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The core Bionicle story was told primarily through the comics and the chapter books, running more or less simultaneously throughout most of Bionicle's run. While the comics were free, coming fairly regularly with the bimonthly LEGO Magazine (with the exception of the notorious Ignition #6), and lasted through Bionicle's very end in 2010, the chapter books understandably covered more ground but ended in 2008 (not counting the much simpler books for the Glatorian arc) and were only available in bookstores and though Scholastic promotions. They've both got their pros and cons- availability, content, artwork, price was a big one, longevity, those sticky bits that held the comic inside the magazine that were fun to pull off, the comfortable typeface on off-white pages, etc. What I'd like to talk about is which was the better medium for y'all. Which do you think told the story the best? Which did you enjoy reading more? The story was my favorite part of Bionicle, and running to the shelf in the bookstore with the kids' chapter books to check if a new Bionicle title was out (I didn't really figure out the concept of checking release dates online for most of my childhood ), or seeing that a LEGO Magazine with a new comic was sticking out of the mail pile, were really some of the more exciting days in my life. If anything, neither failed to disappoint me I had been keeping up with the books since around '02-03, with Tales of the Toa and then moving on to the whole Chronicles box set with Infected Hau, whereas I didn't start on the comics until halfway through '05, when a school friend gave me their LEGO Magazine's comics as they arrived since they weren't into Bionicle themselves, and the following year I had a subscription of my own. Personally, I'm really conflicted on the topic and am really mad at myself for making it, 'cause now I can't decide While I love art and comicbooks and the Bionicle comics really were the first and only comics I ever read and owned, until I became a giant geek and dove headfirst into mainstream comics a few years ago, and they were a really big inspiration to me and the issue with Matoro dying and the issue with Teridax winning were really big shocks and written excellently, I think I'll have to hand it off to the chapter books. They were more emotional and had a bigger impact on me, and I remember "you were not the first Toa," "Mata Nui is dying," and all of Time Trap sending shivers down my spine and being just such a thrill to read. I don't think I ever did read all the comics, and I still need to get around to getting the graphic novel compilations of 'em or getting everything pre-2005 somewhere so I can finally see what I missed. So that's my answer, I guess. The books win out by a hair ^^ Give me your opinions. Tell me your story. Discuss. Get really passionate about it. You can cry if you want. It's okay. I won't judge.
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