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Want to know what I've been reading the past 5 years?

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I order a lot of comic books through DCBS, an online mail order comic shop.  My first order was placed with them in July, 2005 and I've used the fairly steadily since then.  I still split my buying between my LCS (Graham Crackers Comic Shop in Naperville) and DCBS.   One of the neat things about DCBS, once you dive into their website a bit, is that they keep track of all of your orders and you can even download them into Excel to take a look at things.  So, because I've spent the day pouring over Excel for other things, I figured I'd take a quick look at what I've been buying all this time.

I'm not going to incriminate myself in anyway by saying how many items I've ordered from DCBS but, compared to other orders I've seen people place, I'm probably a moderate user of their site.  So, for almost no one's edification but my own, here's a rundown of what I've been buying for the last 5 years.

Publisher % 
DC COMICS  29.31%
MARVEL COMICS  17.40%
DARK HORSE COMICS  9.31%
IMAGE COMICS  7.79%
VIZ MEDIA LLC  5.95%
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS  4.12%
IDW PUBLISHING  2.90%
ONI PRESS INC.  2.29%
AVATAR PRESS INC  1.83%
VERTICAL INC  1.53%
AIT/PLANETLAR  1.22%
TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS  1.22%
TWOMORROWS PUBLISHIN  1.07%
DRAWN & QUARTERLY  0.92%
ADHOUSE BOOKS  0.76%
TWOMORROWS PUBLISHING  0.76%
APE ENTERTAINMENT  0.61%
BOOM! STUDIOS  0.61%
COMIC MAGAZINE  0.61%
:01 FIRST SECOND  0.46%
ARCHAIA STUDIOS PRES  0.46%
COMIC FOUNDRY MAGAZINE  0.46%
D. E.  0.46%
DITKO  0.46%
GEMSTONE PUBLISHING  0.46%
STEVE DITKO  0.46%
TOP SHELF PRODUCTION  0.46%
YEN PRESS  0.46%
A. D. VISION  0.31%
DISNEY PRESS  0.31%
GRAPHITTI DESIGNS  0.31%
Mike Norton  0.31%
PANTHEON BOOKS  0.31%
RED 5 COMICS  0.31%
SHADOWLINE  0.31%
THE HERO INITIATIVE  0.31%
W.W. NORTON  0.31%
AARDVARK-VANAHEIM/WI  0.15%
ABRAMS IMAGE  0.15%
AIRSHIP ENTERTAINMEN  0.15%
AMAZE INK (SLAVE LAB  0.15%
Andy Jewett  0.15%
ARCHAIA STUDIOS PRESS  0.15%
BALLANTINE BOOKS  0.15%
CARTOON BOOKS  0.15%
GRAPHIX  0.15%
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS  0.15%
HUMANOIDS INC  0.15%
MARVEL COMICS (BUY - SELL)  0.15%
METROPOLITAN BOOKS  0.15%
MOONSTONE  0.15%
PictureBox  0.15%
RUDE DUDE PRODUCTIONS  0.15%
TOKYOPOP  0.15%
VILLARD BOOKS  0.15%
VIRGIN COMICS LLC  0.15%

So, 46.72% of the books I've ordered have been Marvel and DC and 66.72% have been from the Diamond Premier publishers.  DC is that high because I've ordered some of the longer miniseries from them (Wednesday's Comics, Brave and the Bold and 17 issues of Countdown before I finally bailed on that travesty.)  So, with those numbers, I feel like I'm well ahead of the curve when it comes to how Marvel and DC usually dominate the Diamond top sellers.  They're still dominating my list but not quite as much as they do on the "official" sales charts.

I like every now and then looking at my DCBS information this way because it's a good way of taking stock of what I've bought and what's really stuck and made an impact on me.  17 issues of Countdown?  Not one of my prouder moments.  And something called "Biff Bam Pow?"  I honestly don't remember what that is.  Looking over this list, I honestly don't think I've been anywhere near as selective on some stuff as I should be.  There's way too much Marvel and DC that has been read and then thrown into a pile or a box (in my case, probably safer to go with the pile,) never to be seen again.  Since this is 5 years of information, I also know that my tastes and buying habits have changed quite a bit in that time.  Strangely, my monthly dollar amount has remained steady during this time but I can see where there's plenty of stuff that I've bought in the past that I wouldn't buy today. 
 
Then there's the opposite-- looking at what I've ordered from certain publishers that have been great:  Almost everything that I've gotten over the years from Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly have been winners, great books that I'm thinking I need to dig out and reread. 

Seriously, what was I thinking sticking with DC's Countdown for 17 issues?