What's funny is that Quesada totally knows he's full of shit. Before One More Day, he used to converse on forums and do Q&As with Marvel fans regularly, but as soon as OMD hit, he immediately stopped all of that, as if he knew that he had no good answers to the questions besides "I fucked up".

It`s cheaper to drink beer and chase women then collect comic books now!

I had been following the monthly DC stuff for several years, but Final Crisis was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I don't see myself going back the the mainstream superhero stuff, except for the occasional Batman TPB. But, the alt. comics have never been better than right now. I am loving The Walking Dead, 100 Bullets, and I just finished the Sandman series. They have kept my faith in the medium alive.

I guess I'm joining you all in the non-comics buying crowd. Rising cover prices was certainly a big factor in my decision. But, the straw that truly broke my camel's back is the incessant lateness of books. Right off the top of my head I could probably list about a dozen titles that I've read in the last couple years that were late. Final Crisis, Legion of 3 Worlds, Civil War, Ultimates, etc.

I really enjoyed Marvel's The Twelve, but they just left us hanging after 8 issues. Apparently, JMS and Chris Weston will get to it when they can. I invested 25 bucks into this story and you're not even going to finish it? Yeah, I'm done.

I'll still buy the occasional issue or trade. I certainly want to continue to support my local comic shops. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is out tomorrow and I'll still pick it up. But, I will no longer be making regular weekly trips to the shops anymore. No more pull lists. Maybe some day I'll return.

Ironically this storyline was the tipping point for me. I just couldn't believe they were doing this. It was the ultimate cop out for what they did with Spider-Man in Civil War. IMHO it was worse than the clone saga.

Ok, ok, nothing is worse than the clone saga (perhaps the entire Spider totem thing?)

But I am often annoyed at the arogance of comic book creators and their complete disregard for the fans.

I've thought about quitting, but I don't think that's going to happen. I'd be a lot happier though if I could offload the damn books... selling them on eBay is a pain in the ass. I'm thinking about posting what I buy on Craig's List and seeing if I can find anybody local to give me $1 per book each week or something like that after I've read them.

I know what you mean about unloading books I have over 4,000 I've been trying to sell or trade off to get hardbacks of series I know I like and will reread. And ebay was horrible I was feeling like I was paying them to take them off my hands. I've made a huge list and post those to the comic book forums, I try to sell cheap like 50¢ a book to get them to buy in bulk. I also know someone around here who at times will buy any comics at 10¢ each, I'm working on a long box for him, there's just some titles you know you'll never get rid of.

If you don't mind waiting you can go with the TPB after they come out. I usually get mine online for 40-50% off cover price which is cheaper than buying the single issues.

I decided to go through my longboxes and reduce it to the titles that I wanted to keep - be it sentimental, personally obtained autographs, great stories, etc.

7 boxes down and I'm keeping 4 boxes of books. SHEESH!

A lot of it is stuff that I know will leave people scratching their heads... things like Malibu's pre-Image foray into super hero comics, The Protectors. Off stuff like DC's "Flinch" or Marvel's "Mortigan Goth: Immortalis." I should probably offload my Preacher, Sandman and Transmet issues in exchange for TPB's, but Preacher and Sandman in particular have some good memories for me when it comes to the particular single issues.

Here's hoping the last 10 boxes have the stuff that's easier to ditch...

I'm still a comic collector, though just like many of you I'm starting to swing towards Hardbound books, Omnibuses, etc. for comics rather than individual monthly issues. It's more affordable in the long run, works better for sitting on my shelf, and to me has a better value in a lot of ways. Personally, I am also thinking about going through my comics to see if there are any I can get rid of. Not sure how many I'll want to do this with though.

Comics are great but you just have to keep the ones that are truly special. And I agree that all the crossovers in comics today has gotten sort of ridiculous. I can't keep up with it either.

While I really can't call myself much of a comic collector anymore, I can't quite get to the point of getting rid of my 30+ long boxes full of memories.

Much of it is laziness/cost ratio. The time it took to organize/list/sell/ship all of it would be nowhere close to worth it imo. I'd rather just keep the closet full of memories to leaf thru every year or two.

Now, if someone knocked on my door and offered me cover price for the lot, I'd do it in a heartbeat, and re-buy the important ones.

Yeah, I got about 20 long boxes (covering 4 decades), and I probably won't be adding any more to that - they're no worth the hassle and chump-change to get rid of - I'd rather hold on to them, as they're all stuff I still like and have an affection for - I'll just store them in my garage.

Following up on the above couple posts, I often browse ebay, and see the low prices most comics seem to be going for now.

I have many pricey books, but when I calculate everything out, I get something like this.

If I sold the 7000 or so books that I could part with, I'd get maybe $10000 tops, more like $7500 after ebay fees, paypal fees, shipping, and slabbing the pricey ones. And it would probably take me at least 300 hours in organizing, listing, packing, trips to the PO, etc. My time is worth more than $25 an hour.

I'll probably give away/sell/trade a bunch of them over the years. My hope is to someday have a friend/son/nephew that is as addicted to comics as I used to be, and would treasure them all. I'd give them all away if I knew they'd be appreciated/read.

I must have about 30 long boxes of books. I've sold a few things off over the years, but yep, I plan on keeping the books in case my son ever gets into comic books. I can't imagine what a rush it would have been for someone to just hand over tons of comic books to me when I started buying.

I fantasized for years that my Dad/uncle/someone would pull me aside and say, "Son, I've been waiting for the right time. Here is my collection of comics from the 40s and 50s."
Hopefully, my comics from the 70s thru 90s will be treasured by someone twenty years from now.

Either that or come across a Golden Age collection at someone's yard sale and they have no idea what they have and you buy the whole collection for dirt cheap!!

Take care all!!

I'm trades only at this point, and dropped nearly all of my Marvel books entirely. I'm sick of the Bendis-verse, and annual crossovers that start strong and drop to a drag for 6 issues leading to a non-ending that sets up Yet Another Status Quo. BORING.

DC isn't much better, but I love the characters more.

I'm more excited about many Image, Dark Horse, Dynamite, and other publishers. Especially the Kirkmanverse.

Kirk Cameron has a line of comic books!? Man they must be all about getting left behind huh?

I see you rightfully left out trying to leave someone comics from the 90's... unless you stopped collecting by then?

I have a lot of comics from the 90s, but would never give them to anyone I cared about.

I still like Sandman, The Invisibles, Doom Patrol, and Sin City. What were you buying in the 90s?

Yeah, I have and love all of those. I was just running with the joke.

I wish sometimes that I had been buying that stuff back then. Unfortunately, I have boxes in my closet filled with Sleepwalker, Darkhawk, Guardians of the Galaxy, Namor, Terror, Inc, Nomad, and New Warriors. I have to dump some of this stuff...somehow.

Sadly I have boxes and boxes of this stuff too. Although I did dig the New Warriors quite a bit.

C'mon, no shame in reading Guardians of the Galaxy or New Warriors (which they're finally collecting into trades).

And yeah, I was largely joking about the 90's stuff. But c'mon, when people think 90's comics, they think Image, holographic covers, and the height of "collecting," right? Or maybe they just don't admit they have longboxes with multiple copies of each cover of X-men #1, or each X-Force #1 trading card... not sure who I could give those away to.

Heard it from the grapevine that with the November Previews, the majority of DC and Marvel titles are going the $3.99 cover price route, and with that price hike, I think I'm going to have to truly pare down the list to the essentials (whatever that ends up being), and it's a little bittersweet, but I'll just have to continue to trudge through the bargain bins whenever the opportunity presents itself. Probably just saved $50-$75/month when the price hike finally hits the titles showing up in November.