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Post by badwolf on Nov 2, 2022 11:29:19 GMT -5
I'm in the process of switching to plastic long boxes.. I've replaced about 1/3 of them.. being picking up a couple every couple months when I sort my recent purchases, but that came to a halt when my oldest daughter came home for a while... now that I have the space again, I find I spent too much money to spend more on supplies.. but some time I'm switching to plastic too, but short boxes.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 2, 2022 16:46:38 GMT -5
I have a few of both... when I first started, the short boxes were cheaper... when they increased prices, the long ones were. Next time? who knows!
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Post by james on Nov 6, 2022 6:01:01 GMT -5
My projectismoving my collection from Delaware to Maryland, buying a nice bookshelf to store them in and a display case for my Godzilla figures.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2022 13:45:12 GMT -5
For comics, I'm pretty-ing my catalog interface - breaking down collected editions into their individual issues, and finishing getting a cover to display for every issue. I anticipate to be "done" collecting in the middle of next year. My "want" list is nearly gone, and the catalog should be done in a few months. When that's all complete, I'll spend the time I've been using for comics stuff to improve my arcade cabinets.
But the thing I'm devoting most of my time to is working on my solo (or DM-less) RPG. I've been working on the rules and setting and other content for two years now, and it's been rabbit-hole after rabbit-hole. A few weeks ago I decided to add scene-appropriate ambient sound, and the amount of content to sift through is much more than I thought. And then since using sound opened up the gates to involve a computer, I'm adding a slide-show of scenes of the current environment, which led me to discovering AI-generated art, which can be a great time-eater if you let it.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 7, 2022 3:04:25 GMT -5
I am working on a 3D model of a Colonial Viper, to be 3D printed, painted, etc. at some point. That's very cool. The original TV show Vipers were such good looking ships.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 7, 2022 3:19:14 GMT -5
My comic collecting projects are fairly minor or pedestrian, like continuing to pick up issues that are on my "Wants List" and possibly investing in some UK comic magazine-sized storage bags and boards. There are a few series that I am actively trying to complete, such as the Bronze Age Jonah Hex series, and some smaller runs I'd like to finish, such as Steve Englehart's run on Dr. Strange. But that's pretty much it.
Most of the "projects" that take my time and money are music-related, such as working to complete a set of NM original first pressing Beatles albums, and writing and demoing new songs for a follow-up album to my band The Kynd's forthcoming release in early 2023.
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 7, 2022 9:18:42 GMT -5
I've spent the last 3+ years trying to read through the Marvel Universe and blog about it. Read from 1961-65. Just got up to the big FF wedding. This week, it's Iron Man's battle with Titanium Man while Captain America investigates Greymoor Castle. Feel free to follow along at cokeandcomics.com.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2022 15:53:55 GMT -5
If all goes well I should have a stash of these post 2000 (the colour-interior era). Coordinating now and looking at 100+ issues. Getting these without the back covers folded-in can be tricky but not impossible. These 3 below are in the mix.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 12, 2022 10:30:20 GMT -5
Forward progress took a bit of a hit this week, but I am currently through the "A" titles in regard to getting key issues bagged and boarded. The week ahead looks more promising in terms of free time, so I am hoping to get through at least Doctor Strange and possibly into Fantastic Four before Thanksgiving, when I have a five-and-a-half-day weekend and can make some serious progress.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 12, 2022 10:32:30 GMT -5
My comic collecting projects are fairly minor or pedestrian, like continuing to pick up issues that are on my "Wants List" and possibly investing in some UK comic magazine-sized storage bags and boards. There are a few series that I am actively trying to complete, such as the Bronze Age Jonah Hex series, and some smaller runs I'd like to finish, such as Steve Englehart's run on Dr. Strange. But that's pretty much it. Most of the "projects" that take my time and money are music-related, such as working to complete a set of NM original first pressing Beatles albums, and writing and demoing new songs for a follow-up album to my band The Kynd's forthcoming release in early 2023. Where are you at on your Jonah Hex series? That is the only classic series that I am actively trying to complete at this time, having just three issues to go (51, 91, and 92).
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 12, 2022 14:39:56 GMT -5
My projectismoving my collection from Delaware to Maryland, buying a nice bookshelf to store them in and a display case for my Godzilla figures.
James, have you ever been to G-Fest, held every July in Rosemont, IL?
Though I like kaiju stuff, collecting it is not my thing. However, one of my best friend, bandmate and long-time songwriting partner is a huge G-fan. He goes to G-Fest every year, and his house looks like a kaiju museum.
Most of my current comics projects consist of filling in holes in several runs. As a run collector, this is a perpetual ongoing project, and one soon discovers that it's not the Key issues that are the problem, it's finding the pedestrian issues that is the hard part-- especially for indy titles and golden-age fare. Cataloging is not a problem, as I keep that up to date as I acquire books.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 13, 2022 3:33:14 GMT -5
My comic collecting projects are fairly minor or pedestrian, like continuing to pick up issues that are on my "Wants List" and possibly investing in some UK comic magazine-sized storage bags and boards. There are a few series that I am actively trying to complete, such as the Bronze Age Jonah Hex series, and some smaller runs I'd like to finish, such as Steve Englehart's run on Dr. Strange. But that's pretty much it. Most of the "projects" that take my time and money are music-related, such as working to complete a set of NM original first pressing Beatles albums, and writing and demoing new songs for a follow-up album to my band The Kynd's forthcoming release in early 2023. Where are you at on your Jonah Hex series? That is the only classic series that I am actively trying to complete at this time, having just three issues to go (51, 91, and 92). Oh, I'm not as far along as you, as I've been rather casual in my collecting of the series. I'm probably somewhere like 2/3 or 3/4 done in collecting the main Bronze Age Jonah Hex series and his appearances in Weird Western Tales. I do have all the important, pricey issues though -- such as his first couple of appearances in All-Star Western #10 and #11, the earliest WWT issues and Jonah Hex #1 -- but I still need roughly about a third to a quarter of the run to finish it.
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Post by berkley on Nov 18, 2022 1:32:25 GMT -5
I don't have any formal comics-related collecting projects but I have sort of fallen into a loose pattern in an effort to give some structure for my cultural pursuits in general, reading, viewing, listening: the 1950s, the 1990s, and "new" (as in current or relatively recent).
Initially I did have a more specific plan: to read more or less in chronological order some of the famous and/or influential literary works I had missed up to then, e.g. William Blake's long epic poems, Joyce's Finnegans Wake, etc. I chose to start in the Elizabethan era, since there were several famous Shakespeare plays I had never read and carry on from there, thinking it would only take me a couple years or so to catch up to the present day since I was only going to hit a few highlights along the way. And at first I did make pretty steady progress. But soon I started to go down various rabbit holes, becoming interested in things I had never previously thought of reading, or in some cases, had never even heard of before. And by the time I got into the 19th century, I was not only exploring previously unread-by-me writers like Trollope, Balzac, or Zola but also re-reading old favourites like Dickens, Dostoyesky, Poe, and so on.
Realising that at this rate it was going to be some years before I got to Finnegans Wake, I decided to jump ahead and, once a month, read something from the 20th Century, starting with the famously difficult Joyce book and carrying on from there - this is the strand that has now reached the late 1950s. Somewhere along the way, I remembered that there were comics I wanted to read from the same time period, so I started to get into things like Eisner's Spirit and Caniff's Steve Canyon (I'm still annoyed with myself for not thinking of it earlier, or I would have read Terry and the Pirates before Canyon).
I'm a little more hazy on how I got onto my other reading path, which has now reached the early 1990s. I think I may have had a vague idea that, since my adult life started more or less in the early 1980s, I should start reading some of the things that came out around that time that I was interested in but had missed or skipped for one reason or another. In comics, that included things like the various 2000AD series and Chaykin's American Flagg.
So putting all that together, it does sound like a project of sorts, but its current form seems somewhat arbitrary, I suppose because it has arisen so haphazardly and taken a shape that my original simple plan did not envisage.
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