Dear Small Press and Independents,

Please stop publishing such fantastic stuff I only have so much room and money.

Okay not really please keep up the great work, the big boys have forgotten how it?s done.Okay so I don?t really need help as I?m quite happy with this predicament. When I was younger, I used to collect from only the big two Marvel and DC. Most of my collection was Marvel books; X-men, Spider-man, Wolverine and the rest was DC books; Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Warlord. As I?ve gotten older, I find I don?t care for the multiple title crossovers, the death of a key character who later is resurrected or any of the other ?big events? of mainstream publishers. Those stories tend to get repetitive, costly and boring. I don?t know when or how it?s happened but over the years, my collection has morphed and I find myself reading some fantastic books; so fantastic in fact that in some cases I read them over and over again. I look at stacks of comics, a month?s worth ready to be sorted and put away; I realize the majority of the books are not from Marvel or DC. Truth be told, those are the two smallest piles of comics at the moment. Dwarfing them is a stack of IDW books (who can resist Locke & Key) issue 6 of Keys to the Kingdom was epic. Thanks to Dark Horse for Hellboy which is a solid read every time and I love the fact that most of the stories are 1-shots. I?ve been reading 28 Days Later by Boom Studios. It follows the path of Selena from the movies. The writer is great, the art not so much. I hope I?m not the only one reading The Sixth Gun from Onipress or Rotten from Moonstone; Guns, Zombies and the Old West, so awesome. Stuff of Legends from Th3rd World Studios is the kind of story telling that opens the imagination to being afraid of the dark, especially the closet. I?m a little behind in my reading and I just finished Infinite Vacation Issue 2. WOW what a mind blower. The first issue was okay at best, but issue 2 started off with a bang (the lead character is hit in the head and kidnapped). Great stuff. Next I caught up on Morning Glories. I have no idea what?s going on but I?m most certainly along for the ride. The creep factor of this private school just increases with each issue. Hype aside, I loved the initial story and art of Nonplayer and I look forward to more. Green Wake gave me goose bumps with its dark interior and spooky storyline. I picked up Proof in trade paperback and I?ve been a fan since reading volume 1. Then I added Proof Endangered to my pull list of monthlies, I have yet to be disappointed in this book, it is quite entertaining. Butcher Baker was a riot, so outrageous with the sex and language, with the American Flag splashed in every other panel. Yes I am a fan of The Walking Dead; I became a convert in 2003 with issue 1. At this rate, I?m going to run out of space in my Comic Cave soon.