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CopywrightMMXI posted:How large is everyone’s collection? I have around 2500 comics (not including trades/omnibuses). I collected from about 1993-2008 and then got back into the hobby in 2020. Somewhere between 500-1,000 but I do a weed every now and again and get rid of a hundred odd. Despite being thin magazines they can take up a lot of room very quickly.
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I've been registering my collection on the Comic Geeks app and I'm around 230, just in TPBs, HC and omnis (I've been collecting since 2010). I've yet to do the same for single issues, but I don't have that many of them. I prefer trades.
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Apr 19, 2022 20:02
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I'm down to a couple short boxes of floppies and half a wall of trades/omnis. I need to get rid of the rest of the floppies.
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Apr 19, 2022 20:06
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I got a third of a short box in single issue garbage, but it's way offset by all the manga, collected trades of euro comics, and trades of newspaper comics. I don't know how much I have exactly, but I can tell you the omnibus edition of Inuyasha takes up a good three feet of shelf space, and nostalgia makes me keep it because I know I will re read it every so often.
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Apr 19, 2022 20:20
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I've got several thousand floppies in boxes. When I lost my job in 2009 I stopped my weekly run to the comics shop to pick up the new issues, and I never started again even after I had income coming in. I only buy trades now, and have about a bookcase and a half worth.
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Apr 19, 2022 20:21
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CopywrightMMXI posted:How large is everyone’s collection? I have around 2500 comics (not including trades/omnibuses). I collected from about 1993-2008 and then got back into the hobby in 2020. I think I was about that total before ComicBookDB shut down and I lost my database. That was a mix of single issues and trades, so doesn't show the total page quantity. Been buying a lot of things I have mild interest in on comiXology before Amazon ruining it, so I get less per week at this point. I want to purge it, but I have room, so I'm not really spending my time doing that work.
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Apr 19, 2022 20:51
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Uthor posted:I want to purge it, but I have room, so I'm not really spending my time doing that work. I have in tiny bits, but since I've posted I've been mentally inventorying everything I still have and 
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Apr 19, 2022 20:59
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When it comes to weeding/purging I try figure out if there are comics I will ever want to re-read again, or even enjoyed the first time around. During the pandemic I did re-read a lot of my runs to see if I still enjoyed them and wanted to keep them or not. I also made more of an effort to replace some single runs with trades as I am more likely to re-read a trade than multiple single issues.
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Apr 19, 2022 21:03
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Im slowly going through everything and purging and hopefully selling anything I don’t want. My criteria for keeping a book is it has be either a series I collect, a story I enjoy and will re-read, or have sentimental value.
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Apr 19, 2022 21:45
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CopywrightMMXI posted:How large is everyone’s collection? I have around 2500 comics (not including trades/omnibuses). I collected from about 1993-2008 and then got back into the hobby in 2020. Around 80 short boxes, and hundreds of graphic novels and TPBs. Too many, basically.
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Apr 19, 2022 23:42
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I've moved from apartment to apartment to apartment and so on so I've gotten rid of nearly every floppy comic issue over the years because of having to move and store longboxes. I just have trades now in a bookshelf but mostly buy or subscribe digitally.
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Apr 20, 2022 00:10
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I got rid of my collection of single issues two years ago and have only bought singles digitally since. I did an exact count of my hardcover collection and it currently consists of 176 books, plus a few dozen volumes of manga. There are a couple of books in there that I really need to get around to reading. 
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Apr 20, 2022 01:17
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JordanKai posted:I got rid of my collection of single issues two years ago and have only bought singles digitally since. I did an exact count of my hardcover collection and it currently consists of 176 books, plus a few dozen volumes of manga. There are a couple of books in there that I really need to get around to reading. Hi. I bought the entirety of the out of print early 2000s trades for Modestly Blaise. It was the most expensive set of comics I've ever bought. I have yet to read past volume 4ish. Modesty Blaise still remains extremely my poo poo.
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Apr 20, 2022 04:00
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I have like 1500 trades or something. I only want like 100 of them anymore.
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Apr 20, 2022 04:03
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Is everybody inventorying their trades now? Because I sure am. Which brings me to the real question are purposely signed editions of trades worth anything more than the standard edition? I do have an All About P'Gell: The Spirit Casebook vol 2 signed in the front by Eisner, but I'm assuming it's still a hard sell because he signed a ton of poo poo, and there aren't as many Spirit fans as there used to be.
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Apr 20, 2022 15:50
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Sometimes. If it's personalized it's hampers resale.
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Apr 20, 2022 16:26
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Rhyno posted:Sometimes. If it's personalized it's hampers resale. I can't remember, that's how often I look at it. I think this one is a pasted in square of paper with a border and the numbering with a preprinted portrait of one of the characters and a pencil signature. Probably not personalized. Hell it might not even be real, I Ebayed it cheap because I wanted to read the book more, and thought "hey cool bonus if real" at the time.
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Apr 20, 2022 16:40
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I've got maybe 2-300 but it's little stuff I'm hunting down. I've been working on a complete Claremont uncanny run for a few years. I'm running out of issues that cost less than a hundred so it's starting to slow down.
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Apr 20, 2022 17:21
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I always ask for a personal signature on my stuff (ie made out to me). I feel like it makes the item more personal rather than just something everyone else has.
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Apr 20, 2022 19:18
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How was the Sandman Universe stuff? I remember seeing good comments about the Lucifer series and Spurrier being dissapointed that his Hellblazer run was cut short, but besides that I don't know if the series were any good.
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Apr 22, 2022 01:04
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The original Lucifer series is amazing, one of my favorite books of all time.
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Apr 22, 2022 01:22
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radlum posted:How was the Sandman Universe stuff? I remember seeing good comments about the Lucifer series and Spurrier being dissapointed that his Hellblazer run was cut short, but besides that I don't know if the series were any good. Spurrier's Hellblazer wasn't cut short. He was promised 12 issues and got 12 issues. He just had plans for more than 12 issues and should have been able to do that too.
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Apr 22, 2022 08:07
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Rhyno posted:The original Lucifer series is amazing, one of my favorite books of all time. This is probably blasphemy, but I think it's a better run of comics than Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
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Apr 22, 2022 08:10
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Skwirl posted:This is probably blasphemy, but I think it's a better run of comics than Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Probably but I agree.
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Apr 22, 2022 15:51
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Skwirl posted:This is probably blasphemy, but I think it's a better run of comics than Neil Gaiman's Sandman. I liked reading it, read it twice, felt no real desire to read again, sold it to some goon. I feel okay reading Sandman every few years. Not really talking about the quality, just Sandman does more for me on retreads.
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Apr 22, 2022 16:17
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Lucifer is great beginning to end but it really felt like one continuous storyline throughout whereas Sandman has the short stories and individual story arcs. I felt with Lucifer you needed to read it beginning to end where with Sandman I could pull up a random trade and be satisfied.
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Apr 22, 2022 16:20
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Speaking of! First Sandman I read, I walked into the store and bought the current issues. #70. The beginning of burying the main character. I didn't know it was finishing! Thought it was like other comics and you bought whatever. Bought the trades randomly, whatever a random store had in stock. Volume 1 was a late purchase. I think them finding Destruction was one of the last ones I got, so he was such a big empty point while reading the series. Rereading The Wake after knowing the whole story was fun.
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Apr 22, 2022 16:38
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Sandman has the Prez issue, which is just mind blowing.
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Apr 22, 2022 19:46
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Sandman has the Prez issue, which is just mind blowing. The whole World's End arc is just Gaiman showing off.
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Apr 23, 2022 18:59
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I like G. Willow Wilson's recent run on The Dreaming very much. It does fun stuff with a setting I've never had any particular attachment to, and has a really wonderful trans main character.
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Apr 24, 2022 13:04
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Does anyone have the post/article that was written many many years ago that starts with the big reveal in Identity Crisis and works backwards from there to show that the mystery doesn't make any goddamn sense and can't work as the comic shows?
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May 2, 2022 23:35
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I think mysteries actually making sense is overrated. Look at the movie The Big Sleep, an all time classic noir film, for example.quote:As the story goes, when this book was being turned into a movie, the filmmakers sent a telegram to Raymond Chandler asking who killed the chauffeur. Chandler answered, “Damned if I know.”
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May 3, 2022 06:18
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Skwirl posted:I think mysteries actually making sense is overrated. Look at the movie The Big Sleep, an all time classic noir film, for example. I don't know if it's quite the same though. Owen Taylor's death is a small part of a larger story (or two stories, since The Big Sleep is the result of Chandler mashing two of his short stories together) and while it's ultimately not explained there are several plausible theories. The audience isn't expected to solve the mystery but they also aren't being actively misled.
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May 3, 2022 06:55
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Skwirl posted:I think mysteries actually making sense is overrated. Look at the movie The Big Sleep, an all time classic noir film, for example. At the end: quote:Twain disparages the detectives—and metafictionally, the authors who created them—for the way their adventures have been handled. He points out such authorial misdeeds as introducing crucial characters at the last minute for the traditional "twist in the tale" (something the assembled detectives had been doing a few minutes earlier) and withholding clues and information to make it impossible for the reader to solve the mystery.
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May 3, 2022 11:29
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Vandar posted:Does anyone have the post/article that was written many many years ago that starts with the big reveal in Identity Crisis and works backwards from there to show that the mystery doesn't make any goddamn sense and can't work as the comic shows? quote:There are many reasons not to like Identity Crisis, Brad Meltzer’s best-selling murder mystery book for DC Comics. I’ve railed against it before, including in an embarasingly sloppy proto-FBB post you can read here. But even if you don’t mind its push towards “Superhero Decadence” or a dozen other charges against the book, it’s important to remember that it was an absolutely wretched murder mystery. To illustrate this, earlier today I wrote up a summary of the story from the culprit’s — SPOILER ALERT — perspective. Originally this was just a message board post, but I decided to remind everyone of this important Identity Crisis fact.
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May 3, 2022 15:33
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Some time ago, someone did a thread called 'Every Comic Ever Roulette', where people would review comics based on a random number roll. I asked to only get rolls for the worst comics, and I 'lucked out' I got the bottom of the list, then and now, which was Identity Crisis. So I wrote a very in depth review of all the comic's issues, if I may toot my own horn, including the many many issues of the murder mystery, the real reasons I feel it was structured the way it did, why it failed anyway, and why it was super extra insulting on top of that. Here, if anyone new cares. TL:DR: I feel like the murder mystery was written under the assumption that the way it was portioned out over seven months, fans would overanalyze everything and figure out the mystery within two issues, so they basically wrote it solely to keep people from guessing the twist, which of course, made the twist make absolutely no sense at all. Also, the motivation was basically the worst version of 
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May 6, 2022 08:31
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It's kind of funny in that while IC was, I think, the thing that brought me back to caring about superhero comics, I've never actually read it. It was the discussion on these very forums lo those many years ago that was the fun part, what with the guess avatars and everything.
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May 6, 2022 11:04
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There could have been a great storyline with IC. Mind wipes were a disturbingly common aspect of old JLA comics and a modern series dealing with the ethics and repercussions of this could have been really good.
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May 6, 2022 12:26
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:It's kind of funny in that while IC was, I think, the thing that brought me back to caring about superhero comics, I've never actually read it. It was the discussion on these very forums lo those many years ago that was the fun part, what with the guess avatars and everything. Those avatars were probably my favorite gimmick here, next to the hand puppet ones.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:It's kind of funny in that while IC was, I think, the thing that brought me back to caring about superhero comics, I've never actually read it. It was the discussion on these very forums lo those many years ago that was the fun part, what with the guess avatars and everything. IC was also the reason we moved from the comic thread in GBS to getting our own forum, wasn't it?
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