Here is a story of how I am dumb.

On By Luther M. SilerIn Reviews

So this is a true story of how I am a huge idiot.

I buy comic books, right?  If you’ve been reading for very long you surely know this about me.  I generally drop $20-30 a week on comics, which nowadays tend to run $3-4 each.  I bought issue 1 of a new creator-owned book by writer Matt Fraction about a month ago.  I like Fraction’s superhero work quite a lot, and generally if I like a writer’s work for hire stuff on superheroes they didn’t create, I make sure to check out the stuff they came up with on their own.

The book’s called ODY-C.  It’s pronounced “Odyssey,” a fact I didn’t pick up on until discussing it with the owner at my comic shop on Wednesday.  I assume the pronunciation would have been perfectly obvious had I read the comic, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

I vaguely recall having a pretty heavy day that day, both in terms of stuff at work and number of comics bought.  The first issue of ODY-C involves a nine-page timeline, right at the beginning.  Understand that I tried to take a picture of this thing and couldn’t figure out a way to do it, but this is the image on the other side of the timeline.  Sort of:tumblr_inline_nfauivb21F1rzqgjtNow, again: that’s a big art spread.  The other side was a detailed timeline.

Those are not my legs.  I found the image on Fraction’s website.

It made me tired.

I closed it, closed the comic, added it to a pile, and never opened it again.  I thought about it a couple of times, sitting there and all not being read and representing wasted money, and just never bothered.

ODY-C #2 came out Wednesday.  And I bought the motherfucker, on the off chance that I was going to someday read the first issue, like it, and then want the second.

I have still not read either issue.  Now, granted, I’ve only had ODY-C #2 for two days at this point.  Really only one, because I’m writing this Thursday night.  But you really  have to wonder just how far out I can take this.  Am I going to buy issue #3 in a month because I haven’t read #1 or #2 yet?

And how about when I tell you that this isn’t the only book I’m like this about?

I am a dumb person.

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8 thoughts on “Here is a story of how I am dumb.”

  2. Skilled In Self Destruction's avatar Scribbled Thoughts

    Maybe you do it on the off chance that one day you WILL pick it up and you WILL read it? Maybe continuously buying the newest volumes will just bring you closer and closer to reading it?

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  4. I used to have exactly the same problem with comics. About a year ago, I just stopped buying comics altogether as I had a back log of about 3 months worth to catch up on…. which I still haven’t caught up on. And yet, I still buy comics. It is totally an addition! Good post 🙂

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  5. You are a hoarder. But a cool one. (Yes, I own comic books. And mint in the box action figures that are proudly on display in the living room.) Also, I’m glad those aren’t your legs. My opinion of you seriously dropped when I saw that photo until you pointed out the whole not your legs thing. I cannot picture you in skinny jeans. Please don’t burst my imaginary image of you and say you wear them. My whole imaginary world will crumble.

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  6. You’re not an idiot, or if you are…that makes me one too! It’s not just comics/magazines/books either – one time I caught the trailer of a show which looked quite good, so I set it to record and hit the precious series link button – happy to catch up at my leisure. Then series two came out and I still hadn’t got around to series one, so I started taping it on the off chance I might one day (soon) catch up. The episodes were wracking up, my sky box was low on juice and I still managed to convince myself it was a good idea to keep them…you know, just in case 🙂 Not strictly the same, since no money changed hands – but there’s a tentative link!

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