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american comic books are so hard to read
7 years ago
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Its just more badass when you kick someones ass while your half naked -Jango the BlueFox
I just wanted to talk about why it's so hard for people to get into American comic books.
first of all individual issues of comic books can range from dirt cheap to thousands of dollars. the other problem is that the numbering and naming of a single run of a comic can be completely fucked up. and trying to find all of the issues in trade paperback form can be just as much of a pain since sometimes the issues aren't ordered properly and sometimes they just completely skip issues for no reason and the names of the trade paperbacks can be just as inconsistent as the individual issues.
lets say you wanted to read Ultimate Spider-Man after playing through the recent PS4 Spider-Man game. the order you read them is as follows......
Ultimate Spider-Man #1-133
Ultimate Spider-Man Requiem #1-2
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1-15 and #150-160
Ultimate Comics All-New Spider-Man #1-28
Ultimate Spider-Man #200
Miles Morales-Ultimate Spider-Man #1-12
Spider-Man 1-21 and #234-240
this is one single run of a comic. why do all of these have different names? why does the numbering keep jumping around?
and how easy is it to read manga? lets say you wanna read Dragon Ball. the order you read it is as follows.....
Dragon Ball Volume #1-42
first of all individual issues of comic books can range from dirt cheap to thousands of dollars. the other problem is that the numbering and naming of a single run of a comic can be completely fucked up. and trying to find all of the issues in trade paperback form can be just as much of a pain since sometimes the issues aren't ordered properly and sometimes they just completely skip issues for no reason and the names of the trade paperbacks can be just as inconsistent as the individual issues.
lets say you wanted to read Ultimate Spider-Man after playing through the recent PS4 Spider-Man game. the order you read them is as follows......
Ultimate Spider-Man #1-133
Ultimate Spider-Man Requiem #1-2
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1-15 and #150-160
Ultimate Comics All-New Spider-Man #1-28
Ultimate Spider-Man #200
Miles Morales-Ultimate Spider-Man #1-12
Spider-Man 1-21 and #234-240
this is one single run of a comic. why do all of these have different names? why does the numbering keep jumping around?
and how easy is it to read manga? lets say you wanna read Dragon Ball. the order you read it is as follows.....
Dragon Ball Volume #1-42
i can't fucking hunt random issues of random characters because they appear in a larger storyline.
The reason for the redoing of numbering and reusing titles is purely on the marketing and branding end, and trying to find a new audience to hook into but with how poorly comics sell now this hasn't been working. And if the story is still continued off something people will notice regardless.
You might be better off finding the omnibus collections if you really want to go through ultimate spidy.hack/Slash has them, all stories in the right order.