Comic Aquesitions

[adrini]

I think I have the best Mom ever.

As you may remember I lost my childhood comic book collection when I moved. It was, well, hard. Since then I've been tied up with trying to graduate, getting married, now trying to get in Grad School. It's been busy and money has been tight so my collection hasn't recovered much.

So tonight my mother takes me to this shop and they have alot of the issues I used to have. 70's Ollie, the corny run with the JSA. Just incredible stuff. My Mom sees me looking at them, grabs ten, and buys them. Next chance we get we're going back to see about buying out the rest. She wants to read them since she knows I like them so much.

I'm getting my collection back. I'm just really happy right now. All I want to do is look at them.

[Drake]

That's so awesome! Congrats!

[ericthepilot]

There really is nothing quite like having the real things, is there? You can find a lot of them digitally, or in trades, but nothing beats having the original issues, especially of the classics.

[adrini]

They aren't as good as I remember, they're better. I didn't think that was possible.

[ericthepilot]

That's really impressive. I can't tell you how many things from my youth I'm afraid of revisiting in fear of finding out they really weren't quite as good as I remember.

[adrini]

The O'Neil run s good. Really good.
And the Grell is okay as well. You can tell he was taking a darker view, which is fine, but he didn't add as uch as people say he did.

[ericthepilot]

I never really read much of GA beyond Grell. I thought he handled the whole post-Watchmen "gotta be dark, gritty and real" concept better than most of his contemporaries. But I admit I've never given O'Neil's run much of a chance, I'll have to remedy that.

[adrini]

He made it dark, that's true, but many of the things he gets credit for within the run were already there - he was just carrying them on. This is not bad, they just aren't things he needs to be getting credit for.