...instead of years after the comic storyline was finished, before a comic would have a storyline that was 8 issues, it would be years before Marvel or DC put them into a trade (and that's only if the book was popular or in high demand); now as soon as the 8th issue is out the next month it's a trade-paperback of all 8 issues with a new cover & some extra gallery art with it for under $20 when each issue probably costed $3.99 each.

For the comic company they're are trying to make as much money as possible cause they don't make money on back issues and resells, but on the other hand it makes collecting less exciting cause you might just like reading the book and having a book that's could be worth twice to ten times the cover price is a bonus, but not everyone is in it for the money/collectability part they just want to read it and see good artwork.

The main reason I got out of collecting comics was cause of the "variant cover" craze back when Image Comics first came out, it made every comic book company make multiple covers & then the retail prices started going up & up as they switched to different paper, and from old school coloring to digital coloring, to digital drawing.

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& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak