[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Harbinger

^All of this is why i quit reading comics years upon years ago. I kinda gave up after aoa when everything turned into this goofy, gangly, impreportionate anime-ish gobblety-gook that just destroyed any aesthetic enjoyment. Then every few years it seemed like everything got this giant, universe spanning, retconning crossover. Plus over half the books are ads and the prices just got ricockulousLy high.

I consider Age of Apocalypse to be the series finale storyline for X-Men. It's just one giant cycle. Birth of the X-Men to Uncanny to the different teams to the time traveling hijinks that causes the death of Prof X to Age of Apocalypse back to the Birth of the X-Men, and so on.

Personally, there is a reason I've been sticking to the omnibuses that collect Silver Age and Bronze Age comics for the most part (for both Marvel and DC). I just don't like the direction modern comics have headed for most of their characters. Spider-Man is really the only character I plan to buy every Omnibus to if it collects The Amazing series within it. Hence why I have the Clone Saga books (which were every bit as terrible as they reptutation proceeded, but now I need the two Ben Reily Omnis to finish the arc), the two JMS books (though to be fair, I really did enjoy JMS' run until the Civil War stuff and Back in Black happened), and I really loved the first Spider-Verse series even though Marvel didn't put the issues in their proper order so I had to constantly flip back and forth through the book to do so.

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Originally Posted by Ultra Seven

My rationale is always “why pay four dollars for a new book that’ll disappoint me when I can pay four dollars for a kickass bronze age book from the bins?” The huge “change everything” crossover every six months is annoying, but they sell well (for some reason). They also make leafing through an isolated issue a continuity nightmare (my frequent conversation with my LCS owner is “that happened?... when?”). Also gotta agree on AOA, that story is well and truly not my bag.

For me, I stopped buying inidividual comics because it came to, "Why am I spending $3-4 on a single issue that leads into the next when I can just buy the whole arc in a single trade paperback for $15?" And then I got into Omnibuses and it became, "I can spend $3-4 on a single issue or I can spend $45-80 on a larger, hard cover collection that covers anywhere from 30-55 issues."

BTW, thinking of putting up on ebay my 2099 Spidey from the Hobgoblin wave since I know Hasbro is eventually going to release a new one on the vintage Spidey body and I might be able to pull of $40-50 on there.