The Nerd-pocalypse Approaches

I didn't order any comics last month. That was the first time in...years, I guess. Faithfully, every month prior, I would dig through the Previews catalog and figure out what I wanted and order.

It was an expensive habit and one, more and more, that disappointed.

Well, I went on the site where I usually placed my order the other day to see what was still coming. (Comics are ordered a full two months in advance, you see.) And that's when I realized how close the end really was.

Comic books have a tendency to come out late -- especially big event comics -- but the list of what's on the way has shrunk a lot. I have three issues of Amazing Spider-Man (which publishes three times a month) remaining and the latest book in the Scott Pilgrim series (which I recommend for anyone).

I suppose there will be some comics that don't ship by the end of the month -- some have been on there a lot longer than others -- and they'll come later on. The death-rattle of my addiction, I guess.

But I wonder if I'll really miss it that much. They are just stories, after all, and some of them suck pretty bad. But some of them are great and I know I'll be back, months after the fact, to pick up some trades or hardcover collections.

It just seems weird, to me, if no one else, that my last big box of comics will be here in a week or so. What kind of geek will I be without comics? A TV geek? That seems more likely than the computer geek (which requires some degree of learning) or a lit geek (ditto) or a movie geek (who needs time to go see movies).

Maybe I'm already a food geek. I guess that'll have to do.