Thinning Out

I have been working on thinning out my comic vault for a week or so now, in an effort to create more space in the basement...at my very patient and tolerant wife's request. :-)

I was a bit reluctant at first, but once I started going through them, I saw that I'd accumulated some comics that I still hadn't read, and most likely would not be reading for quite some time, if at all. The main problem I found was that I'd gotten some comics for such a cheap price that I couldn't pass them up. They were by creators whose work I'd liked, so I figured ... why not?

Maybe there are worse things than leaving those comics in the box. Another thing I saw is that I'd have two or three issues of a mini-series, clearly bought at a greatly reduced rate in the hopes of someday getting the other issues. Someday never came. I'd still be interested in reading a lot of them, but the likelihood of me coming across the missing issues is pretty slim. So, out they go.

A somewhat related aside: I also found that there are Peter David comics I either don't like or don't care all that much about. I jettisoned some Dreadstar comics written by him. I did read them, and thought they were okay...I guess. For whatever reason, they just didn't grab me. They join the ranks of PD's Action Comics and Wolverine stints, as well as Sachs & Violens. I still own S&V, and I suspect that this is due to equal parts the great George Perez art and the fact that I think that I SHOULD like these comics.

If you've read previous posts, you know how much I like Peter David's work, so this is hardly an indictment of PD. But I didn't feel compelled to hang on to these comics. It happens. But all is not lost - I truly like the vast majority of what he writes, and will continue to buy comics he writes.

A good thing about this purge is that this might enable me to get to reading some of the other comics I've acquired that I haven't read, but that I really want to read. Ones that I have the whole series, or ones for which I have a good, long run. Ones that I looked at once more and was reminded that I had some good things still to read.

I wonder if I'll actually miss any of the comics that I packed up to be sold? I kinda doubt it. But if I do, I know where to go to reacquire them.