Why trades, anyway?
A discussion of why trade paperbacks are my preferred format for reading any and all comics, as well as my history as a comics reader.
A discussion of why trade paperbacks are my preferred format for reading any and all comics, as well as my history as a comics reader.
Media preservation is broken, and we need to discuss what that means. Some of you may have heard about the recent shutdown of ROM sites LoveROM and LoveRetro—places to get…
Wherein I ponder the difficulties of exclusive material in trade paperbacks by examining Power Rangers Year One, and come to an explosive conclusion.
900 trade paperbacks. Inventorying them has been a slow nightmare – just know that I’ve only just started on the Ms. But 900 is an interesting milestone for me. I’m…
Conventions are stressful affairs, fraught with peril and, usually, good things. It’s getting there that’s the trick. I typically attend my local comic conventions, SpringCon and FallCon, which are very…
Co-written with K. Tilden Frost The first time Kay and I bumped into the work of Jeremy Whitley was when GeekMom’s Karen Walsh sent Kay’s now-10 year old an autographed…
Last month was weird. Since my last Showing Off The Shelves, things avalanched. I mean, they avalanched personally, but so did my collection. Three different jobs landed in my lap,…
Justice League, historically, has had problems with its collections. The new Justice League International Omnibus printed some pages in the wrong order, for example, and outright omitted some dialogue. This…
Whatever you think the rarest book in this picture is, you are almost certainly wrong. I own a lot of trade paperbacks. There are a number of reasons I buy…
I have an odd relationship with my trade paperback collection. It often grows faster than I can read, I have no illusions about that. There are numerous great deals out…