Goodbye, pull list
I’m quitting comics.
Had you for a second, didn’t I? Like I could ever give up on comic books. Sadly, though, events have sort of conspired to make it impossible for me to continue some of my comics reading, at least for the time being. Today, I closed out my pull list at The Comic Book Store. (Those capital letters aren’t ironic. It’s actually called that.) I will no longer be picking up the floppies on a weekly basis. That means no more Worst to First and no more Book of Doom participation after this week.
I’ll still be hanging around, posting rants and some graphic novel reviews. I’m going to continue working on a freelance basis with the newspaper here in Little Rock to write about comics, which means I’ll still be getting some preview copies from the publishers (I hope). Things haven’t been completely ironed out yet.
If for some reason you’re curious about why all these changes are coming, let me first say it has nothing to do with any unhappiness I have with the comics industry. Comic books are really, really good right now and I’m going to miss my weekly Wednesday fix. What’s going on is that my wife and I are uprooting sort of on a whim to move to Atlanta. She’s headed for law school and I’m headed for goodness-knows-what. We may be living on the proverbial shoestring for a bit, which means no budgetary room for frivolous stuff like comics.
I’m disappointed to be joining those legions of bloggers who do little but blog about how they don’t blog often enough (I’m looking at you, 2 Guys), but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
That’s a shame, I enjoyed Worst to First… but hey life comes first!
Good luck with the move and thanks for all the blogging you’ve done since the site opened.
It happens, man. I was working a horrible job a couple years ago and buying a ton of books, then was fired (for my general apathy to corporate whoring) and had to scramble for a bit. I cut back quite a lot, and still haven’t built back up to that level. Possibly because many of the books I was reading weren’t knocking my socks off anyway…but, comics will be there when you get to where you need to be.
(Unless the industry collapses, in which case it’s all your fault.)
Nuts. I’ll make sure I pull out a really spectacular rant about Dan Didio as a form of Viking send off, or something.