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What are the Seven Deadly Sins Of Comic Collecting?

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DrWatson

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Enjoying a Manwich or some KFC while leafing through your FF1.

 

Scotch taping the flaps of your Mylite 2s for that "extra protection".

 

Not remving the scotch tape from your Mylite 2 flap before remving your FF1.

 

Putting the FF1 you were reading next to you on the coffee table to answer the phone.

 

Getting a frosty cold one from the fridge while carrying on an extended phone conversation and putting the bottle next to you on the coffee table.

 

Anything that makes you pause, stare at you FF1 as your eyes begin to squint, your brow begins to furrow and your mind starts racing while simultaneously being in a state of suspended animation for several secodns before sheer horror registers and "d'oh" just doesn't cut it.

 

Trying to be too clever on a comic book message board.

 

Michael. :hi:

 

I haven't seen you in a while. At your age, I was afraid you might be dead. :foryou:

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The Troll King

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1. Not taking opportunities to get others involved in comics.

2. Freaking out when your spouse mishandles books or complains about them being all over the house. (They really should be organized better)

3. Owning a shop or being a dealer and not even knowing what the word "tact" means.

4. Being a comic artist and forgetting who really pays the bills. A little humility goes a long way.

5. Forgetting that it takes all kinds to make the world (industry) go around.

6. Acting like anyone outside of these boards knows nothing.

7. Trimming

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jbud73

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1. PUTTING TAPE ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR COMICS, INCLUDING USING IT TO SEAL BAGS

 

2. Eating Convention Food.

 

3. Wearing Red Pants or Short Shorts to Cons or just anywhere in general.

 

4. Slight Restoration to Pedigree comics :pullhair:

 

5. Selling your comics, unless its to buy more comics, unless its a comic you got a deal on from a fellow collector because they 'knew you were a huge collector of that run.'

 

6. Thinking Mighty Mouse could beat up Superman, "There's no way MM could beat up Supes, he's a cartoon and there's no way a cartoon can beat up a real guy."

 

7. Spending more time posting here than you do reading comics. (tsk)

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Shadow

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Lust = Coveting comic books to the exclusion of all other aspects in life. The desire to collect innumerable variants in order to reflect one's exotic and voracious traits.

 

Gluttony = Sacrificing one's diet in order to possess a particular HG Spider-man book. "Who needs balance when pizza sustains nightly." Hoarding one particular book in order to corner said book's market.

 

Greed = see E-Bay scams, shilling, etc.

 

Sloth = Not realizing that lifting LCS boxes does not constitute excercise. Nor does lifting soda to mouth while reading one of many watered down X-titles.

 

Wrath = Using Boards as a personal version of "Fight Club". Feeling anger over a perceived slight to a comic book publishing corporation.

 

Envy = Feeling remorse because your CGC 9.6 is not better than your neighbor's CGC 9.8.

 

Pride = only a sin if you use personal high Registry to beat other's into submission. If you have top DC 100 Pager collection, this sin won't count.

 

Above = :grin: taken with grain of salt. :jokealert:

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brasseye

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Mocking other people's collecting habits

 

Complaining about being ripped off on the bay

 

Getting into a bidding war with a fellow forumite

 

Having more than two sale threads on the first page in the selling forum

 

Wearing red trousers

 

Defending PGX

 

Having more posts than anyone else

 

 

Maxim's upon which to live... (worship)

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joe_collector

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Greggy's idea of a Manwich is Doc Watson, banner and a pound of melted butter.

 

What was that about other people's insults leading to your getting a strike, JC? meh

 

That's nothing compared to what I have to put up with daily, so let the cow chips fall where they may.

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joe_collector

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Let him run his trap. Might result in another strike. Good, bad, set up, who would care as he couldnt complain anymore as he would be :hi: fo'ever

 

Just remember that it was greggy who was banned forever, then reinstated when he cried for 5 days straight. lol

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drbanner

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Let him run his trap. Might result in another strike. Good, bad, set up, who would care as he couldnt complain anymore as he would be :hi: fo'ever

 

:wishluck:

 

makeitstop.jpg

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joe_collector

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the only thing i remember is how big of an arse you have made out of yourself recently.

Your childish actions in the VCC thread just shows how big of an attention whore you are

 

Amusing that you let trolls like greggy and banner off the hook, when it's their constant trolling and insults that created my VCC parodies.

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arexcrooke

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Amusing that you continue to participate in a thread/area where you have made it known, ad nauseum, that you will not buy and will not participate.

I bet if you would shut up and not post in there, then Banner or Greggy wouldnt say anything to you.

But, because you enjoy the attention like a freaking 12 year old little drama queen girl who just cant stop talking about her new training bra and what ring tone she has, Banner asks you to stop posting there. You cant, cause you want the attention.

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