I'm wondering how long some of you who've posted here have been collecting comics. I've been collecting for a very long time, now, and I'll tell you what's happened for me:
call me Ishmael, no, wait, wrong story.

I was a Daredevil fan for a VERY long time. Since before DD & Black Widow shared a book. In that time, DD's "origin story" saw so many repeated retellings it was hard to endure another, no matter how good it might seem otherwise. And then there were the v e r y sss ll o w sequences, what we call 'arcs' nowadays. Some really poor DD stories, boring and badly drawn. At the same time, my accumulation over all was becoming unmanageable. Came then, the first culling.

Issue by issue, I judged: keep this because, damn it, I LIKE it, or because it's #56 (randomly picked # here) between #55 and #57? If the former, I kep' it. If the latter... it joined a satisfying pile to be traded or sold.

And so it will be for me with the Rats. Sometime in the future (actually it's happening now with other titles) I'll reread the Rats straight through from #1 to 57 (I'm optimistic) and you know, I'll keep the ones I think are cool, and those others? Somebody else'll like'm, I hope.

So chill. It's amazing to have a writer on board who'll admit to doing better, and nice to have a promise to do better again. And the other issues, keep'm, toss'm. Just...move on. There's so much more to be pissed about than this. Have you seen the new President's cabinet?