That felt good. It was a little frightening at first, but it felt good.
I decided to kick the remaining DC and Marvel monthlies off of my reserve list. Even with the progressive herd-culling over the last year, that’s still a fairly substantial number of titles. But it just seemed like time.
Blame Previews, actually. I was looking through the current catalog this morning, and I realized at a certain point that I was deciding not to pre-order things based on my usual expenses on Big Two floppies, which I rarely (if ever) re-read. In fact, if I ever touch them again, it’s to file them into long boxes as I curse the space they consume and time they demand just as clutter.
So, what, I’m not going to buy the Comics Journal Library edition on writers so I can squint at a bunch of DC titles to find the bits I like amidst all the Infinite Crisis references? I’m going to keep staring wistfully at all those volumes of Buddha on the shelves as I lug home a stack of Aftermath tie-ins from Marvel? (Okay, that might be a bad example, because the Vertical editions of Buddha, while exquisite, still strike me as too expensive, but you know what I mean.)
So, re-readability is the new watchword. Less inertia to my buying patterns, more product that comes in satisfying chunks (such as manga digests), and, hopefully, less aggravation on a variety of fronts.