When I was a kid I used to have the luxury of reading books multiple times. Many summers were spent re-reading books like Dune, The Lord of the Rings, To Kill a Mockingbird, Watership Down, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and others. Nowadays, I have so little free time for reading (usually just 15-30 minutes before bed) and such a huge pile of unread books that I feel guilty for even glancing through the pages of a previously read novel. It does happen on occasion, though; I’m sure when the latest adaptation of The Hobbit hits theaters (whenever that happens) I’m going to have to read through Tolkien’s brilliant tome again.

Of course, I’m leaving out comic books from this discussion. I’ve read the trade paperbacks of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Dark Knight Returns, Cages, Akira, Bone, Creature Tech, Cerebus and Usagi Yojimbo, to name a few, multiple times and will continue to read them in the future. Many trades and graphic novels just don’t give me the same guilt factor as books do. I’m not exactly sure what the reason is for that. Maybe something to explore in a future comic strip…