Ok, So Hello, Boys.....

It finally came in - ain't she a beaut?!?

Ok, So I Know I Said I Was Only Going To Get The One Black Canary Figure.....

...but THIS is a beautiful figurine of my favorite Super Heroine taken directly from the cover of a Justice League issue a few years ago....It will be out on November 25, right before my birthday.

Hint, hint.

Ok, So This Is A First....(A rant of sorts)

So, for those of you in the know (i.e. nerds), Wednesday is new comic book day. All the new books come out and all of us who love a man with nipples on his batsuit swoop in and buy the latest issues of our favorite titles. I am usually equipped with the knowledge on Tuesday night of which books are coming out the next day so I don't forget anything when I head to the store. I go to the DC Comics website tonight and I look to see what's coming out tomorrow.

Nothing I get. I have no reason to go to the store tomorrow.

Wow.

I have noticed over the last year or so that while I still go weekly, I have been collecting less and less individual books (or floppies) and more trade paperbacks (tpbs), which for those of you not familiar is when a group of floppies are collected into one book - usually it's a story arc or mini-series within the book. It's a trend that many collectors have been doing, and it has allowed me to start to collect some titles that I would have never thought about trying, including The Walking Dead, Ex Machina and a few of the Marvel books. I guess that my TPB habits have caught up with me, as I have am looking at what I do collect anymore, and the floppy list is getting scarce, with only about five titles or so a month (and one or two of those I am planning on dropping soon.)

I am one of the few dinosaurs at my store (which I have been going to since August of 1991, when I moved down here) that has his books "pulled" for him, meaning I get a 20 percent discount. The guy I buy from (sounds like a drug dealer) said that a lot of his regulars have disappeared over time, and he doesn't offer the discount to people anymore, that I have been grandfathered into the program. He also comments a lot on my "thin stack of books" I have when I go to the cash register. The store I go to is a great store, and I don't want to give up the discount. Plus, not to get all head-shrinky, there is something about not collecting comics anymore that says to me that I have grown up, and that simply will not do. Plus, while I can get some of the TPBs for a bit cheaper at the Amazon, I like the idea of supporting a local business. But a lot (not all) of the passion for comics has left me, and I am not sure what I can do to get it back....the last few "big events" of the publishers I collect have left me jaded and a bit put off. What do you think, kids? Is it time to pack it in?