“I can’t tell you how tempted I am to count the individual volumes on these instead of the compendiums. Same comics, but there would be EIGHT added to me Goodreads challenge instead of 1. 1 1000-page book.
But you know what? I’m honest. Honest Abe they call me. I think because I wear a stupid hat. And because I’m not assertive enough to tell people my name isn’t Abe.
One of my very few items of cultural pride is that I was a Walking Dead early adopter. I was all over the first trade, and I loved it, and I even turned a friend onto it, and he was a hardcore comics reader and buyer, so when I got to scoop him, it was a big deal. The only times I got to do that were Walking Dead and Scott Pilgrim.
What I’m saying is that I’m a Tastemaker, and you should all be very impressed.”