Get Your Coat - You've Been Pulled

After today's trip to the comics store, my current "Not Enough Hours In The Day List" stands at:

Comic Trades/Collections:

Queen and Country - Volume 1.
Strangers in Paradise - Volume 1.
Scott Pilgrim - Volumes 1 & 2
Chew - Volume 1
Age of Bronze - Volume 1
Long Hot Summer
Four Letter Worlds
Mouse Guard - Autumn 1152
Superman - Greatest Stories Ever Told
Powergirl - Volume 1
All Star Superman - Volume 2
Incredible Hulk - Boiling Point
The Unwritten - Volume 1
Jack Staff: Soldiers
Victorian Undead
Honour Amongst Punks

Currently Reading:

The Walking Dead Compendium - (Collects Volumes 1-8)
X-Campus

Read:

Fell
Underground
Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness
Bone
Phonogram: Rue Britannia
Phonogram: The Singles Club
Invincible - Ultimate Hardcover Volume 5

That's not including my current pull list for single issues, which I did some adjustments on this week. Currently I have a stack of single issues from my pull list, which includes:

X-men Forever, X-Factor Forever, Daredevil, X-men Legacy, Astonishing X-men, New Mutants, Batgirl, Young Allies, Heralds, Girl Comics, Prince of Power, Black Widow, Age of Heroes, Marvel Zombies.

I actually thought I had more on my pull list, but I'm shedding New Mutants (which has drifted off into a two crossovers in a row and lost my interest) and Daredevil (which I've been picking up, but haven't actually got into since Diggle took over and even before that my interest had waned). The jury is out, too, for X-men Legacy and most likely I'll drop that too. I just have no interest or enthusiasm for the current X-men status quo. I've dropped Astonishing X-men: Xenogenesis and there's only one issue of the standard and much delayed ongoing to go, apparently. I assume it's quietly being killed after that.

Which leaves Batgirl, X-men Forever, Black Widow and whatever they're calling the Hercules book this week as my only ongoings. Okay, Young Allies too, but is anyone thinking that'll last over 10 issues? And I'm wavering on the Black Widow book. I'm enjoying it so far, but there's a new creative team after issue 5, I believe, which'll probably see me jumping off.

Who knew he day would come when my regular comic store order would drop to one DC book and my only Marvel book a Chris Claremont glorified X-men What If?

That said, as Andy, my comic store guy said today, there is tons of good stuff still out there. The Bristol Comic Expo was an eye opener for me, in tandem with the enthusiasm of the more indie-friendly blogs I've started frequenting and Scans_Daily, bringing into focus that there's a bunch of good books around that creators and fans are enthusiastic about, but they're most likely not anywhere near the top of the sales charts. I'm going to start trusting Andy more, as it was on his recommendation I bought Underground and Fell and thoroughly enjoyed them. The store do a blog as well, which focuses on the creator-owned as well as the mainstream and I'll be reading that more often to know what to ask for when I go in.

I've also, as you can see, pulled a bunch of trade collections to try out certain titles on recommendation or pure whim.

I'm going in. Wish me luck.