I never really got into comics. If I'm a huge fan, I'll read them, and if I find them, I'll read them, but I never go out of my way to get them.

I did find two 1993 Star Trek comics at my grandma's house. She was telling me how she had kept comics from when they were still 10 cents each--I asked her if she still had them, and she gave them away to some kid. Nooooo, right? D:

lol, the really annoying thing is--the ONLY 2 things that I know of that my Mum ever got rid of were--my comics and my Barbie (brunette, 1961) and they were the 2 things that she SHOULD have held onto. Sigh, oh well, if only we'd known, right? :o)

But I still find it annoying that she got rid of them. I mean, if you look in the dictionary under the word "packrat" it shows my Mum's picture. On the other hand, the fact that she IS like that turned out to be a good thing when Dad finally retired the third and final time. Seems that the SSA had LOST 10 years of his income reports (something about a fire, and having lost about 5 million peoples paperwork for that decade.) Mum dug out copies of 1) Dad's old pay stubs and 2) copies of their Income Tax forms. Which meant that Dad's retirement income from the SSA went up by about $300 a month. I shudder to think about those people who didn't have all that paperwork.

I think of all my Star Trek toys that are now worth big money. My mom still has a lot of them but we played them HARD. It's difficult to have a proper space battle without some plastic edges getting dented, ya know?

Really We have early DC and marvel in the store when they were call action comics for Superman and Detective comic for the early batman. Also first apperance of Green goblin and Wolverine. When we first got them in I got to read it before it was put in its case. Yea the are worth a pretty penny a guy has been making payments on the First Apperance of wolvie for his birthday next year. lol

I started with comics wwaaayyyy back when (Marvel was a brand new publishing company, it was so long ago.) I still pick up comics on occassion, but since my long time source has dried up (my friend that owned the store died) I haven't gotten very many in recent years. But I do miss them.

(And I STILL give my Mum grief over throwing all my comics in the trash the day after I got married. One that I'd had will come up for auction and fetch megabucks and I'll call her and say "I had that one--aren't you sorry you threw it away now?" She just didn't like comics and thought that we were wasting our allowances buying them. But I had--the very first appearances of--Spiderman, Thor, Fantastic 4, The X Men, Ironman. . .)

I just got the Joker graphic novel it is good. I asked a couple of guys that came into the comic store which would you buy a comic with great art and sucky writing or a comic with sucky art and a great story line. The art won out

I've been a comic book fan since high school. As an adult, I tend to wait until a series is released as a graphic novel. I am an art school girl, so the appeal is as much for the art as it is for the story.

Oh sure, an inside source :) Hmm, I'm thinking my sweetie needs a part-time job at Powell's Books...

I So love comics. My boyfriend owns a comic book store so He has Golden, silver and bronze comics as well as new comics for people who subscribe I think I am his best customer.

Melissa, there was a three-issue miniseries to bridge the story between TV and big screen, and then a second trilogy set before the first one. I think that's it.

Waiting for the pb version might feel more satisfying. I was just doing the math in my head, and really, a comic book sort of equates, page length wise, to a script for a tv episode, which I find satisfying enough. So maybe I just need to adjust my expectations.

Or maybe Whedon just needs to write faster :)

Actually, Jessa, I'm kinda of the same mind when it comes to comics. They can never explore any character/story deeply enough for me, so I prefer text, with the exception of some of the more "literary" graphic novels, memoirs, etc. that explore their subject matter deeply.

I'm a comics fan, and I've gotten in the habit of waiting until the trade paperback versions have been released. Comics today have become heavily story arc driven, so the whole thing plays out over four or six issues. It's much easier and more satisfying to read 'em all at once rather than to hunt down the older comics every month so I'll understand what the hell is going on in the new one.

The Firefly comics are good, but I definitely prefer to read them en masse rather than issue by issue.

I subscribe to Joss' Buffy season 8 comic. It's torture! I hate waiting forever and having it be over in 10 minutes (if I'm really reading to savor it). I do the reread thing a lot. I get e-mail warnings when a new one is going to be published and then again when it's shipped. It certainly builds my anticipation! That's when I do a bit of rereading so I'm ready when the next new one comes. I pay an insane amount for these stories, but the art is so awesome that I'm okay with it. I really love the whole Buffy universe so it's worth it to me. I've always wanted the Firefly comics. How many are there between the series and the movie? Do you read other comics?

I've been re-reading the Joss Whedon Firefly comic books that bridged the series and the movie. And I decided I just don't get the appeal of comic books. It's like eating one Lay's potato chip. I mean, really? That's it?

Either the story is too short to be well done, or it's well done and I want it to keep going :)

Anybody here a comic book fan? Do you read them en masse, so they're more filling? Or do you read them like a dark chocolate truffle and savor every itty bitty nibble? Do you prefer the short format, or is it just a chance to mix up your genres? And how does anybody afford a comic book addiction? Suddenly my $15 trade paperbacks don't seem so spendy.

Lastly, anybody know any other romance author crossovers besides Feehan and Marjorie Liu?