I read any story I am reading for entertainment, very slowly, so I can soak in the atmosphere, and "live in the story". If I am reading a story for editorial purposes, I will read it faster, looking for certain elements or errors.
I read any story I am reading for entertainment, very slowly, so I can soak in the atmosphere, and "live in the story".
Same as me. Slow reading, exploration of the art within the panels (lines, inking, little details), appreciation of the staging page by page. Of course with bad stories that can be very painful, so for those stories (and geez, how many bad stories there are in Disney comics!) I accelerate my reading so that I will not suffer too much (some writers can give me almost physical pain). It must be said that certain good stories have a quick rhythm. So to enjoy them I read them faster. In a way, the story itself is asking me to do that! But then of course I come back and re-look the pages slower.
I never read sequentially the stories in a same volume. Even when the issue contains just a few stories (two or three). I read one story. The other ones in the volume will have to wait some months before I find a reason to read them too.
Sad to say, with the amount of entertainment available today (tv-series, movies, comics, books, games..) there are way too many things I want to read and watch – and I just don't have the time. And this has affected the way I read Disney comics too. As a kid I would get completely lost in the story, re-reading my favorite ones multiple times. Now I get through the latest issue pretty quick often distracted by other things while I do it. And I rarely re-read anything for the entertainment purpose anymore, just when I want to check some facts.
Ps. whatever: when you randomly start threads like this you should start by telling what you do and think, and not expect others to make the topic interesting.
Sad to say, with the amount of entertainment available today (tv-series, movies, comics, books, games..) there are way too many things I want to read and watch – and I just don't have the time. And this has affected the way I read Disney comics too. As a kid I would get completely lost in the story, re-reading my favorite ones multiple times. Now I get through the latest issue pretty quick often distracted by other things while I do it. And I rarely re-read anything for the entertainment purpose anymore, just when I want to check some facts.
Well, that's a "problem" that everyone has. And of course it's not a problem at all, we live in a very cool historical period as concerns entertainment! But I apply your "quick assumption" attitude to arts other than comics (like music, tv-series, movies, books, etc...). Whereas for comics (especially Disney ones) I am more intellectually involved, so I take the time to almost study them (ok, maybe "study" is an exaggerated word, but you get what I mean). It was not always like this, of course. When I was 13 I paid more attention to novels, when I was 20 to music, when I was 25 to stand-up comedy. Now it's comics. I wonder what it will be ten years from now!
Ps. whatever: when you randomly start threads like this you should start by telling what you do and think, and not expect others to make the topic interesting.
Wow. Somebody is interested in my experiences! Anyway... When i used to collect comic books as a kid, it took me days to finish a volume. There were kids at school who pestered me to lend them pieces of my collection (a friend of my sis saw the huge amounts of magazines in my house and the news got spread) and they surprised me with their speed. I could lend 5 volumes at once to a kid and, next day, he was like ''i finished them, do you have any more?''
I tend to read them slowly, to take in the stories and artwork, especially Disney comics. There are a few comics I'll read just once or twice and file them away (Popeye Classics, Mickey Mouse Shorts) or eventually get rid of them (Archie Digests, Simpsons Comics, until I stopped reading them altogether). For books I really like, such as the IDW Disney books, the paperbacks or hardcovers are an excuse to reread stories from months ago or to collect the Barks, Rosa and Gottfredson stories (and to have them in a sturdier format).
