Thank you for the link. I will go there this evening.
There were just too many titles to keep track of!
Oh, so true. X-Men comics were (are?) the worst. We had regular X-Men, and various variant teams in variant titles in both ongoing comics and miniseries, and an alternate universe (like eXiles), and then the Ultimate universe, and the characters from the X-Men who had comics of their own (like Wolverine), and the mutants who appeared in other teams, like X-Factor, and Wolverine in The New Avengers - wonderful stuff, but I hope they were paying him overtime. And there were stories set in the past (like Wolverine: Origins) and stories set in the future (with generations yet to be born). And you never knew where, or whether, Gambit would turn up. Not that I mean to imply I was just reading the comics for his sake, but I didn't want to miss him if he did appear somewhere.
And then I got bored with the long saga set in Lilandra's empire - can't even remember who was writing it, someone I usually think is good, but this story was interminable and something like the last straw.
And I had been reading X-Men comics regularly since X-Men #1. Stopping my monthly X-Men fix was a bit of a shock to the system.
Batman is just as bad for this - both crossovers and multiple storylines - but less tied to continuity and character interaction.
Maybe once we're living in a flat that's not quite so small. Or, you know. Has a garage or something...
I need a closet like the TARDIS. (Bigger on the inside.) The other day a friend of mine was naive enough to think she could hang her coat in my closet, but she was stymied - all my closets are filled to capacity with comic book boxes.
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Date: 2008-12-17 06:34 pm (UTC)There were just too many titles to keep track of!
Oh, so true. X-Men comics were (are?) the worst. We had regular X-Men, and various variant teams in variant titles in both ongoing comics and miniseries, and an alternate universe (like eXiles), and then the Ultimate universe, and the characters from the X-Men who had comics of their own (like Wolverine), and the mutants who appeared in other teams, like X-Factor, and Wolverine in The New Avengers - wonderful stuff, but I hope they were paying him overtime. And there were stories set in the past (like Wolverine: Origins) and stories set in the future (with generations yet to be born). And you never knew where, or whether, Gambit would turn up. Not that I mean to imply I was just reading the comics for his sake, but I didn't want to miss him if he did appear somewhere.
And then I got bored with the long saga set in Lilandra's empire - can't even remember who was writing it, someone I usually think is good, but this story was interminable and something like the last straw.
And I had been reading X-Men comics regularly since X-Men #1. Stopping my monthly X-Men fix was a bit of a shock to the system.
Batman is just as bad for this - both crossovers and multiple storylines - but less tied to continuity and character interaction.
Maybe once we're living in a flat that's not quite so small. Or, you know. Has a garage or something...
I need a closet like the TARDIS. (Bigger on the inside.) The other day a friend of mine was naive enough to think she could hang her coat in my closet, but she was stymied - all my closets are filled to capacity with comic book boxes.
Problem is, I've run out of closets.