JB's Miscellaneous Ramblings

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This is pretty comics-geeky.

So, I've got a pile of comics. Not a woodwardiocom sized pile, but a fairly good sized pile never-the-less.

More than half of them are more than 2 years old. A good pile run 10+ years.

The question now is: How to organize them.

I'm thinking 1st by publisher/imprint - DC, Vertigo (those 2 will cover 70%), and then the others, and the pile of small quantity publishers I have

From there it gets a bit vaguer. There are a number of titles that I'm currently following.

There are a fair pile of short - 3-12 issues - series. Some of these are linked to titles I'm currently following. Some are totally stand-alone.

There are many ongoing titles I'm not following any more.

There's at least one title I've been following for something like 30 years. :)

There are titles that have pretty much entirely different continuity one one side or the other of various DC reboots.

The last 2 things go together, there.

So how do I organize these? If I go purely by title, I'll be pulling out boxes left and right when I want to read some story line or another from a given time period, but that's the option with the last variables.

Any ideas? Any other variables I haven't considered? Any examples-from-life?

(Oh, and then there's the pile of "Things By Authors" - Matt Howarth, mainly, but also Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, and the like... many different publishers...)

(It's about 12 short boxes right now. There are more in NY, but I'm not bringing them in to this right now.)

It's gotten so bad that I can't tell the use of a proper posessive apostrophe from an incorrect pluralization.

I guess this means that http://www.angryflower.com/destro.gif is now the way I should be living my life.

Oy.