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my library is sooo far out of date and its stock is just kiddie stuff i nthe main

I finally joined the library today. I've had no time even to read library books since leaving Leicester in 1995, so there was little point my joining sooner, despite the library's very good opening hours and the library being on my route about 3 days of the week; but at the moment I'm buying so few comics I'm all out of bedtime reading.

On my first borrowing:

300
Civil War
Constantine/Hellblazer: The Devil You Know, Black Flowers and Reasons to be Cheerful
Superman, True Brit

Deborah borrowed Nemesis vol.1, Caballistics Inc. 'Creepshow', Lemore 'Wedgies.'

Can't work out morrison out its like the marmite thing. I love animal man and its a shame that he isn't one of the greatest and most famous characters out there. Think about it he's millions of creatures/powers to chose from not just spiders;. But whilst morrison's run is superb and it you only have to keep reading the rest post-morrison to see what a struggle it was for some to follow in his wake. I wasn't overly keen on his personal appearance neither but you have to admire his confidence. I've got a ton load of his doom patrol run recently and i am starting them from kupperberg onwards, but hope it does'nt go the way of filth which is just too far gone and i lost interest in parts. i will read it again one day when in the mood and perhaps it wil make more sense. Overall he is one of the most famous comic names there is and to question his ability is also to question comics as a genre in some ways. Should they just be fun and entertaining or also make you think, even a bit too much on occasions.

i've too much to read but lucky i now have two weeks off. At one time all i got was the 2000 progs and meg. But i wanted more and mistake or not i began to search. Been a late comer to comics really i had to research but the first thing i started collecting other than 2000 was animal man. I struck gold really and i've still got a few of them to read needing only four from  the 89 vol.2 run. Consequently i've got into doom patrol and justice league europe which is great fun, all dc you may have noticed. Prob is having to work out all the multiverse's is a bit mental. And sadly i've recently dropped buying the megazine. This is in part to finding other 'new' to me stuff to read. The tank girl thing was pap, and together with the citi defence dinosaur thing it just was'nt worth the time or money. The progs are still superb though and bought every week

Indeed my voyage into other comics has proved to me the value of the prog 32 pages LITTLE OR NO ADVERTS, BIGGER PICTURES AND A POUND CHEAPER THAN SOME COMICS. The american market needs to wake up as pretty soon no-one will be buying the monthlies and only getting trade paperbacks as its cheaper and less hassle.

anyone any other suggestions of what to buy bulk wise from the bargain bins, i've been recomeneded Starman and the question