I found myself wondering if the library could come off as 'cool' now when we know that the works found within would find publishers and audiences with ease. This is what I'm talking about when I say that I find the work difficult to contextualise now, because it's rooted in an older idea about comics that still exists but in a less meaningful way. Except that wasn't true when Horrocks did Hicksville and it's less true now. It's partly justified by the idea that no publishers would want the works found within. hell, all of you tradewaiters know that you get the variant covers included 99% of the time. Paying more for a cover? A cover you can find online easily to view? For free. I don't care about the variant cover collectors. It's the collector mentality at its most insidious, because it's based entirely on content not superficial elements like variant covers. They get the secret comics that many would kill to read based on some idea of sacredness. while it's meant to be Horrocks's conceptualisation of the great comics 'what might have been.' it's always stuck me as this community showing that no matter how enlightened their views on comics, they can't help but subscribe to the collector mentality, that desire to possess what others do not.
A secret library holding one of a kind works by legendary artists. Before rereading this book, I remembered the library in the lighthouse and how that concept never really sat right with me.
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