![]() The second thing I have to thank for my rekindled love of collecting comics is Key Collector, an app that launched just a couple years ago. Never loose track of what big events happen in comics again. There are dozens of such categories, each curating the “key” comics. A screen cap from the web interface of Key Collector. Such great shops can’t help but keep the love of comics alive. Comic Book College focuses only on comics and is a dream. Hot Comics has two locations, plus vintage toys. The Source has new comics, plus board games and D&D. I have two things to thank for that: First, there are wonderful shops in the Twin Cities where I live. I enjoyed bagging and boarding until I didn’t, at which point it became easier to pick up an occasional trade.īut I’m really into comic book collecting again! What changed? Well, now I look for an issue here and there and that’s good enough for me. ![]() I enjoyed following just the characters and titles I had always liked. I’m a completionist, so I enjoyed filling in gaps. Many agree with me, as evidenced by the dramatic rise in collected editions as the preferred reading choice.Īll that left a long-time collector like myself burnt out. Crossovers insisted that following a story meant bouncing from title to title and my peon brain loses the plot.Frequent relaunches meant there is no point trying to collect comics sequentially.I grew weary of paying $3.99 or more for a 22-page floppy where the story advances super slowly. Comics got much more expensive and the stories much more decompressed.Every floppy was meticulously bagged, boarded, and boxed away.īut several things happened in the decade that followed. I then jumped back in in the aughts because I really enjoyed the Morrison run on the X-Men and getting each issue sequentially was fun for me at that time. I realized in the early 90s that dating girls was fun, so I looked up from my comic books for several years despite dabbling a bit in Gen13. I have 15 long boxes in my home, which is a goodly number but not so many that you are embarrassed for me.īut I’ve also dipped in and out over the decades, which is also pretty typical. My love of comics goes back decades to the Bronze Age, which is pretty typical. I’m a pretty common comic book collector.
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