Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-98.242.89.135-20150503050854/@comment-1298029-20150507232940

I'm not an expert, since I don't live in America, but can't you buy comics used, instead of the ridiculous prices the latest hyped-up tie-ins go for? You'd probably have to wait for a while, but still, a lot of that stuff is real old... Also, my only reference for comic book pricing is The Big Bang Theory, but there most of it seems to cost about two bucks. I realize that's probably the stuff nobody really wants to read very much or that's been in print for decades, but how much does e.g. the Ultron novelization (comickeyzation?) cost these days? Twenty? If so, I wouldn't pay for it, and I can afford it. That's two regular books on Amazon, decent ones too (although I suppose comics fans consider them just as worth the buck as a regular book, despite actually being a fraction the length; the comics do have artwork, after all). Anyways, can't you read comics at a public library or something? At least the older ones?

Icey, I'm sorry that you can't afford comic books, I am (although movie tickets for all the MCU movies couldn't have been free either?), but it's not the MCU's job to play out the stories from the comics. Sometimes they're more faithful, sometimes less. As for Quicksilver I'm not sure why he would be so necessary. Granted, I suppose it may make people sour they killed the character off, but there's literally thousands of characters in the Marvel Multiverse, they can't possibly fit in more than a tiny fraction. As for Galactus, what would he do there? He'd just steal Thanos' spotlight, I think. Also, I saw Fantastic Four 2. Galactus sucked, and not just planets. :)

Tomas, to be fair, the guy did say that he couldn't afford comic books. Dissing him for that seems kinda lame. Maybe you or some of the other comic veterans around here could give him a few pointers how to read some comic books on a shoestring budget... I would, but as I said, I'm not American, so I wouldn't know.