Random Comic Stuff

[GNR]

I can't listen to music when I read, but I do usually sit still and read through all my comics at once. I kind of have to because if I don't read them all right away, I usually don't get around to reading them at all. I've got a backlog of about 10 Punisher issues and 4 or 5 Spider-Girl issues that I still haven't read.

Here's a related question: What order do you read your comics in?

I tend to have a first and a second wind, so to speak. I put all the comics I'm dying to read first, then the middle is a chunk of comics that I read regularly but I'm not overly excited about or other comics I'm just trying out, then I finish off with more good stuff like Vertigo series, Hellboy, Solo, and other indie or quasi-indie stuff.

Good question.

I guess I read the ones I anticipate the most last.This week for example,I read Testament,Justice,Ultimate F4,and then DD.

 

[Anubis]

I used to put them in order of what I'm excited to read first and read the rest later, but recently I've just started reading them in whatever way they come shipped to me. (I order my stuff online.)

 

[GNR]

I used to put them in order of what I'm excited to read first and read the rest later, but recently I've just started reading them in whatever way they come shipped to me. (I order my stuff online.)

You don't make the Wednesday trek?

 

[Anubis]

Nope

 

[Phaedrus45]

After I pick up my books, of which I get everything Marvel puts out each week, I put them in stacks of related books. I have my Spidey books, X-Men and related, Heroes Reborn stack (i.e. Avengers, Fantastic Four, Cap, Iron Man, ect...), MK and Max line-up, Ultimate books, and random. Plus, I have a DC and Independant stack. Then, they might get additionally divided into subcategories, such as all Fantastic Four books (FF, MK4, Thing) all together. Then, I generally read them in an order of my choosing by the stacks each week. I usually read them at my first job, where I have a lot of quiet time sitting in my office.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Icky. Do you really have to call the FF, Iron Man, and Avengers "Heroes Reborn" books? Such bad memories...

 

[Phaedrus45]

I used to pick up my comics every 2 months from a shop that would hold them for me. That was cool. I got to read about 3 issues of Exiles all together. The only problem is that it's how the return of Colossus was ruined for me. Now, I get my comics every Wednesday. Considering how much I'm spending now each week, I would hate to have to shell out over 500.00 for a couple weeks worth of comics. (Plus, this way I see a new comic that will only last a day on the rack, I can get it.)

 

[Phaedrus45]

Icky. Do you really have to call the FF, Iron Man, and Avengers "Heroes Reborn" books? Such bad memories...

I don't think of them that way...but, it's how I originally set up that grouping, and it's the only way to explain why they get put all together in the same category.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Marvel groups them under "Marvel Heroes" now, I think. Granted, that's not an entirely accurate assessment since Spider-Man and the X-Men are heroes, too.

 

[The Hero]

As mush as I generally dislike gimmicks,I have to admit that this cover is the coolest thing I have ever seen:

The little fanboy inside me just had multiple geekasms.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, killing Thor off sucked at the time, but I can't deny that I felt a fanboy tingle when I saw that cover. I know I'm just playing right into Joe Q's schlock business plan and I'm ashamed, but damn it, I can't not get excited when Thor's involved.

 

[GNR]

I think Millar will bring him into Civil War somehow.

 

[The Hero]

i was screwing around at Wikipedia and found this:

Although Von Doom has significant scientific knowledge and ability, he lacks an advanced university degree. Von Doom apparently likes the sound of "Doctor Doom"; as the absolute ruler of a country, he simply started calling himself that. It has been suggested that Doom granted himself an honorary doctorate from a Latverian university, though he has never formally obtained a doctorate and considers it a mere technicality

There's something about this that I find absurdly funny.It has potential Twisted Toyfare Theater written all over it.

 

[Zoken]

I hope Vicky has his malpractice insurance paid up.

 

[DBM]

So let me tell you guys what just happened to me.

I've been away on business for about ten days and tonight was my first night home. After being away for a while, I decided just to stay in by myself tonight and relax. Since I was home I decided to organize my comics a bit. I have about 800 or so comics that I've bought in the last several months that haven't been alphabetized and put away yet. So I took the boxes of these comics into my dining room and started setting them in piles to organize them. A, B, C, etc piles.

Now, since I had been gone for a while, my house was smelling a bit stuffy where it had been closed up. So since it's fairly nice outside here, I opened the windows. I also lit one of the those big smelly candles (the ones with 4 wicks) and set it on the dining room table, on the opposite side from the comics, near the window to get a good vanilla scent going through the house.

I'd pretty much sorted all of the comics when my brother called. I hadn't talked to him in a few weeks so I went into the living room and talked to him and ended up talking for a couple hours. When I got off the phone with him, I went back to the dining room to finish up what I was doing.

And when I got in there I found that the breeze flowing through the window caused the big candle to burn unevenly, and one side had melted down, causing the wax to spill out on the table. And over the course of the two hours I was talking to my brother, it managed to flow all over the piles for J through M covering a few dozen comics in hot, vanilla-scented wax.

****ing ****

So now all of my JLA, Marvel Handbooks, Kabuki, Lions Tigers and Bears, and a crap-ton more comics are ruined.

****.

Stupid breeze. Stupid candle. And totally ****ing stupid ME for letting this happen.

So tomorrow it looks like I hit the comic shop and probably eBay to try and replace all of these.

And this just proves the fact, that men should NOT own candles. They're nothing but trouble.

 

[The Hero]

Wow.That's why my comics never leave the skanky,dirt-ridden crate.

 

[Anubis]

LMAO

Oh man, thats f**ked up.

 

[squeekness]

That's very sad DBM. It's like typing an 80 page essay and hitting delete by accident.

 

[DBM]

That's very sad DBM. It's like typing an 80 page essay and hitting delete by accident.

It's more like spending $150+ on comics and then ruining them because I'm a ****-tard.

 

[squeekness]

It's more like spending $150+ on comics and then ruining them because I'm a ****-tard.

Yikes! I hadn't realized they worth that much. Not that it would piss me off less if they were new. My comics are like my children. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to them. You have my sincerest condolences.

 

[Elijya]

that sucks, man

wait, didn't you make a fuss a few months ago about no longer bagging and boarding your books?

SEE!?!?!? this is what happens

 

[iloveclones]

Hey DBM, sometimes I don't tape up my comics after I bag them, and they sit like that for a while. Not a big deal. I'm not real big into the collecting aspect anyway. I want to keep them nice, but not necessarily perfect, you know? Well, if you've ever owned a (unfixed) male cat, you know when mating season rears it's ugly head because 1)they get aggressive, and 2) start marking their territory with the nastiest smelling concoction. Well, I guess you can see what's coming. Little ******* ruined half a short-box. And that was the last time that he enjoyed being an anatomically-complete creature. (And to use your analogy, is probably why men shouldn't own cats either.)

 

[squeekness]

I've moved from using the white cardboard boxes to plastic bins. I found that most of the bins they sell for the hanging filefolders is the perfect size for comics. I knew a guy who ran a comic book store and he was a bit of a slob. He had those white boxes just thrown about with all loose comics in them. We had some heavy rain and his roof leaked, there was water everywhere and you could guess what happened next. I see that as a crime of neglect. I don't know what was in the boxes exactly but I'll just bet he had some real classics in there. That smartened me up real fast. Bagged and boarded and stored in plastic bins with covers. It's the only way to go.

 

[squeekness]

Here is a picture of one type of plastic container I use for my comics. They are stacking file drawers that you can fit about 300+ comics in. They go for about $25 at Staples and you can stack them 5 or 6 high I believe. You have to put the books sideways as opposed to up and down, but they conserve a lot of space.

 

[Elijya]

hmm, I'm not sure how I feel about stacking books sideways. That seems like it could have some problems...

for one thing, I'm not certain that it's good for the book, if you're trying to preserve it. And if it is ok, is it ok to put it spin down, or up? is one better or worse than the other?

and in either case, it kind of makes finding the book you're looking for annoying