moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (06/16/85)
In article <2914@sdcc3.UUCP> ee171ael@sdcc3.UUCP (GEOFFREY KIM) writes: >In article <2573@decwrl.UUCP>, boyajian@akov68.DEC writes: >> But tell me, how do you *know* that "every issue after about 150 sucked" >> unless you've read them? And if that's the case, why do you read a >> comic that "sucks head"? > >I read it because the masses (who are asses) value this comic alot. >I have every issue of the new XMEN, and it is going to be worth a >fortune someday. So you are collecting comics for monetary reasons only? SECRET WARS II and all that? Well, from all indications, the glut of X-Men related things will mean that it will be a good twenty or thirty years before these things become rare (read: valuable). Unless, of course, we have a nuclear war... I have a different point-of-view: I keep my comics in good condition, but I collect those which I enjoy, which I have enjoyed in the past and sporadically please me now (the X-Men fits this category), and those which look potentially interesting. I'm in comics for the reading enjoyment, and this has been a year with an excellent "harvest", in that sense. I admit, X-Men has not been up to the consistent standards of pre-150 books -- but it has been good enough to buy. In my opinion. If I wanted to use my money to make more money, I'd begin investigating market shares and that ilk (or maybe think about a trip to Columbia :-) ). Comics is what I do for pleasure, and if a comic is not worth reading, it's not worth buying. You've got to give some of them a chance, but not forever (TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is a good example of a title deserving excommunication -- I know it's "hot", but it's no fun to read...). I dunno -- maybe I should run a poll on net.comics asking whether one buys titles more on a financial basis, or an entertainment basis. What do you think? "You're all MISTAKEN! I got 65 girlfriends -- and a LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP in the NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION!" Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsri}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA