not enough to buy every book DC produces).

DC is doing these crossovers because Infinite Crisis is a comapny-wide event that touches all the DC Universe. All in all, IC is a universe-changing event.

And yes, I buy them all: Superman, Action Comics, Adventures Of Superman, and Superman/Batman, along with the IC mini itself.