How do you take your Coke... Uh... Comics?

[Doctor Oak]

Just a thought for the comic affectionados out there. Personally, I don't really do much other than the Ultimate X-Men, the Ultimates and when I feel like it, Ultimate Spider-Man (I have, over the years of my youth picked up the odd set of 616 books - mostly X-men, but the Ultimate Universe has sucked me in so well, don't think I'd really enjoy the main series that much now).

However, I only buy the collections, the hardback volume where I can but mostly the smaller paperback volumes instead. I enjoy reading as much as I can in one go and considering I blast through the hardback volumes in one day anyway, I couldn't possibly stand reading just one small portion of that and then waiting for the rest.

Am I alone in this or does mostly everyone else pick up the individual releases as they come and go?

 

[GrnMarvl14]

I pick up the single issues, usually. If I'm going to read a series, I'd prefer to not have to wait until the end to actually read it. However, I have begun to read Fables, Ex Machina, and Y: The Last Man, purely in collected form (because I'm starting from the beginning, and it's easier/cheaper).

I prefer to pick up older things in collected format because they are, again, easier to find and cheaper (usually). Though I hate that the collected versions are starting to have extra material (makes me feel cheated). For series I read on a regular basis, and mini-series that interest me, I prefer the individual issues. Collections just don't have the same feel.

 

[Lil Brother]

My main format is single issues. I basically have no originality and just pick up the highly advertised stuff (three main Spidey titles, some X-Men series, F4, Avengers, Daredevil, all of Ulitmate Marvel, etc.)

I used to just use graphic novels for the beginnings of series (like starting Ulitmate Spider-Man at issue 40 or whatever and getting the six TPBs that have all the previous issues), but I'm slowly trying to make them my main source, softbacks especially. New/revamped series like the new Ant-Man, Thunderbolts, Iron Fist and stuff like that I am only going to get when they're collected.