CBR: Pipeline - Nov 22, 2011

[CBR News]

Augie recommends "Reed Gunther," a comic book about a bear-riding cowboy. Also, how to completely misread a press event, why Augie waits for the trade and more digital thoughts.


Full article here.

[Gorgeousaur]

Tradewaiting became easier for me because as I slowly switched over I realized I didn't care as much about the titles that I used to buy monthly as I thought I did. It's a lot easier to care about the latest reveal or cliffhanger in Green Lantern or Avengers or whatever when you only have to wait a month between them, but once you're waiting for 6 or so months? It's easier to say "f--- it."

[Gary_B]

Good Reed Gunther review. I bought the trade last week and really enjoyed it.

[Shawn Kane]

I'll let the story breathe in whatever way it wants to, but I want to see the same creators handling it.

I guess it's just a generational difference. I was raised on late 70's early 80's comics and I've never been as interested in the creators as I am the character. If the X-Men is supposed to come out monthly, I wanted to read their adventures every month. Sure I didn't necessarily like it when Rick Leonardi would do an issue or two of the JRjr's run but the story was still told. But most comics in those days sold the characters not the creators and for the most part the good comics had professionals that kept their deadlines. Probably my biggest problem with trade waiting is that it excuses the creators for their tardiness: "Yeah it's been six months between issues but (insert artist here) is doing a spread page that will blow your mind!" Sorry I've kind of lost interest. I know that Joe Q used to say that comics like Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns were late at times but they weren't technically monthly comics.

[dancj]

I mostly made the jump in around 1995. The quality of Superman and Batman comics (which ate up a good chunk of my money) had dropped dramatically, the newsagent distribution in the UK became completely unreliable and I never could keep up with remembering what was going on in twenty odd stories with month long gaps.

It just made more sense to me to spend about £12 on about 500 pages of Cerebus than on about 8 Batman comics by creators who seemed tired of the characters.

[Schmakt]

I'm slowly easing out of the monthly-floppies as well...

I am, however, with you on Savage Dragon. I don't read The Walking Dead, but I do follow Usagi Yojimbo pretty religiously as well. That one definitely seems to fit your criteria of things to follow monthly...

EDIT: As an aside... I was re-reading SD 1-50 earlier this month... man, those letters-pages are awesome. How many letters did Augie get published?? And whatever happened to your arch-nemesis Olav?