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It's been brought to my attention that I am incorrect:

She's the 3rd woman to write ASM (Ann Nocenti, #295; which I remembered) & the 2nd to have a run (Kelly Thompson, #878-879 & 892; which slipped my mind). Justina Ireland's 3 issues will be closer together but she's the 2nd.

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Breaking news:
Justina Ireland has just been announced by editor Nick Lowe as the first woman to write a run of issues of “The Amazing Spider-Man” here at @NY_Comic_Con!

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Reminder!!

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@pencilforge @meredithmwrites Ooooohh!! Yes, yes, yes! He can’t afford to leave his own apartment in a very early scene! I never thought of that as licensing the use of everything but I can totally see your point.

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@pencilforge @meredithmwrites I don’t remember a specific licensing thing in it? Or are you just saying Dick took chances on wild swings in his work?

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@pencilforge @meredithmwrites And, like lots of sci-fi, is set in a ‘future’ year that is now in our past. I find this stuff fascinating.

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Interesting debate last night. I dove into it HARD because, folks, I got emotional feelings AND logical thoughts on this one!

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Genuinely, why do people buy single issues

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@MarvelComradeJr @dokjaphobic Just about everything I wrote above applies to paperback & hardcover collections no matter how many pages. The bigger, the WORSE actually.

An omnibus always looks real sexy but I gave away the only one I ever owned because they are nightmares to read & books are for reading!

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@dokjaphobic The Absolute Edition-format & Omnibus-format look great but after you buy ONE you realize: you can’t bring them on the train, they have immense gutter loss because the spines are so huge, & the time to clear off a whole table to make space for them means you NEVER read them.

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@PopverseSays @JollyGreen2854 Ah! That makes sense! Wow!

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@HdogfWater @dokjaphobic Hecks yeah!

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@QueerWebs @dokjaphobic “transient” seems a really solid word for the feeling! It’s a whole lesser aesthetic for all the many many reasons I listed & it feels broken off from the ongoing series. Like a tree transplanted indoors. It’s great the tree’s alive. It’s just not where it can grow anymore.

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@QueerWebs @dokjaphobic Considering the library has them FOR FREE, that is completely understandable! When someone gifts me a paperback comics collection, I certainly don’t throw it back at them! And using the library boots their numbers so they can get more tax funding!

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@PopverseSays @JollyGreen2854 I know of a “Ka-Zar” title in the ‘80s but I don’t think he had one in the ‘70s to have sales for them to calculate.

Though MAYBE he was the main feature in an anthology title like Black Panther was in “Jungle Action” at this time? I could have easily forgotten that!

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@brand_sunny @Aj_Byrd04 @PopverseSays Yeah, the original western character. That was my assumption as well.

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@HdogfWater @dokjaphobic A drain is something that goes down but it sounds like individual issues still lift you up!

Right?

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@dokjaphobic Parts of it are absolutely wonderful.

(Though, I feel that way about “Batman: Earth One” also and it sounds like you… don’t.)

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@Seangunnburner @dokjaphobic Of course…. that does mean… I have to wrangle 4,000 comic-books when I move in with my girlfriend this August!

But longboxes have handles & I’m not 40-years-old. Yet. (That comes in November!)

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@Seangunnburner @dokjaphobic I can’t argue that collections aren’t easier to store. You are absolutely right! My counter to that?

We’re all going to die someday.

We shouldn’t buy it because it is easier to store than other things.

We should buy it because we love it more than other things.

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@QueerWebs @dokjaphobic What’s the real difference here? You can read it 5 more times than I can but for 3/4s the enjoyment? So I have all these books that last longer that I don’t enjoy reading as much!?

I really just don’t get it.

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@QueerWebs @dokjaphobic Durability, yes. True! But the actual experience of reading the thing is severely degraded! A durable book I didn’t enjoy as much as I could have? I get to… not enjoy it as much again & again?

I do go hardcover when I buy GRAPHIC NOVELS for this reason. Not comic-books.

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