1.20.2008:
Late nights and comic books
2:56 AMShortly after I left home and tried to do the college thing, in 1996, I had to sell off the bulk of my comic book collection. It was with a heavy heart and a disconcerting lack of toilet paper in the house I shared with roommates that I called every single collector I knew or had met through conventions and offered them the chance to pilfer my collection of over 22,000 comics - some of them quite valuable indeed.
Shortly after the dot-com crash, I was forced to sell the very small cache (in comparison to the original collection) of comics I simply couldn't part with - the Akira series, Cerebus, first print Daredevils with Frank Miller... Etcetera and so on. We had a house payment to make, and it wasn't enough to just work my steady job.
I really, really missed those stories... Until now.
Recently, I've gone on a bit of a graphic novel / collection shopping spree. My most recent splurge was my little birthday gift to myself: the entire Cerebus collected edition run - all 16 books, over 6000 pages of a singular story told over 22 years and 300 issues. For the past week, the volumes I've purchased via Amazon have trickled in, with every single collection except #5 (out of 16, remember) arriving quite early on. Well, today, Jaka's Story (#5) finally arrived, allowing me to continue on into the series.
It's 3:02AM. I just finished reading "Minds", which is #10. The windows are open; it's just above freezing outside and I'm bundled in a hooded sweatshirt with a large mug of very warm coffee. All of the majesty and wonder that comes from living inside of someone else's world for a while has washed over me and I'm fully invested in Dave Sim's creation.
I'm a kid again.
This rules.
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2 Comments:
That's definitely one of the happiest feeling statements I've heard in a while. Sometimes the greatest thing you can do is lose yourself in your childhood in some way. Whatcha gonna read next?
Probably going to revisit Jeff Smith's "Bone" (uh huh huh huh... He said bone), then maybe dig into my Frank Miller Daredevil Omnibus stuff.
I've bought all kinds of crap lately :)
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