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# have a thing i'm working on...
as i dash out the door.

tiz based off of a drunken conversation where it was
decided that if i were a superhero i would throw things like gambit...
only i would use comics...since i have SO MANY of them.
(I helped save b3ta! *f o o f* is a craft-aholic, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:19, archived)
# I've never got Gambit
and now I see he's a badguy, bit rubbish as superchaps go really. ;P

Oooh, your use of Sandman reminds me, anyone want to buy a complete set of the comics? original edition ones? I think I've got a signed copy or two in there. Last I saw they were worth a few hundred.... come on people I've got to move house soon and funds are short!
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:20, archived)
# I was more of a Longshot personage.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:22, archived)
# Are those comics not a treasured possession of yours?
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:23, archived)
# Not especially
They're good, but what do you do with them once you've read them?!
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:24, archived)
# HOARD
HOARD AND KEEP AND COLLECT AND TREASURE.

I wouldn't know much about comics, really. I don't read them. Maybe a scanlated manga or two, but they don't really have any tangible form to collect and store in a nerdy fashion :P
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:26, archived)
# I've got original comics of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita somewhere
they'll be worth a few bob once James Cameron makes his film too.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:27, archived)
# I don't get what makes them so valuable.
Or, rather, what the person who pays so much for them actually does with them. Does he just keep them and go "Yes indeed. I have comics", or does he try to sell them on for even more money a little later?
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:29, archived)
# ^this^
I buy comics generally because I like the artwork (never been much a of a whole series fan - except Sandman and a few other limited runs). Never understood anyone buying things to sell later. Just enjoy what you've got.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:31, archived)
# when DC did the whole Death of Superman storyline, speculators and investors got into comics
that died down again about 5 years later, and now it tends to be just rarity that makes them valuable. first appearances of characters who later become pivotal end up quite sought-after, but other than that there isn't much to it.
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:32, archived)
# read them again!
a good comic is one you can read again and again and it never gets old, i have found such a treasure reading the reissued collections of transmetropolitan, absolute gold!
(serge-fabrizio taught the Talk to Frank robot to call him father, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:27, archived)
# I prefer to re-read the graphic novels
doesn't matter so much if you spill your tea all over them :D
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:28, archived)
# hahaha this
although i don't have the space to buy the comics and the collections (below comment excluded)
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:30, archived)
# problem with graphic novels
is that you lend them to people and never get them back, hence my full collection of first edition preacher, minus the first one :(
(serge-fabrizio taught the Talk to Frank robot to call him father, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:34, archived)
# my brother lent his entire collection of transformers UK comics to his best mate
shortly afterwards they fell out, he never got them back. gutted.
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:35, archived)
# i've got a mate who's always got something of mine
right now he's got my copy of transmet: year of the bastard and sin city on DVD, i try very hard not to fall out with him
(serge-fabrizio taught the Talk to Frank robot to call him father, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:38, archived)
# gah!
I know the type of "friend" you mean.
He's the same fella that wants to split the bill when you've had a soup and he had the three course meal.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:36, archived)
# ^this^
i only ever buy collected volumes now, and i'd buy toastys but i need to sell mine first and that's going to fund a trip to japan for me next year.

*prepared to part with original 1953 copy of Detective Comics 215*
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:38, archived)
# some of them are so good you even buy them again and again
/absolute editions of Kingdom Come and Crisis blog
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:29, archived)
# Want to buy?
Yes. Definitely want to buy. can afford to buy? Not so much. Unless you'll accept woos and yays. I have plenty of those.

In fact, foof deserves a woo for her lully picture. Woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Cukeasaurus was once known as Misanthropy., Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:29, archived)
# hehe. awesome!
(I helped save b3ta! Willwillwritehiswill An arse like a slapped face., Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:20, archived)
# Woo to superpowers!
And to your drawing.



How's the felt bunny skeleton going?
(Pavlov'sDog is all out of pavlova, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:20, archived)
# thats ace that is!
great action shot
(Foo_Kinnell all the cut will be absorbed by it been a dog, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:20, archived)
# this is ace


(I helped save b3ta! Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:20, archived)
# i see V for vendetta
but where is watchmen? know you nothing of alan moore!?

woo btw *clicks*
(serge-fabrizio taught the Talk to Frank robot to call him father, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:22, archived)
# wait for the film to come out then everyone will pretend they loved it from the beginning,
Despite the film no doubt being a shallow and cowardly re-telling with a shit new ending like V for Vendetta ;)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:26, archived)
# i missed out with v for vendetta
i tried reading it after the film came out, and just couldn't get into it. i'm trying to cram the classics of the more cult comics (read preacher, working my way through transmetropolitan) so i'm ready to bitch about the adaptations :)
(serge-fabrizio taught the Talk to Frank robot to call him father, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:30, archived)
# there are bits of the film I like
but they utterly fucked the point of it.
Evie went through hell to lose her fears and become the new V, but the film ignores that and just has everyone as V, making Natalie Portman's character utterly redundant.

Fucking rubbish.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:39, archived)
# in all fairness
half of these comics would work better as short HBO series, like they're doing with preacher, i'll watch that when it comes out, but i'm still sceptical
(serge-fabrizio taught the Talk to Frank robot to call him father, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:41, archived)
# i'll read V for Vendetta when they do an Absolute Edition.
the print quality on the trade paperbacks is awful, it's in sore need of Re-Mastering.
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:34, archived)
# i have hopes they will do a good job on watchmen
there seems to be a fairly ok cast of relative unknows who suit the characters and zack snyder has said they he doesn't want o cut corners with the film.

no doubt mr moore will not approve as always, and fairplay to him, if he wants to disassociate himself with it that his deal.

i don't think that the movie will ever live up to the book, but i'm fingers crossed that it will be a credible version.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:48, archived)
# But you couldn't throw coz you're a girl!
*dives for cover*
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:23, archived)
#
*doesn't bother diving cos she's a girl....
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:27, archived)
# No that's
Driving:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:47, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:23, archived)
# ah, but you don't have as many as meeeeeeeee!
probably.
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:28, archived)
# i do hope that have acid free boards and are in mylar sleeves.

/Excomicshopworkerandcollectorblog
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:33, archived)
# For a minute I wondered where Fred Dinage came into the scenario
woo, bloody lovely as ever, foof
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:33, archived)
# yay!
:D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:42, archived)
# V for Vendetta
is one of the best Graphic books i have ever read.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Scunner She’s a he, technically, but she’s scalding hot, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:43, archived)
# Yay!
Super-Foof!!!!!
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 23:24, archived)