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The Sad tale of one of the reasons I stopped collecting comics as a kid.
I used to collect comics in the 80's. Comics were pretty big back then (in numbers if not in dollars). I didn't have a lot of money as a kid but I scraped enough to get two titles a month. The first was G.I. Joe by Marvel Comics. The second title was the "The New Mutants".
In retrospect, it was very weird for a kid who collected G.I. Joe to start collecting a comic like "The New Mutants". Especially considering the style of art that it had. The artist was Bill Sienkiewicz. It was... weird. Check out a few of his covers here (#17 to 31). I have nothing but fondness for his issues of "The New Mutants". I look at comic books today and I wonder where have all the Bill Sienkiewiczes gone? 
At any rate... Reading "The New Mutants" introduced me to "The Uncanny X-Men". I really wanted to collect it, but my young mind couldn't rationalize collecting something if I couldn't get back issues. I was hung up on completion. I didn't know too much about comics, but I knew that trying to get all issues of a comic that was up to #196 was going to be hard and very, very expensive.My first X-Men Issue was #196, a crossover from Secret Wars II which was a limited series I decided to collect. I continued to collect "The Uncanny X-Men" until #258; an "Acts of Vengeance" crossover.
Sigh.
The crossover killed my love of comics. It seemed like everything was a crossover. If I didn't want to feel like I was missing something then I had to buy a seemingly endless list of crossover titles. Add to that the numerous related titles that suddenly sprang up: X-Factor, Excalibur, Wolverine! Three more titles to the three that I was already collecting.
It all became too much. Too much time. Too much money. Too many titles. I hung in for a while but my comic book buying fizzled out completely by early 1990s.
I missed it terribly. I didn't buy a comic again for almost 20 years.
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