Hollywood1892

It's finally happened Swami had a breakdown now he's fighting with his alter ego Hollywood 1892!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
 

I wish I was Harley Quinn, with supple booty, and her big "attitude ".
Just sayin' 

I think running out of money would come long before it stops being fun

I will be dead.  I will either have more important problems to face or none at all. 

Lived in Asia for 3 years.  (On assignment from my company in Texas).  Took 14 vacations to places I would have never dreamed of.  Spent all discretionary money on travel.  I wouldn’t trade those life experiences for any comic in the world.

In theory, when he or she accrues 18 concurrent points - see point 3 below:
 

That's too much of 
 

When you have to start doing things you wouldn't be proud to tell your parents about to get whatever garbage variant or flavor of the week book is hot at the time.

I wish CGC would have their own virtual reality glasses , so I can just be lazy and open up my eyes in the morning and see all you wonderful people in the morning......

Chaney Trail at foothills of mountains. Alta Dena/Pasadena.
Near the horse rink there

I have an automatic brake pedal - if I don’t have the money saved up or available in a non-important fund I need to save, I slow down or wait a bit.  I’m not raiding the kid’s college fund for comics LOL.  If a really difficult book pops up, I discuss with my wife where I think we need to make tradeoffs.  She has her own hobby too so we’re a pretty good team on the finances.

Once in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man they had a scene with a corpse so prop guys unload it from prop house, bring it to set. They shoot. Someone notices it was a real corpse. There was a book written about the whole situation. Let me do some digging (pun intended) and get back with the title.
EDIT: From Wikipedia
On December 8, 1976, the production crew of the television show The Six Million Dollar Man were filming scenes for the "Carnival of Spies" episode at The Pike. During the shoot, a prop man moved what was thought to be a wax mannequinthat was hanging from a gallows.[29] When the mannequin's arm broke off, a human bone and muscle tissue were visible.[23]
Police were called and the mummified corpse was taken to the Los Angeles coroner's office. On December 9, Dr. Joseph Choi conducted an autopsy and determined that the body was that of a human male who had died of a gunshot wound to the chest. The body was completely petrified, covered in wax and had been covered with layers of phosphorus paint. It weighed approximately 50 pounds (23 kg) and was 63 inches (160 cm) in height. Some hair was still visible on the sides and back of the head while the ears, big toes and fingers were missing. The examination also revealed incisions from his original autopsy and embalming. Tests conducted on the tissue showed the presence of arsenic which was a component ofembalming fluid until the late 1920s.[30] Tests also revealed tuberculosis in the lungs which McCurdy had developed while working as a miner, bunions and scars that McCurdy was documented to have had.[4][15] While the bullet that caused the fatal wound was presumably removed during the original autopsy, the bullet jacket was found. It was determined to be agas check, which were first used in 1905 until 1940. These clues helped investigators pinpoint the era in which the man had been killed.[30] Further clues to the man's identity were found when the mandible was removed for dental analysis. Inside the mouth was a 1924 penny and ticket stubs to the 140 W. Pike, Side Show and Louis Sonney's Museum of Crime.[26][31]Investigators contacted Dan Sonney who confirmed that the body was Elmer McCurdy.[26] Forensic anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow was then called in to help make a positive identification. Dr. Snow took radiographs of the skull and placed them over a photo of McCurdy taken at the time of his death in a process called superimposition.[32] Snow was able to determine that skull was that of Elmer McCurdy.[33]
By December 11, the story of McCurdy's journey had been featured in newspapers and on television and radio. Several funeral homes called the coroner's office offering to bury McCurdy free of charge, but officials decided to wait to see if any living relatives would come forward to claim the body. Fred Olds, who represented the Indian Territory Posse of Oklahoma Westerns, eventually convinced Dr. Thomas Noguchi, then the Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles, to allow him to bury the body in Oklahoma. After further testing to ensure proper identification, Olds was allowed to take custody of the body.[31]
On April 22, 1977, a funeral procession was conducted to transport McCurdy to the Boot Hill section of the Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma.[12] A graveside service attended by approximately 300 people was conducted after which McCurdy was buried next to another outlaw, Bill Doolin.[34] To ensure that McCurdy's body would not be stolen, two feet (60 cm) of concrete was poured over the casket.[35]

Alfred Hitchcock made an episode for television back in the Sixties featuring that very same ritual it frightened the life (pun intended) out of me especially after I learnt it was a real event. It was called "The Life work of Juan Diaz". 
 

Going to the LCS and conventions became too difficult to continue with because of health complications, and also I didn't feel I was getting enough out of the experiences to justify the effort and expense : repetitive chores rather than enjoyable.  Also, back issue prices increased to the point where I couldn't be bothered anymore with the secondary market.  I still stay in touch with what I consider to be the most important, lifelong aspect of comics - keeping up with reading the stories, new and old, and currently the digital format is working well for me, for three years now.

And what comics dont take you to crazy far off places?

"To travel is to live" - Hans Christian Anderson
If I had to choose between comics and travel, i'd travel.  Having the budget for both is a luxury.

So your comic book budget is now a travel budget for two?  If you didn't have a wife, you would only need a travel budget for one.  The rest would still be a comic book budget.  Something to consider. 

Never stops being fun but I always run out of money all the time.