Any Comic Collectors on here???

Yeah, I haven´t read spiderman ever since he was reborn after the conclusion of the Clone Saga, since what a crappy rebirth. Since when I was reading all that clone shebang and before the rebirth of that series. Then it was very adult oriented. In the drawings and the darkness of his universe, but now the Spiderman comic is more boring than Big Brother , and that show is fucking boring. I was fine with Spiderman was funny and fastwit in his 70/80´s(ish) version. But when they gave him a rebirth back to his 80/70´s style, then I stopped the subscription.

 

Wolverine. I dont think that sven was out to insult anyone. I can see what he was trying to get at though.. to many, comics/graphic etc novels are seen as a childhood pastime spent dreaming about fictional events and ways of saving the planet etc.... it is often this enjoyment as a child that draws adults back to reading such material.

Manga personally has never interested me, 'classic' comicbook stories & superheros however do interest me.... they are the invention of someone elses imagination and i think that such material allows our own imaginations to grow and create new worlds, characters, experiences etc. in much the way that playing a Video game can do.

and yes, Frank Millers work is not exactly kiddie friendly! lol

 

Festerfly: I wouldn´t have responded to his additional comment. If I hadn´t forgiven him. So no worries.

 

Sad thing is, comics are probably better now than they've ever been. The stories are less rediculous, the dialog less cheesy, and the plots less exploitative than in the last 20 years I'd say. But the market for them is just not what it used to be, that's why the big companies are making movies and cartoons and such, branching out.

Remember how about ten years ago, there were like six different Spiderman books, three Wolverine books, and like fifteen X-men books all out at the same time every month? That's what I mean by exploitative.

 

The second response appeared while i was typing so i didnt know it had arrived! :icon_bigg :thumbsup:

 

Its this exat reasons that when i did start getting interested in reading comics when i was younger that i was put off...

i wanted to read a series and stick with it.. not have to choose between 10 different titles of the same thing! :shrug:

 

and i was one of the fools who bought every issue of every spinoff from the xmen!

on a plus side, have just dug out my darkness and witchblade collection and started reading through! (and on the down side, im probably now going to spend a fortune catching up on the last 5 years worth)

 

oh dear!!

 

Yup, its all your fault lee! damn you! lol,

but anyways, im off to get sh@t faced and foolish, with my missus and all her college friends dress as cowgirls!, yii-har! (if i survive the night)

 

I remember a quite fun thing, back in a 1984 issue of Exen (the Swedish version of Project X aka. X-men). There the person who had translated some of the work in Danish , was Morten Søndergård, but in the Swedish version of the same issue, his name was spelled Mortren Söndregård, and it was in the first issue of Exen 1984. And Morten/"Mortren" Søndergård/"Söndregård". is like a guru of nerdish things in Denmark, and when he doesn´t work at Egmont, then he works at Fantask which is a comic store in Denmark.
Yeah, I admit I am abit of a nerd.

 

oo i so WANT to do this a business but i think i wouldent be able to dedicate enough time/funds to it to make it worthwhile/Lucrative enough..

 

Well, from what I understand there are a few ways to go about it,

You can do things like sell the entire run of a series, or mutiple issues at once, that seems to sell well.

You can get a site and specialize in the very obscure, hard to find stuff, imports and indie creators. Of course it's going to take a while until you get a name for yourself.

If you want to make large amounts of money, the easiest way seems to be from silver age comics, of which the market never went away for.

Good luck whatever you decide to do.