Paradiddle

February 2, 2012 3:44 pm I bought my wife a copy of V for Vendetta after we watched the movie back in 2005 and she expressed interest in reading it. It's still sitting unread on her night stand, along with Vol. 1 of Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing. Hey, at least she expressed interest.

January 23, 2012 12:41 pm Haha, I have 15-month-old twins and we have that one as well as a "My First Batman" book, as well. Unfortunately they haven't shown that much interest yet. They sure love throwing my trades off the shelf and flipping through them, though. Needless to say, I've boxed up all the ones I don't want destroyed and left a few cheap ones on the shelf for them to play with.

December 12, 2011 1:19 pm Amen. As sad as it is to see him go (and it really is), the Cards can and will remain competitive without him. Aside from his HRs in Game 4 and the double in Game 6, he wasn't even that big a part in the Cards' postseason success this year.

November 11, 2011 4:54 pm As a parent of twins, I can completely relate to being too tired to read. In the limited spare time I do have, I have to choose between catching up on my backlog of DVR shows, listening to records, reading (comics or otherwise), or surfing the Internet (which I try to minimize). And all those things can't happen until after bills are paid, the kids are in bed, laundry is folded, blah blah blah. No wonder that my comics reading has declined so much in the last year.

November 2, 2011 1:29 pm Music is also my main hobby, both listening and playing (drums). I actually spend more of my disposable income on music (big vinyl nerd) than comics these days. I haven't been able to play drums in awhile due to having twins a year ago but am hoping to find a band to join again next spring or summer. I've never really tried the songwriting thing...just don't think I have the talent for it. I'm also one of the two birders mentioned in Ryan's article, although I haven't been able to get out much aside from work in the last year due to the same being a dad thing. As my kids get older I anticipate I'll have more time for all this stuff (incl. comics) than I've had this past year, although of course I'll never have as much spare time as I did before I got married and had kids.

October 26, 2011 4:17 pm Because its song can go on and on and consists of various bird calls it's mimicking...it can also be very annoying to nearby human residents when it chooses to start singing at 5:00 in the morning, or in the middle of the night (which it can and often does)...similar to how annoying and continuous nerd rage on the Internet can be?

October 26, 2011 3:00 pm Aka. Northern Mockingbird. Do I detect a fellow birder/biologist here? Holy crap!

October 14, 2011 3:05 pm I pretty much came to the same realization when my twins were born almost a year ago. Now that I have even less time to read anything (including comics), my pull list is down to less than 10 titles a month (mostly creator-owned) and even those seem like a chore to read sometimes. I'm tempted to stop buying single issues altogether but have this nagging sense of guilt about supporting my local comic shop (only 5 mins from my house) so continue to go in once a month to pick up my books. I'm completely out of the loop with "what's happening" in the Marvel and DC superhero books (FF and JL Dark being the only ones I'm still reading) and am completely fine with it. There's plenty of trades out there should I ever feel the need to read more superhero stories.

October 7, 2011 7:16 pm Late to the party here but all I can say is that I can relate 100%. Since having twins almost a year ago my comics reading now consists of going to the store once a month (if that), picking up the 8-10 titles I'm still following, and trying to cram in reading when I can. I've pretty much stopped trying to follow "what's going on" in the comics world via the Internet, blogs, and yes, even this very podcast, sadly and sorry to say. I've also been getting back into my other obsession (music), so my time and budget availability for comics just ain't what it used to be. Sad but true!

October 7, 2011 6:51 pm Me neither. I may even just set this aside and wait for the last issue to come out before reading the entire arc.