#MYCOMICS COM SERIES#
Yes, it did stop a number of series I was reading cold as it became impossible to find anything via the service in the shop OR in my library. It wasn’t as dire as that sentence makes it sound. Thankfully, I had my routine and the ebb and flow of comics continued like a gentle ocean tide. “Scary #s of digital comics and OSHA violating towers of physical ones” large. Because of this, my initial piles got…large. I try to read as many comics as I can for the snark of Saturday Morning Panels and to remain knowledgeable about the field at large (and for comprehensive end of year voting.) It’s easy to miss stuff by just reading my favorite few books week in and week out, and by sticking to just the weekly floppy beat. And, crucially, what would I do when I started to fall behind on my weekly readings. On the comics front, this meant I was putting in place my routine. The world was opening up – whether it should’ve or not, in the way it was, being irrelevant- and I was ready to meet it. I felt prepared, ready to take on what was coming for me, instead of being caught on the back foot the entire time.
I’d made it through 2020 and while 2021 was essentially 2020 part 2, I had a greater certainty in my ability to manage. When I walked into 2022, I was feeling…overwhelmed but confident. It was not a good year, to put it mildly.Īnd, looking back at 2022, 2020’s not a year I think I’ve fully recovered from.
I was disoriented, confused, scared, and unmoored from all I had known. I was feeling the effects of a world rocked to its core, of a year thrown to the wind and ripped to shreds. The last time I wrote one of these, we were still in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, backsliding from a “re-opening” and loosening of restrictions that never should have happened, with vaccines and their promises just over the horizon but not quite here yet.
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