Who do you love?
May 25th 2008 02:26
Riddle me this! Who do you love?
Comic books are a funny thing, as much as it is about art and compelling stories. For me it comes down to some sort of strange competition for attention and affection.
See like most people who collect comics I have a standing order. I don't rush down to the comics and grab issues from the shelves. The great staff at Comics R Us in Bourke street put aside the issues I select ready for my grubby hands to take them home and put in my long boxes.
But I have to choose what issues I want them to put aside. Now I wonder around the store every couple of months seeing what delights the people from Marvel / DC / Image et all have for me this month but it is the issues that are sitting in my standing order that get my cash.
And it is this standing order that dictates where I spend my cash. Now like most people I have a limited income. I cant afford to buy every book that comes out each month so I have to make hard choices about where I spend my cash and that is where the question comes up.
Who do I love? Sometimes it is the writer, but mostly it is down to the characters and how engaged I am with the stories that are being told.
So I have to ask that question who do I love? This list evolves as I go along.
There are the usual suspects
But at the end of the day it is about what I love and what excites me. I mean there are books that I keep getting cos I am so far into that i cant conceive of giving up on a mammoth run but mostly it really is like some sort of priority list.
This has come up because I have just added 2 more titles to my list and I think it is a bit large so I am looking at the fat that I can trim.
And I have realized the competition that is going on in my head.
I have a short list of books I am looking to drop, but the hesitance that I have is that I am afraid that a book that isn't lighting my fire might take off again and i will be stuck looking for back issues.
So I pose the question to you my constant readers which super heroes do you love? What super hero have you always had a soft spot? What villains do you love to hate? I am going to have my first It all geek to me Idol! You get to vote who will be on the list and the winner will get there bio right here on Its all geek to me. So if you have had a character that looks cool and you want to know more vote.
I promise that I wont copy and paste wiki entries.
Also in other news. I just got my first contract in my inbox so now I have done paid work!! It is a milestone for me as a writer and I am one step closer to my goal of being a full time writer.
More on my writing in the next post.
So over to you. Who do you love?
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