23 Problems Only Comic Book Readers Will Understand
12. Trying To Attain An Impossibly Proportioned Body
For both male and female comic book readers alike, any attempts to either hone your own body to be like your favourite comic book hero or find yourself a girlfriend/boyfriend with a body like your favourite comic book character will result in extreme, inevitable and upsetting failure. Power Girl's Barbie doll slim figure and enormous, pert breasts simply don't exist in the real world and Captain America's ludicrously toned muscles and massive chest would take a lifetime of working out several hours a day and eating nothing but lean food to achieve. The level of "body beautiful" that comics present to us is really setting readers up for all round disappointment.
11. Comic Book Prices
Gone are the days when "Action Comics" would cost 10 cents/10 pence and there'd only be a couple to buy (if that) every month - these days you're lucky to find a comic for less than 3 dollars/3 pound, and they're being released en masse every month. Basically, if you want to keep up with your favourite character's every move, you're looking at having to pay upwards of 15 dollars/15 pound on a monthly basis. It's an expensive hobby to have these days and if there's one thing most comic book readers would choose to change about the industry it's the prices they're paying for comics - especially given the aforementioned ludicrous number of adverts in each one.
10. Variant Cover Prices
Variant covers are a real ball-ache for comic book fans. Despite the fact that the official print on the front of them often presents them as being the same price as the original cover, this rarely turns out to be the case - even in comic book stores. However, it is the eBayers who really have a whale of time when they're selling variants. Variant covers can sell for ludicrous prices ranging from 20 dollars and up. Variant covers often come with a completely different picture that makes up a complete image when put next to the original (see above), but they can also just have artwork from a different artist or a blank canvas for readers to take to conventions for artists to sketch on. Either way, it's just another way for comic book companies to get more money out of readers and it is very annoying.
