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Sean T. Collins Answers All Of The Confessional Questions
posted September 8, 2008
 

1. What is your favorite stand-alone publication of the last five years?
Black Hole, hardcover, Charles Burns

2. What is your favorite ongoing serial comic that's published an installment in the last three months?
Final Crisis

3. What is your favorite webcomic?
I don't really have one.

4. What is your favorite ongoing newspaper strip?
I don't really have one.

5. What is your favorite comics web site that is not a link- or commentary-blog?
I don't really have one.

Comic Shops
6. What's the best experience you've ever had in a comics shop?
I simply enjoy browsing the enormous, well-organized selection at Jim Hanley's Universe on 33rd Street in Manhattan.

7. What's the worst experience you've ever had in a comics shop?
I have never had a bad experience in a comics shop.

8. List the names of the comics shops that have been your shop in your lifetime of buying comics.
Gotham Manor, Stewart Manor, NY, high school
Alternate Universes, New Haven, CT, college
Jim Hanley's Universe, New York, NY, 2001-present
Midtown Comics, New York, NY, 2002-2003
Village Comics, New York, NY, 2002-2003
Amok Time, Levittown, NY 2003-2004
DCBService.com, approx 2004-present

9. If a comic shop has opened within 50 miles in the last two years, what exactly makes you think it will or won't survive until a fifth anniversary?
I am not familiar enough with any such shops to comment.

10. What is something you've done in a comics shop you're sorry happened?
I bought six copies of the Death of Superman comic instead of buying one copy of the Death of Superman T-shirt.

Greats
11. Who is the Greatest Living Cartoonist?
Chris Ware

12. Name the female cartoonist highest up in your personal pantheon.
Phoebe Gloeckner

13. Name the cartoonist with a non-white South American or African heritage highest up in your personal pantheon.
Gilbert Hernandez

14. Who is the world's most under-appreciated cartoonist?
Phoebe Gloeckner

15. Name a cartoonist you know is great but whose work you find hard to enjoy.
George Herriman

Nostalgia
16. What was the first comic that you remember buying after the last time you stopped buying comics?
The first issue of Grant Morrison's New X-Men run

17. What comic do you plan to revisit one day?
I will always read and re-read The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller.

18. Name a comic that was even better when you tracked it down than you remember it being the first time.
I've never tracked a comic down.

19. What is the worst comic in your collection that you keep for reasons other than its quality?
I don't think I have any comics I keep for non-qualitative reasons.

20. One word only: what is your primary non-comic association with comics?
Music

Self-Improvement
21. What one site not your own or a friend's does CR not in your opinion cover near enough?
I can't think of one.

22. Name a comics figure this site has never interviewed you'd like to see interviewed.
Chris Ware

23. Name a comics figure this site has interviewed you'd like to see interviewed again.
Gary Groth

24. Name an under- or unreported news story from your perspective.
I wish more people would focus on discussing the release/availability of high-quality comics as though that were a news story with at least the import of gaffes and maneuvers by superhero publishers and their film and television initiatives, giving them that same level of attention, frequency, and depth of coverage.

25. Name a resource this site could house that would be valuable to you.
A more frequently updated "Upcoming Releases" section.

Bonus Section: Not Comics
1. What is your favorite sandwich?
Cinammon Raisin Swirl at Peanut Butter and Company, New York, NY

2. Name three US vice-presidents in the order that they occur to you.
Dick Cheney
Spiro Agnew
Al Gore

3. Name a movie that shouldn't have been remade and a movie that should be.
They shouldn't have remade The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. They should remake Shivers with Scarlett Johansson in the Lynn Lowry role.

4. Otto Graham, Joe Montana or Tom Brady?
David Bowie

5. If you could have any middle name in the world not "Bronislaw," what would it be?
Tolkien