Lord, I myth you child!

March, 1984: 

I was 27, my B. A. in English was only a year old, my first marriage only a few months older, and I was working at Metro Fabrications, making wire harnesses. And both my parents and my oldest sister, Kate, were still alive. Sigh. Another lifetime.

I was still relatively new to Louisville, but I had found The Great Escape and was making weekly trips there to buy my comic books. Even back then I was drawn to anything that was different, so when I saw a (1) magazine-sized comic book with (2) the shadow of a demon on the cover from (3) a company I'd never heard of before--WaRP Graphics--well, I put my money down. A mere $1.50 in those days . . . but when most comic books were 75¢ apiece, that's a lot of moolah for one book.

I continued to buy Myth Adventures! for awhile . . . and I remember enjoying it quite a bit, but I don't know if I bought it until it went away (issue #12 was the last, and it came out in December 1986), and I don't know if I still have any of the books I did buy. I had a bit of a flood in the basement awhile back, and I lost quite a few of my magazine-sized comic books in it, so I suspect that that's why I can't locate my Myth Adventures! books. (And no, I do not feel the need to say that they are mything, no matter how appropriate that would be in the context of the very punny Robert Aspirin.)

I don't know why I never made the leap to the books that the comic book was based upon. That would have been a natural move for me. But I didn't. Until recently. I'd started seeing various Myth books on the $1 shelf at both of the Half-Price Books locations, but I didn't buy one until I saw Myth-ion Improbable. I'm not sure why that one pulled me in. Maybe because the book looked brand new. Maybe because it was a title I hadn't seen before. Maybe because when I opened it up there was a note from the author, and I'm always a sucker for those, so I started reading it whilst standing there, and then just continued to read into the novel itself. And it's an enjoyable, easy read, for sure. I've made very little effort to attend to it, but I'm about halfway through, and interested enough to want to finish it up. Also interested enough that when I saw this little beauty--

--for a mere $3.99, I picked it up. You know I can't resist an omnibus.

And so that means I have FIVE Myth books . . . and there are only 12 in the original series, so . . . well, you know. It might have to happen that way, right?