Monthly Archives: February 2009

There is a nice in depth interview with Kurt Busiek at Wizard conducted by Jerry Whitworth (a some time commenter on this blog and a contributer on other parts of this site). Go read it, contibute to their unique visitor numbers. And thank you Jerry for inspiring the topic of this post.

Now I have a confession to make after that plug. I’ve stopped buying Trinity and I can’t even remember when I stopped. I was reading it and liking it. Reading Jerry’s interview make is clear that there is still interesting stuff going on and coming up. I was digging Kurt Busiek’s revival of Gangbuster and his Anti-Matter Universe stuff. I remember everything with the build up of Enigma, Le Fay, and their reverse Trinity, but then my memory goes blank. I’m slightly troubled by this, because Busiek has been/is one of my favourite writers. I still think his Justice League, Aquaman, and Superman books should have been allowed to run and run. And the quality of Astro City speaks for itself. So it wasn’t a problem with the quality of Trinity.

The local comics shop that I normally go to has moved out of the city centre as their rent was just too high. They were brilliantly placed on my commute home their new store is several miles in the opposite direction. They’ve now become a destination store rather than some where you’d visit when passing. Which is a pity. The other local comics shop isn’t as handy and quite frankly isn’t as good, but its almost on my commute home.

So my weekly comics shop trips have dropped to once every two to four weeks. Which isn’t so bad for monthly books, but one month I must have forgotten to pick up Trinity and never remembered to pick it up again. And if you miss a weekly book for a month you miss four issues. Everybody else is now off in some weird parallel world and I’ve got no idea what is going on. I guess I’ll have to get the trades.

I’ve noticed a couple of other things about not having a pull list. The first thing is that I’m actually buying fewer books and the second thing is that I’m more appreciate of the ones I do buy. They’re both related. When I had a pull list I’d add any thing that appeared remotely interesting to it, because I was safe in the knowledge that it’ll be there waiting for me when I went into the store. Conversely, I now have to make the effort to go into a store to pick up a hot title before it sells out.

I’m lazy I know, but I’ll make the extra effort for Final Crisis #7 and then take pot luck on whether Batman Confidential #25 or whatever is still in stock. The upshot is that my attention is now focused on a smaller number of higher quality titles. I suppose that’s not a bad thing really.