Comic Book Wednesday Part Two

Hi Every­one!

As I said on Wednesday…there is a method to my mad­ness when it comes to decid­ing just what comics I ulti­mately wind up say­ing ” Yay and Nay ” to…

This past Wednes­day, in my only comic book hang­out, Main Street Comics, I found my self with at least eight (8) comics in hand…and a tough deci­sion as to what is leav­ing the shop…and what wasn’t.

So,  eight comics in hand… how to decide…actually ” How Do I Decide? ”

First off, as I’ve stated over sev­eral dif­fer­ent posts on this blog, I’m not a big fan of the ” Crossover ” sto­ry­line, which basi­cally takes one sto­ry­line and spreads ( or in my opin­ion ) Sprawls it out over sev­eral Dif­fer­ent titles to basi­cally tell the tale..I’ve always dis­agreed with this prac­tice, as it forces the comic book pur­chaser to buy sev­eral comic titles that he or she may not nor­mally pur­chase just for the sake of fol­low­ing what usu­ally turns out to be a mediocre storyline.

One of these story lines is the ” New Kryp­ton ” story that has spread out to Action Comics and Super­girl, while the main Super­man title, now fea­tures ” Mon-El “.

I actu­ally had the newest issues of Action, Super­girl and the Super­man: New Kryp­ton comics in hand…and Wednes­day, uncer­e­mo­ni­ously decided that I had had enough of this and put them all back along with the deci­sion to stop read­ing the storyline.

I’ll wait for the trades and decide if I want to com­mit the bucks to it.

Another title that I had in hand is a comic I only just started to get into after a very, very long time…Daredevil

I only started to read this comic again because of the ” Return of the King ” storyline…now my dilemma here is that I’m inter­ested in the out­come from that storyline..Matt Mur­dock, Dare­devil lead­ing the Hand!

Of course there is still the threat of the King­pin and Lady Bullseye…but I put this one back..because there were sev­eral of the comics still on the shelf and I decided to wait till the fol­low­ing week and see if there was still a copy avail­able then.

Bat­man & Robin…this was an easy deci­sion to make…I’m not in love with this title in the first place and if I have to choose between any ” Black­est Night ” title that I’m cur­rently read­ing vs this comic com­ing home…no con­test ..Bat­man & Robin…back to the shelve you go!

Hell­blazer and House of Mystery…these were tough choices for me to make..I love read­ing both titles and it was really hard choice to put both of these titles back on the shelve…this was purely done because of the money factor.

I’m hop­ing that both comics are avail­able next week.

Okay, so I think I’ve pretty much laid out my thoughts for what makes it home on any given week and what might not and why..

• Is the comic run­ning a sto­ry­line I find worth reading?
• Is there a chance that the comic will be avail­able in a week?
• Is it a crossover sto­ry­line run­ning through sev­eral comic titles?
• Can I afford to actu­ally take this comic home?

And I real­ize that we always have the option to just ask our friendly comic shop owner if they would hold a comic for us, but over the years I have come to real­ize that you wind up hav­ing that comic shop owner hold­ing inven­tory and in turn unavail­able cash until you or I decide that we have the money to pick up all the titles we have asked the comic shop owner to hold onto..and in this day and age, when comics cost at least $3.00 or more, if you have let’s say 5 or more comics on hold that cash starts to add up…not fair to the comics shop owner, and quite pos­si­bly tough on your wallet.

Okay, so that’s the end to this sec­ond part of Comic Book Wednesday…but how do you decide what comics com­ing home and what’s not?

I’d love to hear from you!

Please leave your thoughts and com­ments here.

Thanks, your uncle Fanboy!