Originally posted by: Count Dushku
So...was a huge comic nut up to a year ago...went overboard and got burned out, mainly due to X-Men stuff and some residual burnout from Our Worlds At War. The most recent stuff I've read is Id Crisis, Joss's Astonishing X-men, that crap GL Rebirth thing (screw Hal, Kyle and Marz forever), and Supes/Bats.

I need money and something to really get me into comics again. As it stands right now, I have hundreds of issues just floating around that are in no order and most aren't even in boxes, just bags. Perhaps that's what scaring me from comics right now...besides the money.

Help?

Well, IMO, the first thing you should do is pick up a copy of Infinite Crisis #1. There are some sites out there that will help you with catching up on the tie-in mini-series leading up to it. I think this event will be almost as big as Crisis on Infinite Earths.

As far as the $$ goes: It's tough to argue with that. They're becoming more and more expensive, and with the inflationary period we're in, combined with fuel costs, the publisher's costs are not going to go down, so neither will ours. I'm spending about $70/month give or take (but my pull list is a mile long). If the money's really an issue, consider getting direct mail subscriptions from the publisher. I know Marvel gives a regular discount, combined with a better discount if you subscribe to multiple titles. DC only gives 20% off the cover price, no discount for multiples.

If space and organization is becoming an issue, can't really help you there, exept to say you might want to just collect the Trade Paperbacks that are popular now. They usually collect the previous 5-6 issues of a series from where it currently is. So, if a book is at issue #6 on newsstands, the TPB will collect issues 1-5, is a little cheaper than getting the individual issues, and will take up less shelf-space.