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May. 26th, 2011 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyI think I've finally been able to put my finger on what I dislike about modern comics.
Before the hypothesis, though, here are the numbers:
1985 DC Comics Star Trek Annual #1. Cover price: $1.25. Price I paid: $1. Enjoyment (on a scale of 1 to 10): 8. Time it took me to finish reading the comic: 1 hour.
2009 IDW Comics Angel "The Curse" Trade Paperback. Cover price: $19.99. Price I paid: $1. Enjoyment (on a scale of 1 to 10): 8. Time it took me to finish reading the comic: 15 minutes.
It all boils down to how long I'm involved in the whole reading process. The Star Trek Annual gave me much more bang for my buck, end even though I only paid $1 for the Angel TPB? The entire time I was reading ti I was thinking "Man I would have been pissed if I had paid full cover price for this book, or even the $4 per issue they wanted for the mini-series"!
Before the hypothesis, though, here are the numbers:
1985 DC Comics Star Trek Annual #1. Cover price: $1.25. Price I paid: $1. Enjoyment (on a scale of 1 to 10): 8. Time it took me to finish reading the comic: 1 hour.
2009 IDW Comics Angel "The Curse" Trade Paperback. Cover price: $19.99. Price I paid: $1. Enjoyment (on a scale of 1 to 10): 8. Time it took me to finish reading the comic: 15 minutes.
It all boils down to how long I'm involved in the whole reading process. The Star Trek Annual gave me much more bang for my buck, end even though I only paid $1 for the Angel TPB? The entire time I was reading ti I was thinking "Man I would have been pissed if I had paid full cover price for this book, or even the $4 per issue they wanted for the mini-series"!
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Date: 2011-05-27 08:08 pm (UTC)Can't really bring to mind any storyline of the last 5-10 years that stuck with me. Now, the art is great, but the writing...not so much.