My name's Jack, I'm a student at Western Washington University. I own 2000-2500 floppies and 30-40 collected editions. I've been collecting for 6 years, but it seems like much longer (maybe cuz I'm still young). The first comic(s) I bought was/were Amazing Spider-Man 345 and 130, Shocker and Hammerhead issues respectively. They remain my fave Spidey rogues. I truly got INTO comics with X-Men Classic 3 and 7-8, which I LOVED and then bought the Barnes and Noble Uncanny X-Men Masterwork Volume 1. I love it. THAT is what got me collecting. So my "Specialty" is X-Men. I am a virtual encyclopedia to mutants. Lately I've been branching out of my Mutant shell and I'm exploring more obscure Marvel and DC stuff and some Dark Horse, Image, Charlton, Dynamite and Vertigo stuff. In the last year I have begun collecting every comic released by Image from 1992 until 1995. So far I have accumulated a collection of around 300, which is like 85% of Image's catalog at that time. My favourite comic series are Goon and Y: The Last Man. My second love after comics is cartoons, specifically those from the 1930's-1960's and most especially those from the glory days of my youth, the early to mid-1990's. My third love is writing and displaying lists.

Favorite artists in near-final order:

40s-70s:
Jack Kirby
Will Eisner
Neal Adams
Jim Steranko
Gil Kane
Hal Foster
Mike Ploog
Gene Colan
Alex Toth
Joe Maneely
Steve Ditko
Bill Everett
Joe Kubert
John Romita
Sal Buscema
John Buscema
Carmine Infantino
Ross Andru
Dave Cockrum
Dick Ayers
Herb Trimpe
Don Heck
Len Wein

80s-90's:
Mike Mignola
Bill Sienkiewicz
Barry Windsor-Smith
Jae Lee
Nick Manabat
Travis Charest
Keith Giffen
Art Adams
Marc Silvestri
Greg Capullo
Whilce Portacio
Erik Larsen
Kevin Maguire
Larry Stroman
Jim Lee
Walt Simonson
Joe Quesada
Mike Parobeck
Mike Zeck
John Bolton
Sam Kieth
Bruce Timm
Manny Galan
Frank Miller
Butch Guice
Mark Texeira
Mike Grell
Art Thibert
Todd McFarlane
Dale Keown

Present:
Adam Pollina
Leinil Francis Yu
Eric Powell
Dave Johnson
John Romita Jr
Terry Dodson
Marko Djurdjevic
Tim Sale
Adi Granov
Skottie Young
Alex Maleev
Chris Bachalo
Olivier Coipel
Frank Quitely
Darwyn Cooke
Duncan Rouleau
Carlos Pacheco
Ladronn
John Cassaday
Gabrielle Dell'Otto
Juan Doe
Francisco Mattina
Steve McNiven
David Aja
Stuart Immomen
Brandon Peterson
Alex Ross
David Mack
Michael Turner
Ariel Olivetti
Billy Tan
Brian Hitch
Salvador Larroca
Jim Cheung
Mark Brooks
David Finch

Fave writers

60's-80's:
Chris Claremont
Stan Lee
Louise Simonson
Doug Moench
Steve Gerber
Roy Thomas
Mark Gruenwald
Walt Simonson
Steve Englehart
Bill Everett
Jack Kirby

90's-Present:
Mark Miller
Eric Powell
Brian K Vaughan
Brian Michael Bendis
Grant Morrison
Alan Moore
Keith Giffen
Fabian Nicieza
Jeph Loeb
Peter David
Warren Ellis
Kurt Busiek
William Messner-Loebs
Erik Larsen
Ed Brubaker
Christos Gage
Mike Mignola
Brandon Choi
Joss Whedon
Scott Lobdell
Mike Carey
Joe Kelly
Mark Waid
Frank Miller
Robert Kirkman
Greg Pak
Darwyn Cooke
Greg Rucka

Top Dozen Favourite Image Comic Series, 1992-1996
1. Kurt Busiek's Astro City
2. Alan Moore and Travis Charest's WildCATs
3. Sam Kieth's The Maxx
4. Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon
5. Todd McFarlane's Spawn
6. Keith Giffen's Trencher
7. Al Gordon and Jerry Ordway's WildStar
8. Larsen, Giffen, and Dave Johnson's Superpatriot
9. Jim Lee, Mark Heisler, and Mark Texeira's Union
10. Nick Manabat, Steve Gerber, and Jim Lee's Cybernary
11. Marc Silvestri's Cyber Force
12. Mike Grell's Shaman's Tears

Some of my favorite "eras/themes" of comics are (in no particular order):
Marvel post-House of M/pre-Secret Invasion
Marvel Bronze Age Horror, Western, and Sword and Sworcery from 1968 to 1976
X-Men post-Inferno to post-X-Cutioner's Song
X-Men from Giant Size 1 to Cockrum's return, and JRjr until Mutant Massacre
Non-X-Men, non-Spider-Man, non-Heroes Reborn Marvel from winter 1994 to autumn 1997
Image Comics 1992 until the end of 1995
Vertigo
DC 70's Jack Kirby
Golden Age DC Superheroes
1960's Charlton Action Heroes
Atlas Superhero Revival, Jungle Girls and Spacemen
Dark Horse Star Wars
Dynamite Entertainment
Anything by anyone I listed above

My Pull List:
Marvels Project
Astonishing X-Men
Deathlok
Dark X-Men
Doctor Voodoo
Spider-Man Clone Saga
Astro City
WildCATs
StormWatch PHD
Image United
Cyber Force/Hunter Killer
Darkness/Pitt
Justice League of America