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Started by Archiecomicxfan215, April 11, 2016, 12:15:22 AM

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invisifan

For those of an e-format collecting bent, it's easy enough to collect all the variants and they can be displayed in a video picture frame — they aren't as common as when they first got trendy, and the larger (comic sized) versions are harder to find, but still available ... so you could have a B&V frame on the wall that had it all — and always different, or a mix of whatever you want.

DeCarlo Rules

#31
Quote from: irishmoxie on April 23, 2016, 01:31:02 PM
IMO, buying variant covers is one of the few, only? reason to buy paper comics anymore. You can read the digital versions earlier and faster. I haven't been a comic collector for years and years so I'm not good at the delayed gratification comic shops insist on. Plus, to own a copy of Donald Duck or Silk wouldn't make me as happy as owning the variant cover of B&V.

Which is about 180 degrees apart from my own way of thinking. If you like digital comics, then why is the "main cover" (or non-variant) comic book NOT worth owning on paper, AND YET... somehow, the minute the printed comic is available with multiple options for covers, it suddenly IS worth collecting on paper?

Sure, you love the artwork on some particular cover variants over others. BUT YOU CAN HAVE ALL OF THEM FOR FREE (or only the selected ones you prefer over others) simply by right-clicking and "Save image", and you can have these FREE images to admire on your tablet or desktop months in advance of those who need to wait to purchase the printed comic. That, and not American Pickers, is what I find baffling.

GingerGal

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 02:37:13 PM
Quote from: irishmoxie on April 23, 2016, 01:31:02 PM
IMO, buying variant covers is one of the few, only? reason to buy paper comics anymore. You can read the digital versions earlier and faster. I haven't been a comic collector for years and years so I'm not good at the delayed gratification comic shops insist on. Plus, to own a copy of Donald Duck or Silk wouldn't make me as happy as owning the variant cover of B&V.


Which is about 180 degrees apart from my own way of thinking. If you like digital comics, then why is the "main cover" (or non-variant) comic book NOT worth owning on paper, AND YET... somehow, the minute the printed comic is available with multiple options for covers, it suddenly IS worth collecting on paper?


Sure, you love the artwork on some particular cover variants over others. BUT YOU CAN HAVE ALL OF THEM FOR FREE (or only the selected ones you prefer over others) simply by right-clicking and "Save image", and you can have these FREE images to admire on your tablet or desktop months in advance of those who need to wait to purchase the printed comic. That, and not American Pickers, it what I find baffling.
Like it was said earlier by someone else it isn't really 100% free to right click them and save and then print them. First you have to have a good print to print quality stuff. Then you have to buy good quality printer paper to make it look all nice, and then there is the cost of the ink as well. Sure you can just have them sitting on your computer to look at now and then but really what fun it that? You could even make your favourite cover your wallpaper if you want. That is free, but not much fun at all. I do agree though that a comic is mostly what comes inside and the cover makes it look pleasing to the eye. Some covers are better than others and I guess that is what they are trying to achieve by giving readers more options to choose the ones they like the best.

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 02:45:12 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 02:37:13 PM
Quote from: irishmoxie on April 23, 2016, 01:31:02 PM
IMO, buying variant covers is one of the few, only? reason to buy paper comics anymore. You can read the digital versions earlier and faster. I haven't been a comic collector for years and years so I'm not good at the delayed gratification comic shops insist on. Plus, to own a copy of Donald Duck or Silk wouldn't make me as happy as owning the variant cover of B&V.


Which is about 180 degrees apart from my own way of thinking. If you like digital comics, then why is the "main cover" (or non-variant) comic book NOT worth owning on paper, AND YET... somehow, the minute the printed comic is available with multiple options for covers, it suddenly IS worth collecting on paper?


Sure, you love the artwork on some particular cover variants over others. BUT YOU CAN HAVE ALL OF THEM FOR FREE (or only the selected ones you prefer over others) simply by right-clicking and "Save image", and you can have these FREE images to admire on your tablet or desktop months in advance of those who need to wait to purchase the printed comic. That, and not American Pickers, it what I find baffling.
Like it was said earlier by someone else it isn't really 100% free to right click them and save and then print them. First you have to have a good print to print quality stuff. Then you have to buy good quality printer paper to make it look all nice, and then there is the cost of the ink as well. Sure you can just have them sitting on your computer to look at now and then but really what fun it that? You could even make your favourite cover your wallpaper if you want. That is free, but not much fun at all. I do agree though that a comic is mostly what comes inside and the cover makes it look pleasing to the eye. Some covers are better than others and I guess that is what they are trying to achieve by giving readers more options to choose the ones they like the best.


So Digital Comic = GOOD; Digital Cover = BAD ?


Me no understand. U like e-comic, Y U print cover then?


It's only "fun" if you have to hunt down the variants one at time, pay for shipping, buy the same actual comic book story over and over again to get the ones that have different printed covers?  I'm MUCH more inclined to collect digital cover images than I am to collect entire digital comics, but I have to admit that the FREE aspect is a big lure, plus it helps to know how to search for images sometimes.


GingerGal

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 02:59:40 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 02:45:12 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 02:37:13 PM
Quote from: irishmoxie on April 23, 2016, 01:31:02 PM
IMO, buying variant covers is one of the few, only? reason to buy paper comics anymore. You can read the digital versions earlier and faster. I haven't been a comic collector for years and years so I'm not good at the delayed gratification comic shops insist on. Plus, to own a copy of Donald Duck or Silk wouldn't make me as happy as owning the variant cover of B&V.


Which is about 180 degrees apart from my own way of thinking. If you like digital comics, then why is the "main cover" (or non-variant) comic book NOT worth owning on paper, AND YET... somehow, the minute the printed comic is available with multiple options for covers, it suddenly IS worth collecting on paper?


Sure, you love the artwork on some particular cover variants over others. BUT YOU CAN HAVE ALL OF THEM FOR FREE (or only the selected ones you prefer over others) simply by right-clicking and "Save image", and you can have these FREE images to admire on your tablet or desktop months in advance of those who need to wait to purchase the printed comic. That, and not American Pickers, it what I find baffling.
Like it was said earlier by someone else it isn't really 100% free to right click them and save and then print them. First you have to have a good print to print quality stuff. Then you have to buy good quality printer paper to make it look all nice, and then there is the cost of the ink as well. Sure you can just have them sitting on your computer to look at now and then but really what fun it that? You could even make your favourite cover your wallpaper if you want. That is free, but not much fun at all. I do agree though that a comic is mostly what comes inside and the cover makes it look pleasing to the eye. Some covers are better than others and I guess that is what they are trying to achieve by giving readers more options to choose the ones they like the best.


So Digital Comic = GOOD; Digital Cover = BAD ?


Me no understand. U like e-comic, Y U print cover then?


It's only "fun" if you have to hunt down the variants one at time, pay for shipping, buy the same actual comic book story over and over again to get the ones that have different printed covers?  I'm MUCH more inclined to collect digital cover images than I am to collect entire digital comics, but I have to admit that the FREE aspect is a big lure, plus it helps to know how to search for images sometimes.
If you like the regular cover that comes with digital I guess that it is good. If you don't like the way it looks then it is bad. Then you go and look for a variant cover. For me it is 99% what is inside the comic and 1% what the cover looks like. If a variant cover really appeals to me like the Betty and Veronica #1 boxing theme one I will probably get it. If nothing really catches my eye then it really doesn't matter because what matters to me is the story inside.

Free is always a good thing that is for sure. If all you want to do is have them stored on your computer device then that is great. If you want to display the covers in anyway then like I said it is not actually free in the end.

DeCarlo Rules

#35
I guess where I am not understanding how others are viewing the printed variant covers is that in MY mind, I can make no actual connection between the art image on the variant cover (unless that particular variant cover was drawn by the same artist who did the interior comic artwork) and the comic book story.

To me, having a variant cover image as a .JPG or something is ideal, because I can disconnect it from the comic story inside that it bears no relationship to,and I don't have to purchase that same story in print over and over again.


I would much rather buy an art book compiling a bunch of "guest artists" interpretations, or homages, or whatever you want to call them, in printed form, rather than hunt down 25 different $4 comic books.

GingerGal

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 03:23:11 PM
I guess where I am not understanding how others are viewing the printed variant covers is that in MY mind, I can make no actual connection between the art image on the variant cover (unless that particular variant cover was drawn by the same artist who did the interior comic artwork) and the comic book story.


To me, having a variant cover image as a .JPG or something is ideal, because I can disconnect it from the comic story inside that it bears no relationship to,and I don't have to purchase that same story in print over and over again.
I guess that is why they call it a "Variant" cover because the cover art and artist on the cover have no relationship with the content inside the comic book.

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:15:09 PM
Free is always a good thing that is for sure. If all you want to do is have them stored on your computer device then that is great. If you want to display the covers in anyway then like I said it is not actually free in the end.


No, as invisifan said above, that is why they invented the digital picture frame. It's the same as the "slide show" photo viewer on your computer, just made specially to sit on a desktop or hang on a wall. For that matter, if your image resolution is good enough, you can do the same thing by downloading the pictures to your digital HDTV.

GingerGal

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 03:33:14 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:15:09 PM
Free is always a good thing that is for sure. If all you want to do is have them stored on your computer device then that is great. If you want to display the covers in anyway then like I said it is not actually free in the end.


No, as invisifan said above, that is why they invented the digital picture frame. It's the same as the "slide show" photo viewer on your computer, just made specially to sit on a desktop or hang on a wall. For that matter, if your image resolution is good enough, you can do the same thing by downloading the pictures to your digital HDTV.
Does the digital picture frame cost anything or do you just download it for free?

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:36:42 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 03:33:14 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:15:09 PM
Free is always a good thing that is for sure. If all you want to do is have them stored on your computer device then that is great. If you want to display the covers in anyway then like I said it is not actually free in the end.


No, as invisifan said above, that is why they invented the digital picture frame. It's the same as the "slide show" photo viewer on your computer, just made specially to sit on a desktop or hang on a wall. For that matter, if your image resolution is good enough, you can do the same thing by downloading the pictures to your digital HDTV.
Does the digital picture frame cost anything or do you just download it for free?


Yes, it costs about the same as 25 copies of BETTY AND VERONICA #1, but is infinitely re-usable and can display hundreds (perhaps thousands) of digital images. But why gripe about that? Nobody gripes that they spent more money than that on a tablet so that they could better enjoy their collection of hundreds of digital comics.

GingerGal

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 03:45:45 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:36:42 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 03:33:14 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:15:09 PM
Free is always a good thing that is for sure. If all you want to do is have them stored on your computer device then that is great. If you want to display the covers in anyway then like I said it is not actually free in the end.


No, as invisifan said above, that is why they invented the digital picture frame. It's the same as the "slide show" photo viewer on your computer, just made specially to sit on a desktop or hang on a wall. For that matter, if your image resolution is good enough, you can do the same thing by downloading the pictures to your digital HDTV.
Does the digital picture frame cost anything or do you just download it for free?


Yes, it costs about the same as 25 copies of BETTY AND VERONICA #1, but is infinitely re-usable and can display hundreds (perhaps thousands) of digital images. But why gripe about that? Nobody gripes that they spent more money than that on a tablet so that they could better enjoy their collection of hundreds of digital comics.
So in the long run it is worth it. Now if I could only get my hands on the money that would be the same as 25 copies of Betty and Veronica #1 which would be about $100 I guess.  :(

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:48:41 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 03:45:45 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:36:42 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 03:33:14 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:15:09 PM
Free is always a good thing that is for sure. If all you want to do is have them stored on your computer device then that is great. If you want to display the covers in anyway then like I said it is not actually free in the end.


No, as invisifan said above, that is why they invented the digital picture frame. It's the same as the "slide show" photo viewer on your computer, just made specially to sit on a desktop or hang on a wall. For that matter, if your image resolution is good enough, you can do the same thing by downloading the pictures to your digital HDTV.
Does the digital picture frame cost anything or do you just download it for free?


Yes, it costs about the same as 25 copies of BETTY AND VERONICA #1, but is infinitely re-usable and can display hundreds (perhaps thousands) of digital images. But why gripe about that? Nobody gripes that they spent more money than that on a tablet so that they could better enjoy their collection of hundreds of digital comics.
So in the long run it is worth it. Now if I could only get my hands on the money that would be the same as 25 copies of Betty and Veronica #1 which would be about $100 I guess.  :(


$100 will get you a decent comic-size image display, and probably a couple of things like wi-fi and a remote. It's basically just a really flat high-resolution computer monitor that you can hang on the wall or prop on your desk or countertop, just as you'd do with a regular photo frame. Plus you've got enough memory in there to store boxes and boxes of photos (or artwork, your choice, whatever can be converted to digital images... even video, although you probably don't have enough memory for $100 for anything too long... still, with wifi you could stream from your computer to the frame).

GingerGal

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 04:02:05 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:48:41 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 03:45:45 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:36:42 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 23, 2016, 03:33:14 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 23, 2016, 03:15:09 PM
Free is always a good thing that is for sure. If all you want to do is have them stored on your computer device then that is great. If you want to display the covers in anyway then like I said it is not actually free in the end.


No, as invisifan said above, that is why they invented the digital picture frame. It's the same as the "slide show" photo viewer on your computer, just made specially to sit on a desktop or hang on a wall. For that matter, if your image resolution is good enough, you can do the same thing by downloading the pictures to your digital HDTV.
Does the digital picture frame cost anything or do you just download it for free?


Yes, it costs about the same as 25 copies of BETTY AND VERONICA #1, but is infinitely re-usable and can display hundreds (perhaps thousands) of digital images. But why gripe about that? Nobody gripes that they spent more money than that on a tablet so that they could better enjoy their collection of hundreds of digital comics.
So in the long run it is worth it. Now if I could only get my hands on the money that would be the same as 25 copies of Betty and Veronica #1 which would be about $100 I guess.  :(


$100 will get you a decent comic-size image display, and probably a couple of things like wi-fi and a remote. It's basically just a really flat high-resolution computer monitor that you can hang on the wall or prop on your desk or countertop, just as you'd do with a regular photo frame. Plus you've got enough memory in there to store boxes and boxes of photos (or artwork, your choice, whatever can be converted to digital images... even video, although you probably don't have enough memory for $100 for anything too long... still, with wifi you could stream from your computer to the frame).
It really sounds interesting. It could be something I might put on my Christmas list or my next Birthday which is not until April 2017 because this years birthday just passed.

irishmoxie

Quote from: invisifan on April 23, 2016, 02:16:07 PM
For those of an e-format collecting bent, it's easy enough to collect all the variants and they can be displayed in a video picture frame — they aren't as common as when they first got trendy, and the larger (comic sized) versions are harder to find, but still available ... so you could have a B&V frame on the wall that had it all — and always different, or a mix of whatever you want.

This is an interesting idea. I'll look into this. It seems more feasible than finding wall space for multiple comic frames.

A lot of collecting is about how you display it. Which is why it boggles my mind when people on American Pickers collect so much junk and throw it in a barn haphazard.


GingerGal

Quote from: irishmoxie on April 23, 2016, 04:47:09 PM
Quote from: invisifan on April 23, 2016, 02:16:07 PM
For those of an e-format collecting bent, it's easy enough to collect all the variants and they can be displayed in a video picture frame — they aren't as common as when they first got trendy, and the larger (comic sized) versions are harder to find, but still available ... so you could have a B&V frame on the wall that had it all — and always different, or a mix of whatever you want.

This is an interesting idea. I'll look into this. It seems more feasible than finding wall space for multiple comic frames.

A lot of collecting is about how you display it. Which is why it boggles my mind when people on American Pickers collect so much junk and throw it in a barn haphazard.
It maybe a little expensive upfront for a frame at close to $100, but the amount of images you can display in it would definitely make up for that cost in the long run.

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