The gloves are off now.... discuss anything and everything!
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Stanleyspirit Posts: 3
5/22/2020
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I've seen lots of modern age collectors getting treated really bad on Facebook. Am I the only one who actually thinks modern comics are cool? And do collectors really think are collections are trash? As someone who is New to collecting it's frustrating to find out that a collection you have started growing is completely worthless. Personally I love my J Scott Campbell Slabs and signature series. I pay a lot and I am proud of them. To anyone else who collects modern age comic's hit me up I don't think your books are trash. let's buy sell and trade among our selves if need be.
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
5/22/2020
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We see all kinds of collectors and collections here at CPG, from Golden Age to Variant to Artist driven collectors. Regardless of your preferences, we should all be kind to fellow collectors. You never know when your tastes might change. In the early 2000's people would say, "I don't buy any 90's crap." Now those same people are scurrying around looking for 90's era comics because they are highly sought after now.
Collect what you like and enjoy!
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rgtichy Posts: 124
5/22/2020
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You have to read what you like!
Plus, there's always going to be some disdain from one generation to the next... some of us have seen a few too many re-boots to not have become a little jaded, you know?!
There's always something going on that is new and good, imo.
I won't claim to be enthusiastic about a lot of what is new these days, but I am willing to try some, and I fully admit that a lot of what I read in the 80's and 90's was "crap" by even my own definition, now, lol.
Hope you are able to read this as the supportive statement I intend it to be, and not as a slight towards the books you are enjoying.
Rob
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5/22/2020
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I read mostly from MU streaming or DCU it gives me the ability to read full runs without all the best parts missing. One of the series I have read that I love was Kingdom Come. I would very much like to own all four books I will have them slabbed and show them off. I would also like to have the graphic novel just to flip thru and show friends whats in the slab. I realize its not the incredible hulk 181 or amazing spider-man 300 but trash, that's just rude. I also really love the modern art work and happily pay a few bucks for a Campbell or Natalie sanders cover. I do appreciate you taking the time to respond to this post. I will probably pull off of face book for a few months in favor of this web site. Buy, sell, trade fold the cover back and read till the book falls apart its all good in the spirit of comics...Just be nice.
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5/23/2020
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I have no interest in modern comics and older collectors never cared for any of the "modern" comics I was buying 25 or even 45 years ago. You are experiencing something that is normal to the hobby.
As far as the value of your collection, there are a lot of good reasons why modern comics have a higher likelihood of being worthless in the future. Publishers have a lot to do with that. They publish excessive numbers of variant covers. This discourages collectors from being completists that want to own every issue in a series. That lessens demand for any specific comics. People who do try to own everything are repeatedly undermined by publishers that just find ways to make everything less "special" or interesting. The price on modern comics is too high and this causes a resistance by modern collectors to be willing to pay more. A gradual shift to digital formats in society is redirecting new consumers away from actually owning a printed comic.
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rgtichy Posts: 124
5/25/2020
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rgtichy wrote:
There's always something going on that is new and good, imo.
I just read Brad Meltzer's & Rag Morales's "Identity Crisis" and I thought that was really good stuff. I just read volume one of "Kick-Ass" and I liked that, too. (Not quite as much as the Brad Meltzer, which is also surprising to me because I was inclined to dislike Meltzer and like the JRJR book before I even started either one.)
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