![]() ![]() My life's work also makes moving apartments a complete horror show. Collecting comics, on the other hand, is what's happening to my right as I write this - a bunch of nearly seven-foot-tall IKEA bookcases crammed with 5,237 bagged-and-boarded single issues. It's taking in stories, a page by page, and appreciating the art, words, characters, all that. Reading comics is exactly what it sounds like - reading comics. But as much as I love reading comics and collecting comics, it's more clear to me now than ever before that they are two almost completely separate hobbies and it's foolish to assume anyone who does the one does the other. ![]() But I'm a comic book collector, so of course my first thought upon traveling anywhere is, "Where can I find beat up old comics?" I want to find them, I want to liberate them from their Ziploc bag or wicker basket prison and treat them right - which means catalogue, bag and board them and shove them on a shelf.Īll this sounds normal for a comic book fan, right? I've always thought so pop culture has always portrayed comic fans as those that both read and hunt for back issues, obsessed with finding a particular character's first appearance no matter the cost (my selfish quest for to own Siryn's debut ruined Christmas 2001 - but that's another story!). That's my mission statement, my threat, my curse. Flea markets, antique stores, thrift shops - if there are comics in them, I will find them. ![]()
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