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Originally Posted by Andanzas
Thank you for your answer! You got me thinking about digital comics and DRM. The Humble Comics Bundle made me realize that it is a pleasure to read comics on my tablet, so I wanted to splurge a little and get some titles from this sale. But I also dislike DRM and I would prefer paperbacks instead, so I guess I'll have to visit a comic store next time I go to Madrid. I wonder if they sell comics in English.
Anyway, this DC sale doesn't look that awesome to me, as they are only discounting single issues and not whole collections. But maybe I am wrong and this kind of DC sale is actually rare?
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The nice thing about the DC sale is that one gets a chance at affordable copies of old/obscure stuff that is severely out of print, hard to find in the back issue bins (assuming one lives where there's a friendly local comic shop that has a well-stocked back issue bin that hasn't closed down yet
), and unlikely to get collected, even digitally.
Though mind you, DC has gotten a bit better about doing physical TPBs of their good older stuff (but they go out of print pretty quickly and apparently don't get reprinted due to slow initial sales, leaving one with annoying gaps to try and fill if it's a long-running series that only hard-core fans seem to have liked).
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Originally Posted by TrevorViking
DC usually has a weekly sale of ~100 issues; almost always singles and not the collections. I prefer singles actually, probably due to my physical copy collecting roots.
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I like the idea of singles (what with letter columns and other original-printing bonuses) and I think they work out better in digital format, storage-wise, but I gravitate a lot more towards collections because usually there will be extras like sketches and behind-the-scenes stuff (and TPBs/HCs work out better for physical acquisition, IMHO, since they're easier to store/put on a shelf, and you can resell/donate them much easier if you wind up not liking).
Frankly, I kind of wish that there was some sort of tie-in promotion where purchase of all the qualifying singles in a collection would then give you a freebie (or at least deeply-discounted, if all the original issues aren't available as digital singles) copy of a collection which contains it, and vice versa, since it's nearly all the same material anyway. But that's not likely to happen.
