The One Thing I Don't Like About This Hobby...

[Hayabusa]

is when you get a large amount of comics at once and have to sort through them, catalog them, bag and board them and somehow find a place in your library for what you want to keep... I mean, I'm glad for the large amount of comics that I got in April (thanks to two comic auctions and a very large Craigslist posting), but the bookkeeping and all can be a pain.

The reading, on the other hand, is my favorite part!

[Broken_Hero]

1. Well,

you can give the comics to me then... I like sorting through them when I get a lot, helps me remember what I have, and the storylines/arcs. Although the highest amount of them I get at any one time is around 30 or so, unless I get lazy and don't catalog for a couple of months...then I got a 100-200 to go through. I also struggle with finding the right size backing/baggies, the current size they push on me is the 6 3/4, but I find the 7inch boards work a lot better...I also notice anything before 1986 or so, is a tad bit bigger than what is out now(meaning comic book sizes). I also have a hard time finding a bookend to keep my comics standing up(in my comic boxes), they always fall over on themselves if I don't have them damn near full.

[Hayabusa]

2. I don't hate it that much, LOL

Besides, I don't normally get as much of a backlog as I have now. It's just that April was the largest month for me when it came to buying comics.

I don't have that much a problem finding bags & boards, since my comic store stocks Modern, Silver and Golden age sized of each (and likely have magazine-sized as well). My main problem is with Knights of the Dinner Table, mainly because each issue has about 20 pages of comics and 70-80 of RPG material in it, making it more like a comic-sized magazine that makes it impossible to board.

[Codeine]

3. You ain't kiddin'.

In the corner of my living room there's a small table covered in comics.



All the comics on the table, plus another pile of seventy or so in a box beneath, need to be put back in their bags and sorted and stored. Bernie Wrightson book excepted, of course.

The huge pile on the arm of the couch? Still to be read, along with a dozen or so TPBs. Sigh.

[zappaman]

4. Love Wrightson!

Was very happy when his illustrated FRANKENSTEIN was re-released last year!

[Codeine]

6. I have a very vivid memory of reading one of his stories

when I was about 8 or so, in a Creepy or Eerie I found somewhere. It was an adaptation of Lovecraft's "Cool Air", and I was fascinated by both the story and the intricate, atmospheric art -- it was my first exposure both to Wrightson and to Lovecraft. Later I became a huge Lovecraft aficionado and read his work (and gamed it in RPGs) non-stop in my teens and twenties, but only started reading more of Wrightson's stuff recently when I got into comics with DC's reboot.

[Hayabusa]

5. Conan's awesome

I've been reading the first Dark Horse series whenever I can find some cheap back issues, as well as a couple of the old Marvel series.

I still have a bunch of the Craigslist comics I need to bag and board, as well as find a place for. I bought a bag of boards Saturday at FCBD, and I ran out yesterday in the middle of the Iron Man. In fact, I had to stop doing it when I realized that I wouldn't get the rest of The Avengers set up.

[Codeine]

7. I'm new to comic book Conan.

The Phoenix in the Sword arc and the Queen of the Black Coast arc are the first ones of I've read. Both are fantastic. I also have the first two omnibus editions of the old Conan stories from the 70s, but I've only read a bit.