Thread:CBSIMember/@comment-16461120-20160707060303/@comment-16461120-20160707072946

It's mostly just having read a lot, and doing the research in back issues as needed, but I do also have an added benefit of what I'd describe as a quirky memory, that is in some regards audiographic, meaning if I read it aloud to myself, I'm more likely to retain it, plus I can picture the page something happened on in my head later, not so much the sharp images or quoting the words, rather the general layout, so if I'm trying to find something that happened earlier in a series, I can often recall that its a lefthanded side with a reddish panel in the middle of the format sort of thing that makes researching a bit faster than it might otherwise be.

On top of that I've been collecting comics since I was a very little girl when my grandparents gave me a stack of comics they bought at some garage sale, all of which I still own in amongst the many thousands of MARVEL issues presently in my collection.

At the moment I've been concentrating on current events, meaning I've read every issue MARVEL released over the past fourteen or fifteen months or so, which helps me to catch references to minor events or mentions that others might miss, though I've not yet read the two dozen or so that came out yesterday, simply because of family obligations keeping me busy for most of Wednesday, but do have them on my desk and will get to them between now and next week, plus hopefully be able to look into a bit of some of the other, older series I'd been hoping to read or revisit in the near future.