Appreciation post: finally stopped flipping through every issue at the shop before buying

I used to spend an hour reading the first 5 pages of 15 different comics before picking one, but last Saturday I just grabbed a trade paperback based on the artist's name alone. Has anyone else had that moment where you just trust your gut more than the hype?

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fionam112d ago

nah i gotta disagree hard. flipping through stuff is half the fun. you miss so many hidden gems just picking one book on a name alone. what if the artist phones it in or the writer is trash? i learned that lesson the hard way spent 20 bucks on a dud.

elliot_roberts2d agoMost Upvoted

Not to be that guy, but "hidden gems" kinda implies you already know they're good before you buy them. You can't really call something a hidden gem if you're literally holding it in your hand at the shop. That's just... a book you looked at. And the 20 bucks lesson? Man, I feel you, but that's a risk no matter how you shop. I bought a Daniel Warren Johnson book blind once and it was fire. Another time I flipped through three issues of the same Batman run and still picked a dud. Flipping doesn't guarantee quality, it just gives you the illusion of control.

cole_murphy2d ago

Honestly, the last time I did that I stood in the shop for 40 minutes flipping through six copies of the same Spider-Man issue looking for a variant cover I didn't even end up wanting. Ngl, there's something freeing about just grabbing a book based on a cover or artist you already trust. I did that with Daniel Warren Johnson last month and didn't even check the writer, turned out to be one of my favorite reads this year. Tbh, sometimes too much browsing just kills the excitement.