What's the best thing about collecting/loving comics?!

[DKB]

 

What's the best thing about collecting/loving comics?!

 

 

All the chicks man, all the chicks.

[goldust40]

[namisgr]

Best thing about loving comics? The unparalleled combination of plot, writing, art and imagination. No other medium provides it.

 

I can still remember from over 30 years ago starting to read Avengers 100. Had a phenomenal Barry Smith splash with the Black Knight and Aragorn with wings spread. Had a tremendous Roy Thomas text (ragging the government for funding trips to the moon for "games of gratuitous golf"). Had a great plot that brought back everyone who was ever a member of the Avengers.

 

I can still remember starting to read the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers #2. The boys are on the splash page, about to enter a bank to rob it. Phineas, while lighting up a doob: "How about a hit before we go inside?" Fat Freddy: "Sure, I'd hate to die without having tasted it!"

 

Best thing about collecting comics? Being in a convention room full of beauties from all eras and of all styles. Upgrading a cool ish from reader copy to high grade specimen. Getting my son into old comics - his reader set of early Lee/Kirby Thors has become impressive, and he loves the variety of villians and snippets of Norse mythology.

 

Great hobby!

[Forbush-Man]

For me it's become many things:

 

There's the reliving of stories I read long ago during my childhood & recapturing some of those feelings.

 

There's also the historical intrest I have in this media, which began as .10 funny books produced by publishers to make a dime with characters in tights & a cape, to highly developed characters and stories which branch in and out of other characters or titles.

 

There's also the shear joy I find from searching & finding that momentary "Priceless Jewel I've been searching for" and preserving it for the future.

 

The Comic Book is as much a piece of Americana as Jazz, Rock & Roll, Coca-Cola, Blue Jeans or Mickey Mouse. I find it entertaining, interesting, challenging, elusive, frustrating and highly rewarding all at the same time.

 

I've enjoyed collecting comics for close to 40 years, and I hope to still enjoy it just as much 40 years from now !

[blowout]

For me, it can be summed up in one word...Nostalgia.

[Norrin_Radd]

Great bathroom reading.

 

 

I agree 100% and it'seven better when those bathroom readers come back slabbed by CGC at 9.8s

 

For me, it is the awesome creative (ret-cons) storylines that can be found like Sins Past, Avengers Disassembled... and the hotly drawn female form...

 

Johnny Five ... NO DISSASSEMBLE!

 

 

[Norrin_Radd]

[Norrin_Radd]

 

What's the best thing about collecting/loving comics?!

 

 

All the chicks man, all the chicks.

 

I agree...

 

[PovertyRow]

The four "ings" (well, kind of)

 

The researching

 

The revelationing (I SAID "kind of")

 

The compiling

 

The cataloguing

[jbud73]

The four "ings" (well, kind of)

 

The researching

 

The revelationing (I SAID "kind of")

 

The compiling

 

The cataloguing

 

C'Mon Pov - how about the Artistry of both illustration and story. Maybe I lack culture, but when I'm at an Art museum I appreciate the works, but I still walk around thinking, "Man thats Nice but its no Steranko or Wrightson."

[Norrin_Radd]

The four "ings" (well, kind of)

 

The researching

 

The revelationing (I SAID "kind of")

 

The compiling

 

The cataloguing

 

The READ-ING

 

The DRAW-ING

 

Are you a collector or a librarian?

[Jayman]

The four "ings" (well, kind of)

 

The researching

 

The revelationing (I SAID "kind of")

 

The compiling

 

The cataloguing

 

POV!!! What about (to quote Brando) "The Horror...the Horror..."

[fantastic_four]

Great bathroom reading.

 

 

I agree 100% and it'seven better when those bathroom readers come back slabbed by CGC at 9.8s

 

I also agree 100%, and my love is even more specific--I love buying already-slabbed 9.8s, cracking them open, and then reading them on the can. There's nothing finer.

[blowout]

 

Are you a collector or a librarian?

 

That's exactly what I was wondering.

[PovertyRow]

The four "ings" (well, kind of)

 

The researching

 

The revelationing (I SAID "kind of")

 

The compiling

 

The cataloguing

 

The READ-ING

 

The DRAW-ING

 

Are you a collector or a librarian?

 

Reading is at the heart of "revelationing".

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[Hobgoblin]

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