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:Now, 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.