I've been letting my "new" books stack up for quite some time. I'd like to be more proactive about getting my comics organized and put away, but it never seems to work out that way. They pile up in a corner of the den, to the point that, the other weekend when Mike and Noelle were sleeping in the den on an air bed, they probably suspected the comics would fall on them.

The last time I put books away was December 2007. The picture above is just about every book purchased since then. That includes two Free Comic Book Days. Half of Countdown and all of Trinity. Final Crisis. Marvel Zombies 2. Sinestro Corps. The end of World War Hulk and the beginning of Blackest Night. I think the Justice League disbanded three times over that period. It is an impressive amount of periodical literature.

The sequence is as follows. Sort according to title. Loosely organize alphabetically. Start with the A pile(s) and put that into strict alpha, then numerical by issue number, bag, then stack into the holding box. Once the holding box is full, then it heads two floors south to the basement to re-alphabetize the books into the main collection.

I only had one pack of bags on me. I think I have more somewhere, but I only bagged 100 books tonight. You can see them inside the holding box. I estimate I'll need another 300 to bag the rest. That's only like twenty books a month, actually.

While I was stacking and bagging, Clark worked on his comics collection. He likes cramming two or three books inside one bag, and then using upwards of five stickers to close the flap. We had the Wonder Woman animated movie on in the background. It's better than expected and has become a new favorite.

The fun news is that this process allows me to select some of my favorite covers for a future weblog entry. Oh boy!