How long does it take you to read a comic book (the avg 22 pages one)?

[miss_terry]

I am just curious as to what our speed is at reading comic books.

[Billy Batson]

Depends on the issue but about 5-10 minutes.

[Personamanx]

It varies greatly sometimes but I'd say about 15 minutes an average for what I read. Depends on a lot of factors outside of page count.

[King Of All Nerds]

5 to 15 minutes, depends on the wordiness.

[t hedge coke]

Depends on if I'm reading for the first time, rereading, why I'm rereading, how wordy it is and how arresting or detail the visuals are. Plus, how much I need to think about the content.

I can breeze through some things in less than ten minutes, even if they're wordy or have lots of panels, because nothing in the panels is holding me still. Other things.. there are some one-line pages that will hold me for actual minutes, there are pages that the Brian Bolland or Jill Thompson or Sue Coe art just demands of me that I sit and examine and consider, regardless of the words or in-world speed of the scene.

[Pharozonk]

On average, I would say about 10 minutes.

[Fast]

5 to 10 minutes usually. It obviously depends on the density of the issue and how much I look at the art, etc.

[GMiller]

It depends on the book..I finished Moon Knight #3 in just a few minutes, whereas some other books, like a Bendis or Hickman book, might take a tad bit longer..

[harpier]

So, I'm an outlier—45-90 minutes—and it requires explanation, because I promise I really am literate. A little over a year ago, I started writing reviews for nearly every new comic that I read. I had two main (and related) goals: (1) improve my thinking and appreciation of comics by forcing myself to articulate my impressions and opinions in writing, and (2) slow myself down. I found myself whipping through issues, especially if I already had more lined up. I wasn't appreciating much of the nuance even if I got a general sense of it. Now, I usually read and re-read and then write up the review, all of which typically takes over an hour. I like it better.

[clayholio]

I chose 5-10 minutes, but it's frequently less than that with current superhero stuff.

It's pretty rare that anything I read takes more than 10 minutes, but if the art is particularly interesting (like if the layouts or panel transitions are particularly clever, or if there are densely-packed panels that are clearly intended to be lingered upon), I'll go back a second time through and really try to take in what an artist is doing. The short reading time is one of the reasons why I greatly prefer to read collected editions of stories - at least that can feel more like a full meal.

[Speed Force League Unlimited]

20-30 minutes

[yet another]

2-20 minutes.

[victorxd1999]

Depends on the art and amount of words. If the art is awesome I look at it longer. I take 5-20 minutes per issue

[Mormel]

I tend to savour the reading experience. I take about a minute per page, so an old floppy mid-'80s to mid-'90s Marvel Comics takes me about 20-25 minutes. I dwell on the artwork if I think it's particularly pretty, I re-read panels or entire pages, I go back to a previous page if some clever twist comes up that refers back to something that happened earlier in the book, etc. etc.

It's different for more recent, post-2000 comics, though. Those tend to be more decompressed, depending on the writer, (at least they were between 2000 and 2009, which is when I stopped reading current superhero comics), and they really took me under 10 minutes to read, for the most part.

[Kees_L]

I am just curious as to what our speed is at reading comic books.

For me that question really doesn't work. Because I really hardly read or view or experience anything merely as making it through just once or as anything solely linearly.

And the speed to it or the way it varies will just depend.
Like poetry or music or basically any art: not its size or 'duration' would effectively be meaning a damn thing, or at least not as much as how speaking or imaginative and affecting the content and graphical conveyment would be to mean.

So durations, pagecounts, or number of words and panels wouldn't mean shit to me, comicswise.