It's true.  No, this isn't a screed advocating comic book piracy - I'm talking about buying an individual issue of a book as opposed to a collected volume.  I used to be that guy that hung out at the comic book shop for hours on end.  If it had a Marvel, DC, or Image logo on it, I seriously considered buying it.  I bought my own copy of Previews so I could pore over it and see if there was anything else out there I might miss.   I was up to my neck in "underwear pervert" books and dropping a HUGE chunk of change every Wednesday.
 
And then I stopped.
 
A big part of the catalyst that changed my habits was getting married.  My (now ex) wife didn't understand my geekdom and frowned upon my hobbies.  I couldn't make it to the comic shop every week.  So I stopped buying new issues of my books.  And then I quit altogether.  It was a weird feeling not having the adventures of old familiar friends to keep me entertained every month.
 
Once the split happened, I considered going back to my old ways, but I couldn't.  I had taken a good long look at the funds I had been laying out every week and I realized that it was madness to keep doing that.  Which is how I learned to love the Trade Paperback.  These days when I see a book I am interested in, I may pick up a single issue to see if it's worth reading, and then I just wait for the trade.  I figure if it's good enough to warrant a collected volume, then it's worth buying the collected volume later on down the road.  Otherwise, I'll just say to heck with it and forget the book ever existed.  I have to wonder if other people do the same thing I do or if they still go with the fanboy "Must buy every issue ever made!" route.