Comics Count, 2011
Jan. 1st, 2012 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzilla1037 comics read on 253 different days. That's *up* 9% from 2010, which is the opposite of what I want to happen. A lot of the additional volume was just the natural sprawl of "event" titles--the modern superhero summer event generally involves a mini-series, a lot of crossovers in the ongoing books, and a plethora of tie-in miniseries. However, this year I'm mostly steering clear of the X-books and Marvel in particular looks like it will make it easy to avoid their "event" books. (Marvel has also canceled, in some cases with no issues published, several major titles I would have enjoyed picking up, such as Alpha Flight and Fred van Lente's kaiju event title.)
Another boost was the nuDC, which briefly increased my net DC buying by about 7 monthly titles and sampled more--I actually bought 25 of the 52 first issues and briefly subscribed to, I believe, 19 of them. However, attrition is culling that--I'm down to 16 already and 2 more are likely to go when their initial writers leave.
But, mainly, I just buy and read a lot of comics.
Another boost was the nuDC, which briefly increased my net DC buying by about 7 monthly titles and sampled more--I actually bought 25 of the 52 first issues and briefly subscribed to, I believe, 19 of them. However, attrition is culling that--I'm down to 16 already and 2 more are likely to go when their initial writers leave.
But, mainly, I just buy and read a lot of comics.
