Back to the Past

Hey guys, long time no talk. I was originally going to write a scathing article/review about the crap-fest that was the Ultimatum miniseries. I was going to ramble on about what Jeph Loeb did wrong and how utterly disgusted I was, but I will just briefly talk about that.

About 7 years ago my girlfriend at the time was going away for school, and naturally I helped with the move. Her little brother came with us and he had brought along stacks of Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men. At this time I hadn’t read or collected a comic book in over a decade, and I had next to no interest in reading any now. However, I hate car rides if I’m not driving and those comics began to look pretty good.

I picked up Ultimate X-Men and instantly fell in love. I burned through all of the issues he had brought and moved on to Ultimate Spider-Man. I was so enthralled that I skipped dinner on the ride home to keep reading. The next day I ran into a quaint little comic book store called Back to the Past and bought the first 2 trade paperbacks of both series. From that point on I was a collector again.

We've been providing this sheet at the store for a while and occasionally getting them out on the flyer table at comics shows, but due to popular demand we've finally made it available as a download from the website.

While iPhones and Blackberries have made electronic want lists more available than ever, sometimes it's handy to have a simple paper check sheet to track what comics you need.  Use the front of the sheet to track longer runs, grouped by the 100's, up to 1000 total books in a run.  Use the back of the sheet to track shorter runs or miniseries.