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theCapraAegagrus

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    They finally released a TPB of the Detective Comics run bridging the gap between issues #993 and #1000. Once upon a time, I intended on collecting all of the single issues for the Rebirth of this DC title (ditto for Action Comics).
    As a designer, I also created a Captain America shield range target. It's noice. Gonna hit some today at lunch.
    I'm tired.
  2. theCapraAegagrus
    1 of them is pretending that they do not care...
    As always: Reader beware. This journal will be full of inane, irrelevant, and flat-out bizarre thoughts.
    It was December 2015. My co-worker and acquaintance lent me $2k to buy a set of The Dark Knight Returns graded by CGC and signed by both Frank Miller and Klaus Janson. I discovered graded comics about 6 months beforehand. Why would he lend me the money - you might ask. Well, over the course of about 18 months we worked closely together. You see, he was the supplier engineer in charge of release analysis, and I was the only designer that performed the releases. We're also both collectors. He's a dusty old fart who collects stamps, and at the time, I was only collecting playing cards. We talked a lot about our eBay experiences, shenanigans, and finds.
    Why The Dark Knight Returns? Well, for me, it's the most-notable Batman story. It was also being written into Zack Snyder's/Worlds of DC's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. You could call it a n00b spec drek buy, but, I bought 'em fully expecting to die with them. No "investment" considered. After my months of investigating and studying CGC - I came to the conclusion that I don't much care for the Universal products. Buying something certified as touched by its creators, though - well, that appealed to me greatly.
    I've thought about selling them, though. I need a foregrip/bipod for my AR, a Sig Juliet3, and I want an M1911. I just got my Sig Sauer M18 last weekend and have been too poor to get ammo or go to the range. It's the last weekday of the month, though, so gettin' paid, gettin' trades, and going to shoot some targets like I'm 'made'.
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    Did you vote!?
    Summary of tallies submitted by now: 2 people care, 1 person doesn't, another likes me but also doesn't care, Marwood is lookin' for a whoopin', someone wants me to pound sand, another is a joker, and 40% of us wondered if 10 people would even tune-in to this garbage.
    With all that said - let's get into something that has to do with comics... These are my inane thoughts, so there may be no rhyme or reason for anything composed here. I might talk about my childhood for a paragraph, doldrums of adolescence for a sentence or two, and then completely tail-off into demented ramblings to close it out. Reader beware.
    Ah, yes - comic books. I still remember the 1st time my dad took me to that spaced-named joint in Fraser. Cosmic Comics, I think? I was about 10, so my dumb-ace picked out a Cable #1 and Magneto #0 because of their foil covers. I feel shame (sometimes) for being a product of the 1990's. The Magneto was more than just for the purple-foil cover, though. He was my favorite X-Men character. I think I got a beat-up X-Force #1 on that day, too. Sometime circa 1999.
    Fast-forward a couple years. My brothers and I, with my mom and her boyfriend, attend a parking garage sale that's probably 5 stories. On the 5th (and final) level, I finally find a table that intrigues me. Tons of comic books. Probably 25 long boxes-worth. Nothing catches my attention until I find the full 4-issue run of X-Men vs The Avengers (the 1980's series). I was a "run collector" as a kid because I didn't know jack-all about how comic stories were constructed outside of these types of limited series. I wasn't a hardcore comic book fan, back then. I was brought-up on the cartoon series (mostly) by my dad.
    Another year-or-so goes by... The dreaded flood. My grandfather had issues of Superman #1 and Batman #1. I never knew this. Only after the dreaded flood does my dad tell me that these 2 precious books existed in my grandparent's home. Completely destroyed. What's worse? My grandfather was gonna gift them to me as a graduation present. Were there any other treasures down there? My dad has always been into comics, but his knowledge was little. Could there have been an early Wonder Woman? Captain Marvel? I'll never know, since he passed away in 2005.
    Now I'm sad again.
    /fin