Meta on Buffy Comics Poll - Have You Now or Ever Read The Buffy Comics?

I was going to respond to all the comments to the Buffy comics poll that I created last week, but was overwhelmed. Will state this, love them or hate them, people are certainly still passionate about the comic books and Buffy.

Anyhow, the results of the Buffy Comics Reading Poll were rather interesting, not to mention the most responses I've ever received to a poll. 79 people responded to the poll, which is a fairly good sample of the portion of the Buffy fandom that I've interacted with, both in the past, and currently.
I was hoping for a bit more than that, to be honest, but did not really expect to get more than 30 at the most. If I'd gotten less than 50, I would not be doing a meta.

Of the 79 that responded?

81% have read the comic books.

Of the portion that had read the comics: 88.6% have bought the comic books. (11.4% did not - from the comments, the 11.4% that did not buy them either downloaded the file online, read the comic in the store, or got it from a friend or relative.)

50.7% of those that have read the books are still reading them.
49.3% gave up.

Of the 50.7% that is still reading:

only 25.5% are enjoying them. 43.6% are unsatisfied/ambivalent and waiting to see what happens with Twilight or the arc in general. From the comments, Twilight appears to be the only reason the 43.6% are still reading the comics. That and to see if Spike ever shows up, although many of them really hope he doesn't because they no longer trust the writer/writers to be faithful to their favorite characters. A few are hanging in there out of general curiousity - to see where Whedon takes the story and how he manages to fit it with the Fray universe.

30.9% hate the comics.
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