Thursday, January 30, 2014

Replacing items on the pull list

For anyone who has been following my blog, you may have noticed some changes to the pull list.  Many of the titles that were listed on my list half a year ago, are now gone from it, and new titles have been added.  The general pattern has been for me to drop a DC title and pick up a non-DC title by an independent company.  I'm going to summarize the last year in comic-book collecting and pull list modification below.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Happy New Year... and it's been a while

First, I'd like to wish anyone reading my blog a Happy and Healthy New Year.  I can't believe it's 2014 already.  I'd have wished folks one earlier, but I was out of town over the holidays.

Second, I'd like to explain why there have been so few entries on my blog the last couple of months.  There are actually several reasons for this. The first and foremost was work -- I made my last post right before Thanksgiving, and of course went away for the holiday, and then when I got back, I became absolutely deluged.  I teach college, so some of this was the inevitable end-of-term business (writing exams, grading exams, doing up final grades), which was predictable.  But on top of this, we had an unusually frequent pattern of meetings for any time of year, but especially for the finals period (most semesters, meetings are suspended when finals roll around because no one has time for them).  And then there was a panel I volunteered to be on, which saw me reading 30 10-page (or more) proposals in a week, and writing page-long reviews of each one.  All of this adds up to the fact that I was swamped, and doing a lot of work at the computer otherwise, so the last thing I wanted to do of an evening (or a weekend) was sit down at the computer for more hours and do more writing.