Dating for people who bag and board

Wednesday is new comic day. Your pull list is a weekly statement of taste, and your shelf of trades is a record of everything that ever made you feel something.

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How it works for comic readers

Import from League of Comic Geeks. Add your pull list, collection and ratings, and we read them at series, creator and publisher level. Only derived signals are stored. All opt-in, all revocable.

An issue belongs to a series, has creators (writer, artist, colourist), a publisher, and a format
Matching happens at every level: shared series, shared creators, shared publishers, shared formats
Pull list size and reading pace provide engagement data; ratings provide sentiment
Manga, webcomics and European albums count too, through Goodreads, StoryGraph and Interest Q&A

Niche overlap > mainstream overlap

Both reading the big superhero books? Marvel and DC took about 60% of comic-shop dollars in late 2024 (33.3% and 26.9%). Both deep into a small-press graphic novel? That is a shared shelf.

Mainstream

Big Two superhero pull list

Very common → NicheWeight 0.20

Niche

Fantagraphics graphic novels

Rare on pull lists → NicheWeight 0.93

Market share is a direct-market snapshot and not the whole comics world; Comichron explains why sales data is incomplete. NicheWeights are illustrative and would come from rarity across Affinity Atlas readers.

What gets scored

Shared series weighted by how rarely they appear on pull lists. League of Comic Geeks tracks hundreds of thousands of issues

Shared creators - following the same writer or artist across publishers is one of the strongest taste signals in comics

Publisher profile - Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, BOOM!, Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, small press

Format - singles, trades, omnibuses, digital, manga volumes. Waiting for the trade is a lifestyle

Ratings - what you both rated highly, and what you both dropped

Cons and shops - local comic shops and conventions via Interest Q&A. Shared haunts count

Example match

"You share 7 series avg NicheWeight 0.73 and 3 creators across publishers. Publisher overlap: Image (34%), Fantagraphics (18%). Both prefer trades over singles. Both dropped the same crossover event after issue 2. Same local shop on a Wednesday."

Not "you both like comics." The actual series. The actual creators. The actual long boxes.

Integrations

League of Comic Geeks

File import · Pull list, collection, ratings

Goodreads / StoryGraph

File import · Graphic novels and trades

Interest Q&A

Shops, cons, formats, manga

All opt-in. All revocable. We show signals, never raw data. Live links use an official API you authorise; file imports use the data export the service gives you; partner access needs the service's agreement; anything else you add by hand.

Keep reading: Affinity Atlas for Bookworms · How Niche Weighting Actually Works

Affinity Atlas is in development

No real matching is live yet. If you want someone who will happily spend a Wednesday in the comic shop with you - get in touch.

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