Comics Are Heavy
May. 11th, 2024 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI have accumulated a huge stack of unread comic books in the hallway downstairs. After getting the laundry started and grabbing lunch, I set out to find some books in the stack to read.
This is more difficult than you might expect, because comics are so heavily serialized nowadays that you can't just pick up a random issue, read it, and expect to get a complete story. But around a year ago, DC rebooted a number of titles with new number one issues, which made a good jumping on point. Once I found them, that is.
I have now pieced together runs of eight months or so for a number of different books that I haven't read in a while, along with finding some issues of books that I *have* been reading that managed to get missed in the pile, and I read a substantial stack of comics this afternoon. This gave me enough books to finish filling the long box that has been sitting downstairs waiting to be filled. I lugged the 60 lb. (or so) box to the basement and will get it to a shelf later. Modern comics are ludicrously heavy.
I pulled one of my two remaining long boxes out of the closet, took it down and assembled it, and now have about a foot of just-read comics stuffed into it waiting for more to arrive.
I think I am going to start buying short boxes for my comics instead of long boxes...
This is more difficult than you might expect, because comics are so heavily serialized nowadays that you can't just pick up a random issue, read it, and expect to get a complete story. But around a year ago, DC rebooted a number of titles with new number one issues, which made a good jumping on point. Once I found them, that is.
I have now pieced together runs of eight months or so for a number of different books that I haven't read in a while, along with finding some issues of books that I *have* been reading that managed to get missed in the pile, and I read a substantial stack of comics this afternoon. This gave me enough books to finish filling the long box that has been sitting downstairs waiting to be filled. I lugged the 60 lb. (or so) box to the basement and will get it to a shelf later. Modern comics are ludicrously heavy.
I pulled one of my two remaining long boxes out of the closet, took it down and assembled it, and now have about a foot of just-read comics stuffed into it waiting for more to arrive.
I think I am going to start buying short boxes for my comics instead of long boxes...