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With all the relaunches, reboots, renumberings and changes in creative teams, is there any particular character or title you will pick up no matter what? That you will stick with regardless of what editorial and/or creative changes it goes through?

For me that's Uncanny X-Men, Justice League and more recently Batman.

Uncanny X-Men is the only title that I will always collect. Through thick and thin, I have stayed with that title since the early 300s when I began collecting.

At the moment, I'm still collecting Fables because it's about to end. Retrospectively, I should have dropped it 10-20 issues back.

I think there isn't really any book I'd follow uniquely for the characters. I have picked up books like Transformers and He Man because I've simply wanted to read a book with these characters in. But, I will have either kept reading them because the creative team is good, or dropped the book, because the creative team hasn't managed to produce anything enjoyable.

Punisher is a character who I've followed ever since Garth Ennis's original Marvel Knights run, which led into his MAX series. I'm reading the current Punisher book now, but there was a gap between Ennis and the current book where I didn't bother picking up any Punisher book. The same sort of thing is true for Wolverine.

I'd say Hellblazer, but y'know...

Core X-Men titles (Uncanny, All-New, Amazing/Astonishing, etc) that are published will always be on my pull list. I survived the Austen run and then I was very close to dropping it but didn't want gaps in my collection.

Official Buffy continuity books as well. That's about it.

There isn't one for me. Mainly because I buy a title for its creative team, not the characters.

So flip it then- which teams will you always but the work for (besides Cooke) no matter the material.

Aaron, Rucka, Azzarello, Cameron Stewart, Bachalo, Cloonan, Jock/Diggle together, Paul Pope, Ryan Kelly, Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba, Lee Bermejo, David Aja and probably more that are escaping me right now.

In no particular order.

There were a few comics, but all the reboots made it easier to drop, so right now, none I would say, just writers mostly.

Ellis, Rucka, Cooke. It used to be Ennis, but he has put out a bunch of shit.

Nick Bradshaw, Glen Fabry are some artists I will, mostly because I really liked them in person.

Do you guys find it harder to follow creators rather than titles? I would imagine you have to really keep tabs on their schedules and very carefully read solicits for their names rather than what interests you. Or is there some kind of media/source you use to give you everything certain creators are working on or have coming out?

Tragic Angelus wrote:Do you guys find it harder to follow creators rather than titles? I would imagine you have to really keep tabs on their schedules and very carefully read solicits for their names rather than what interests you. Or is there some kind of media/source you use to give you everything certain creators are working on or have coming out?

I catch some of them after the fact, but I have a lot of the creators on my reader account so I see the new launchers there.

I read the entire solicits every month, also follow them on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram where they usually announce their work well in advance so people pre-order it.

I read the sollicits.

I mean, I know I read them as well but for me it was always easier to look at titles rather than teams. And, I didn't know if doing it after the fact it was released was easier for some of you.