Do You Collect Comics? [Archive]

rock810

06/14/2006, 13:41

The other day while doing my clean-up for my move, I was packing my comics. Now I do read comics, but I am in no way a collector. I have a few choice ones I like (spiderman primarily) and won't go out of my way to get much more then that. I have a total of 4 titles I pick up at each tournament and don't even break 20 dollars on the month in comics. However, I notice some players who drop 30-50 on comics alone (my wife would KILL me).

As a heroclix player I am in the game for the game play and the fact that it is a comic book game makes it that much more fun. I am slowly getting into theme play, but will make use of wikipedia more to know what is going on in comics compared to buying a trade paper back. (I say this as I just bought the HOM Spiderman Trade Paperback 2 days ago-Awesome read)

So the question to you as gamers do you collect comics?

Darth Sabre

06/14/2006, 13:44

Yes. I'm a comic fan/collector first and gamer second.

Manchine

06/14/2006, 13:55

Wouldnt be in Hero Clix if it weren't for Comics. Of course Hero Clix got me back into comics again. What a Paradox. :) :)

GianSingir

06/14/2006, 13:55

Used to collect big time, but after serving in the USMC, I kinda got out of it. I feel like an old man saying it, but dang are these things pricey nowadays! Back in my day, I used to walk 15 miles, in the snow to the comic store, and pay 1.25... Ok, I'm sounding like my Dad now lol

St-Dumas

06/14/2006, 14:38

I enjoy a few comics (Exiles, Ultimate Marvel, etc.), but I don't buy them regularly.

ludd_gang

06/14/2006, 14:40

Wouldnt be in Hero Clix if it weren't for Comics. Of course Hero Clix got me back into comics again. What a Paradox. :) :)

Me too.

You don't have "pick up too many from time to time" as a choice. That's me.

BigSoph

06/14/2006, 14:51

4-6 per week is my average

JSA classified, JSA, Superman, Action, Green Lantern Corps, Age of Bronze, PVPOnline, Simpsons, NextWave, Ultimates, Superman/Batman, Fables, Invincible, Walking Dead, Legion, Checkmate

Mini-series and one shots on an individual basis (52, Captain Atom)

Regulars are mostly DC, some Indy, 2 Marvel

xXHushXx

06/14/2006, 14:56

I'll pick one up every now and then.

Granite Moose

06/14/2006, 15:09

Wouldnt be in Hero Clix if it weren't for Comics. Of course Hero Clix got me back into comics again. What a Paradox. :) :)

My exact same situation. Thought I had beaten the bug until Clix just sucked me back into the whole comics thing. So far I'm not too bad, only about $20/month like Rock, but it's tough to keep it at bay.

styx

06/14/2006, 15:24

I am an avid comic collector. I got started in 1982 when I was 8. My Grandmother handed me a box with 400 or so of my dad's comics when she was cleaning out some of his stuff for me after he was killed a year or so before by a drunk driver.

They were not in that great of shape but they were and still are some of my most beloved comics. The titles included Strange Tales, Journey into Mystery, Captain America and Nick Fury. ( Jim Steranko is still one of my favorite artists to this day. )

I now have 10,000 or more comics. I have a 5x8 environmentally controlled storage room rented to hold them since my collection has outgrown my office.

I have severely cut back in the last few years, I am buying more trades now and less comics due to marrige and now a baby on the way.

My crown jewel is a mid grade VF copy of X-Men #1. I bought it in 1992 for $1050, back when I had disposeable income. I am only 14 issues short of the X-Men run from 1963 to present, not including the reprints. Now with a baby on the way and as picky as I am about the condition of the comics I buy I will probably never complete the run.

Now I buy:

Marvel:
Main X-Men books, Avengers (New and Young) and Exiles I quit Ultimates due to its Bi-Annual release and the FF due to poor quality.

DC:
Titans, JSA, Green Arrow, Birds of Prey and Outsiders

I buy the trades of Nightwing, JLA, Invincible, Flash, Hawkman, Ultimates, Ultimate X-Men, JSA, Batgirl and any miniseries that is interesting. I also buy trades of some other books that the story arcs were good.

Funky Jett

06/14/2006, 15:47

No, but I'm not a friggin' idiot either.

Darth Sabre

06/14/2006, 16:11

I started reading comics when I was in Kindergarten. My baby sitter at the time had two boys, one who was wayy into comics. He had sveral trunkfulls, and would allow me to read them, so long as I didn't tear them up (ironic, because they were carelessly thrown into the trunks :rolleyes:). Anyway, back then, I read a lot of Nova, Justice League, Hulk, Amazing Spider-man, ROM, Micronauts, Superman and Batman, Arion, and several other titles. I would spend most of my time there reading the comics, when I wasn't playing with the other kids or watching cartoons.

I was living with my grandparents at the time, and my grandmother allowed me to get comics like Richie Rich, Smurfs, and Archie, but never any Superhero titles. They were to violent and she was a Jehovah's Witness-so even the Smurfs was pushing it, and she wouldn't let me get them too often.

I collected those till she passed away and I moved back with my parents. I then started collecting Superhero comics, and dumped the kiddie titles (though I kept them). From the time I was 11, until I was 21, I collected Primarily X-Men, Superman, Batman, and Spider-man comics, but also splashed in some Avengers, Hulk, WCA.

After 15 years of collecting, my collection which I had kept despite moving to several states, was stolen. I was so upset, I decided to quit reading comics.

When Heroclix came along, my interest started resurfacing. But clix didn't push me back into comics, Dreamwave's Transformers series did. I started picking that up (swearing that would be the only one :cheeky: ) and then Red Son came out, and before you knew it, I was up to about 40 titles a month within a year of picking up Red Son.

I've chipped it down to 28 titles a month, and spend about $15-20.00 a week on new comics, and another $10-30 a month on back issues, trades, ect.

My current collection will never match my old one, and though I still enjoy them, it's just not the same. I was working on a near complete X-Men run, that I started when I was 11 in 1984 . I used to work doing odd jobs, and would spend almost all of my money on back issues. I had about 160 issues in continuity of Uncanny X-Men, starting with 93. I used to also collectall appearances of Wolverine, the X-men, Hobgoblin, Sabretooth, and the Joker. :disappoin yeah, it still bruns the #### out of me, even now. Because I KNOW that my comics were sold to the local shops, and I can't help but wonder if some of their comics came from my collection. :noid:

Gentlegamer

06/14/2006, 16:14

Funky Jett

06/14/2006, 16:25

No, but I'm not a friggin' idiot either.
Meaning... I know where Heroclix came from. duhhhhh...

Ro-gan

06/14/2006, 16:38

I've been reading/collecting comics since I was in my pre-teens.

Right now, though, I only buy TPBs and Hardcovers.

I've been replacing my original single issues with TPBs/Hardbacks as they come out or I can find them at Cons. I sell the original singles and sometimes make a tidy profit.

In November of 2005 I donated over 1,500 comics to a local Youth Center for 'wayward' kids. I knew I wouldn't be able to sell them so I did the next best thing and gave them to a good cause.

rock810

06/14/2006, 16:45

Meaning... I know where Heroclix came from. duhhhhh...

Are you responding to your own Comments? :laugh: Please don't take the last comment personally. It is more like running sarcasm than anything else.

Wolverine_Hulk

06/14/2006, 17:19

I buy comics once and a while, mostly though I get Graphic Novels out of the library.

coyotejack

06/14/2006, 17:23

I've been a comic fan for 30 years! I snuck into my brothers room and snagged one of the books he had laying around which happened to be Nova #4 guest-starring Thor! I was hooked ever since.

I loved comics so much that it inspired me to draw so I've been an artist for many years as well.

Gaming came along a bit later so the fact that I can combine comics and games (and art when I do special cards, etc...for local games) was just too sweet!

DrmngCelestial

06/14/2006, 17:54

Wow, that was an incredibly hard choice to pick the best response to a poll choice, let's just say I'm a comic collector and mostly Marvel at that:

I'm definately a Marvel Heroclix completist though, and it's probably due to the limited number of DC/ Indy I read.

While I do pick up DC titles (Shadowpact and Secret Six) that's due to the characters from the Suicide Squad in there and random books they're in.
My pulls in the past of non-Marvel have included: Powers, Young Heroes, Pinky & The Brain, Quantum & Woody, Futurama, CSI , F5 and Danger Girl.

My weekly pulls list usually averages from $20 -$30 per week just in regular books. I remember that I got my first books in Elementary School and that's a good 20+ years ago. And there's a lot of long boxes taking up closet space around my place.

Charaxes

06/14/2006, 18:53

I haven't bought comics regularly since I was a kid. But since I started play Clix, I at least follow what is going on in the world of comics.

Ultimate2099

06/14/2006, 19:28

Marvel Comics all the way baby!!! I don't read anything from that other company :p

ohoni

06/14/2006, 19:30

Wow, that's more "DC only" fans that I expected. Few people I've ever even heard of that read DC comics shut themselves off from Marvel comics.

Gargantua

06/14/2006, 19:57

I used to be an avid collector, and got away from it for a while. Several reasons. Less disposable income, already had several boxes worth that I wasn't willing to part with, but was running out of places to put new ones.

Like a lot of the others here, I got drawn back into the world of comics when I got into Clix. For pretty much the same reasons listed above, I stick to just picking up a few monthlies here and there as the interest strikes me, but I do try to keep up with what's going on in general and will pick up a trade paper of a series I like fairly regularly.

Darth Sabre

06/14/2006, 20:42

Marvel Comics all the way baby!!! I don't read anything from that other company :p

Well, not everyone can be perfect, can they! ;)

:p

biz567

06/14/2006, 23:05

I have always liked comics, but haven't truly started collecting back in Augest(2005) because of clix. I originally just bought ultimate spider-man and back issues of Amazing spider-man, but I than started collecting many titles in the marvel universe. I use to say I hate DC, but than I could no longer say that since I have "secretly" always been a Tim Drake and Batman fan. I think the reason I hated DC was because of superman(not trying to start a fight with the superman folowers). I now spend about 20 dollars a week and that is mostly Marvel, but I pick up 52, Robin, some batman when I notice it, and I picked up the new wonder-woman last week and the art is amazing! The story seems interesting too. So yeah like almost everyone else said, clix did bring me into comics.

Harker2000

06/15/2006, 00:17

Likewise, Clix returned me to comics, just in time to find out everyone I loved growing up was dead, or nothing like they were. Of course the artists and writers have to change over 20 years, but knowing that and reading it are two different things.

What, Barry Allen is dead? Huh, Clint Barton's dead too. Eh, Steve Rogers isn't fighting the integration battle anymore. Most importantly, when did Wonder Woman learn to fly!

biz567

06/15/2006, 00:27

Hey Clint Carton is still alive, it just hasn't been proven. Read House of M.

Cliff Stockton

06/15/2006, 00:35

Mostly DC for me but I've been checking out She Hulk too.
Used to read more Marvel but was always firmly anchored in DC. Still am.
Been looking at the pictures/reading comics since before I could read.
My brothers had comics and I got into them from seeing their books lying around.
I probably spend between $20 or more a month depending on what's out along
with my regular titles.

DareDevil-fan

06/15/2006, 00:45

I am 47 and have been collecting comics since I was 6 or 7. I have 1940's Superman, Batman and Captain America that my dad collected, so I guess you can say I have been a collector since birth. My favorite in Marvel has always been Daredevil and I have every issue of his title since he started in Feb. 64. On DC side I have always been a
#### Grayson- Robin/ Nightwing fan. I also love the JLA, JSA and the Warlord.

I use to collect alot more when I was younger. But the first books I ever got were only 12 cents. I think in my heyday I had over 20 different titles going. Now I only have 8 titles I collect. The prices is what's hurting me. But both of my boys and all three of my daughters also collect comics, if not regurally, then semi-regular. My oldest son ever works at the local comic store in town, so we do get them at a discount.

As far as heroclix goes. We have almost every figure that has been made. We love the game and the fact that we can play out the comics is awesome. When we stop playing/collecting is when Wizkids stops making the game. So were in it from the beginning till the end. To us, heroclix is just an extension of the comics, in which we can create are own stories. In our house of 7, this is the best game Wizkids has made and hopefully it will have a very long run.

Now if they just wouldn't retire figures so fast. But, that is life.

Astron

06/15/2006, 00:53

Wow comics my first one was crisis on inf. earths #6 my dad got it for me.

now adays i get:

Marvel- Ironman, Spiderman, A. X-men, Civil War titles, new avengers......

DC- the latest crisses, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, JLA?, teen titans, Nightwing, GL corps, 52, outsiders

INDY- transformers..... (I miss Voltron)

earinfection

06/15/2006, 00:59

If it finds its way to the 50 cent bin then its mine!!

Ever read the Kingpin series? I wouldn't of if it was popular :)

gryphonred

06/15/2006, 03:52

I collect mostly DC and now Wildstrom.

Now its Titans, Outsiders, Superman, Nightwing (not for much longer) and when they come out JLA and Flash.

I really like to get TPBs and most likley will switch to them fully in the future but right now I can't wait that long to find out the story.:)

the itsy bit

06/15/2006, 06:07

I used to buy lots of comics, but now I'm mostly out of it except for the occasionell Star wars TPB/Tales and other stuff.

I read mostly Marvel but also had some Batman and Superman comics, Marvel X-men and Spiderman and some Avengers/Hulk.

PMMJ

06/15/2006, 09:31

You don't have "pick up too many from time to time" as a choice. That's me.

Seconded.

I'm getting pretty discerning in my old age, but I still pick up plenty, including graphic novels of lines I don't usually read.

SFBull

06/15/2006, 13:59

I have certain characters that I follow, mainly Deadpool (if you couldn't tell by my sig) but sometimes I'll pick up a trade if I hear good things about the story arc like Earth/Universe/Paradise X or Kingdom Come & the Kingdom.

WarHULK

06/15/2006, 14:01

I buy way too many comics. My weekly comic addiction will usually cost me between $15 - $40 a week (there was a time when it was $20 a week, almost every week but they've changed the order some comics come out in).

Of course, my wife wants to kill me.

Galactus

06/15/2006, 14:06

The only title I read is Superman/Batman, and I only pick those up in trade paperback format.

olcottr

06/15/2006, 15:11

I voted I'm a Marvel fan, but I do get a DC graphic novel if I hear good things about the story. I just don't get them month-to-month like Marvel.

Puuka

06/15/2006, 17:12

I had to vote "I pick a few up from time to time." as there wasn't anyhting for "I used to a long time ago, but only pick up occasionaly to keep up on my favorite characters"

lchestnut81

06/15/2006, 18:42

I have been reading comic off and on since I was about 8. I would probably pick up my books before I picked up my clix, though it makes it easy since most of my friends read the same titles as me and we trade off from time to time.

Iceman425

06/16/2006, 01:32

I'm an avid comic book collector. I collected as a child from the ages of 8 to 15. Then I quit for lack of funds and high school pressures...Football team, Chorus, Grades, etc...

I picked it back up in 2000, when I was 20 and this game was just coming out. One of the most interesting things about my swing back into comics is that my interest in some books exists solely because of this game. Legion of Superheroes wasn't in my lexicon...had no idea who they were, then Cosmic Boy and Livewire and Saturn Girl popped up and I wanted to learn more about them.

I'm still a hardcore X-Fan, and I probably never will stop loving them, even as bad as it's gotten over the past couple of years, there are always bright spots for me. However, after I got my first Hypertime Starter and pulled Jay Garrick and a V Flash, I was hooked on that character. JSA and Flash went on my pull list, along with the JLA.

I love this game and my comics with every part of my body.

Norb

06/16/2006, 01:36

Like others on this thread Heroclix got me back into collecting. I buy Justice from DC and quit a few from Marvel. Was very pleased when I realized I could create the New Avengers.

Darth Sabre

06/16/2006, 12:21

I love this game and my comics with every part of my body.

There's a vision no one needs. :cross-eye

:laugh:

Bubblehead

06/16/2006, 13:09

I've been buying comics since I was 8. I remember fondly which one, too. Transformers #8. With the dinobots on the cover. I will always collect them. I'm just more choosy of my titles and like a good story. That being said, I've gone through periods where I only picked up one or two titles in months because of money restrictions.

I spend probably an average of 10$ a week on comics. It's my vice.

And I know it's weird but I can't even fathom playing this game without having a love of comics (and supporting the industry) first.

hulkamania85

06/16/2006, 13:40

I've been trying to bag and board my collection lately. I'm going to be running out of room in my longbox soon.

Right now I only read Ultimate Spider-Man and X-Men on a regular basis. I pick up a lot of trades too though.

Hellboy

06/16/2006, 14:42

Hellboy

06/16/2006, 14:47

recently I did a wave of organization which involved bagging what was unbagged and reorganizing into smaller boxes, all my comics by series.

I have alot of comics. I'd say about twenty five short boxes, with comics stacked on top, and all over the lab. I need about three more short boxes.

I never get long boxes anymore. they have no intergity. they bend in the middle, so they really arn't protecting my comics from bending are they? also, they are more of a pain to move around, and finally, they fall apart twice as fast.

I hope to have enough comics when I die to erect a pyramidal Sarcophogus around myself.

dernjg

06/16/2006, 19:27

Eh, a bit late to throw a monkeywrench in the gears, but here's my take:
I'm now a comic book reader (and writer). I used to be a collector.
Yes, a lot of my old collection is bagged and boarded with care. But I'm thinking about selling some of that stuff off, as it's taking up space. I haven't bagged and boarded anything in about two years, though I tend to buy about $20 worth of books a week (on non-TP weeks, more on those).
So yeah, I buy a ton. And I read a ton. But collecting? Eh, they're made to be read. Well, not really. The modern comic is actually made to be collected. But the comic book story, which is best done in trades and presiges nowadays, that's some good reading.

Mr Unstoppable

06/16/2006, 22:25

There aren't any stores that sell comics close to me. I pick up a few issues when I go to Heroclix tournaments, but other than that I buy Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks at bookstores when I can. It's the next best thing, and without it I would never have read Watchmen. Or at least it would have been delayed a few years, seeing as how there's no way I could go through life without reading something that awesome.

Shazam!06

06/16/2006, 23:19

I currently would place myself under the "I pick up a few from time to time." category now but that wasn't how I origionally started. About 10 years ago I was hard core, buying whatever comic I could when I got the chance. Then my favorite, and then, my only available store closed. So then I did not read nearly as many comics, picking some up from yard sales and such. Then I started to play clicks and now read some comics from the new local store.

Thanos thrall

06/17/2006, 00:18

I was getting comics as soon as I could read. I always used to beg my parents to get me a comic from the general store down the street, I'd usually get Spider man, X-men, or pretty much anything else I saw that looked cool to me. I've been a Marvel only fan for ages, DC just doesn't interest me.

One of my most memorable issues ever is an issue I got when I was little, it's Spiderman, it was during the clone saga, and it had Spider-Carnage in it. Just the concept of it blew my mind, Spider man and Carnage? Together? I loved it. It's still the only appearance of the character I've ever read though...

Since then (I'm 16 now), I've amassed a collection of around 1,000, and am working to bag and board them all. Most of them aren't worth anything but the stories in them, which is what I care about. One of my most favorite stories ever is one that I doubt anyone really even knows of, it's Conan Vs Rune, from back when Marvel split into that other universe, I forget what it was called. I just loved how they were characterized as warriors, each out to do what they know, I still love it. Jeeze, I think this is the longest HCRealms post I've ever made :)

spider_ham

06/17/2006, 02:25

I've been a fan for 20+ years, but have stopped buying/collecting since 1994 (right after The Death of Superman). Ultimately, I decided to sell my collection and pick up whatever I could on DVD, in addition to a few key trades I had in series (Watchmen, Kingdom Come, Secret Wars, etc.). I'm just thankful that Heroclix doesn't require a temperature-controlled room to store! :laugh:

darthfatty

06/17/2006, 18:17

There wasn't a category that really fit me. I buy 4-6 books every month, and I'm careful to include some DC, some Marvel and some Indy.
Right now, I'm reading Supergirl, Batman/Superman, Ex Machina (best comic ever) the new Conan series from Dark Horse, Runaways and that Ghost Rider series that just ended (gread atr, wtf storyline.)

tyroclix

06/17/2006, 21:25

tyroclix

06/17/2006, 21:30

that's an interesting demographic.

according to these results, around half of us are hardcore comics collector, with the next largest category being those who pick things up here and there off the shelves.

the smart-@ss fifth columnists make a showing, overshadowing the Indy collectors, of which, so far, there are none.

and finally, it shows here that there are nearly twice as many Marvel-only fans as DC-only fans.

very interesting....

Wait a sec, I thought we established WK was stupid and hated its customers? :confused:

You mean this informal data is matching up to their marketing plan with more Marvel than DC, Indy as a very narrow interest, and giving us the most current versions of characters?!?!?!?!?

It will be interesting to see how this whole thing shapes up after another 600 votes... ;)

The Flash89

06/18/2006, 10:32

I read Flash, Sgt. Rock, and some Green Lantern. Flash probably the most though.

I like to buy the Archives Classics of DC. Like, Jay Garrick Flash, Barry Allen Flash, and soon Hal Jordan Green Lantern. I also like mini-series and one-shot elseworlds stuff. Kingdom come and the sort.

The Flash89

06/18/2006, 10:34

Got back into comics awhile back. Got into HeroClix circa 2002. Got more into comics.

Seeing a really cool HC fig has made me go seek out their stories.

Reading a really cool story has made me seek out and field their click-form.

Same here. After owning it up with Easy Company, just had to check out the stories. And, since I first laid eyes upon Forge's awesome stats, had to check him out too.

Mjolnir

06/18/2006, 18:40

I'm just thankful that Heroclix doesn't require a temperature-controlled room to store!
I don't know....... has anyone really figured out why some dials brown?

Originally Posted by tyroclix
Got back into comics awhile back. Got into HeroClix circa 2002. Got more into comics.

Seeing a really cool HC fig has made me go seek out their stories.

Reading a really cool story has made me seek out and field their click-form.
Same here.

From the first page;
Wouldnt be in Hero Clix if it weren't for Comics. Of course Hero Clix got me back into comics again. What a Paradox.

Yep.... however....

I learned to read from comics and my mother reading Walt Disney comics to me when I was very young.
I could easily spend a lot of money getting the various titles that interest me but I have to keep things inexpensive since my clix hobby taeks up a lot of my disposable income. I'm a DC completist but not obesssively so since I'm missing a few pieces from Legacy(and the rest) preferring to pick up my favorite characters and if I ever get the missing figs, fine; if not, oh well.
I used to read Marvel obsessively in the late 70's/early 80's at the very beginning of the obligatory Wolverine special guest appearance in each title and the subsequent explosion of all things mutanty.
I got back in to comics with Crisis on Infinite Earths and liked reading The Question and Green Arrow...and JLI of course! Then, when the Question ended I lost some interest and missed Zero Hour, read the death of Superman trade, Our Worlds at War Trades but got back in with Nightwing and JLA. I followed Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis(and 4 lead ins)
Now I pick up Dark Horse's Conan, JLA(when it comes back out), 52, and I'm giving Manhunter a try since I've heard good things about it. I may have to go back and get Wonder Woman to see what's up with it.... there are some I'm also looking into maybe keeping ; Green Lantern, Ion, Secret Six, Green Lantern Corps, Flash(when it comes out), and the Martian Manhunter comic when it comes out.
After X-plosion in the late 80's and early 90's I abhor all things X and Ultimated. ;) Aplogies to the zombies......

Invis-slayer

06/18/2006, 20:00

Used to collect them a bit when I was a kid. But my parents were never very sparing with the money and I wasnt a big entrepeneur so I just mostly read my friends.

I think in the last 5 years I have only purchased one comic, and that comic only because of something that had happened in the past. When I was but a wee boy I wandered into the local card shop to buy some hockey cards. There were a few guys in there all in a flurry about some sort of comic. The guy behind the counter told me that I should buy the comic and never open it because it was the Death of Superman comic. I never did and in some small way have always regretted it [even though now i gather it still isnt worth all that much....]. So about a year or so ago I walked into the card shop to buy a booster or two of whatever the current clix set was and I noticed there was a white bagged superman comic pile on the counter that looked the same as the death of superman. So I bought it....and it sits somewhere in my room collecting dust....and I will never open it i think =)

I do like comics and read them when I get the chance...but between heroclix, a phenomenal Magic card collection and smoking cigs I just dont have the money or the space to collect comics. I'm a gamer as well..and I cant game with comics =/

Valtz

06/18/2006, 23:57

I'm a bigger fan of manga than anything else. But there are a few comics that are based on games that i'll buy. Like megaman, street fighter, etc. But i'll only buy them in the volumes (the ones that are around $10 and have about 6-7 issues in them)

boneyard

06/19/2006, 13:19

I'll let you all guess what would be my answer to this question. :)

Mr. Vengence

06/19/2006, 17:05

I play Clix and VS. becuase I read comics, not the other way around. My current order sheet for Previews for the next 3 months - over $250

lensnart

06/21/2006, 17:08

My Heroclix play is almost entirely based on my comic book reading, if I like them in the comics I will play them, if they are lame in their books (like spiderman) they will never be on my team.

So I use a lot of DC charachters (because currently they are the better product) and characters from X- Factor or old Avengers and old X-men continuity. I try not to play against the guys that just base their teams on dials because then it may as well be mathclix, the whole point of the game (for me at least) is the idea of escapism and creating your own little superhero teams and nerdy fun stuff like that.

hero_temp

06/21/2006, 21:35

Started at a young age on dads collection (dad still has amazing spiderman #1, as well as some orignal Golden age Batman and Superman)

I now have a very large collection of Lee falks "The Phantom"

Read DC but only collect TPB of DC titles that catch my eye (Kingdom come, infinate crisis, anything by Alex Ross)

Read Marvel but only pick up occaional TPB's, and some monthly/bi monthlys (astonishing, the resent colossus mini (which sucked), any thing by Alex Ross, again)

I prefer Trades, as they can sit on a coffee table or bookcase and not seem out of place and lack a lot of the adverts.

insane inmate

06/21/2006, 23:40

i pick up certain ones like ive bought KC and the death of superman just cause he has been my favorite superhero ever since i saw the animated series when i was younger. i get a comic about once a month.

venarnage

06/22/2006, 15:43

Right now, I drop about $40+ a week on comics. I get everything from Girls to Cable/Deadpool. I cover all the major titles in Marvel, and some of DC. I used to not read ANY DC, but I finally gave into All Star Superman, All Star Batman and Robin, and Supergirl, then it went from there.

Jeremy26

06/23/2006, 16:48

15-25 titles weekly, it lead me to Heroclix; let me tell you my wife loves that I have 2 expensive hobbies now!

Juxter

06/26/2006, 13:12

I try to read pretty much everything (blah blah, work in a comic shoppe, which is hooray for me, lemme tellya!), but what I collect? What do I have going now...All Star Superman, Infinite Crisis, Civil War (but not Frontline...if it's good, I'll get it in TPB...not too much $$ for everything right now), Burlyman's Doc Frankenstein, Mouse Guard (which is recommended for anyone with lingering Redwall love), and I collect the trades for Astonishing X, Ultimates, Planetary...
I usually get stuff for the storyline, so I pick up the odd trade out of sequence. Ult FF: Negative Zone was a fave, as were Ult Spidey Ultimate Six and Ult X-Men Blockbuster. I've got a bunch of Morrison's JLA, Straczynski's Amazing Spider (the Ezekiel arc), 30 Days of Night, Image's Mage and Small Gods, LoEG (yay for Alan Moore)...and the list can go (and has gone) on and on.

So, yes, Victoria. I do read comics. Most of my expenditures are on TPBs, but some issues I still get as soon as possible.

Doc D

06/26/2006, 23:25

Wouldnt be in Hero Clix if it weren't for Comics. Of course Hero Clix got me back into comics again. What a Paradox. :) :)
Same here.....I was big collector as a kid. Stopped totally at age 20. Started picking up a few here and there during my late 20's.....Heroclix comes out and I'm back into comics full force!

Dr.Destruction

06/27/2006, 19:59

I read my friends comics from time to time. I only have so much money to spend on stuff like that and that money goes to clix. Therefore, most of my superhero info came from the X-Men and Batman cartoons of the 90's.

biz567

06/27/2006, 20:05

rory_tate

06/27/2006, 22:10

Wouldnt be in Hero Clix if it weren't for Comics. Of course Hero Clix got me back into comics again. What a Paradox. :) :)

Me too! Now I'm keeping up with more titles than I ever did AND I'm trying to chatch up on the 10+ years I missed.

IceHot

07/03/2006, 16:12

I did not know how to answer this poll. I definitely love comics and have been influenced by them, but I havent bought one in a long long time. I still cherish my comics and I hope to get the Golden Archives stuff for Avengers, Defenders, Fantastic Four, JLA, and Legion of Superheroes.

Also, I suspect once I have a child I will get him hooked at an early age. Provided comics are still age appropriate.

Lately though I have been seeing a trend that the comics are just becoming adult pulp fiction.

Do they still have comic heroes that dont have a moral crisis in every third issue? Delving into the grey areas of the (non-adult) issues is good every once in awhile, but do they have any heroes that are still pretty much boy scouts like Superman, Wonderwoman, and Captain America used to be?

biz567

07/03/2006, 18:40

OptimusPrime

07/05/2006, 14:41

just signed up for my first 2 subscriptions in a loooong long time.
Astonishing X-Men (hooray for Joss Whedon)
Superman All-Star

Darth Sabre

07/05/2006, 15:46

just signed up for my first 2 subscriptions in a loooong long time.
Astonishing X-Men (hooray for Joss Whedon)
Superman All-Star

Both the two best of their respective subject matter!

Pashmina

07/06/2006, 09:37

I collect certain titles from both DC and marvel.

Why is there no optiion for that?

PirateNinja

07/06/2006, 13:30

I was eleven when I first started collecting this curse. I walked into the comic book shop after seeing X-Men, then bought some Spidey/X-Men comics. At the time, I had a strong hatred for DC Comics for some strange reason. (I would later learn that many people triple that age would not have grown out of it.)

Anyhow, I collected a few books monthly. Eventually, the Ultimates line started up, and I added on to my lists.

By the time I was 15, I was working shifts at a local gas station to try to earn enough money to continue my habit, which had moved onto 20-30 dollars of comics per week. Fortunetly, I made enough to do that.

Now, however, I'm jobless. I've been lucky enough to have a bank account of leftover money from the first one, but my funds are running low. Soon, I must drop some books. It saddens me, but this is life.

frod

07/07/2006, 00:18

;) Absolutly!! Marvel all the way although I pick up an occasional DC or Dark Horse title. I own a comic shop here in the Cleveland area. What kind of comic guy would I be if I was not hooked on comics and playing hero clixs:laugh: Anway stop in and check out Mr. "G's" comics and more in Gamers Haven. (Shameless plug :devious: ) Hope that doesn't break any rules.

Thanos2099

07/08/2006, 17:22

I spend about $120 a month on Marvel about $80 a month on DC and usually another $10-$50 on Indy, depending on what's out at the time between Image and Dark Horse.
My clix are sporadic at best, I haven't bought any of sinister, (I wasn't real impressed with it, not trying to offend anyone) but I'll probably end up buying 3-4 bricks of supernova, or a case, which ever is a better deal.

darknights

07/10/2006, 14:20

I generally spend more on Marvel then DC for some unknown reason and it's the same with heroclix.

Drunky

07/10/2006, 15:53

Just as Pashmina I buy stuff from Marvel and DC and Dark Horse (I just love Hellboy) and Image also (reading Spawn since issue number 10 I guess) and there ain't no option in this poll allowing this
I mostly prefer 80's and 90's series (and even 70's like Jack Kirby's New Gods) such as Jim Lee's X-men or Art Adams X-babies :grin:
I'm a great fan of the Batman too but as I live in France I don't have the same choice as you guys
BTW anyone got a good Bat-saga ? just bought No Man's Land and I loved it ,also I got Knightfall ( which wasn't as good as NML but kinda nice anyway)
I am of course a great fan of Frank Miller and I guess I allready got everything he did on the Bat (except for the latest issues he did with Jim Lee)

Thawmus

07/10/2006, 18:40

I don't collect comics, I read comics.* I've always liked superheroes, but never read comics until HeroClix. I'm a gamer first, but as an experienced RPG gamer, drawing on the source material for thematic play is very appealing to me.

*One exception: Knights of the Dinner Table . . . I am only missing the first 13 issues and a few of the Gen Con special editions, but have everything else. I have the TPBs that cover the missing issues but I've recently decided since those are the only issues I'm missing to make it interesting and collect them. Not an easy thing to do since they are quite rare (small print runs).

I was going to explain my vote, but GG hit it right on the head. I read some comics as a kid, for a brief time I read the Electric Superman time period, but that was about it. Always really into the Superhero cartoons, DC and Marvel both (although I will always value X-men and Batman above all else).

Then I started playing Heroclix, because a friend bought a few starter packs and wanted to play. I said sure, and we played. We eventually started buying packs left and right, and kept playing every night. Then we both decided to try and play in tournaments, although we were afraid they were going to be a bigger deal than they were. We were both happy to see that they were quite a bit of fun, and we became regulars.

It wasn't until about 4-5 weeks after we started playing regularly that we both decided to get into comics. He reads mostly Marvel, I read mostly DC. Personally, I've always liked Marvel and how they try and make their superheroes a bit more realistic (for a comic book, anyway). But lately, stuff like House of M and Civil War have completely turned me off of them.

cptspacebomb

07/11/2006, 05:19

But lately, stuff like House of M and Civil War have completely turned me off of them.
Why don't you like Civil War? I agree, House Of M wasn't all that hot, but Civil War is actually quite good. THOR IS BACK, GONNA KICK ARSE AND TAKE NAMES! Anyway, I think if you haven't at least given Civil War a shot, you should. It's been an excellent series so far. Annihilation is good too, but the art kinda sucks. And for some reason, it seems like a lot of people here at HC realms don't like the Space Aspects of comics. I love it. Oh well.

I collect comics. Mostly Marvel. Though I do have some DC stuff. And Doomsday is one of my favorite badguys. Batman one of my favorite good guys. Recently, I've been collecting: Last Planet Standing, Books Of Doom, Civil War, Annihilation, Ultimates 2, Ultimate Wolverine Vs Hulk (EXCELLENT book, but horrid delays...) and some X-men titles.

jayhawck

07/18/2006, 15:30

I used to only go with Marvel titles, but I have slowly come around to picking up some quality books on the DC side.

supermangl1

07/18/2006, 15:53

Drop my 2 cents in the discussion. I'm a mainly DC fan. The only title from Marvel I get is Ultimates (which is a great book). I still like Marvel, but I like DC more, and since I live on a budget, I can only get a few comics per month.

My pull list:
Ion
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps (I like GL's can you tell?)
JLoA
JSA
Batman (may drop this one to trim my hold box)
Teen Titans
Outsiders (I may drop this one, I love it then I hate it, it's a vicious cycle)
Ultimates
Knight of the Old Republic (I like Star Wars too)

If it came down to gaming or comics, it would have to be comics. But Heroclix has infected me with a love of gaming as well....if I were not married with a child, I would probably have around $100 in comics a month and buy a case of Heroclix and SWM with every new set.....but as it stands 10 comics and mainly DC Clix. Still haven't bought any Sinster....but I will probably buy a few boosters. I've been trading for the pieces I want.

Numb Skrull

07/18/2006, 16:02

I collect from DC and Marvel, I go every week, I've been going every week for the past six years. But I have been a fan of comics for twelve years. I started collecting heroclix since they came out.

If I were to pick one or the other I would always go for my comics.

torontcollectr

07/18/2006, 23:57

As a former comic shop owner (1980s-1990s) I read pretty much everything- Marvel, Dc. Indy- fanzine- how else would I know what to order.

After years of dealing with speculators (not the same as collectors) the love died as it became work. Besides the shop, I also co-hosted a cable TV show on comics, and managed annual comic book conventions. Back in those days I had customers who dropped $100-$200.00 a week (and thats when the regular comic was $1.00) and even with a membership discount!

After a long hiatus from comics and fandom- my wife who met me after the store (but knew about the comic shop) bought my first clix---> since then we have been hooked. I have since reconnected with friends within the biz and on occasion pick up a comic book- but more likely a TPB for though I am a collector- it is for enjoyment purposes.