I for one LOVE the EC Archives! I completely understand about everybody's space and cash problems ... I suffer from them, too!

I used to buy a ton of Marvel and DC trades & HCs. I wound up not only with shelves that were bursting at the seems ... but a huge monthly Tales of Wonder bill, too.

This forced me to take a hard look at my READING habits, and not so much my buying habits. I took a look at my bookshelves (and long boxes) and asked myself "what am I never going to read for a second time." I whittled my collection down by a LOT ... and I made a nice chunk of cash on eBay getting rid of it.

What I wound up with was a set of Masterworks, DC & EC Archives, and some of the better DC, Vertigo, Marvel, Dark Horse, and IDW reprint TPBs ... with a few odd ball items tossed in. Better yet, going through this evaluation process cut my monthly Tales of Wonder bills in half!

Next time you're going to buy that new HC ... ask yourself if this is going to be a one-time-only read, or something you're going to pull off of the shelf again and again. I'd contend that a lot of the newer HCs that reprint stories that just came out in comic book format would fall into the one-time-only category.