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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: A rather interesting reason for buying comics...
Message-ID: <706@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 14:26:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 16 14:26:22 1985
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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?

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