Are you going to try out Superior Spider-Man?

[Vaiyt]

I'm feeling glad I ditched Spider-Man back in the Clone Saga.

[E. Wilson]

I'll trade-wait it, but yes.

This. Finances have pretty much consigned me to trade-waiting for the foreseeable future. Amazing is the only title I'm still buying monthly, specifically because of the big finale coming up.

[JGC]

This. Finances have pretty much consigned me to trade-waiting for the foreseeable future. Amazing is the only title I'm still buying monthly, specifically because of the big finale coming up.

Just curious, when people trade-wait - do they buy the trade online or at the comic store? The reason I ask is my comic store caters to the TPB reader with very few single issue comics. All they have is the new releases every Wednesday. How can they expect to stay afloat? Are there more trade-waiters than comic book buyers?

[kingvmr]

Sure, but all that does is reduce Spider-Man to a mere costume, if there is not one person that is THE Spider-Man then the entity known as Spider-Man isn't even a true character, its just as role that anybody can play.

That many be all right now but in the long run it will only diminish the entity known as Spider-Man from his current A-List level into a lesser B-List hero like the Flash (also just a mere costume thanks to Wally West being just as great a Flash as Barry Alan).

Nobody would ever think of doing this to say, Superman (have Kal El/Clark Kent die and then somebody else become Superman), and for good reason, it would only serve to eventually diminish the entity known as superman as it wont be character anymore but a mere role.

You're forgetting death of Superman and when Mon-el took over his book for a while.

[E. Wilson]

Just curious, when people trade-wait - do they buy the trade online or at the comic store? The reason I ask is my comic store caters to the TPB reader with very few single issue comics. All they have is the new releases every Wednesday. How can they expect to stay afloat? Are there more trade-waiters than comic book buyers?

Well, I can't speak for anyone but myself, (fortunately, I'm pretty awesome), but I buy the trade from the store, in most cases. (I do work at a bookstore, but my LCS offers a trade discount comparable to my employee discount, so unless the price disparity is just huge, I opt to support my buddy who runs the store.) My LCS seems to do briskly in both, but I generally see more comics sold than trades.

[Dog]

I'm not sure I understand "due to finances, I'll wait for the trade." Aren't most collections these days more expensive than if you had bought the single issues?

[E. Wilson]

I'm not sure I understand "due to finances, I'll wait for the trade." Aren't most collections these days more expensive than if you had bought the single issues?

At cover price, yes. As explained above, I don't pay cover price. Nor does anyone who orders from Amazon.

[JGC]

Well, I can't speak for anyone but myself, (fortunately, I'm pretty awesome), but I buy the trade from the store, in most cases. (I do work at a bookstore, but my LCS offers a trade discount comparable to my employee discount, so unless the price disparity is just huge, I opt to support my buddy who runs the store.) My LCS seems to do briskly in both, but I generally see more comics sold than trades.

I see. My LCS offers no discounts on trades. They cater to the new customer or gift giver: "I heard Iron Man is a good comic, do you have any Iron Man books?" Thing is, Amazon almost always offers 30% off so I don't know how my LCS surrives? How many new customers are looking to buy trades and stumble into this store?

[Dog]

At cover price, yes. As explained above, I don't pay cover price. Nor does anyone who orders from Amazon.

In the same vein, why would you pay cover price for single issues? I don't. Single issues from DCBS (usually) end up being cheaper than the corresponding collection from Amazon.

[E. Wilson]

In the same vein, why would you pay cover price for single issues? I don't. Single issues from DCBS end up being cheaper than the corresponding collection from Amazon.

All things being equal, I'd rather just have a book than a magazine.

[Dog]

All things being equal, I'd rather just have a book than a magazine.

They're not equal. That's what I don't understand.

That preference is fine, but if the trade is costing you 10 - 20% more (no matter the source), then money isn't the issue.

[E. Wilson]

They're not equal. That's what I don't understand.

That preference is fine, but if the trade is costing you 10 - 20% more (no matter the source), then money isn't the issue.

Oh, my bad; I didn't note my buying habits. On titles I really enjoy (Amazing, Remender's Venom, Synder's Batman), I usually buy the issues as they come, and the collected editions later. (And then turn around and eBay the issues, usually breaking even.) So, in the past I was willing to pay more not to have to wait for the new content. (And the fun of participating in discussions on the new issues.) But I'm starting my master's program next month, and won't have the extra cash (or time, most likely) to do so.

Sorry; would have been a lot clearer if I'd explained that part up front. ^^;

[ShaggyB]

remember, no discussing what you thought of asm 700 until wednesday

[Hehey]

You're forgetting death of Superman and when Mon-el took over his book for a while.

define "a while".

Because fact of the matter is when you ask a DC fan to explain to you who Superman is the answer is easy as Clark Kent is the only superman that matters and all thei have to do is tell you who Clark is. For the Flash on the other hand its a real possibility that when you ask a DC fan to explain to you who the Flash is that their first response will be "which Flash?, Wally or Barry?". In this way the entity known as Superman is a real character while the entity known as Flash is not (the Flash is a mere costume).

Death of Superman?, DC never put out any illusions that somebody else was going to be superman permanently.

[kingofsting]

Death of Superman?, DC never put out any illusions that somebody else was going to be superman permanently.

You must have read a much different version of that storyline than just about everyone else. Of course, there was never any doubt that Superman would return, but for a short while, both the cyborg and the eradicator (him in particular) were written as potentially being the real deal.