Last year I wrote about how Marvel’s Civil War cross-over event was sucking me back into reading comics. And it totally worked. I’m on a first name basis with the guys at the local comic shop, I have two long boxes that are nearly full of comics, and I’m subscribed to the following titles:
And that’s just the stuff that I get every time it comes out - there are other things that I pick up on an irregular basis. Not to mention the collections of back issues (trade paperbacks - TPBs) that I get in order to get caught up on all of the things I’ve missed. Luckily, some of those are limited runs, and many come out bi-monthly. But it’s still a lot.
The sad thing is that there are a lot of great comics I’m missing out on. I should really be reading Punisher now that I know that it’s being written by Garth Ennis. I missed out on Punisher: Barracuda Max, and now I have to wait for the TBP.
There are even things on the list that I don’t even like: Justice League is really well written, but I just don’t know enough about the DC universe to understand what’s going on. All-Star Superman is great, but it’s not so much a continuing series as a bunch of stories that I appreciate without enjoying. I keep hoping that I’ll start to like it, but at three bucks an issue, I don’t think I can wait around much longer.
So what terrible wallet-emptying addictions do you have?