Okay, so I'm publishing one week behind.. but the point is that the learning is cultivated -- and that it is

Sojourn

so·journ (sō'jûrn', sō-jûrn')
-noun
1. a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
-verb
2. to stay for a time in a place; live temporarily: to sojourn on the Riviera for two months.

The Back Story
A woman named Arwyn, her dog Kreeg, and a one-eyed man named Gareth travel throughout the lands of the planet Quin looking for 5 shards of a magic arrow to defeat the evil dictator of the land, Mordath. -- Plot for a film?? Not quite, this is the description of a comic I used to collect. So what's the relevance? It was called 'Sojourn'. How come I haven't hard of it (assuming you haven't)? Well, if you ask the average man of the street to name 5 comics, they'll probably reel off the superhero films/comics that have been prominent, these tend to come from the worlds of Marvel and DC.

'Sojourn' was part of a whole different universe by a company called CrossGen. They made some pretty neat comics, original & interesting stories, amongst them were Negation, Ruse, they even started one called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.. all very different genre-wise, but they did encompass a common thread too.

The unfortunate scarring events that followed in my sojourn in the world of CrossGen is that somewhere along the way, it all went terribly wrong for them -- they got some bad publicity and when this happens to a small company, naturally troubles in the finances department soon followed. CrossGen went bankrupt in 2004, with numerous titles ending abruptly / incomplete.

By this point I had stopped getting all but 2 Marvel comics (Hulk and Punisher). Soon after this loss, I stopped getting comics altogether.