Last fall, the list of books I have set aside for me at my local comic shop looked like this:
Blue Beetle
Green Lantern
Madame Xanadu
Manhunter
Wonder Woman
Astonishing X-Men
Avengers: The Initiative
New Avengers
Mighty Avengers
Captain America
Guardians of the Galaxy
Invincible Iron Man
Uncanny X-Men
X-Men: Legacy
X Factor
Dynamo 5
Invincible
Dark Horse
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dynamite
Zorro
Red 5
Atomic Robo
For comparison’s sake, today it looks like:
DC/Vertigo
Batman and Robin
Detective Comics
Fables
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Madame Xanadu
Northlanders
Secret Six
The Unwritten
Wonder Woman
Marvel
Astonishing X-Men
Cable
Daredevil
Dark Avengers
Guardians of the Galaxy
Incredible Hercules
Invincible Iron Man
Mighty Avengers
New Avengers
SWORD
Thor
Uncanny X-Men
Wolverine: Weapon X
X Factor
X-Men: Legacy
Image
Chew
Dynamo 5
Dark Horse
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dynamite
Zorro
Red 5
Atomic Robo
You know, despite believing that I read virtually no DC books, there’s 11 books under the DC heading and only 4 of those are Vertigo books. On the Marvel side, this list was actually larger but I’m decided to jump to trades for some of them (Captain America) or dropped them in outrage (X-Force) or the books just vanished unceremoniously (Exiles, Agents of Atlas). Though larger than DC’s list, it is also less consistent in terms of scheduling, with a few perennially late books there, like Thor and Astonishing X-Men. On the smaller press side of things, I’ve weaned myself off of Invincible for much the same reasons I quit X-Force and replaced it with Chew, which is one of the best new books to come out this year.
There. The comics geekery is over for now. I can feel you recoiling from me as I type this, Reader. This is why I’ve been sticking to movies and my (not always) disastrous luck with women.
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Wow, it’s too bad you’re not a blogger at like a site that covers all this geeky stuff, so that all your mundane friends don’t have to learn about your obsessive behavior and shun you like a leper.
i’m kidding. you are a leper, right?
I think that my friends sometimes need to be reminded how weird and shunworthy I am, though.