My name's Jack, I'm a student at Western Washington University. I own 1500-2000-ish floppies, which are at my parents' house so therefore I do not have immediate access to any of them. I only keep my collected editions and 2008/2009 comics with me at Uni. 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. My favourite comic series are Goon and Y: The Last Man.

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
Keith Giffen
Art Adams
Whilce Portacio
Marc Silvestri
Greg Capullo
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
Art Thibert
Todd McFarlane
Dale Keown

Present:
Adam Pollina
Leinil Francis Yu
Eric Powell
John Romita Jr
Marko Djurdjevic
Tim Sale
Dave Johnson
Terry Dodson
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:
Mark Miller
Chris Claremont
Brian Michael Bendis
Brian K Vaughan
Eric Powell
Keith Giffen
Fabian Nicieza
Stan Lee
Jeph Loeb
Peter David
Warren Ellis
Grant Morrison
Roy Thomas
Doug Moench
Steve Gerber
Mike Friedrich
Mark Gruenwald
Alan Moore
Mike Carey
Frank Miller
Scott Lobdell
Joe Kelly
Ed Brubaker
Joss Whedon
Mark Waid
Kurt Busiek
Robert Kirkman
Walt and Louise Simonson
Mike Mignola
Greg Pak
Darwyn Cooke
Greg Rucka
Steve Englehart
Bill Everett and many more.

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 and Westerns from 1968 to 1976
X-Men post-Inferno to 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 about Extreme Sacrifice, feb/march 95.
Marvel 2099
Marvel MAX (well...most of it)
Vertigo
DC 70's Jack Kirby
Golden Age DC Superheroes
1960's Charlton Action Heroes
Atlas Superhero Revival
Atlas Jungle Girls and Spacemen
Dark Horse Star Wars
Dynamite Entertainment
Anything by anyone I listed above

Some of my favorite comic characters (in no particular order):
Falcon/Sam Wilson
Batman/Brice Wayne
Nightwing/Dick Grayson
Green Arrow/Oliver Queen
Creeper/Jack Ryder
Nomad/Jack Monroe
Yorick Brown/Last Man
Red Wolf
Ka-Zar/Kevin Plunder
The Goon
Hellboy
Paladin
Doc Samson
Prowler/Hobie Brown
Daredevil/Matt Murdock
Deadpool/Wade Wilson
Wolverine/Logan
USAgent/John Walker
Banshee/Sean Cassidy
Warpath/James Proudstar
Moon Knight/Marc Spector
Shocker/Herman Schultz
Rhino/Alexei Something
Master of Kung Fu/Shang-Chi
Iron Fist/Danny Rand
Gullivar Jones
Pete Wisdom
Hammerhead
Lucas Bishop
Jubilation Lee
Sunfire/Shiro Yashida
...and many many many more

Currently reading:
Well, I'm working my way through Image chronologically. I have somewhere in the vicinity of 200 Image comics, all from April 92 to January 1995. That's just over half of Image's entire output, I think. So right now I'm up to July 1993, like a third of the way finished.