west3man
03-14-2006, 08:44 AM
Maybe a more accurate title would've been "Signs of comicbook obsession" or "Signs of comicbook foolishness." I dunno.
In another thread, I mentioned the following:
2) At first, I thought you said, "In general, I think addictive retcons..."
What's funny is, that STILL would've been an accurate description of my fondness for Avengers Forever. (Kinda surprising, though, considering how little I knew about a lot of the events A.F. addressed.)
I've got... I dunno, maybe two copies of each issue PLUS the trade paperback. What a frickin' geek.
The sentence in bold is a great (and somewhat unfortunate) sign of how much of a comic book geek I am.
I think we had a thread somewhat similar, before, but I think this one's different enough. What are some of the signs of your comic book geekery?
We've talked about the "shrines" and huge collections (and it's cool to go there, again, if feel it), but what are some of the comic book-related things you do that hardly make sense... even to you. Like I said above, I'm often compelled to own multiple copies of a book, even though the content is identical AND even when I have no intentions of selling the book. Heck, in SOME cases (like Avengers Forever) I've been meaning to sell the extra copies for quite a while, but can't seem to force myself to do so.
The closest I can come to justifying it is that there are slight differences in the illustrations in the comic, as compared to the ones in the tpb. In some cases I like the tpb more and in other cases, I prefer the pix in the individual issues.
In another thread, I mentioned the following:
2) At first, I thought you said, "In general, I think addictive retcons..."
What's funny is, that STILL would've been an accurate description of my fondness for Avengers Forever. (Kinda surprising, though, considering how little I knew about a lot of the events A.F. addressed.)
I've got... I dunno, maybe two copies of each issue PLUS the trade paperback. What a frickin' geek.
The sentence in bold is a great (and somewhat unfortunate) sign of how much of a comic book geek I am.
I think we had a thread somewhat similar, before, but I think this one's different enough. What are some of the signs of your comic book geekery?
We've talked about the "shrines" and huge collections (and it's cool to go there, again, if feel it), but what are some of the comic book-related things you do that hardly make sense... even to you. Like I said above, I'm often compelled to own multiple copies of a book, even though the content is identical AND even when I have no intentions of selling the book. Heck, in SOME cases (like Avengers Forever) I've been meaning to sell the extra copies for quite a while, but can't seem to force myself to do so.
The closest I can come to justifying it is that there are slight differences in the illustrations in the comic, as compared to the ones in the tpb. In some cases I like the tpb more and in other cases, I prefer the pix in the individual issues.