Bass
Nexus of the World
I have a little, teeny story.
When I first got into comics when I was 14 or so, there was a shop called "Siegi's Comics" in Canterbury and I'd go there. I'd also go to another shop in Canterbury called "Whatever Comics". Canterbury is about a 30-minute drive from my town, and back then, was badly signposted and we'd always get lost.
Anyhow, I fell out of comics and got into collectible card games a year or two later, and I played Magic, Star Trek, Babylon 5, and others over the course of the years. Siegi's closed down, and a new unrelated shop opened in Canterbury called "Incognito Comics". At this point I would go between the two shops to get my cards. When I was 18, I got back into comics because of Wizard (ah, the irony), or rather it's Dark Book '98 which was all about supervillains. I enjoyed the special a lot, I started getting back into comics, and since then, I have been the comic whore. But at that time, I only went to Incognito because they would sell individual rares for the card games I played - but unlike Whatever, they allowed me to trade my rares for new ones. As a result, I spent most of my money and time there, and I got a pull box (I didn't call it a pull box until I started coming here) there. Eventually, I stopped playing ccgs (around the time I got into comics really) and I started frequenting Whatever once again. In the last few months, I got a pull box at Whatever too, and I always (in my head) split the amount of comics I buy evenly between the two shops because they've both treated me well for so long.
Hmm. That story wasn't a short as I thought it would be.
Or as exciting. Nuts.
I'm a lazy bastard. Only after a couple of months and the stack of comics becomes life-threatening do I begin to bag the bastards.
The only exception is my super-favourite comics that I love too much to risk anything happening to them, such as The Ultimates and... oh. Just The Ultimates. That's the only one I bag immediately.
When I first got into comics when I was 14 or so, there was a shop called "Siegi's Comics" in Canterbury and I'd go there. I'd also go to another shop in Canterbury called "Whatever Comics". Canterbury is about a 30-minute drive from my town, and back then, was badly signposted and we'd always get lost.
Anyhow, I fell out of comics and got into collectible card games a year or two later, and I played Magic, Star Trek, Babylon 5, and others over the course of the years. Siegi's closed down, and a new unrelated shop opened in Canterbury called "Incognito Comics". At this point I would go between the two shops to get my cards. When I was 18, I got back into comics because of Wizard (ah, the irony), or rather it's Dark Book '98 which was all about supervillains. I enjoyed the special a lot, I started getting back into comics, and since then, I have been the comic whore. But at that time, I only went to Incognito because they would sell individual rares for the card games I played - but unlike Whatever, they allowed me to trade my rares for new ones. As a result, I spent most of my money and time there, and I got a pull box (I didn't call it a pull box until I started coming here) there. Eventually, I stopped playing ccgs (around the time I got into comics really) and I started frequenting Whatever once again. In the last few months, I got a pull box at Whatever too, and I always (in my head) split the amount of comics I buy evenly between the two shops because they've both treated me well for so long.
Hmm. That story wasn't a short as I thought it would be.
Or as exciting. Nuts.
ultimatedjf said:
I'm a lazy bastard. Only after a couple of months and the stack of comics becomes life-threatening do I begin to bag the bastards.
The only exception is my super-favourite comics that I love too much to risk anything happening to them, such as The Ultimates and... oh. Just The Ultimates. That's the only one I bag immediately.
