This Week's Haul

This was a pretty good (and expensive) week for me. My town has 4 local comic shops, and I shop at all of them to some extent, as well as Amazon when the price warrants. I'll write a post sometime about the economics of shopping around and how I try to stretch my comic dollars as far as they can go, but that's a discussion for another time.

As for today's haul, it will probably take me the rest of the week to read through everything. I am not a particularly fast reader, much to my eternal shame and lament, but I certainly don't enjoy reading any less because of this cognitive shortcoming. What is does mean though, is that I have a massive backlog of unread material that I am slowly working through. I have a "reading pile" that at present consists of the following:

EC Archives Tales from the Crypt vol 2

DC Archives All Star vol 8

Spirit Archives vol 7

Marvel Masterworks Amazing Spiderman vol 8

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Tales of the Batman: Tim Sale

Asimov's Foundation's Edge (a non-comic, gasp!)

Virgin's Dan Dare vol 1

and half-a-dozen regular comics, including Star Wars, Savage Sword of Conan, Aztec Ace, and Alien Legion.

So, I'd better get back to it. :)

Introduction

Introductions can be tricky. Since I am new to blogging, I'm not exactly sure how to start, because I don't really know who my target audience is yet. You may know me. You may not. You may like me, you may loathe me. But either way, you're here, so you must be interested enough in what I have to say to at least want to ridicule me for it, and beggers can't be choosers.

So welcome.

I have a number of interests, most of them placing me squarely (and unapologetically I might add) in the geek camp. Despite this fact, I am a functional, and occasionally even productive, member of society. But make no mistake, I am a geek. My friends, by and large, are geeks.

And that's OK.

I've carved out this little corner of cyberspace (does anyone really call it that anymore) to talk about the primary recipient of my available disposable income: publishers of hardcover comic books. Or graphic novels, if you prefer. I am a snob when it comes to format, to be sure, but I'm pretty ambivalent about the nomenclature (see, I *told* you I was a geek).

So look for periodic postings (Hhow's that for aliteration!? Eat your heart out Stan Lee) on what publishers are doing right, what they are doing wrong, and what they aren't bothering to do at all, when it comes to publishing material in the durable hardcover format.

And if you have something to add - or subtract as the case may be - feel free to chime in. And thanks for stopping by.