So ends an era, or Dubya killed my comics

In another couple of months, I'll be canceling my comic box.

The plan is to let the current Serenity series run down, then shutter the box and just wait for the much more cost effective (especially with BLB discount) trade paprbacks to come out. I'll also be selling about 90% of my collection, as everything I care about I have in TPB, so I can go back and read them again and again with out damaging the issues.

For DC and Marvel, this is pretty much goodbye. I'll pick up trades of anything by Joss Whedon they publish, but that's about it. There are several Dark Horse titles I will be picking up TPBs for (Buffy, Serenity, Hellboy, Star Wars: Legacy, Usagi Yojimbo, etc), so my relationship with and enjoyment of them will continue. The smaller companies are a mixed bag, and will probably only have the odd Whedon on my shelf from now on.

It's sad, but with the cost of living these days, somethings have to go by the wayside. I blame the president.

That's right, I blame George W. Bush. If we weren't at war, and taking every step necessary to raise the price of oil through the roof, I could afford to spend 20 odd dollars a month on my comics. I also wouldn't need to sell of my old ones to help make ends meet. Chances are that I'd get more for them under, say, a Gore administration that would have placed more value on education than murdering scary off-white people for their oil, and for Dubya's handlers' ideas about how they could rebuild a nation better than FDR did (which they obviously can't).

That was completely off topic, but a nice stress release. Goodbye little comic box, I'll miss you.