The main issue with comics today in this writer’s humble opinion is that there just too damn expensive! For a comic book issue that can be finished off in about 20 minutes, I can expect to pay about $4.00 CAD, so an hour of reading comics is going to set me back $12.00. To put things in perspective, my Netflix subscription is about that much and my Spotify subscription is about half that. Now there are ways to avoid paying so much, buying GN, buying used, seeing what the Library has, but at the end of the day if you want bang for your entertainment buck avoid comics. The old days when some kid could buy a comic on a whim just because he liked the cover are sadly gone it seems. With one exception.
Marvel’s “True Believers” is a reprint series which every week reprints two or three key issues from Marvel’s past at the price of $1 each, mostly reprints from the Silver and Bronze age mostly tie ins to either to some upcoming Marvel movie or comic crossover. I love this series and beleive that it is the best bang for your buck you can get in comics right now.
For the last year or so, I have been buying these comics faithfully. It’s always a highlight of my week when every wednesday like clockwork while coming home from work, I get off the Calgary LRT at SAIT Station walk 10 minutes to the NW location of Phoenix Comics, grab the two or three true believer comics which have come into my pullbox (along with a few other regular series), walk another block to Carl’s Jr. to pick up a hamburger and then take the bus the rest of the way home eating hamburgers and reading these Marvel Reprints. it’s these sort of experiences which is
In order to share my love of this series I am going to be aiming to post a review of each week’s issues of True Believers as they come out. What I hope to do is encourage people to patronize this series and show Marvel that there is a market for affordable reprints and hopefully encourage them to print more.
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