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I’ve enjoyed it. The whole series is built around him wrestling with his past as a World Eater. Now, he’s got a case of the BMWL virus. It’s not an award-winning run, but it’s solid superhero fare.

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I'd love to hear from some of you boardies who were reading the Miller Daredevils at the time of their publication. Did you wonder if a cruel prank had been played on you when you went to get a copy of the latest issue and saw this DD cover? There's an easy Bronze Age run that tripped and had to pick itself back up after a fall, right? BWS--someone not BWS--BWS again. What other titles saw artists shoved aside momentarily, only to finish out the race strong?

9, 10, & 11

Seven and eight. Finished Sapiens, too. Fun's over tomorrow as I go back to work after doing a semi-vavation the last two weeks.

I'll take the HoS 90, thanks!

I like it. The narrator is funny, playing on the awkward diction of the silver age writing. It's an interesting bridge of old and new storytelling. Fraction plays with the narrative structure as he works different threads. You can tell the creative team is having fun.

Five and six.

Books 3 and 4. I enjoyed both.

I enjoyed these just now.

My laptop keyboard has infuriatingly small and poorly placed arrow keys and screen nav keys. After almost three years, I still can't hit the left arrow key consistently.

I did that with my hardback collection. I've been a lifelong reader and have two degrees in literature. And if I read something, I wanted a copy, particularly a hard cover if possible. We moved states, so I sold my books to a thriving used bookstore in a two-university town. And I regret it to this day. Just like I regret selling that FF 48 and the IH 181 and the HFH 1 and the list goes on and on...

I'm a fan of space and shift+space to scroll up and down with the keyboard. But sometimes, that space inputs as an enter depending on where you've been clicking.

Per se is a good qualifier. There are plenty of younger folks who collect digital goods, even when the terms of service to which they agreed mean they don't own their collection. For that matter, I suppose we analog collectors have quite limited ownership of our comics. But yeah, digital collectible card games are worth a mint for a successful game. That said, the digital subscriptions seem to pretty much be a full buffet, from what I understand.

An admiral goal, sir. If golfing counts as exercise, so does walking the floor at comic shows.

How many collectors and how many pop culture fans?

Weird War Tales 104 and 111. That's two. I'm overdue to pick up my hold box, so that'll give me some more to work on.

I have 9 short boxes, not full, in a closet. My goal is not to exceed that. I’ve cracked most of my slabbed books and have only one box of comics still in slabs. Defining my collecting focus was an expensive and wasteful process, and now I have a much better sense of what really intrigues me. I ask myself a few questions when I have the impulse to buy something: would I rather spend the same money on a different comic if it were in front of me? does this help me complete the few runs I’m pursuing? does this fit my collecting focus on specific artists or writers? Just pausing to ask those questions helps me avoid impulse buys.

I’ll try to share what I’m reading.

There's been a glut of really desirable books, at least to me, here and other venues, like CLink Exchange, Bob Storm's site, and others. I need to quit looking--my eyes are bigger than my wallet.

I will take these at 30% off. Happy new year, JC.

That's directly from Google, their password checkup feature. Google it.

I was pretty far into Warhammer Fantasy Battle for a while. This was my painting station during my Ogre Kingdoms phase.

Yeah, the reality is that everyone reading this has almost certainly had his or her password and other information already compromised on at least one occasion. Sign up for identity protection (my bank provides it at no cost) and prepare to be dismayed. As Callaway29 notes, the damage often comes when bad actors use your password for other sites.

Google gave me this warning tonight: I haven't received any notice about this from ComicLink, but I'm taking it seriously. Make your own judgment.