“Why it’s so hard to get into comics,” or “Bring a lot of money.”
Okay, so, let’s be honest – I love comics. I wouldn’t be spending all my spare time drawing page upon page of story for no money – with characters and a story that no one has even seen yet – if I didn’t love comics.
But they’re not easy to get into.
I was giving suggestions to The Suit when we got going – which comics were the best in the market today (Suit loves comics, but hadn’t been following a title regularly in a while). The first one I told him to pick up (and if you’re not reading it – bless yourself and go buy all the trades) was Peter David’s X-Factor.
I could spend the rest of this post reviewing and raving about it – but that’s for another time.
Okay, so issue 41 just came out. So, 40 issues is a bit to catch up on. Approx 6 trades at about $15-20 a piece. That’ll run you $90-120. Ouch.
But it doesn’t stop there. In order to understand why X-Factor started, you’ll need the Madrox trade and the House of M trade. To understand House of M, you need to read Avengers Disassembled. So that’s three more trades (at about $20 a piece).
But, there’s more. X-Factor crosses over into some other stories – and they have their own trades to understand the plot. Now we’re talking Civil War and Messiah Complex. Add another $50 between the two of them.
So, in order to jump into a story that is only 40 issues old (maybe 3 1/2 years), you need to spend $200-230 (ish).
And comic companies wonder why it’s so hard to get new readers into comics.
Hmmm… solution?
(shameless plug)
Heartless Dark.
Well, okay, that’s not a solution at all – but an alternative. A new, contained story, that we hope you’ll like.