Late To The Meme Game

You've all seen the meme already (on this very blog, in fact) but now it's time to be subjected to my list of Desert Island Comic Book Picks:

Nexus: This is one of the few comic series I refuse to part with. A couple years ago I sorted through my collection to decide what I would sell and what I would keep. Surprisingly, Nexus was really the only extended run I found myself clinging to. Part of it was probably that there really wasn't an effort to collect the series (although that may change if Dark Horse's hardcover reprints turn out to be successful) but even if there were collections readily available I'd probably still hold on to the singles due to sentimental attachment: Nexus was really the only series where I actively sought out back issues to complete my collection. So this would accompany me to the desert island, where I'd happily re-read Mike Baron and Steve Rude's tale of a tortured executioner sci-fi hero.

Spider-Man (Pocket Comics editions): Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's run on Amazing Spider-Man is probably my favorite straight-up superhero series and I actually prefer these old, battered pocket books to the Masterworks or Essential editions. If the Pocket Comics editions went past issue #20 they'd be perfect. I suppose I could supplement the tiny paperbacks with the third and fourth Masterworks volumes to complete the Ditko run.

The Complete Frank Miller Batman: This might seem like a cheat, but I'd take along this hardcover book published by Longmeadow Press, which includes both Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns. And even better, it doesn't include The Dark Knight Strikes Again or All-Star Batman.

Love & Rockets: I'd love to take the whole series but if I limit myself to stuff I actually own, that would narrow it down to Palomar (which I'd love to re-read) and Locas (which I still have to read for the first time).

Akira: The lone manga on my list, Akira makes the cut because it's something I could see myself re-reading over and over again, if only to study Otomo's intricate art. That, and reading a story about a major metropolitan area being obliterated might ease the pain of being stranded on a lonely desert island.

So am I the only one who thought of this when presented with the combination of "sand" and "comics"?