by Brian Hibbs

Welcome to Version 2.0 of Tilting at Windmills.

It may take me a little while getting back up to speed with this, as my TaW muscles have grown a little rusty, and I'm probably less cranky than I used to be because of my wonderful new son, Benjamin. But I'm still probably cranky enough.

TaW is all about advocacy, about righting wrongs, and, above all else, passion and love for working in the comic book industry. Like Quixote I may charge blindly, but my heart is pure.

(I'm also, I'm sure you'll find, full of myself. Whether that's charming or not is up to you.)

I'll be covering a lot of topics here about the industry - some times an assessment of a company's efforts in the Direct Market, other times critiques of current trends - all with the goal of making the comics industry better. I'll try not to blow any smoke up your ass, either.  

#1 - "What is this, Anyway?"

#2 - "The Bookstore Equation 2003"

#3 - "Wading for the Trade"

#4 - "Conjunction Dysfunctions"

#5 - S.S., D.D

#6 - The Order of Things

#7 - The Stores Are Aligned

#8 - Don't Shit Where You Eat

#9 - A Tale of Two Publishers

#10 - My Monthly Dues

#11- Below the Radar

#12 - The Horse Isn't Dead Yet

#13 - My Monthly Dues, Part Deux

#14 - Looking at Bookscan, 2004

#15 - The Two Problems

#16 - We're Going to Need a Bigger Boat

#17 - Stupid, Stupid Publisher Creatures!

#18 - Lifers

#19 - The Calculus of Hype

#20 - Come Together

#21 - Streams of Consciousness

#22 - 2005 RRP Report

#23 - One Year Later

#24 - Diamond