Dealing with Comic overload...how do you take a break

[lewduke]

So for the past 3-5 years I've been swimming in books. My habit started with only a few...maybe 5 books a week.

Now I'm upto 15-20 a week and I can't keep up. Its Thursday and I'm not even close to finishing last weeks books, let alone starting in on this week's stack.

HELP.

How can I slow down, still enjoy what I want to read, and not feel like I'm missing out on stuff.

More importantly, damn you Josh, Ron and Conor, you guys keep recommending really good stuff, and I buy these books can't get to them in any time of a timely fashion.

Also, how the hell am I supposed to read BusinessWeek, Fortune, Time, or anything other than comic books when you keep adding more to my stack.

Damn you guys.

[hank41]

some may say that you have a GREAT problem

[labor_days]

Read faster.

[optimus187prime]

Really sit down and think about which books you would be sad if you didnt read. If you have books that are in the 'meh' pile then drop them.

[llauranzoniii]

How do you have time for the podcast too??? LOL....

Hey I'm new and there's soooooooooo much I want to read. I have a long way to go to catch up.

[comhcinc]

i meet a guy like you about a month ago. he told me he was spedning $70-$100 a week on comics. it was at a comedy club and we were stuck at a table togather. he kept talking about how much he loved comics and how you wouldn't expect from him (cause he didn't look like a person who would read comics whatever that meant)

so anyway he kept on and so we started talking about the new books out and i discovered something. he didn't have a clue what was happening. not one. he couldn't keep anything straight and it seem like he had misread everything.

it seemed like he wasn't enjoying the comics at all.


so how to cut down. well from marvel and dc only buy the core books (example Action Comics) and don't worry about the rest.

stay away from miniseries. if it a really good one you can always pick it up in trades.

don't buy everything attached to an event. to use myself for an example, while i am enjoying secret invasion and the books i normally read anyway, mighty and new averngers, i an not buying all the secret invasion tie in stuff ( i did buy the thor one), cause i am not really interest in the inhumans or the xmen or what have you.

i hope that advice helps. when i was a teenager i was buying like every comic that came out and this is what i have done to cut back. i spend maybe ten or fifthteen bucks a week

[cenquist]

Cut some books that you buy monthly and switch to trades.

[six-gun]

Read faster.

Real supportive :rolleyes:

[labor_days]

I give the best advice.

[humphrey-lee]

Try drinking benders. After a weekend of drunken debauchery, by time you come to and start to recover you can putz around the house one day recovering and letting your mind soak into the comics to try and ignore the "just crawled out of the gutter" feeling your body has...


... sadly, I mean this mostly jokingly, but at the same time I used to do it all the time back in college and the couple years after and it really does work. :D

[cammyknoxville]

Cut some books that you buy monthly and switch to trades.

I recommend this.

[bgavino]

Just look through your stuff and make some tough cuts. I had the same problem you had and then I realzied I didn't like half the stuff I was readig so I dropped a bunch of stuff and now I enjoy most of what I read and spend a lot less money. Though I do spend a lot of money on trades.

Bryan

[llauranzoniii]

i meet a guy like you about a month ago. he told me he was spedning $70-$100 a week on comics. it was at a comedy club and we were stuck at a table togather. he kept talking about how much he loved comics and how you wouldn't expect from him (cause he didn't look like a person who would read comics whatever that meant)

so anyway he kept on and so we started talking about the new books out and i discovered something. he didn't have a clue what was happening. not one. he couldn't keep anything straight and it seem like he had misread everything.

it seemed like he wasn't enjoying the comics at all.


so how to cut down. well from marvel and dc only buy the core books (example Action Comics) and don't worry about the rest.

stay away from miniseries. if it a really good one you can always pick it up in trades.

don't buy everything attached to an event. to use myself for an example, while i am enjoying secret invasion and the books i normally read anyway, mighty and new averngers, i an not buying all the secret invasion tie in stuff ( i did buy the thor one), cause i am not really interest in the inhumans or the xmen or what have you.

i hope that advice helps. when i was a teenager i was buying like every comic that came out and this is what i have done to cut back. i spend maybe ten or fifthteen bucks a week

For superhero books all I'm going to buy is Trades. I think it will be easier for me. It's too hard to keep up with everything every week.

[david-c]

Say no to compulsive "I need to know everything that happens" purchases.

I.E. Don't be like me and get hooked by final crisis and buy Seven SOldiers, Countdown, and The Death of The New Gods all in one month. Stuff like that is bad. . . a lot. NOt to say the books are bad, but damn, so much times and thought was put in to determine what exactly what was going on, looking back it might have been better to just roll with Final Crisis and find out what happens.

[racemccloud]

Stay stubbornly away from needless tie-ins and miniseries, look at your weekly pull and see what you can live without, don't be afraid to drop a book that used to be good and now is simply not, don't feel the need to pick up everything new because, if you're on the fence on buying issue 1 or 2, if it turns out to be something, you can always go back and get the trade.

But if you really want to cut down, you have to start by looking at your pull lists and removing books that you can do without. I do this all the time.