# That's it. I quit collecting comics!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-i-quit-collecting-comics/319243>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 30, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-i-quit-collecting-comics/319243 "2005-08-30T14:00:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-i-quit-collecting-comics/319243/41 "2005-09-01T15:09:18Z")

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> [@cckerberos](#):
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> This is true, but I don’t think anyone other than the truly die hard DC fans are actually picking up all 4.

I WAS only buying two of the four: OMAC (only because I wanted to see what happened with the aftermath of Ted’s death, and what Booster and Max would be up to), and VU (because I’m a Deadshot mark and I love villain-centric stories). The other two just didn’t interest me.

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-i-quit-collecting-comics/319243/42 "2005-09-01T15:33:21Z")

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> [@MGibson](#):
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> I’d be willing to trade my comics for PS 2 games, board games, Call of Cthulhu stuff, and other odds 'n ends. A suit of Greek armor along with a shield and spear would be dandy.
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> Marc

Games, eh? Hmmm… I might have old Board and PS2 Games…

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-i-quit-collecting-comics/319243/43 "2005-09-01T15:40:17Z")

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> [@cckerberos](#):
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> This is true, but I don’t think anyone other than the truly die hard DC fans are actually picking up all 4.

I’m buying all four, and I’m not even a regular comics reader. I don’t even know who half the people in these books are; I’m learning about a lot of them as I go along. I only started going to the shop regularly in the first place because Doom Patrol was revived, and I got hooked into following a few other series along the way. (I definitely would have followed Seven Soldiers anyway, assuming I heard about it.) DC’s ploy of introducing Infinite Crisis with the 99-cent special worked in my case. At first I was planning to skip Rann-Thanagar, as that thread seemed like an irrelevancy shoehorned into the Countdown (“Oh, by the way, Mr. Strange called. He and Mr. Hawkman can’t make it to your party due to a war in outer space.”), but I ended up reading that one too. DP will end after three more issues; once the Crisis stuff and Seven Soldiers wrap up, I’ll probably be done with comics for the time being–unless any of the inevitable spinoffs seem worth following.

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