When I was younger I never threw anything away. This isn't to say I was a hoarder. I threw mostly useless shit away sure. But I was a collector (as in collectibles) so I had a lot of things that were collected. Maybe it was some OCD "everything in a line" problem. I liked to have the collection, complete the collection, and think that I'd never get rid of the collection. I had ...

I became a steady collector of comic books in 1990. Before that, I had loved super-heroes, but lacking any steady place to pick up comics. It was always a few here and a few there. Over the last 20 years (with a short period of maybe 3 years when I had stopped collecting) I've amassed a huge collection of comic books. The problem is, I'm no longer a collector. I still love reading ...