Top Five Wednesday – My Greatest Hits

The Goodreads Top Five Wednesday post for this week was an interesting one.  Essentially you’re to compile a list of five of your favorite posts.  So basically I’m putting together my (still very young) blog’s Greatest Hits.  Now I just have to hope that this list is like Bruce Springsteen’s 1995 Greatest Hits album where he went on to make (and continues to make!) some of the best music of his career after he released it and not something like Poison’s Greatest Hits 1986-1996 where it was an awesome album…but then not so much great new material afterwards.  (Although, giving credit where credit is due, they did a wonderfully fun cover of “SexyBack” in 2007.)  I’ve also included little (new) summaries of the posts and why they made the cut.  So there’s new material here too.  Anyway, let’s see which posts made the cut!

Profile of a Pull List

There were two powerful and seductive forces that pulled me back into the world of comic book collecting.  Those forces are named Jeff and Kalie.  As I discussed in my first post, I stopped collecting comic books around the time I turned sixteen, as comic money turned into gas money.  For seventeen years I was only peripherally aware of what was happening in the lives of my favorite comic characters.  But those seventeen years would fall away (with surprisingly little resistance) last fall.  And again, all the credit (and/or blame) for my return to this wonderfully addicting and captivating world can be laid at the feet of Jeff and Kalie.

A Real Need for the All New, All Different Avengers

Since my return to the world of weekly comic book reading a major struggle has been what to read.  I only have so much money to sink into this passion and I know how this hobby can suck you into an endless spiral of crossovers and new titles.  I decided to be smart.  I decided to limit myself to only five seven ten titles a month.  And I certainly decided to stay away from team books.  They’re crossover hubs, and chasing chapters of one story over multiple team and solo titles is exhausting and expensive.  So just ten titles.  No team books.  Buuuuuut then I tried the trade paperback (just to sample it!) of Mark Waid, Adam Kubert, and Mahmud Asrar’s All New, All Different Avengers.  Damn.  Let’s just say they were more of guidelines than rules, okay?