Random Comic Stuff

[Elijya]

jesus christ...

 

[newnoiseimage]

i would tell you to drap about 15 of em, mostly dc, so i am no help.

 

[Gambit8370]

jesus christ...

Jesus

Christ


Stop me if you've heard this one...


Jesus Christ walks into a hotel...


He hands the innkeeper three nails and he asks...


Can you put me up for the night?


-Brandon Lee, RIP

 

[Anubis]

Bwhahahaha you are so going to hell.

 

[Elijya]

Jesus

Christ


Stop me if you've heard this one...


Jesus Christ walks into a hotel...


He hands the innkeeper three nails and he asks...


Can you put me up for the night?


-Brandon Lee, RIP

the joke is older than The Crow

 

[Gambit8370]

the joke is older than The Crow

I'm sure crows were around before Christ...

 

[Gambit8370]

Bwhahahaha you are so going to hell.

Feh.

Hell, schmell...

What are they gonna do to me?

Make me read Ultimate comics?

Just wait until Beeazilbub has to listen to my insessant b***hing for an eternity.

I'll show him what hell really is!

 

[Anubis]

Yeah Gambit! You tell those bastards how to dole out Pain and suffering!

anyway, I have narrowed it down to this:

1 Adam Strange- great mini, love this book.
2 Adventures Of Superman- best of the superman books, but I could go either way.
3 Authority: Revolution - just started. too soon to tell
4 Batman - Gotta have one Batman book, don't know which to keep.
5 Flash - I'll go broke before I drop this
6 Gotham Central- great book
7 Green Arrow- gotta have my GA fix, keep
8 Green Lantern: Rebirth - already bought #1, may as well keep going....
9 Identity Crisis- best-mini-ever
10 JLA - buesik, JLA, must have
11 JLA: Classified 1st issue was o.k.
12 JSA - another must have
13 Planetary DC - gotta keep it, besides, it comes out like once every 5000 years
14 Question DC - I don't know, its like reading a David Mack book, but....
15 Sleeper Season Two - I love this book, but if I had to I would go with trades
16 Teen Titans - o.k.
17 Wonder Woman - very good read
18 Invincible - must have
19 Walking Dead - must have
20 Street Fighter - must have
21 Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes - must have
22 Doctor Spectrum - must have
23 Fantastic Four - must have
24 Powers Vol 2 - must have
25 Pulse - good read
26 Punisher - must have
27 She-Hulk - great book
28 Spider-Girl - You know spider-girl, one issue away from cancelation, do I dare?
29 Supreme Power - must have
30 Ultimate Nightmare - good so far
31 Wolverine - great so far
32 Astonising X-Men- must have
33 Exiles - good read
34 Daredevil- consistantly good read
35 New Avengers - Wait and see
36 Captain America - Brubaker. gotta see this

I may end up adding a few more, ultimates 2, Iron Man, Thunderbolts, I'll just have to start holding off on the minis and just wait for them to come out in trade. Which means no Ultimate Secret, Seven Soldiers, or the Shazam minis coming out.

 

[newnoiseimage]

hey elijya, there is an Iron Fist #14 35cent variant on ebay right now. It is claimed to be in Fine condition and right now the price is about 50-75 over what it is worth.

just thought I'd give you a heads up.

 

[Elijya]

hey elijya, there is an Iron Fist #14 35cent variant on ebay right now. It is claimed to be in Fine condition and right now the price is about 50-75 over what it is worth.

just thought I'd give you a heads up.

links help, but thanks for the heads up. Too bad I'm short on $$$

 

[newnoiseimage]

im not linking up ebay, are you trying to set me up?

plus i gotta leave some work for you.

i already bid on it, its going to high for what it is worth.

 

[Elijya]

im not linking up ebay, are you trying to set me up?

plus i gotta leave some work for you.

i already bid on it, its going to high for what it is worth.

why wouldn't you link ebay? I do it all the time

 

[newnoiseimage]

have you ever had something cgc'ed at a con? i need info (started a thread also).

 

[Elijya]

yes I have

 

[newnoiseimage]

and......

how long did it take, would you do it again... details my man.

 

[Elijya]

I gave more details in your thread

 

[DBM]

Anybody else noticed that Mile High hasn't had any Marvel First Looks since September?

 

[newnoiseimage]

yeah, sales probably tanked, so marvel stopped it.

just my thoughts.

 

[Gambit8370]

If you are gonna promote something with a free read, it damn well better be WORTH IT.

If it sucks to begin with, letting people view it for free will have the opposite effect on sale$.

 

[DBM]

So I’ve been thinking again.

I often buy crappy comics. Why? Because I want “complete runs” or “whole sets” or some other comic collector bull****.

And I hate it when I do that. I hate the collector mentality. I hate how it almost killed the industry, I hate how the comic companies pander to it with variant/foil/die-cut/etc covers or “director’s cut” comics, and I especially hate it when I find myself falling prey to it.

So I’ve decided to try to stop my own collector mentality. No longer will I buy books that I don’t like just so that I can have a complete run of a story that I don’t care about.

Having decided to do that, I delved further into my own collector mentality. I walked into my basement and see the dozens of short boxes packed with my 14,000+ comics all neatly bagged and boarded in their little boxes on all those shelves.

And I realized that this is the “collector mentality” at it’s most basic.

Comics were created as periodicals, as disposable entertainment. Collectors have created an entire industry around the protection and storage of what is essentially a picture magazine. And how many people save all of the magazines they subscribe to in nice neat little rows, all wrapped in plastic and taped shut? Probably very few.

So I’ve realized that in order to break the vicious collector’s mentality and take comics back to their true essence, I would have to stop with the bagging and boarding them. Treat them as what they really are.

Obviously this doesn’t mean mistreat them. I’m not going to toss the comics around and tear them up, but rather put less effort into “preserving” them. I recognize that I’m never going to sell them off, I’m never going to make money off them, I love them too much to ever get rid of them. I have them because I enjoy reading them and looking at the pretty pictures so I’m going to do what is necessary to be able to do that and nothing else. My Golden and Silver age stuff will probably stay in bags and boards because they are so fragile, but the rest of it could probably come out. I think that they would easily stay in relatively good condition just in comic boxes without any bags or boards.

I can think of couple reasons why not bagging and boarding might be a good idea:

1. It would save space. An individual bag and board doesn’t take up much space, but several hundred of them in a box really adds up. By eliminating them I could probably fit a couple dozen more comics in each box.
2. It would save money. I’ve never added it up but I’m betting that I spend a couple hundred dollars a year just on bags, boards, and boxes. I could be spending that money on actual comics instead.

I haven’t actually done this yet and in fact I’m not sure I will, but I’m wondering, what do other people think about this idea.

 

[Gambit8370]

An interesting thing happens when I run low on bags and boards...

I'm guilty of unbagging comics I don't give a piss about (Image, Valiant, etc.) to protect comics I do give a piss about (Marvel, DC).

I would rather protect a VG copy of Adventures Into Fear #24 (recent unbagged back issue purchase) in a bag and board than have a protected copy of Youngblood Strikefile #1.

Hey, bags and boards get expensive!

 

[newnoiseimage]

yeah, crap comics that dont interest me, may not get bagged and boarded, or will get a low priority, but to counter your point dbm, if you enjoy reading the pictures, then why bag and board them? maybe cut down on the quality of bags and boards, but not altogether, after all you said you are never getting rid of them, so then why let them rot faster?

 

[Elijya]

So I’ve been thinking again.

I often buy crappy comics. Why? Because I want “complete runs” or “whole sets” or some other comic collector bull****.

And I hate it when I do that. I hate the collector mentality. I hate how it almost killed the industry, I hate how the comic companies pander to it with variant/foil/die-cut/etc covers or “director’s cut” comics, and I especially hate it when I find myself falling prey to it.

So I’ve decided to try to stop my own collector mentality. No longer will I buy books that I don’t like just so that I can have a complete run of a story that I don’t care about.

Having decided to do that, I delved further into my own collector mentality. I walked into my basement and see the dozens of short boxes packed with my 14,000+ comics all neatly bagged and boarded in their little boxes on all those shelves.

And I realized that this is the “collector mentality” at it’s most basic.

Comics were created as periodicals, as disposable entertainment. Collectors have created an entire industry around the protection and storage of what is essentially a picture magazine. And how many people save all of the magazines they subscribe to in nice neat little rows, all wrapped in plastic and taped shut? Probably very few.

So I’ve realized that in order to break the vicious collector’s mentality and take comics back to their true essence, I would have to stop with the bagging and boarding them. Treat them as what they really are.

Obviously this doesn’t mean mistreat them. I’m not going to toss the comics around and tear them up, but rather put less effort into “preserving” them. I recognize that I’m never going to sell them off, I’m never going to make money off them, I love them too much to ever get rid of them. I have them because I enjoy reading them and looking at the pretty pictures so I’m going to do what is necessary to be able to do that and nothing else. My Golden and Silver age stuff will probably stay in bags and boards because they are so fragile, but the rest of it could probably come out. I think that they would easily stay in relatively good condition just in comic boxes without any bags or boards.

I can think of couple reasons why not bagging and boarding might be a good idea:

1. It would save space. An individual bag and board doesn’t take up much space, but several hundred of them in a box really adds up. By eliminating them I could probably fit a couple dozen more comics in each box.
2. It would save money. I’ve never added it up but I’m betting that I spend a couple hundred dollars a year just on bags, boards, and boxes. I could be spending that money on actual comics instead.

I haven’t actually done this yet and in fact I’m not sure I will, but I’m wondering, what do other people think about this idea.

well, don't go UNbagging your entire collection, now. They're already in there, and you already spent lots of time and money on them, leave them be. Just stop bagging all your new stuff

 

[fifthfiend]

You could just do what I do -- toss all of 'em into one big-ass cardboard box, and every couple or three months go rooting through the whole thing looking for one issue of superman you haven't read in ten years.

20 years from now I'm going to sit down with my big-ass cardboard box and a pricing guide and cry.

But in the meanwhile -- good times.

 

[newnoiseimage]

so i went to the comic store today on my lunch break to pick up an item or two, and i went to new place, mind you i never go to comic stores i pre-order, and it dawned on my the importance of the store itself. previously i would go to gotham comics on 62nd street in manhattan, and it was like going to a crack den, very small very dark. today i went to midtown comics on 45th street and it was like the target of comic book stores. big, bright, clean lots and lots of stuffs, inclusing a wall of bootleg comic dvds. awesome store! honestly why to a dank little store when you can go to an awesome big store, both people treat you nice, and i felt bad about the smaller store. with larger stores how can the smaller ones compete, and i think thats why so many stores struggle. the smaller store has that fanboy feel in that if you are just a casual reader it would turn you off, whereas if you go to the bigger store, it would actually draw you in more.

just a small rant.