What brought you back?

[Everyman]

Hello all, I've just very recently started listening to the show and have spent many hours at work downloading old episodes while pretending to creat new Excel spreadsheets. Because I crave attention, I wanted to join in on the forum-fun and ask everyone who at some point in their lives may have strayed from the merry world of comic books due to college, significant others, jobs, children, etc. only to find themselves once again immersed in the medium. What was it that got you "back into" comics? I myself stopped reading comics when I went to college and only recently got back into them because of the prevalence of trades and more specifically, the Omnibus/Absolute editions. I stopped reading comics because I had so many new things going on and simply didn't have the desire to find room to store them in dorm rooms, apartments, etc. Now that I've been out of school for 4 years, I have a steady job that enables me to pay for these larger, bells n' whistles editions. I can specifically point to Brubaker's Captin America Omnibus as one of the culprits that reignited my comic flame. Any one else care to share what pulled you back in?

[darrell]

I can happily say I have never stopped reading or buying comics even If it was just one or two issues a week. Ive been reading comics since i was 8 and Ive never had a time that I wanted to give up comics. I will drop a title out of anger but never drop the hobby.

[Trev]

Infinite Crisis. I live near 2 large comic shops and have to drive past at least one every day on the way home from work. One day I finally decided to stop in and it just happened to be the week that DC Countdown came out. I thought 'well, it's only a buck, let's see'. I grabbed maybe half a dozen more books.

By the time I reached the last page of Countdown, I was hooked. I said to my wife 'what if I came home every week with a stack of books?'. Her reply was 'whatever makes you happy'.

5 years, several cons, 2 forums, regular podcasts, and a few thousand books later I'm not sure she would say the same thing, but she still supports me buying books and even proposed the idea of the custom bookcases in our office that are especially made to store short boxes in the bottom.

What a gal.