Re-reading comics. how often? how long do you wait?

I reread constantly some titles more than once.a lot of times I will re read an arc if the final issue of that story line is coming out I have reread The Astonishing X Men Arcs, Madrox's mini, Identity Crisis, and Nightwing Year One numerous times and evertime the ultimates releases a new issue I reread the entire first two series

I hardly ever re-read comics. I'm not sure that I've ever pulled out a bagged single and read it again, which makes me wonder why I keep them at all.

Exceptions (trades): Top 10, New X-Men, Watchmen, Animal Man, other stuff

(and when I do re-read, it's after a long-ass time)

I haven't reread anything for ages. I really should, and I should also figure out how to get most of my floppies (and most of my trades) out of my home.

alan moore is more re-readable to me than anybody else.

i kinda feel like i HAVE to re-read otherwise i'm totally wasting my money! $15 for an hour's entertainment!

I pretty much only go back over stuff that's really old, and even then not too much. No need to revisit something I read four months ago. And since I didn't get back into comics until earlier this year, most everything I have on me right now is from this year.

I am rereading Operation: Galactic Storm, which I last read when it came out, back in '92. Other than that, I haven't reread anything in a long while, other than a couple issues of The Goon I bought three years and go and forgot I had. A couple of months ago I grabbed a lot of stuff from my parents' house that I haven't seen in 15 to 20 years, and plan on rereading all of it eventually.

Actually, one more I forgot about. I did go back over a lot of Morrison's Doom Patrol a month or so ago, most of which I hadn't read since its release.

I read each comic I get twice ont he day I buy them, then put them in a box and never look at them again until I'm having a nostalgia fit and revisit an entire run of something years later.

i reread them when i'm too broke to buy new stuff (ie: last 10 years)

Every time I move. This does not making moving as much fun as you'd imagine.

Floppy-format stuff I read a second time:

a) before the next issue comes out, if it's serialised (so this can be a couple of weeks or a couple of years depending on schedule)
b) within a couple of days if it's really ace
c) before I stick it in a box somewhere if it's a one-shot

Sometimes a particularly good or detail-rich comic will get read four or five times before eventually being filed, but this could be over a period of a year. Top Ten was probably getting read that much in a two-month gap when it was coming out regularly. The time between purchase and filing isn't defined, either - if I stick things away once a storyline's finished, then say Big In Japan gets boxed in four months, but issues of Peepshow or Optic Nerve live on the "current reading" shelf for five years.

Book format stuff is less likely to get re-read, just because it's easier to file away (ie on a bookshelf: don't have to have special boxes that are out of stock for a year at a time). However it's then more accessible for a re-read in nine months or two years than something in pamphlet format - just grab it off the shelf if you think of it.

Binding contributes here, though - I have never re-read Cages ever, because it's too big to hold in bed, and in seven years I'm yet to actually finish the Taschen Little Nemo collection. If Wimbledon Green had been printed on rubbish paper with a floppy cover, I'd have re-read it twice by now. If the b&w Hate collection had wider margins, I'd probably read it twice a year. If Top Ten or New Frontier had been collected in one book, I'd a) have bought them and b) read them once a month! Death Of Speedy is easy to pull out once a year, but I'm sure buyers of Locas aren't going to flip to pages 127-199 (or, y'know, whatever) too often. Watchmen was great because it was 400 pages long but it also weighed fuck-all, inviting the re-reading that it deserves (& rewards).

Boxed-away stuff is more likely to get re-read if it's a long run of something, just because that's easier to find than a one-shot or three-issue mini. Where is my copy of Pal-Yat-Chee by Tom King & Walt Holcombe? Where is Girl by Milligan & Fegredo? WHO KNOWS! But I can dig out a wodge of Giffen LSH, or go through all the Church & State editorials, or read all of Morrison's Doom Patrol, or Hitman past the second trade, every couple of years because if I find one, I've found them all.

S1ocki's OTM with the second read, though - I often skim details in the art (VERY VERY ESPECIALLY on assembly-line stuff) on a first read, sucking up the what-happened? and then forcing myself to slow down on a second go-through. Actually, Big In Japan and Shaolin Cowboy I would read a second time almost immediately because of this: gottaknowwhathappens - ok, now actually read it.

i'm wit alice. but its more like 15 years.

although its sad how often i start reading a b-list thing from the 80's and put it away after a handful of issues.

i have plenty of *plans* to re-read entire runs of things (swamp thing vol 2 for instance, sandman, metropol) but they don't ever come to much. did re-read v for vendetta when the film came out (didn't see the film itself but...) and did re-read nausica of the value of wind recently as i'd never managed to get past first two volumes.

Because I didn't want to go through the effort of finding the floppies, or my Warriors, I actually bought a V For Vendetta trade so I could reread it following the film.

I'm halfway through a reread of Cerebus, my first since it finished (I've read it 'up to the latest issue) three times, I think. I read the Buddy Bradley trades every other year, probably.

Yeah, Cerebus was the one thing I reread very avidly.

Cerebus can be incredibly rearding upon rereading - scenes which you scanned over and barely registered the first time reveal themselves as mini masterstrokes of storytelling.

nausica of the value of wind

Tee hee.

The Sandman gets re-read every couple of years. Also, when I get any new trade, I'll re-read the series up until that trade so it's fresh in my head. I just got Lucifer: Crux, so I decided to re-read the series. But then I went, "Aw heck, I'll re-read The Sandman first, then Luicfer, then the newest volume of Lucifer."

That's a lot of friggin' reading to catch up on for one volume but I don't mind because the stories are worth it.