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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2015 17:11:44 GMT -5
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 7, 2016 2:11:36 GMT -5
I said I'd post here when finished. But... well... I'll never be finished. Let's see where we are. Bought a house last April. Still have lots of stuff in boxes. Upstairs we see the comic book room. The 3 large racks are my Marvel books. The rack of small boxes is miscellaneous stuff I probably should sell.  A bit of a mess, but my office has the rest of my comiv boxes. One rack of DC stuff. One of independent stuff. I perhaps could have picked up for the photo. But eh.  The bookshelf comics are in the dining room, along opposite walls. The right wall of the dining room. The screen is there to protect the comics from the sunlight. It gets pretty bright. The dining room is the area of my house the least in sunlight. Except that the Windows face vaguely West, so the setting sun tries to shine right at those bookshelves. Hence the screen. Also makes a little wall between living room and dining room.  The opposite wall. These are the bookshelves I bought from Amazon that really upset me. I bought them just 7 months ago. You can see I've already lost 2 shelves and the rest seem about ready to go. I plan to replace these soon. I'm quite annoyed. The product got a bad review from me. I've had several of these fake wood bookshelves, most of which have eventually died, usually after a move. But none as quickly as these.  Not much decoration in my house yet. The only spot I've put anything decorative is in the den:  |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 7, 2016 2:49:11 GMT -5
Because I know everybody wants a closer look at each bookshelf and my explanation for what went on what shelf... First bookshelf on the left:  Top shelf. I tend to reserve the top shelves for the smaller books. This is an assortment of small books, grouped by publisher. Looks like :01, Dark Horse, Top Shelf, Pantheon, Image, Boom, Fantagraphics, Oni and Drawn & Quarterly  Rest of the bookshelf is dedicated to Marvel. A Spider-Man shelf.  Some modern Marvel trades.  And some Marvel Masterworks:  |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 7, 2016 2:57:14 GMT -5
Second bookcase on the left:  Top shelf. More small books. Don't seem to be in any particular order. The previous top shelf had more major publishers, and this is more independent.  Some comics grouped by writer. I see Kindt, Lapham, Lemire, Morrison, Cooke, Starlin, Ostrander, Hickman  More comics grouped by writer. This shelf dedicated to writers known for excellent crime fiction. Miller, Brubaker, Rucka, Bendis. (Maybe Cooke should go down there too.)  Some classic Marvel books.  Some Marvel hardcovers.  |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 7, 2016 3:02:27 GMT -5
Still on the left. Another missing shelf.  Top shelf is Japanese comics:  Mostly an Image shelf. Then Oni and IDW.  A Dark Horse shelf.  A bit of a hodge podge shelf. First there's comics grouped by property: Simpsons, Star Trek, Star Wars, Tick, Transformers. Then there's some miscellaneous indie books (along with Top Cow, Wildstorm, and such. Kind of an "other" section)  |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 7, 2016 3:07:02 GMT -5
Last shelf on the left. Mostly dedicated to DC.  Top shelf is DC, then Marvel, then comics that are sideways-shaped and stick out really long and didn't fit anywhere else.  Then two shelves of Vertigo.   Then Batman. Then Superman.  Then more DC, beginning with the Chronicles stuff.  |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 7, 2016 3:30:05 GMT -5
Halfway done. The next shelf I'm proud of and hope I will get to keep. But I may need to give it up in favor of shelf space. I still have all my Essentials and all of Cerebus in boxes. But this shelf features my favorite comics ever, or representatives of. My top 20 (about) are represented in some fashion. I'll go into way too much detail.  Top shelf I like for its symmetry. Two of my favorite writers. My favorite Marvel work of theirs on the inside. Their thematically-related non-Marvel work on the outside. I consider Marvels and Astro City tied for my #4 favorite comics. I have volume one of Astro City there, collecting the original series. It of course is a stand-in for the entirety, across all the series. The book features "In Dreams", my second favorite Astro City story (my favorite of course being "Nearness of You"). Warlock I consider a stand-in for the entire Thanos Saga (my #5 favorite story), stretching from Iron Man #55 through Marvel Graphic Novel #1. The saga could perhaps be considered a trilogy, with this playing the middle part. And this collection, taking us from Strange Tales #178 through Marvel Two-In-One annual 2 stands alone well enough as the second and best chapter of the saga. The Metamorphosis Odyssey is there for itself. I like all of Dreadstar, but where it goes is different enough from the original Epic Illustrated run, and it's the Epic Illustrated issues I love most. (My #13 favorite story)  Next we have my favorite work of Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman, all eventually brought under the Vertigo imprint. Swamp Thing and Sandman are the first volumes and obviously meant as stand-ins for the entire runs. (6 volumes of Swamp Thing and 10 of Sandman). (Swamp Thing is #6 on my list of favorites, Sandman at 7, and V for Vendetta at 10)  The sturdy supporting shelf. My #1 comic of all time is the original Lee/Ditko Amazing Spider-Man series. Followed by Usagi Yojimbo (the entire series). Followed by Calvin & Hobbes. Zot! is my #9. I have the original series here, as a representative for both itself and the follow-up series. And the rest help fill out the top 20. The Masterworks Dr. Strange is only a couple issues shy of completing the Ditko era, so that book almost stands alone. Last Days of an Immortal and Understanding Comics round out the shelf. I'm fond of the aesthetic of it.  The Marvel shelf. The Avengers collection features my favorite Avengers story, "Behold the Vision". It is meant as a stand-in for Avengers. I sometimes try to divide it up for these lists. In which case both Buscema eras and the Perez era would all make the top 20. But really... I just love Avengers. The X-Men saga I love runs 16 years from Giant-Size X-Men #1 through X-Men #3. The featured representative, Marvel Graphic Novel #5, is my favorite story from the saga. Daredevil Born Again I think stands on its own. I love all of Miller's Daredevil, but tend to think of it in separate chunks. His original run, Born Again, Love & War, and Man Without Fear. All make my top 100 comics.  Another DC shelf. Uncle Sam. New Frontier (standing in for the whole series). And Skreemer.  |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 7, 2016 3:42:06 GMT -5
Next up:  Top shelf I like the aesthetic of. Some particularly good series that didn't quite fit anywhere else. The work of David Petersen, Jeff Smith, Lynd Ward, Linda Medley, and Stan Sakai.  Another shelf I like but may forfeit for space. I wanted a rotating display of 3 books that would be easy for a guest to grab. If I knew who I was expecting to come over next, I could tailor it appropriately.  Next is the appendix to the favorite books shelf. If Sandman volume 1 was on the next shelf, here are the next 9. Some additional Avengers and X-Men books. Plus a few other favorite books: Watchmen, Kents and Inhumans.  Work of some of the great writers: Moore, Gaiman, Busiek, Milligan, Demateiss, and Eisner.  Bottom shelf is for oversized DC and Marvel books.  |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 7, 2016 3:49:47 GMT -5
Home stretch. Thanks for bearing with me. On top of the bookshelf we see a couple comics that are just too tall. And some books about Coca-Cola memorabilia.  Top shelf. Books that are not comics, but that relate to comics in various ways.  Another hodge podge shelf. Across the room on a bottom shelf I had various independent books. The bottom shelves are hard to see, so I took the best of the indie books and put them here. Then I put all the really thick books, which usually tend to be quite good. Then I have a few Hawaiian books. Then a few Australian books.  Newspaper strip collections, followed by European comics. With a Dr. Seuss book in there for some reason.  Large comics. Then some Archie comics. Then some Disney comics. Probably too many books for the shelf. The giant Uncle Scrooge likely needs to go elsewhere. Perhaps Lost Girls as well.  Books about comic books that are really tall.  |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 7, 2016 3:56:31 GMT -5
Last shelf may be inappropriate for this thread as it has nothing to do with comics!! It's my other bookshelf. Let's see it anyway. I do see Earth X on top. Didn't fit anywhere.  Top shelf is two layers of sci/fi graphicless novels. Below it we have some larger sci/fi novels.  Not sci/fi books. Some Tolkien. Other fantasy. Non-fantasy. Non-fiction. Simpsons. Scotch.  Some more fantasy novels. More sci/fi books behind them. The Bible and the Constitution given prominence (though less than I gave to Usagi Yojimbo; make of that what you will).  Bottom shelf is a pile of math books in need of more space and some organization. Best math book is of course the cheaply bound one on top there: "Torus-Invariant Prime Spectra of Quantum Affine Nilpotent Lie Algebras" by Chris Nowlin. It's a page-turner.  |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 7, 2016 3:57:08 GMT -5
*whew* I need a Coke.
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Post by Pharozonk on Feb 7, 2016 8:45:34 GMT -5
Are you at all worried about those wooden shelves that seem to be bending inward?  |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 7, 2016 9:42:47 GMT -5
This looks gorgeous and so inviting. I want to sit down and read there right now! I'm thinking someone needs to put you in charge of running a comic library. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 13:57:14 GMT -5
My collected editions are growing fast because I discovered instocktrades.com last year and I can't stop ordering more & more books!  So I have been on the lookout for a sturdy yet affordable bookcase. A lot of the comic related message boards discuss the best bookcases to buy & the number 1 seems to be from the Ikea store. Doesn't do me any good since there is no Ikea store in my area. Although I did go to the Ikea website in an attempt to order a bookcase but the shipping cost came out to be $235!!! "Kallax" bookcases from Ikea are what others are saying is the sturdiest. I have been considering buying closetmaid cubicles from Target, they look similar in design to the Kallax ones. Those standard particleboard bookcases do not hold weight well and the shelves start to sag as evidenced by the pics posted above. I found a picture online of a "Kallax" bookcase where someone is showing off their collection, here ya go...  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 7, 2016 14:02:40 GMT -5
My collected editions are growing fast because I discovered instocktrades.com last year and I can't stop ordering more & more books! So I have been on the lookout for a sturdy yet affordable bookcase. A lot of the comic related message boards discuss the best bookcases to buy & the number 1 seems to be from the Ikea store. Doesn't do me any good since there is no Ikea store in my area. Although I did go to the Ikea website in an attempt to order a bookcase but the shipping cost came out to be $235!!! "Kallax" bookcases from Ikea are what others are saying is the sturdiest. I have been considering buying closetmaid cubicles from Target, they look similar in design to the Kallax ones. Those standard particleboard bookcases do not hold weight well and the shelves start to sag as evidenced by the pics posted above. I found a picture online of a "Kallax" bookcase where someone is showing off their collection, here ya go... My son has something close to that that he puts his LP's in. We got it at Target. So far it is holding up very well. |
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So I have been on the lookout for a sturdy yet affordable bookcase. A lot of the comic related message boards discuss the best bookcases to buy & the number 1 seems to be from the Ikea store. Doesn't do me any good since there is no Ikea store in my area. Although I did go to the Ikea website in an attempt to order a bookcase but the shipping cost came out to be $235!!! "Kallax" bookcases from Ikea are what others are saying is the sturdiest. I have been considering buying closetmaid cubicles from Target, they look similar in design to the Kallax ones. Those standard particleboard bookcases do not hold weight well and the shelves start to sag as evidenced by the pics posted above. 
