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# 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)