Pipeline - Mar 5, 2013

[CBR News]

Augie dishes out career advice to comic creators, shares his plan for when he runs DC, discusses the topic of streaming conventions and purges nearly a thousand comics from his collection.


Full article here.

[the_kaz]

Thanks! I certainly came across this article at an appropriate time. I recently started "purging" my collection of floppies, so that I could get rid of the crap (and most of it is, indeed, crap) and buy back all the good stuff as trades and hardcovers. But earlier this evening, as I was un-bagging my complete collection of "52" (which is probably worth peanuts now) to put on eBay, I suddenly felt a sudden sense of remorse, and a huge feeling of regret came over me for having flogged so many comics that I once cared so much about, and which I had spent so much money on. But this article was definitely the reminder that I needed that I'm no longer a teenager who's biggest goal in life was to have read every X-Men comic in existence, and that I'll feel far more satisfied with a solid collection of paperbacks and hardcovers on my bookshelf than hundreds (thousands, perhaps) of comics which I'll never read again.

[cgh]

I've taken a slightly different path: I'm getting rid of a bunch of floppies I have no interest in, but I'm also getting a bunch bound into hardcover. For example, New Teen Titans #1-36 into two hardcover volumes. I'm doing the same with trades I really like as well. In some cases, I'm just selling and then buying the hardcover, particularly if it's a miniseries that's too small to get bound. An example of this is Elektra: Assassin - I sold the floppies and bought the hardcover instead.

[mateor]

I use Javascript and ruby...that was a great link.

[zebop]

When I finally gave up living in apartments for the joys of home ownership the two biggest items I had for the movers were my vinyl record collection, which was considerable, and my comic books, which were ridiculous. The record collection isn't going anywhere yet, but when it does, I know I have some albums that actually have resale value. There is no value to a 1990's X-Men. Not even as a curiosity of its time.

I've been uncluttering my basement of comics I don't want anymore. It hasn't been hard. These are Marvels such as Howard Mackie's Spider-Man or Christopher Priest's Deadpool that are simply junk. They have no resell value or at least nobody at any of the local stories will offer even spare change for any of them.

Sometimes you just gotta let go. Sometimes it's really easy to.

[dancj]

For three years now I've been working at the local Comic Expo. I've got about 8 boxes full of TPBs and bundled up runs - and a couple of boxes of loose comics. Generally selling at £3 a pop - with the odd exception for particularly big or small books - I get about £250 and empty about two boxes a year. So far it's working out about right that I fill those two boxes up again by the time the next Expo comes round.

[toddx77]

I still have all my boxes of floppies in my room. They have taken up the whole bottom part of my closet so I have to keep 2 long boxes in the hall way right outside my room lol. I have sold some on ebay but some of the others I have tried to sell no one buys. The ones I have sold though were some what special like the first half of Luthors Actions comics and the Arkham mini series from a few years ago. The stuff like a random issue of Incredible Hulk or X-Force doesn't really sell. I am holding on to all my floppies though because some seem to have a decent price tag on ebay now and I can't help but think in the future a big set might be worth something. For example I have the JMS run of Amazing in trades and every floppy issue of Amazing Spider-Man from 538-700 and the whole Geoff Johns Green Lantern era from Rebirth to Secret Origin and issues 39 to the current. Maybe they won't be worth millions but they could be worth a small fortune. The 2008 Guardians of the Galaxy trades on ebay are going for around $40 used right now and some issues of Amazing Spider-Man 700 are around 410 for the normal cover. Also I do pull them out sometimes to look at old stories or pull them out for reference when talking about characters or stories online.

The space issue won't be a problem as much once I live on my own but I have started to my more digital which is a huge help. I don't have to worry about boxes or shelf space which is nice although my biggest problem with digital is that some series would be nice to own a hard cover off and you can't get digital autographed. The main reason I haven't bought issue 2 of saga yet is because I wouldn't mind having that series on my shelf and getting a trade autographed at a con lol.

[pmpknface]

I just passed over 20,000 comics last year and I'm not stopping yet!