As much as I hate to admit my nerdiness to the world, the truth is that I've been buying comic books every single Wednesday for the past, God I don't know, 10 years? What do I love about them? I don't know, the pacing, the characterization, it reads differently in this medium than it does on television or in literature. It's like taking the best of these two worlds and smashing them together. This Wednesday though, I won't be going to the local comic shop. The reason? Space. I'm simply running out of room to store these little gems. This isn't to say that I'm going to give up the hobby. Oh no, instead I will now only buy the occaional collected edition.
It's just another sign of the coming era of the tablet device and cloud computing. With the rise of these technologies we won't have to worry about finding the space for the things we love. Instead we'll just keep them all in digital form on our hard drives or upload them to someone's servers, no more physical media just stored information-like they're just memories to be recalled at will. The idea of this intruiges me, but I'm not sure I'll ever get used to it. Think about it, there's a generation maybe being born right now that may never buy a CD or own a book. Strange.
(I didn't want to get sued for using a comic image that belonged to a company, so the image I used at the top of this page is from a comic created by myself and my VERY talented friend Kyle Frink. Check it out on Lulu. com if you're interested.)
