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Spidervacc - I just caught that slippery slope joke. I think my journal thread has a theme! We just got new tires on the Camry,so I am still good to go this weekend!

The Hasbrouk Heights show is the one I was thinking about. I thought it was Saturday, glad you posted! I buy and trade art from Anthony Snyder, who is going to this show for the first time. He will likely bring so much art as to overwhelm you, but if you stop by tell him Sean sent you. I have seen boxes of slabs at his warehouse and I am wondering if he will bring them to this show or just his art. I figured I'd go to the show to say hey to him and maybe trade some art and who knows, maybe pick up a slab or two. Okay, slab questions from the noob. 1) What is with the bag on the slab? Each slab is sent to me with the bag - is it just tradition from raw comics? For scratches and dust and the like? or is it an archival issue? And that leads me to. 2) How archival are these things? On the cgc site it tells me nothing of substance in the encapsulation description. Direct light still bad, obviously. Or no?

It sounds like Primus listened to this song a lot. I think Primus list their two main influences as Rush and King Crimson. On Discipline, Thela Hun Jinjeet in one of the best songs ever and Matte Kudeci can make you cry in its' beauty. Obviously I was not worried about spelling there, but I am not far off!

Tony Levin plays bass awesome, but he also plays this bass-like thing called a Chapman stick. From what I recall my musician friends telling me it is actually a fretless bass that operates on harmonics or something. I knew a guy in college who played beautiful music on the thing. Google it if you want real info and not my moss-covered memories! But it takes a very skilled musician to play the stick, as it requires more precise placements to get the notes sounding best. you can't just be in the area, you got to nail it. Apparently Levin plays it on the Close to the Edge live songs done by Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe. I just found that out myself and will go listen now. (I have also been listening to my japanese imported Steve Howe Album, the first one - used to have the album.) But anyone pumping Tony Levin knows what he is talking about in my book! I am a Jaco guy myself (Paco Distortionist as my friend called him.)

Adrian Belew played a 200-seater in my town about 2 weeks ago. Adrian Belew Power Trio. He did Elephant talk but started at D. They were smoking. I have been playing this album, Pretty Pink Rose, and Three of a Perfect Pair fairly regularly since then.

I should have a new slab (or more!) waiting when I get home from work tonight, so expect Griff's ex-X-Men on the shelf there to get some company. I am also considering a comic book show this weekend for a slab or two. That may not happen but I am considering it! I have good shoes on but the slope is indeed slippery.

I will also guess 2) clive barker

wow, these are tough 1) alan davis excalibur 1 and a guess for 3) stephen segovia

well,I didn't know there was a running total. I may be available tonight.

oooh, thought I had three books right!

I never played before so sorry if I do it wrong but here goes 1) Neal Adams 2) Chris Claremont, Uncanny X-Men 256 3) George Perez Infinity gauntlet 1 4) no clue at all 5) David Finch New Avengers 6 It seemed wrong to post in the thread but that seems to be the way the first one went, so...

Okay, I just completed a trade with a boardie for four slabs! I will show the slabs when they arrive and assume their place on the shelf, but I traded a Silvestri / Green page from Wolverine 41! I am surely heading down the path of fire and damnation!

I am definitely in dangerous territory. I was looking at a comic convention guest list for artists I want to buy art from when I realized I was looking for Blazingbob and high grade comics as well. That never happened before. EVER. In 25 years of going to conventions I have never ever looked for a comic dealer. See you in Philly Bob! Have I got some updates coming as well!

This is what I am doing with my original art collection. It is fun but time consuming.

Okay, I am nearing the end of the book and can ship it out this Saturday. Assuming someone posts an , that is.

They are in a closet with the door usually closed, no direct light. But yes dear, thank you. ;-) Check my next photos in a day or three and you will see chastised comic care. And thanks Bill1 and everyone else as well. I am just looking to have some fun with this, not assemble an awe-inspiring collection. This thread is entirely tongue-in-cheek but also genuinely out of love for comics and fun. I am already awed and inspired myself!

I am going to have to live with that thread title, but whatever! I have decided the correct term for me, besides original comic art collector, is comic reader. I don't collect comics so much as store the ones I read. I bought some Moebius comics the other day off ebay and when I opened the package I realized these were now the nicest comics in my collection, almost without a doubt. So collecting high grade comics was never my thing. Yes, I grabbed some comics second hand along the way, including a Strange Tales 169 and Daredevil 9 and 10 but not much else unless I bought it to read off the rack. But along the way about 25 years ago I started collecting original art due to a chance encounter with Paul Ryan or Sam de la Rosa at a convention. [i recall thinking "artists draw at cons?" with Paul Ryan and "they sell the art used to make comic pages?" with Samuel de la Rosa (who was one of a few Latino inkers credited as "Manuel Labor" on the issue and who told me that he did not like that one bit) but am not sure which happened first.] Comic art led me to these boards a few years ago. I had resisted the siren call until recently. But Doc McCoy (I think it was) came over to the OA parts of the boards advertising (his?) free David Petersen art in some thread called Pay it Forward. As I was in the process of trading art regularly with a local dealer, I promptly went and claimed said art. Sadly I traded it away almost immediately to the dealer. I apologize; I was single-minded and unthinking at the time but understand my mistake now. So please forgive me. But PIF sucked me in right from the start. Especially when I jumped on another piece of OA quickly (still have that one, don't worry). Then a strange thing occurred. I watched as some really cool slabs were given away to fellow boardies. When a nice X-Men slab came up I decided to take the plunge and claim it. (Thanks Griff!) I was quickly offered another slab gratis from a boardie (looking forward to getting that one! ). Now this weekend I took the plunge and decided to have some fun and get a few for myself. I figured it really doesn't matter so much if they are comics I have read and admired so much as fun things to look at on the shelf. So I put out the call for cheap slabs and that thread inspired me to start this one and chronicle the rise through the ranks of my first rate collection. NOT! I am not trying to start a new collection, but have some cool comics displayed that will make me smile. So without further eloquence... Bird's Top Shelf Slabs! #1 in the closet and in your hearts, courtesy of Griff...not the crime dog just a slab hound...she a beauty with white pages...it's X-Men 248 9.4 Done worry folks, she won't be lonely for long. Join us later this week, same slab time,same slab channel...it's a race against time between Amazing Spider-Man and The Defenders! See you here!

I am going to have to live with that thread title, but whatever! I have decided the correct term for me, besides original comic art collector, is comic reader. I don't collect comics so much as store the ones I read. I bought some Moebius comics the other day off ebay and when I opened the package I realized these were now the nicest comics in my collection, almost without a doubt. So collecting high grade comics was never my thing. Yes, I grabbed some comics second hand along the way, including a Strange Tales 169 and Daredevil 9 and 10 but not much else unless I bought it to read off the rack. But along the way about 25 years ago I started collecting original art due to a chance encounter with Paul Ryan or Sam de la Rosa at a convention. [i recall thinking "artists draw at cons?" with Paul Ryan and "they sell the art used to make comic pages?" with Samuel de la Rosa (who was one of a few Latino inkers credited as "Manuel Labor" on the issue and who told me that he did not like that one bit) but am not sure which happened first.] Comic art led me to these boards a few years ago. I had resisted the siren call until recently. But Doc McCoy (I think it was) came over to the OA parts of the boards advertising (his?) free David Petersen art in some thread called Pay it Forward. As I was in the process of trading art regularly with a local dealer, I promptly went and claimed said art. Sadly I traded it away almost immediately to the dealer. I apologize; I was single-minded and unthinking at the time but understand my mistake now. So please forgive me. But PIF sucked me in right from the start. Especially when I jumped on another piece of OA quickly (still have that one, don't worry). Then a strange thing occurred. I watched as some really cool slabs were given away to fellow boardies. When a nice X-Men slab came up I decided to take the plunge and claim it. (Thanks Griff!) I was quickly offered another slab gratis from a boardie (looking forward to getting that one! ). Now this weekend I took the plunge and decided to have some fun and get a few for myself. I figured it really doesn't matter so much if they are comics I have read and admired so much as fun things to look at on the shelf. So I put out the call for cheap slabs and that thread inspired me to start this one and chronicle the rise through the ranks of my first rate collection. NOT! I am not trying to start a new collection, but have some cool comics displayed that will make me smile. So without further eloquence... Bird's Top Shelf Slabs! #1 in the closet and in your hearts, courtesy of Griff...not the crime dog just a slab hound...she a beauty with white pages...it's X-Men 248 9.4 Done worry folks, she won't be lonely for long. Join us later this week, same slab time,same slab channel...it's a race against time between Amazing Spider-Man and The Defenders! See you here! To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.

Okay, one more - I showed this in my ebay thread so sorry for the repeat post In the top panel it looks like Adam Warlock, Captain Marvel and Captain America. What is going on in the Marvel Universe? I want to read this comic based on this page. Acquired in trade, that is why I have no clue what is going on. Good Cheung and good Thanos shot was enough for me to pull the trigger.

I had my most arduous trade session yet today. Two hours until I walked out with five pieces. Here are three scanned already. Paul Smith X-Men, inked by Hilary Barta Bernie Wrightson pencils for HYDE card Gene Colan inked by Ernie Chan, check out that Black Widow!

Just got back from trading with dealer man again. I got four pieces, this was the one I saw there that I picked up on a whim to make a deal work. Impatient Sean strikes again! Completely by Mark Buckingham, colored markers and all.

Traded for this today. Art by Mark Buckingham (all)

I got the book from EBTorres today. thanks Jim and E! I look forward to reading it when I should be working this week! BTW, I cannot believe the foul things you guys wrote in the frontspiece! I guess the first guy must have started that and it just gets worse and worse. I will bump when I am through reading,it shant be long