Ah 2023, what does thou have in store for me?

I don't know, but this is what I want to accomplish. I know for certain I will not be working this year, so I know I will have plenty of time. I want to be more productive with that time overall. A lot of that will come down to how I choose to spend my time. It also limits my budget when it comes to acquiring and spending on organization.

I want to spend less time online overall and more time reading and watching the piles of stuff I have accumulated and waiting for the right time to get to. I want 2023 to be the beginning of that time, so I am setting some high tallies for reading and viewing.

Reading/viewing goals
So I am setting weekly goals for myself, that will add up to a yearly goal. They are aggressive, and I may not make it each week, but I hope the productive weeks will make up for the unproductive ones...

Comics-5/day -1825 for the year
Prose-200 pages/week-10.400 pages for the year
movies-1/week-52 for the year
TV episodes/podcasts-5/week -260 for the year

All of these are higher than I got to this year, some significantly so. I switched the basis for setting goals for prose from books to pages, as there are a couple of hefty volumes I want to get to this year that will limit the # of books I read because they will take longer.

I will also set my Goodreads Reading Challenge goal at 87 again and that includes prose, GN/TPB, art books, gaming supplements etc.

Organization Goals
I want to get the rest of my comics organized, bagged/boarded, etc. I am up through the U's and have a few special collections not alphabetized to get through. The bulk of my comic spending will be focused on getting the supplies I need to finish this rather than buying back issues.

Buying Goals
I will still participate in the weekly auctions in the Gem City group picking up things here and there on the cheap. I plan on attending 1 or 2 Jim and Dan Shows, both Champion City shows, and possibly Gem City Comic Con, so I will pick up some books at those shows, but other than that, acquisitions will be fairly limited.

As of right now, I plan on working on making progress on the recreation of my childhood collection, red dress covers, and working on the series/collections I have targeted, such as D&D comics, Ghost Rider, Bronze Bats, Uncle Scrooge, Kubert books, Toth books, Baker books, Usagi, Scooby, etc. How much I get depends on how the budget works out.

I may also pick up some more of the 3.75 retro Marvel Legends figures that I don't have.

Creative Goals
I also want to get back to actually creating stuff in 2023. Dabbling in a little more game design for ttrpg and other writing. Doing a little bit more crafty and artistic stuff too. Possibilities include:

-developing a new campaign setting for a new campaign that will launch sometime later in 2023 when one of our current campaigns wraps up

-using the world building for that setting as a back drop for some short fiction featuring original characters

-spending more time developing the current campaigns I have in progress

-creating some set pieces or scatter terrain for use at the table in my campaigns

-paint the small amount of unpainted miniatures we have accumulated over the last 2 years since our current game group launched

-(this one is a longshot) finally getting around to making some of the custom Megos I got a lot of resources/supplies to do just before the pandemic sprung on us. The goal is to make some fantasy/D&D themed Megos, and possibly even the Heroes of the Lance form Dragonlance, but my ambition is much higher than my skill level in this, so any time I spend on this this year will mostly be riding the learning curve to get me up to a level I can do something I don't despise.

These are very aggressive goals, and I am most likely setting myself up for some level of failure, but they are all offshoots of the main resolution that I have this year which revolves around time management-to use the time do have more productively. So even I fall short of the goals, if striving for them helps me move away from the inertia of unproductive time (online doomscrolling, engaging in unhealthy or toxic interactions online, wallowing in online negativity in a lot of fandoms, etc.), it will be a success. However,an offshoot of me being successful is that I may be posting here and elsewhere far less. I'll be around, just a lot less.

-M

Subject to revision over the next couple of days as I think more about it:

Reading Goals

* I've read Defenders through #60 and now have the rest of the series through the end (#152). I want to read at least half of the remainder of the series (so at least #61 through #107).

* I've binged Daredevil at various times up to #311. I have floppies or TPBs of #312-364. I want to read all or substantial part of that (like at least to #344)

* Continue my read-through of New Mutants in its entirety. If I'm not feeling it partway through, my plan B would be to skip ahead and read 70-something to the end (#100), because that's the one period with a bunch of issues I've never read before.

* Re-read some X-Men, X-Factor, and related titles.

* Finally read my Jack Kirby's New Gods TPB after a couple previous stops and starts.

* Read more Legion of Super-Heroes comics I haven't read before. I definitely want to resume 5 Years Later where I left off. Other possibilities are the post-Grell, pre-Giffen period or the Archies Legion/Reboot era.

* Binge a DC Omnibus: either Bronze Age Justice League of America vol. 2 and/or Bronze Age The Brave and the Bold vol. 2.

* Read Huntress #1-6 from the series launched a few years after Crisis.

* Read some non-Big Two and/or non-superhero comics.

Buying Goals

* Buy less than I read.

* If I like the issues of Huntress that I read, decide whether to get the rest of that short-lived series

Possible Reviewing/Reading Crazy Idea??!!

* I have been thinking about doing a complete New Guardians review thread since I bought the whole 12 issue series on a whim off ebay about 18 months ago. It might be fun to see whether it's so bad it's good or just plain bad. I'm comically bad at figuring out & remembering how to post images. I don't know if I have the patience to write a reviews. Finally, I'm not sure whether anyone would care to read the thread and post there. If I can overcome those three reservations, I might do it.

I suspect I’ll read some funnybooks.

I may review a few.

Reading Goals:

I plan to read 1000 comics

I want to read/finish some complete runs that I own:

Master Of Kung Fu
Secret Origins
Green Lantern( Kyle Rayner run)
Nexus
Dreadstar
Savage Dragon
Cyberforce
Wildcats

Buying goals: 

Complete these series:

Astro City( the Vertigo line)
Atlas comics 
The Kirby Demon run
Buy any Femforce  books I can find
Complete the 2016 18 issue  Fantastic Four run
Finish the Orion 25 issue run by Simonson

Review Threads:

I'm not patient enough to do long runs but I might try some shorter series or arcs within a series. 

Selling

I have a lot of Hulk comics that I have to move. Maybe I will thin my entire collection this year. 

Thin out my collection by donating most of the newer comics (last 10 years) that I have bought.

I’m going to be aggressive with my reading goals but I suspect that like in years past, my interest in some of these will wane.

Firm Goals:
Finish my reread of JSA and Justice Society of America
Reread of The Sandman
Reread of Fables and various spinoffs and get to The Black Forest
The complete Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter
Reread the Denny O’Neil The Question
Rereading the 2 volumes of DC’s Star Trek series
Finish my reread of the 2011 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series from IDW

Broad Goals:
Bronze Age Incredible Hulk
Bronze Age Batman
Bronze Age Superman
More classic Archie comics
More Disney Duck comics

I would also like to do a much, much better job at being caught up with new, monthly comics. I’ve been behind on a lot of my reading since 2020…and like a black hole, I keep getting sucked in deeper.

Generally, when it comes to my collecting goals, I don’t have a big list, but I have a few things.

DC's Sherlock Holmes #1 from 1975.

I also have to track down some the Facsimile Editions that I missed, specifically:

Superman #1
Marvel Family Comics #1

Other than that, I usually just kinda buy stuff as I go. Same goes for my collectible hunting.

I plan to continue reading things from the late 1950s and early 1990s but I've been so consistent with those that I can't really call it a resolution. So, as in the last few years, my main goal is to read more new stuff, which for my purposes I'm counting as anything from 2000 on: at least one book per month, hopefully more. I haven't been doing too well with this lately so I'm going to try to be more conscientious this year.