I finished watching the latest season of Doctor Who. I like Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor and think this was a pretty good season, though the last episode was probably my least favorite of the season.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 12, 2018, 12:32:20 PMI don't use bags and boards, except on older, more valuable comics so that isn't an issue for me as much. I do prefer the collected editions for manga. if the U.S. publishers were to switch to that format, though, I would probably drastically decrease what I buy and just use the library for many things I wanted to read.
I've largely gone the other way. If I can stand to wait until it's released, I prefer reading (and collecting, and owning) the trade collection. All of that bagging/boarding and (if we're talking about something older that I'm re-reading after a long time) UN-bagging or RE-bagging/boarding (depending on age) gets tedious after a while and the trades just seem much more convenient, more durable, and less susceptible to damage through routine handling. That's truer than ever of comic stories published in the last couple of decades, because the stories are being designed to fit the collected edition format.
As a side note, I'll make the observation that manga stories, whose individual chapters as anthologized in various Japanese manga periodicals (mostly weekly or bi-weekly, sometimes monthly) are basically analogous to an American floppy comic book, could be (and used to be) published first in English translation in the U.S. standard popular periodical format, but now they're going straight to collected editions of 200 or more pages, and they read much better that way. I really think U.S. comic publishing would have been much better off if it stuck to a disposable first-publication format (CHEAP! ... as MAD Magazine used to say...) instead of making an expensive, computer-colored, slick-paper 'disposable' comic that no one is ever going to dispose of, but which requires post-publication protection (in the form of bags and boards) from normal handling.
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 12, 2018, 08:54:30 AMI have been reading/collecting a lot of titles since since my early teens. It increased when I started working at a comic book store when I was 16 (in 1986) and has stayed that way even after the store closed in 2005. I also read 100-200 books each year, though more have them have been audiobooks in recent years.
Well, if you are retired I guess it explains how you have so much time to read all those comics.
Given that you're saying you might check out Exorsisters in trade, I wonder (based on your reading habits of waiting months to read 5 issues or so of any given title) why you're not just getting the trade collections of all those other titles to begin with. I mean I can see it where some people just want (theoretically at least, presuming that they can find the time) to read things while they're still "fresh", and not wait on a gap of several months until the trade collection is released, but it seems like by the time you're getting around to those particular issue numbers, the TP collection must already be available or at least imminent within the next month or so. It seems like next to nothing (getting to the real fringe publishers otherwise) that isn't getting that trade collection, almost like clockwork in today's comic publishing world.
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 04, 2018, 09:44:20 AM
At some point it seems like the Doctor should be a little kid, too.
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 04, 2018, 03:25:14 AMNot yet, but it probably is only a matter of time. It doesn't matter to me as long as the stories are entertaining and the actor does a good job.Quote from: rusty on November 04, 2018, 01:05:02 AM
I liked Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor.
WHObender.
Has there been a Doctor of color yet? Only a matter of time, lord.