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[andrewducker]

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[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, I must buy the complete Cerebus collection at some point.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Oh No You Musn't!

I want more Squadron Supreme tho Andy!!! Any chance of meeting you in townFriday at 5ish maybe? I won't want to drag the 3 I have out dancing..

[andrewducker]

Oooh - good point, I need that rucksack back! I'll be at Shandwick Place on Friday evening, want to meet up briefly and exchange prisoners? 5:45 ok?

[opusfluke.livejournal.com]

Or just wait for them to get posted online for free! *Looks shiftily at Girl Genius and waits for next instalment*

[andrewducker]

For individual strips I'm fine to read online. When it comes to reading a whole load at once I prefer books.

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

It depends. Vertigo titles are almost certainly going to end up in trades. Other titles, well.. it's never a sure thing and if you don't buy the issue and support the series then it could easily get cancelled before it even gets collected.

For that reason I do have a regular monthly in addition to the Vertigo & Independant titles I support by trade.

Another issue is that decompressed storytelling "written for the trade" is compromising many titles. In one case, Mighty Avengers is so far out of sync with its sister titles that it's an entire story behind everything else (which even feature those characters).

[eduard-green.livejournal.com]

When I first got into comics I took one look at the shelf of single issues and one look at the graphic novels and thought- single issues suck. But if you're already buying single issues, the time lag could seem tremendous when you switch to just collected.

I also see Scott's point, that small titles might get cancelled. Hopefully they'll go the way of small tv series - if putting out a graphic novel is equivalent to putting out a dvd...

[whats the plural of tv series? How do you pronounce that?]