• Twoafros@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    How can reading be no 1 most attractive and comic books are on the unattractive side of the list?

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      45 minutes ago

      If you’re genuine: reading brings to mind books, and people might see books as intellectual but comics as geeky/childish

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      I think it’s collecting vs reading. I’m a lady and read comics, well graphic novels, I don’t buy the individual issues. Half my bookshelf is graphic novels trade paperbacks. But I do not collect, trade, sell, I don’t think of them like that, they are for reading and enjoying.

      Collecting I can see as an unattractive trait because it’s too close to hoarding.

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        Whew that was a close one. I started reading comics again a few years ago and only have been getting TPB or HCs. Who has space for boxes of singles?