Question: How Do You Read Your X-Men Comics?

[Devaishwarya]

Do you: Read an issue once then "bag and box" it, never to see the light of day?
Do you: Re-read once in the month of publication until the next issue arrives, then relegate to storage, for all eternity?
Do you: Don't read at all and just let the stack grow higher and higher until it topples over and crushes you?

I re-re-re-re-re-read my books (not just X-Men) all the time...a year doesn't go by without me revisiting story-arcs and runs from the 80's, 90's and 00's. I just finished re-reading HoX/PoX as a set, for the 3rd time. And I re-read books multiple times during the month of it's publication.

(In my Wendy voice)..."How You Do It?"

[Daedra]

Do you: Read an issue once then "bag and box" it, never to see the light of day?
Do you: Re-read once in the month of publication until the next issue arrives, then relegate to storage, for all eternity?
Do you: Don't read at all and just let the stack grow higher and higher until it topples over and crushes you?

I re-re-re-re-re-read my books (not just X-Men) all the time...a year doesn't go by without me revisiting story-arcs and runs from the 80's, 90's and 00's. I just finished re-reading HoX/PoX as a set, for the 3rd time. And I re-read books multiple times during the month of it's publication.

(In my Wendy voice)..."How You Do It?"

Current x-men comics: I just skim trough it looking at the pictures and for something I may find interesting, I may read a panel or two depending on the forum discussion and If I missed any vital information, 70%-80% of marvel output these days is just useless, directionless and unremarkable clutter.

[Devaishwarya]

That's very interesting and quite unexpected. I would have thought XM-fans read through an issue front to back, at least once.

[Jackraow21]

I buy digitally and then if I liked a story arc and it comes out in hardcover format, I buy the HC and take the dust jacket off and put it in my library. They look better that way.

[Devaishwarya]

I buy digitally and then if I liked a story arc and it comes out in hardcover format, I buy the HC and take the dust jacket off and put it in my library. They look better that way.

Do you re-read the digital and/or the HC?

[Jackraow21]

I typically read the digital only once honestly. Sometimes twice if I really liked it, or if I am traveling for work or something and get bored I’ll give an issue a second read on my iPad. But then I read the story all at once in oversized HC format when it comes out. Which I recently did with HoX/PoX and X of Swords when I got those HCs delivered from Walmart online.

[Hizashi]

I buy digitally and then if I liked a story arc and it comes out in hardcover format, I buy the HC and take the dust jacket off and put it in my library. They look better that way.

I agree, but I also want to take as good care of my books as possible. I pester my friends when they open my hardcovers a full 180 degrees, they hate it

[ChronoRogue]

I buy digitally and then if I liked a story arc and it comes out in hardcover format, I buy the HC and take the dust jacket off and put it in my library. They look better that way.

This. I don't have the space to keep many physical copies.

I'll re-read specific issues or story arcs I found interesting if I want clarification on something or when the mood strikes me, but it's not really anything scheduled or that I do any organized fashion.

[Arachne]

This. I don't have the space to keep many physical copies.

I'll re-read specific issues or story arcs I found interesting if I want clarification on something or when the mood strikes me, but it's not really anything scheduled or that I do any organized fashion.

Likewise. I just went digital a few months ago. I'm moving in the fall and have enough stuff to pack. I plan on buying collected editions of anything a really love, but so far nothing has caught my attention that strongly. Vita Ayala's New Mutants might be good enough, though. We shall see.

[Rnap22]

I read at 3am Wednesday morning. I’m digital for like the last 9-10 years (the reason I actually bought my first iPad). Then I check here and I may reread the issue again if I feel I missed something. I’ll usually get into a mood where I’ll go back and read old issues of runs I enjoyed (OG Claremont run with Silvestri).

[Hizashi]

Do you: Read an issue once then "bag and box" it, never to see the light of day?
Do you: Re-read once in the month of publication until the next issue arrives, then relegate to storage, for all eternity?
Do you: Don't read at all and just let the stack grow higher and higher until it topples over and crushes you?

I re-re-re-re-re-read my books (not just X-Men) all the time...a year doesn't go by without me revisiting story-arcs and runs from the 80's, 90's and 00's. I just finished re-reading HoX/PoX as a set, for the 3rd time. And I re-read books multiple times during the month of it's publication.

(In my Wendy voice)..."How You Do It?"

If I really love a book I'll read it once I get home from LCS and reread it a few times during the week before bagging and boxing it. Then I'll usually go back to it regularly throughout the year. This is how I read HoX/PoX but unfortunately X-Men and New Mutants left me rather disappointed. I haven't reread HoX/PoX as set in months, and I haven't reread any of the single issues of the XM or NM since around No 6 or so of each book.

Most of the books I pick up from DC I read once or twice before putting away; I'm also picking up a few indie books and I find I'm rereading those more regularly.

I want to have that piqued interest in the X-Books that I had when HoX/PoX was on fire but I don't feel we've been there even one time since.