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- those are coming today? I will keep a lookout. I may be keeping this thing but not opening it up for awhile. I did preorder a $40 skiff to accompany it.

That's because of the mentality of not wanting to be left out or pass up a perceived good opportunity. If I see everyone standing in a line for a reason I cannot easily see why I ask someone on that line what is everyone waiting for. They obviously know something that I do not. If I see She Hulk 1 on the wall then maybe this seller knew something about She Hulk that made it worth putting on the wall... now my fascination is piqued. However, most of the time, at least for me, people are standing in line around to get a new pair of Jordans. With that, I usually just shrug and walk away.

The art is the art. The comic is the reprint of the art. Now I would compare comics to first edition books... but not the actual art.

I hear this Bat guy has big things in his future in 2021... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877830/ I've been hoarding his first appearance... it's going to be gold Jerry... gold.

Your parents really need to reconsider the online time they afford their children or perhaps rethink their passwords.

I thought that was him for a second... that's a good imitation

I'm feeling a theme...

One thing I have always observed is that when people try to enforce things that the public finds disagreeable it forces to the public to become more creative in avoiding the enforcement of the thing they find disagreeable. If the majority of the collecting community want to avoid paying sales tax on eBay or through auction houses, they will switch to things like Facebook and Instagram to advertise and sell. If PayPal starts adding tax to transactions then more people will go the friends and family route (mistake in my book) If that occurs then look to see more business transactions go on locally like Craigslist which is a cash and carry thing. I am not here to debate the morality aspect or the citizenship aspect of the above statement. I am basing this post on what was seen during any time period that the Government tried to enforce something that a large segment of the people disagreed with. We have seen this with file sharing, prohibition, the list goes on.

So what is new in the world today?

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Here is the thing... There are a couple of people that do not have the resources to buy some of the key books that they want. I honestly don't know how to respond to people anymore when they tell me that they wish they could afford a $1000 book when they are standing in front of boxes of comics that they shell out $150 a week for. There is a guy at my LCS that spends that a week but laments that he wishes he could afford certain Golden Age books and certain keys. Since the individual 'wishes' he could afford some of the stuff I will buy from time to time I have told him that perhaps he should stop buying every modern that comes out each week. He says he cannot. Ok then.

Yeah, right now... for me I just read Amazing Spider-man.

I am waiting for the, 'no one has any idea what they are talking about except for me' rant.

Look for everything to go digital within the next ten years but be published as trade paperbacks periodically according to storylines.

That's because I have yet to start... ANY-WHhhhooooooo Today is March 2nd which was birth do Desi Arnaz. Arnaz would have been 102 today and this seems to be the perfect thread to celebrate his life and career. I will post of videos and I would hope others will join in with their favorite Arnaz moments. Google Arts and Culture: Desi Arnaz: A Pioneer of the Television Sitcom

YES YES YES

Hi everybody!

I just woke up... couldn't sleep... I think the notion of run collecting will continue to die as digital expands. If run collecting is for the stories and not the collectibility than reading digitally is the easiest way to secure those stories.

when you are that age... you are stoked to pull a NY Yankee...

I agree

I never got the 'run' collection. I think that is because I originally collected baseball cards until I REALLY discovered comics around the age of 9 or 10 with GI Joe. Now some of what I will say is contradictory but that is because back in 1985-1986 some of my collecting habits were out of necessity and not out of desire to complete a run. When it came to baseball cards you knew pretty quickly that 'collecting' packs upon packs were going to yield faceless no-names that were irrelevant in comparison to pulling a NY Yankee out of that cello-wrap pack. You would be left with a lot of players that you just did not want. I had no desire to have shoeboxes of what I perceived to be 'useless' cards. Also keep in mind that collecting a complete set was tough since I did not have access to a baseball card shop unless mom or dad wanted to drive me. That really wasn't going to happen. So, I only had half of a set of 1984 Topps and that was okay so long as I had Don Mattingly's card which just so happened to be his rookie year. To this day I still remember that it was card #8. Rookie's were important because you had the FIRST card and that was the most important. Sure I started collecting runs but that was because I wanted the next part of the story. There were no trade paperbacks or digital subscriptions and at that time at the age of 9 and 10, the comics set scenarios for play with the actual GI Joe figures. But still I knew when it came to baseball cards that the first cards were the most important. This mentality bled its way into my focus when it came to collecting my Amazing Spider-man run. I went after key books first. I owned a copy of AF15 before I owned a copy of ASM 10 or even 50 because I knew that the first appearances or the more important first appearances would always be in more demand than later appearances of second tier characters. I don't have the space... well I should say I don't believe in devoting the space to a collection composed of every comic of every character I enjoy so I go after their first appearances. I like conciseness and appreciate quality over quantity. I have X-Men 1... but that is really it. I love owning my copy of Daredevil 1. But I felt all I really needed was my copy of DD 1 and 7. Nowadays if I want to read I can simply log on and read with no real need to invest in the space not comics that really would just sit in a box. Instead I get to put that money into artwork and more key books. I still have my Mattingly #8 btw.

Janet likes it if you compliment her looks.

On and off.

Going to cheat... not going to use a comic book but a comic book movie...