If You've Got a Niche, Scratch It

The What's Your Niche thread over at the Collector's Society has me scouring the Internet for scans of comics covers. (NOTE: If you head over to read the thread, be warned that there's juvenile guy humor in the first page or two that might not be safe for work.) If you've read my blog, The Collector's Mentality, you know that I love to start collections but I've never managed to finish one. Well, I'm at it again.

I might be a collector, but I'm first and foremost a comic reader. I've always bought and read a particular series, or artist, or writer. In other words, this whole niche thing is new to me. Buy a comic just because there's a guy on the cover getting hit by a fish? That's what Great Escape does (that's his book on the right there). And there are plenty of people who get into bondage covers, or any cover that features a dinosaur, or redheads, or whatever. How cool would it be to have 1000 covers with the same theme on the cover? You could see how art has progressed through time.

I have no idea what my niche would be. Maybe people floating in space? Or because I like Edgar Rice Burroughs books so much (and Mike Grell's Warlord) maybe it should be guys in loin cloths? A friend who has an affinity for the drawn female form suggested up-skirt angle shots of female heroes. Not the most PC collection to get into, and I doubt that would go over well with Stephanie, but it sure would give me plenty of items to choose from.

Knowing me, I'd never narrow down what I wanted long enough to actually start a collection, but I do like the idea. If nothing else, it gives me something to think about at work...boring, boring work.