Or on the precipice.

It's safe to say I get personal when I write a journal. I told the whole community I was going for a job at CGC and a week later had to tell the same community I didn't get it. Now it's about my budget. For the last week I have been out of work, not due to losing a job, but because of a surgery. The worst part is I can not do any proper cleaning around the house. Last week, the day before I went in for the simple procedure, my boss asked me if I would be in Monday, the same day as the operation. I was aghast that he would even think that I would get my surgery and come in to work the same day.

This missing week had to be budgeted for. It felt nice to take a week off and not have to worry about my finances. It's the next ten days I have to worry. It's these ten days I need to become part of a miracle...or borrow my parents credit card. Maybe both. I wanted to get both my LongShot series by Art Adams and Ann Nocenti at ECCC, a few more Bill Sienkiewicz at Megacon. A few eBay purchases sprinkled in to try and add a few more graded books to my collection outside my immediate goals. Did I mention John Beatty?

Last year I had a goal to buy to sell. I got the signatures I wanted, the grades I needed, but fell short of the sales to do it again. It's my fault however. I've been compliant. The chance to work at CGC had me postpone selling them, it would be the best excuse on actually keeping them. My East of West, Lazarus and Ten Grand issues are perfect examples of books I'd like to keep. I did sell a few, of which 75 percent of the sale went towards my bills and the remaining 25 towards items I wanted, although not necessarily CGC graded comic books.

After these two cons I hope to have some extra money. There's a set I decided to try to get a bit higher up and I'll have to get back on eBay and look for them later. I checked out World Wide Comics as well and saw these books sitting there. This of course was the same way I got into Ka-Zar, the prices of the deal was just too good to pass up. And then...there is the new Bill Sienkiewicz set...

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb.

The book pictured below is my original copy. It is also the first New Mutants I purchased at my first LCS. Notice that beautiful Spider-Man face where the dreaded bar code would have been if I purchased this at the 7-11 like the three issues before it.

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