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JugHerNutz

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    4 hours ago, speedcake said:

    So this year hasn't really gone the way I intended it to at all. I was going to focus hard on my Uncanny X-Men run. I really want to finish it, but alas...

    The first derailment came when I discovered Lucio Parrillo. I absolutely love his art style, his painted covers, and embarked on a quest to complete several of his early runs on Queen Sonja, Warlord of Mars, Vampirella as well as began picking up his more recent work. Well, TLDR version is that I now have a short box of very nice high grade Parrillo comics, a decent pile of lower grade dupes, no complete runs (I'm missing TWO issues from his Warlord of Mars run, ughh), but quite a lot of enjoyment from chasing all these books down.  Obviously this has meant a great deal of time and resources diverted from the goal of finishing my X-Men run.

    The second total and complete distraction was going off on a tangent and working on my Amazing Spider-Man run... now why I did this, I can't say. I love Spidey, and some very good deals popped up on the boards here for various back issues. I couldn't pass them up, and have managed to amass a pretty serious copper and modern Spidey run with very nice copies of some of the good stuff. But once more, Charlie spent alot  of time and resources on something other than the X-Men.  I have had alot of fun putting it together so far. But my poor, neglected X-Men. :(

    And now something else has come up. I have an opportunity to buy a collection of silver and Bronze marvel books but both need some funds and some space in the apartment. This means I've decided to sell, sell, sell.  I'm going to sell all of my Parrillo comics. I love his work, and might keep a small pile of my favorite covers, but almost all of it is going to new homes as soon as I find them.

    I've also decided to change my focus on both the X-Men and Amazing Spider-man runs.  I just don't have the space for a 500 and 700 issue run if I want to also have other stuff.  So I've decided to also sell all Uncanny X-men down to right after the first appearance of Bishop. AND I'm going to sell my Amazing Spider-man run down to somewhere around the later 300s, maybe after the last semi important Venom story. I'll still keep bigger keys from both those runs (there aren't that many in the Uncanny books after 300, lets be honest)

    It's going to be time consuming, but absolutely worth it i'm able to pick up the collection I'm hoping to get.

    So I'm done buying comics for a little while until I've made some serious progress on selling what I have, but I'll be looking for X-Men issues along the way. I'm not passing up good deals if they come along. I'll be a bit pickier for a while, though.

    This is very rambling. Thanks all for reading!

    Anyone interested in a list of what I'm selling, feel free to PM me.

    Best of luck!