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     Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 509 Registered: 02-2008 |
He collects Spiderman comic books. How cool is that? I collected Spiderman - way back before the so-so movies the actual comics were cool as shit. I had a copy of the first issue, inherited from my older brother, that my moms threw away in one of those commando cleanup raids in my bedroom. I'm sure that I still had it and sold it, the proceeds would've paid for at least a deeluxe tour of Brisbane... Anyway, here's how Colbert plans to taunt him about that fact: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page= article&id=18819 | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1263 Registered: 09-2006 |
Sounds like I was a Marvel Comics junkie right around the same time you were reading some of them as well. Liked Spider-Man a lot, though my favorite was Fantastic Four...talk about so-so movies... | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 574 Registered: 07-2006 |
there's no way in hell he's still not smoking after the last couple of years. he's earned another couple years of recreational tobacco i say. i haven't had a cigarette in one very unremarkable week alone and my jaw is in agony from chewing gum overload. not to mention anything as to the state of my nails.... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1306 Registered: 08-2006 |
Man, ETM, your post brings up a dark memory. I was a huge comic-head when I was a kid (Marvel, natch). By the time I stopped buying them, I'd ended up with thousands of titles, all lovingly boxed and many of them bagged (what can I say, I'm a Virgo), including a bunch of old 60s Spider-Man and others bought at comic shows back when those things were affordable. My mom let some troubled friend of my brother's stay at our house when I was at college and he stole and sold them, which nobody noticed for about a year because they were in the basement. Sentimental value aside - although that's huge - if I had them today they'd amount to a sum I can't even bear to consider. It's very cool Obama was into that stuff, too. But god, the awful memory. Whenever I hear comic talk, I shudder. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1264 Registered: 09-2006 |
A painful story indeed, Rob. My condolences. Mine was a bit simpler than that...my dad just burned them all one day, as a demonstration of the worthlessness of my pursuit. It backfired, though - I'm quite sure that some portion of the persistence of my music/book/movie/comic collecting in the years that followed was a figurative middle finger pointed in his direction.  | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 686 Registered: 04-2006 |
i don't know if i love obama. change and yes we can .... oh i think i better stop here. time will tell if obama can be really one who tried to make the world a better place. but talking about comics/marvel i will take the chance to point out that jonathan lethem had made a a ten issue series of 'omega the unknown' as an kind of appendix to the great and wonderful book 'the fortress of solitude book'. now they have been released in a single book. i think you folks out know that, but maybe it is interesting for the one or other. best wishes andreas | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 516 Registered: 02-2008 |
I guess the majority of Americans preferred yes we can and change to hell no, we can't and more of the (incompetent and morally bankrupt) same. At least with Obama, there's a chance of things getting better, as opposed to things with McCain, which promised to be a continuation of Bush's retarded policies. McCain knew next to nothing about the economy, thinking it "fundamentally sound", and I fully believe that, under him, we really would be in Iraq for 100 years or more. Rob and Allen, I do feel your pain. No telling what that stuff'd be worth today. Your collection, Rob, sounds like it would have been worth possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars. I hope the guy enjoyed the crack he no doubt bought with the proceeds... It's hard to explain, but back then, Marvel was so, almost underground, and friggin' cool, in comparison to DC. Now, of course, with the success of all the movies, it's become completely mainstream...People who bought Marvel stock right before the Iron Man movie came out and sold it right after, realized a tidy profit, btw. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1265 Registered: 09-2006 |
I did hear about that, andreas, and also that they're concurrently rereleasing the original Omega series in a book as well. I did enjoy that one, as well as just about everything else that the wonderful Steve Gerber (RIP) wrote. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1266 Registered: 09-2006 |
I doubt mine would've been worth that much, especially since the hardcore collectors seem to think that anything less than Untouched By Human Hands is substandard...I just had them in a big box. But, yeah, the stories were wonderful...weird, personal and epic all at the same time. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1308 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'm with you, Allen. About 80% of my anguish when I discovered the theft was realizing I'd never be able to read the damn things again. A lot of that stuff from the 60s and 70s is just really great, gripping, and sometimes touching stuff. I miss it a lot. And, of course, I'm pissed as hell I was robbed of a small fortune. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1831 Registered: 03-2005 |
Allen, that's a horrible story! Whatever I can say about my old man-- controlling son of a something when it came to my mother, materialistic, seemingly no contact with his own spirit--he never interfered with my musical escapades or any other pastime. Rob, your story is depressing as well, to have something you invested so much TLC in reduced to mere quick cash for some addict. Andreas, we fervently hope Obama can make things better. I don't fault him for the stupid slogans in his campaign or even the gormless logo. That stuff seems to play well with the American masses. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1270 Registered: 09-2006 |
As far as my pater goes, I've found that (as grindingly difficult as the process can be) finally, truly letting those old resentments go has been a great relief, as they were not only doing me no good, they were actively harmful. The relationship between he and I these days is still mostly surface friendly, but that's a great improvement on what it was... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2457 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob and Allen, what terrible stories. I like this comic book thread. I was a huge comics fan myself, but not the DC / Marvel stuff. Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly were the publishers I looked for - the Sub Pop and SST of the comic world. My favourite titles were Hate, Love & Rockets, Jizz and others of that ilk. I still have them all. I actually left issue 1 of Hate in a restaurant but was very lucky to get another copy of it. There were a lot of great English comics too, which were my first love. 2000 AD was amazing. When it started in about 1977 of course it did not seem possible it would ever reach the far distant year of its title, but it's still going today! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1279 Registered: 09-2006 |
As I think I've mentioned at least once before and probably more, I love that stuff too, Padraig...when I started reading comics again in the early 80s again that's what captivated me. Love and Rockets remains my favorite and I can't believe those two are not only still at it after more than 25 years but that the quality hasn't dropped at all. 2000 AD had some of Alan Moore's stuff in it, didn't it? Or was that mostly Warrior? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2459 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, Alan Moore got his break with 2000 AD. |