As Easter approaches I couldn't help noticing the similarities between my weekly prog and a Cadbury's cream egg, apparently there isn't any. I do however tend to read it a certain way and wondered if any other boarders have a ritual...Well if I'm honest with you I didn't really wonder, I mean I do have hobbies and interest and a quite interesting life I suppose...
Anyway, I don't tend to read my prog from beginning to end, more in order of least favourite story to most favourite. For those of you interested here's how I read it this week:
Nerve centre
Input
Atavar II
Tales of Telguuth
The V.C.s
Future Shocks
Judge Dredd
And that's about it really. I may read it in a different order next week...who can tell? I can do that you know.
Dredd first. Always first. Then everything else in order. Then back to the inside cover to hear what the Mighty One has to say in the Nerve Centre.
If there's any Sinister Dexter then that gets read last, because sometimes I just can't be arsed with it.
As for Slaine, I can't remember the last time I read it. It's a strip that's not inspired me since the days of the Horned God. In fact, I didn't realise Niamh had been raped and Ukko had walked off until someone made a casual remark about it on here weeks afterwards!
More importantly - WHERE do you read yours?
I always seem to end up reading it at work when the Managing Director walks past my desk.
At the moment...
Nerve Centre
Incubus
Input
Ed
I hide mine amongst my paperwork and sneakily read it when there's no trainee's about (the shallow fools would only mock).
I'd also just like to point out that my boss, sound geezer that he is recently brought me in an old issue of the best of 2000ad that he found during a clear out. Respect is due.
Every word, in the order in which it is presented.
Anything else would be an abomination.
- Trout
In my new store, inside a Borders bookshop, anything that may be sold within Borders, CD's books, magazines etc, have to be stickered on your way in as not to confused with stolen merchandise. So I take my prog in monday morning, get it stickered and on the way out, removal of the sticker rips my prog!
BASTARDS!
I won't be doing that again.
Yeah, I had the opposite problem, my local stockist has taken to "writing" the address on the cover instead of the usual friendly sticker in the top corner... I put them straight on the matter.
Ed
A load of my back issues have names and addresses on them - picked them up from Oxfam. I wonder who they are and why they got rid of massive comic collections. Actually, whenever I see comic collections for sale in charity shops it makes me quite sad. Either someone has died, or, perhaps worse, their partner has refused to put up with comics ANY LONGER and they must live on without them.
Or they've moved abroad, got bored of them, want to raise money for a favourite charity. But lets stick with the first, sad explanations, eh?
That's actually quite an interesting thought... wondering why they originally got rid, perhaps there's some comfort in knowing that true fans of the organ will track them down, pick them up and give them a good home afterwards.
Ed
I read mine... on the bog. (Hey, anyone who says different is lying. You've all done it!)
I haven't read anything on the sh*tter ever, eaugh!
Ed
What, not even the time on your watch Ed?
always DREDD first.
followed by the order of which i enjoyed the last prog.
currently with VCs being second.and avatar being third.
where is read my prog. i have answered this before , but sadly the marina got closed down due to finacail problems recently and very strict controls on pleasure craft under the current security threats.
my lastest venue for thrill power absorbation.
the Orchird golf and country club.
sat next to the pool. after a round of golf.
ice cold tiger beer at my side,and that only lightly annoying sound of the water fall tumbling into the crystal blue pool.
though it can be slightly traumatic to have re postion the sun shade now and then.
the only way to cool off after the thrill power over load is to sit in the jacuzzi and place the discman above the water level. and allow the thrill circuits to cool down.then a gentle sauna.
before once again going back to enjoy the prog again.
its a weekly ritual cuirrently curtailed due to the virus thing. but soon to be restarted again.
i will have to try this whilst in the tiollette thing. see how it compares.
Toilet based thrill power has been known if there's something relevant that week and the house is too noisy.
Otherwise its when eveyone's a-kip
or not in
or - when something REALLY important happens, like what happened to Dredd and the facehuggers -read that strip in Smiths before buying.
If my sub turns up before I go to work, I read Dredd and save the rest till I get home. Then I tend to read the rest of the stories in order (skipping Telguff) then read Input if it's there, finishing off with the Nerve Centre.
On the Loo.
Dredd first. Telguth last. Then it's a fee for all.
Often read the Nerve Centre on the loo, when I get in from work to find my subs envelope.
I try to wipe, flush & wash before starting on the stories or otherwise my legs tend to die & I can't walk afterwards.
Read it in order usually.
The Meg I read in random order, over a few days, and always after I've finished that weeks' prog.
I usually get home 1/2 hour or more before Oddgirl which gives me time to read the prog.
Using the supreme willpower that is sadly lacking in virtually every other aspect of my life, I try not to pick up my progs less than every six weeks or so (longer if I can get away with it without the fascist bully boy at my local comic shop ringing me up and demanding I come pick them up) and I then read each complete story from start to finish.
If a story has yet to reach its conclusion, I just don't read it (although I've read bits and pieces of Incubus- come on- I'm only human).
I know it's weird- but I enjoy it more that way.
Plus I don't go on some half assed rant about how crap a story is after the first episode and judge it in its entirety instead...
Ahhhh... smugness!
I used to frown upon reading on the bog too- then I tried it one time and now DEMAND reading material while I wait for gravity to run its course...
No pushing and heaving for me :)
You should try it with colitis, you'd hardly have chance to read the first panel.
I have built up a small library in the loo to keep me occupied during my tedious ablutions (though they've become less tedious since taking up a high-fibre diet). The great thing is that you know you've spent too much time in there when your arse goes numb and you can't stand up anymore! It's like nature's egg-timer!
Somewhere along the line my Dad's nicked a little plaque saying "British Library Reading Room" which is now adorning the downstairs toilet in thier house.
I read it once when it arrives,editorial, nerve center then in order.
After that I read it in the bath at night.
i read it in order and hanging upside down from a clock tower...nah just kidding i read it in my bed
Come now, Oddy- couldn't you have stuck that in "my dad's dumber than your dad"?
;)
I read mine in the garden room (really an extension on the back of the house - my wife insists its a garden room) with a cup of tea on a Tuesday Morning
Yer Slippo
well despite troutman being a failed ex-monarch i do totally agree with him regarding the beginning to end philosopy, even the small print, no page must be turned until there is time to read it..
ahh how i turn my nose at your toiletry habits, however as the only rooms with locks & peace from kids... actually i generally read mine in the sanctuary of the bath ( the risk of dropping it in the water adds to the thrill)or in bed..
Bus or bog normally... yeah first page to last though I rarely resist a flick through...
Now that spring is in the air, I read mine sitting on the back step in the sunshine, usually a monday lunchtime if it's come on time. Read it through from beginning to end, skipping nerve centre (sometimes don't read that at all since tharg stopped being amusing and whimsical)
I'm a traditionalist, start at the beginning and finish at the end.
As for reading on the bog, I can't have a poo comfortably unless I have something to read. Usually that months doctor who magazine or sfx, or failing that, a trusty 2k annual or best of, which are shelved on my upstairs landing, just outside the toilet door.
Too much information?
Bart, posiibly read the time, but I don't really spend too long on the poop shoot, I do confess to reading the occasional Bleach bottle details etc...
Ed