The comic shop clerk who told me to stop reading variant covers

Last Saturday at Golden Age Comics in Denver, the guy at the counter said I was wasting my money chasing ratio variants. Told me about a regular who dropped over $600 last year on covers he never even opened. Got me thinking about how the hobby turned into a collectible market instead of just reading good stories. Anybody else feel like the variant cover chase killed the fun of just picking up a random issue?

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thomas_martinez19d ago

Man, that clerk actually said that to your face? Wild. Did he at least recommend a good run to check out instead of just lecturing you?

adamgreen19d ago

@thomas_martinez read an article saying variants are just FOMO traps for collectors.