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Naniwa	Curse you! Curse you all!!!	Lead	[-]
Posts: 218 (07/21/08 1:16 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Tags : None I love my B&W reprints, and that is a fact. Over 90 Essentials and Showcases with nary an Archive or Masterwork in sight (unless you count those Barnes and Noble softcover editions, which I don't). What can I say? It's all about the stories for me, color is spiffy but the fact is I'm a cheapskate and will always choose the least expensive option. OK, so I have a couple of Absolutes, but those are for my all-time favorite comics, Crisis on Infinite Earths and Watchmen. In short, I don't think I'll ever make a hobby out of collecting Absolute editions. Nosirree, Essentials and Showcases have done just fine for me so far. Then it happened. This weekend I broke down and ordered my first two DC Archives, Legion of Super-Heroes Vols 1 and 2. I guess it's not too bad since I found both on Ebay for less than half the cover price, shipping included. However, I feel this is the start of a very bad trend for me. Now I know I'm going to need all the Legion volumes at the very least... I'm hoping it ends there. So yeah, no thanks to all of you for getting me hooked on this potential new addiction. I imagine my wife will be registering an account here and cursing you out anytime now (or at least when the next Paypal statement comes in!).
icemanjeff79		#1	[-]
Posts: 232 (07/21/08 1:35 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Ha ha! Welcome to the pain my wallet has known! Why can't they just let her have her imaginary babies and her robot husband? Look what happens when she doesn't!
MakeMineMarvel		#2	[-]
Posts: 2130 (07/21/08 1:50 PM) Registered Member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I had the opposite experience. I'd been collecting Masterworks and never thought I'd buy an Essential. I flipped thru one in a store and as much as I loved the idea of reading all those issues, I was turned off by the B&W. A few years ago I decided I HAD to read the Tomb of Dracula seies and didn't think the B&W would detract from that series. It would be like watching old Universal monster movies I thought. Then I decided I would buy a couple of Essential Avengers on ebay, read them & then re-sell them. Then all of a sudden I realized I could live without the color! Now I'm an avid collector of Essentials. I need to have the first few years of SA Marvel in Masterwork form, but after that I'm fine with B&W- except my very favorite titles (Spidey, FF, Thor, Avengers)
Commercial Soul	Re: Curse you! Curse you all!!!	#3	[-]
Posts: 95 (07/21/08 1:55 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I too once thought I'd never buy an Archive. But I'm a comics fan, and how could I ignore all those classics of the genre like Green Lantern, Flash, Justice League, and of course Superman and Batman? A lot of the Marvel comics I love were done by people who grew up reading DC. So I look at it as a vast new array of unfamiliar but excellent material. The only problem is: when will I ever find the time to read all that stuff??
droid714		#4	[-]
Posts: 8004 (07/21/08 2:32 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	MakeMineMarvel wrote: I had the opposite experience. I'd been collecting Masterworks and never thought I'd buy an Essential. I flipped thru one in a store and as much as I loved the idea of reading all those issues, I was turned off by the B&W. A few years ago I decided I HAD to read the Tomb of Dracula seies and didn't think the B&W would detract from that series. It would be like watching old Universal monster movies I thought. Then I decided I would buy a couple of Essential Avengers on ebay, read them & then re-sell them. Then all of a sudden I realized I could live without the color! Now I'm an avid collector of Essentials. I need to have the first few years of SA Marvel in Masterwork form, but after that I'm fine with B&W- except my very favorite titles (Spidey, FF, Thor, Avengers) I had the opposite experience as you. I detest B&W reprints but I was convinced that I'd never see the Silver Age Wonder Woman books Archived, so I broke down and bought the WW Showcase. I hate it!!! Comics were meant to be in color, dammit! ATLAS ERA SUPERHERO REVIVAL OMNIBUS!
SamyMerchi		#5	[-]
Posts: 11256 (07/21/08 4:56 PM) Golden Age Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I can with all conviction say that, at the very least, the Legion Archives I have never regretted spending $50 apiece on, and I never will regret. Comics don't get much better than that.
Naniwa		#6	[-]
Posts: 219 (07/21/08 5:21 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Well Sami, thanks for that, and I do happen to agree with you: the Legion is worth every penny. Funny when you consider I'm pretty much a lifelong comic reader who had never even heard of the Legion until maybe a year or so ago. Actually that's not entirely true as they were in Crisis on Infinite Earths, but I didn't think enough of them to go back and reread any of their adventures at that time. The first time I really heard about Legion was on this board, seeing people rave about how much they loved the first Showcase. So I bought the book on a whim having never read a standalone Legion story in my life, and instantly fell in love with it. For me, this epitomizes what Silver Age DC storytelling is all about: great, great fun, and wonderfully imaginative. I bought the second volume the day it was released and am already joneseing for the third. I bought the Eye For An Eye TPB to hold me over, after that I looked into ordering some of the Legion Archives from my public library. I managed to get ahold of the first volume, and after reading through it I found myself saying "I love these stories too much to not own this book." The thing is I honestly don't seeing myself becoming a rabid Archive/Masterwork collector and picking up everything in sight (that's what the cheapo B&W's are for), but if it's something I really enjoy, the pricier 4/C hardcovers are well worth it. So anyway, here we are, my first Archives in the mail. Can't wait.
Ogreman4	Don't Curse Me!	#7	[-]
Posts: 230 (07/21/08 5:50 PM) Modern Age Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I take seriously the sign that used to appear on spinner racks that read, "All In Color For A Dime!" From their origin as reprints from newspaper comic strips, comic books have been printed in color. The only thing worse than non-color comic books are reprints of color being published as black lines on paper. That's regressive.
ReviveTheRedRaven		#8	[-]
Posts: 4656 (07/21/08 6:34 PM) Registered Member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I take seriously the sign that used to appear on spinner racks that read, "All In Color For A Dime!" From their origin as reprints from newspaper comic strips, comic books have been printed in color. The only thing worse than non-color comic books are reprints of color being published as black lines on paper. That's regressive. Well, technically, no... Some early comics were printed in Black and white or sometimes only had one color added. Early Centaur books, IMS, were partly color and partly Black and white. There's a reason some of the early comics boasted on their covers that they were "ALL IN COLOR" for a dime. Cause some others weren't. But yeah, I agree with you. Comics without decent color are like sex with the lights out. Not the full experience... A. Leedom, President of the Red Raven Revival Society... Of course, comics never HIDE in the dark like some girls I know. Sheesh. Ain't funny, ladies. And when you sneak out -- that's just cruel. Not to mention dangerous for the cat...
ReviveTheRedRaven		#9	[-]
Posts: 4657 (07/21/08 6:36 PM) Registered Member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I detest B&W reprints but I was convinced that I'd never see the Silver Age Wonder Woman books Archived, so I broke down and bought the WW Showcase. I hate it!!! Comics were meant to be in color, dammit! Droid Let's all chip in and get Droid some crayons!
jephyork		#10	[-]
Posts: 5992 (07/21/08 8:15 PM) Golden Age Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	He can have mine ... except I used the red one up. -Jeph!
rim stimple	black and white or color	#11	[-]
Posts: 282 (07/21/08 8:22 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	don't read Essentials or Showcases because the color is essential to my enjoyment experience for the comics

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