To Those Who Get Current Titles in Hardcover/Paperback...

[ChristmasFanatic]

Do you have same urge as monthlies where you must have it all? (Vol. 1, 2, 3, etc.) Or do you not mind having "holes" in your volume count(Vol 1, 3)?

[Sean Walsh]

.....it kinda feels weird when they're numbered and I don't have them all. But if they don't have numbering it's not as bad.

[CaptCleghorn]

.....it kinda feels weird when they're numbered and I don't have them all. But if they don't have numbering it's not as bad.

I kind of agree. It's very obvious that there's a gap when the volumes are numbered. But when they are not, gaps are a lot more evident and without checking which issues were reprinted in each trade, gaps can even be missed, leaving a reader unsure whether his collection is complete or not.

And I have firsthand knowledge of the collector's mentality driving me nuts as well.

[daWWn]

If they're numbered, I have the urge to get them all. And once I've bought a few in the series, I feel the urge to keep going, even if I don't particularly like the way the title is being written (which explains why I own every Wolverine: Origins tpb, as well as every tpb of Way's Deadpool, haha). It still bothers me when I look at my shelf that I have the oversized HCs of Busiek's Avengers Assemble 1 and 3-5, but 2 is missing (I have the tpb, but it isn't the same).

[ChristmasFanatic]

Whew, glad Im not the only crazy one.

[z1co80]

Yeah

It's like a crack addiction.

[Russell]

I must have them all, and all in the same format.

Impossible with both.

Spider-Man has had hardcovers, OHCs and now paperbacks only.

Scarlet Spider had a beautiful new hardcover, but is now paperback only.

I don't like when issues are out of order either, really.

I'm going to have to line up SS1, Minimum Carnage, SS2.

I'm glad I waited on Venom. All paperbacks