The Ultimate Marvel Team-up hardcover kicks ass, and showed the first time Peter met with Wolverine, the X-men, Iron-Man, Daredevil, The Punisher, the Lizard, Man-Thing, the Hulk and the FF. Though the FF story was awhole lotta non-sense and is out of continunity.
Is there such a thing as too much comics? I don't have all that many now, but assuming continued accumulation and a hopefully steadily increasing income I can imagine have more than my current small living accommodations could hope to adequately contain.
Have you ever had to make Sophie's Choice, deciding which of your books you just don't love anymore? Or does the size of your collection increase in proportion to the growth of your living areas (or vice versa)? If I every hope to begin seriously collecting comics instead of merely buying scattered trades, will I have to accept home ownership as an inevitability?
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I don't neccessarily mean it like the sort of person who struggles to collect complete runs of series he doesn't even like all that much. I only meant it in the sense that anyone who reads books habitually can either get rid of them whenever he or she tires of them or, instead, end up with a collection that eventually qualifies as a library.
More like a DVD collection, less like a stamp collection.
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Marville was created as part of Marvel's U-Decide event, in which fans would decide which of three books would survive. The event involved one existing book (Peter David's Captain Marvel, which was rebooted to issue #1) and two new books (Marville and Ron Zimmerman's Ultimate Adventures), and was based around a bet between David and Jemas, which Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada later became a part of. Jemas changed the stakes of the bet a few issues into Marville, stating that the loser would take a pie in the face for charity. Despite this, both Marville and Ultimate Adventures ended fairly quickly, and the rebooted Captain Marvel would only last three more years and 25 more issues, for a total of 60 issues when combined with the first run.
Is there such a thing as too much comics? I don't have all that many now, but assuming continued accumulation and a hopefully steadily increasing income I can imagine have more than my current small living accommodations could hope to adequately contain.
Have you ever had to make Sophie's Choice, deciding which of your books you just don't love anymore? Or does the size of your collection increase in proportion to the growth of your living areas (or vice versa)? If I every hope to begin seriously collecting comics instead of merely buying scattered trades, will I have to accept home ownership as an inevitability?
I'm quickly beginning to dread this. Currently I have like, five short boxes and a long box full of comics, and a bookshelf filled with trades. I'm also getting ready to move into a tiny two room house with my brother, so I will have a single room for my comics, drafting table, art supplies, bed, bookshelves, computer, TV, videogames, and clothes. I really don't want to have to get rid of any of them, because I still love going back and pulling out random crap to read every now and then, but it's looking like I may need to jettison some old '90s stuff. I'm going to start experimenting with different methods of storing comics I think, because I'm currently amassing like, one and a half longboxes per year, if not more.
It all depends on how you define comic collector. I consider myself a "collector", though you'll never see me at the shop holding a price guide looking through back issues trying to find the one "gem" in ther box. I also don't buy books that I don't want, merely to say that I own it, like variants and such. What I do however, is buy the books I want to read, read said books, and then afterwards I bag, board, and store them.
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It all depends on how you define comic collector. I consider myself a "collector", though you'll never see me at the shop holding a price guide looking through back issues trying to find the one "gem" in ther box. I also don't buy books that I don't want, merely to say that I own it, like variants and such. What I do however, is buy the books I want to read, read said books, and then afterwards I bag, board, and store them.
That's not collecting
that's keeping
like, I've borrowed books from people and read them and then later bought them for myself because I liked them and will read them again
The only thing I really "collect" are first appearances. I'm driven by some insatiable need to own the first appearances of various random characters, no matter how popular or unpopular they are. Like, I bought the first appearance of Deadpool for a buck, but I want Elongated Man's first appearance just as much, and would happily fork over the several hundred dollars it would cost me.
The first appearance of Green Arrow also had Aquaman's first appearance in it, right? Which enrages me, as it pretty much permanently puts it out of my price range, but man, if I ever managed to like, knife a dude at a convention in the parking lot and steal it, it'd be great. Because that's only one dude I have to knfie to get two awesome characters' first appearances, rather than two dudes.
now i'm gonna try to read the stuff with him in it
and then i'm gonna be all "oh, this is interesting" and want to read everything else in that series
You think that's bad?
I read the first two issues of Ultimate Power, because I MJS's Squadron Supreme. So I figured I'd pick up Ultimate Spider-man #102 because the cover looked cool.
So I read pretty much all of Ultimate Spider-man in a week, and that made me want to check out the Ultimate X-men, because they cameo so much. And then I just have to read the Ultimates, because they turn up in UXM so much, and then it gets to the point where all the ultimate-u stuff is just fucking golden to me, so not reading Ultimate Fantastic Four is retarded.
Oh, and if you don't read the Ultimate Iron-man mini then you fail, because it is beautiful.
Ultimate Team-Up is ass though, it's full of lame art and it's all over the place with the rest of the ultimate-u continuity.
The Ultimate Team-Up stuff felt like it was written by the intern or something. It was like a throwback to the seventies.
The X-men issue, for example, read like a bad after-school special, it was so... forced. And the manga-style art did not suit any of the characters. Wolverine was actively smirking in a couple of panels.
The Iron Man issue was also lame, but then when they introduced him properly in Ultimate Avengers and then his own mini Ultimate Tony was awesome, far more so than 616-Tony.
Well, Tony from the Ultimates and Tony from Ultimate Iron-Man are pretty much two different characters. Mostly because the guy in the Ultimates didn't suck.
I want Elongated Man's first appearance just as much, and would happily fork over the several hundred dollars it would cost me.
It's a sickness I tell you.
About 60 bucks for a fair condition issue of Flash #112 at MileHighComics.
Hm, I checked it out and it looks like only a Good quality one's in stock, for like $110. Which is still cool by me. Is Mile High Comics known for reliability? I've heard of their site before, but the amateurish layout and ugly design kind of turned me off from looking into them too much.
I've blown thousands of dollars before in the brick and mortar Mile High in Denver - great shop. This was years ago, but there service was excellent back then, and I'd expect it's still top notch.
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now i'm gonna try to read the stuff with him in it
and then i'm gonna be all "oh, this is interesting" and want to read everything else in that series
and fuck
this is why i don't touch marvel
i do this enough with DC
I have a full Ultimate run
this is terrible
you should send it to me
i'll give it back when I'm done
Even that dumb NightOwl thing?
Have you ever had to make Sophie's Choice, deciding which of your books you just don't love anymore? Or does the size of your collection increase in proportion to the growth of your living areas (or vice versa)? If I every hope to begin seriously collecting comics instead of merely buying scattered trades, will I have to accept home ownership as an inevitability?
I buy the stuff to read it, not to say I have it
SHUT YOUR MOUTH ULTIMATE ADVENTURES WAS GOOD
More like a DVD collection, less like a stamp collection.
I just looked it up on Wikipedia
why would they even publish that
it's a god damned disease
there's some sort of weird, actual answer for that
like, bob harras, peter david, and some other dude had a bet or something for who could write the best selling comic
bob for ua, pete for captain marvel, and the other dude for marville(which was just as shitty as ua)
captain marvel won
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Marville was created as part of Marvel's U-Decide event, in which fans would decide which of three books would survive. The event involved one existing book (Peter David's Captain Marvel, which was rebooted to issue #1) and two new books (Marville and Ron Zimmerman's Ultimate Adventures), and was based around a bet between David and Jemas, which Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada later became a part of. Jemas changed the stakes of the bet a few issues into Marville, stating that the loser would take a pie in the face for charity. Despite this, both Marville and Ultimate Adventures ended fairly quickly, and the rebooted Captain Marvel would only last three more years and 25 more issues, for a total of 60 issues when combined with the first run.
I'm quickly beginning to dread this. Currently I have like, five short boxes and a long box full of comics, and a bookshelf filled with trades. I'm also getting ready to move into a tiny two room house with my brother, so I will have a single room for my comics, drafting table, art supplies, bed, bookshelves, computer, TV, videogames, and clothes. I really don't want to have to get rid of any of them, because I still love going back and pulling out random crap to read every now and then, but it's looking like I may need to jettison some old '90s stuff. I'm going to start experimenting with different methods of storing comics I think, because I'm currently amassing like, one and a half longboxes per year, if not more.
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It all depends on how you define comic collector. I consider myself a "collector", though you'll never see me at the shop holding a price guide looking through back issues trying to find the one "gem" in ther box. I also don't buy books that I don't want, merely to say that I own it, like variants and such. What I do however, is buy the books I want to read, read said books, and then afterwards I bag, board, and store them.
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That's not collecting
that's keeping
like, I've borrowed books from people and read them and then later bought them for myself because I liked them and will read them again
It's a sickness I tell you.
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yeah i'll have to pass on that one
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25 copies of it. She's like X-23 only retarded.
About 60 bucks for a fair condition issue of Flash #112 at MileHighComics.
Man Hensler. In a few more years, you'll be rich I tell you..rich as Nazis!
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You think that's bad?
I read the first two issues of Ultimate Power, because I
So I read pretty much all of Ultimate Spider-man in a week, and that made me want to check out the Ultimate X-men, because they cameo so much. And then I just have to read the Ultimates, because they turn up in UXM so much, and then it gets to the point where all the ultimate-u stuff is just fucking golden to me, so not reading Ultimate Fantastic Four is retarded.
Oh, and if you don't read the Ultimate Iron-man mini then you fail, because it is beautiful.
Ultimate Team-Up is ass though, it's full of lame art and it's all over the place with the rest of the ultimate-u continuity.
Anally.
and i'm being serious here, not like that weird fucking adventure shit
The Ultimate Team-Up stuff felt like it was written by the intern or something. It was like a throwback to the seventies.
The X-men issue, for example, read like a bad after-school special, it was so... forced. And the manga-style art did not suit any of the characters. Wolverine was actively smirking in a couple of panels.
The Iron Man issue was also lame, but then when they introduced him properly in Ultimate Avengers and then his own mini Ultimate Tony was awesome, far more so than 616-Tony.
Anally.
So the Deadman movie is kind of happening
Hm, I checked it out and it looks like only a Good quality one's in stock, for like $110. Which is still cool by me. Is Mile High Comics known for reliability? I've heard of their site before, but the amateurish layout and ugly design kind of turned me off from looking into them too much.
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An old roommate of mine really liked that series, but I never read it.
because they are very alike
they have both been doing this since they were kids
and they both make quips while they're fighting
and both of their real names are euphemisms for penis
this is my sound reasoning
Spider-Man: That's kind of a lot.
Nightwing: -in a week. Yup, being a superhero sure is fun. How about you?
Spider-Man: Um, action is my reward.
Later...
Sigh, some hero I am.