Ariamus

Same story but told differently. Painkiller is "flashier"; has more of a "Hollywood blockbuster" feel to it. Dopesick is grittier; more hard-edged. It "feels" more like a documentary. These characteristics are not surprising, particularly with the former, which is a Peter Berg creation. They're both worth watching but, given the traumatic nature of the subject matter, it can be an exercise in masochism to sit down and watch both. I'm not saying don't do that... Just know what you're getting into. If you're making a choice, then Dopesick is my recommendation. Its style makes it feels like a more appropriate telling of the tale. Also, while the cast is strong for both, the Dopesick troupe is a powerhouse ensemble.

Arguably the greatest on-screen Batman of all... This is terribly sad news. I remember how exceptionally cool it was that "they" gave Mr. Conroy such a significant "cameo" in the Arrowverse "Crisis on Infinite Earths". It was most certainly warranted and fitting but they didn't have to do it so kudos to Mr. Berlanti et al. RIP

HOW DARE YOU?!?!? Make me choose between my babies... You monster!!!

I do have some and selling my books would be a way to finance those.

Now there's a price I could afford. Unfortunately for you, you're way below market there, mate. You'd be practically giving me the book. I know... I was making a joke. Maybe with another zero on the end of my quote, then...

With this approach, or your more meticulous one, it sounds like you want to spend all of your empty-nest years selling your comic collection. Yeah... I'll probably just keep it.

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Sure thing... IIRC, my copy of GSXM 1 is about a 4.5-5.0 grade. So, just send on over $250 or so and we're golden.

A few people have mentioned the work and effort it will take to sell such a large collection. Fortunately, this is an area I have some experience in. I've moved a couple of large collections before, with pretty good rate of return. The one thing I won't do is sell my collection in its entirety to another dealer or investor. I know what kinds of offers I'm going to get and I'm not going to undersell my books. I know there are folks in the industry here so I will add that by no means should anyone take this as an insult. I just know you also have to make your profit margins and that's not in line with what I'd hope to accomplish if I sell my collection. My experience has been to just sell large number of books on my own. I deal almost exclusively with eBay. Yeah, it's a mess and chaotic, but it's accessible and familiar. I am happy to take any suggestions regarding alternatives, though. When I do sell, my strategy is to arrange the collection into four groups: First, I'll pick out the big-dollar/key books to sell individually. My "Thor" 337, to use just one example, which I recall is in 9.0-9.2 condition, will certainly not be sold in a large lot or some such. Next, I put together "deep runs" of popular titles. The older the books, the shorter the run but I'm talking at least about a dozen books or more and as many as 50-60 in each lot. Then I put together lots or related titles. To use one example from a collection that I flipped a couple of years ago, I put together a group of different Marvel Venom limited series. The five or six series individually probably would have topped out at $10 per lot (about $1.50-$2.00 per book). Combined, the couple-dozen or so books sold for $100. Finally, I'm left with the stuff that usually winds up in "one-quarter per book/five for a buck" bins at LCS's everywhere. In the past, I've rarely made anything on these; they've been only good for minimal amounts of store credit. Mostly, I've donated boxes of these to charities, libraries, and most importantly, budding readers/collectors. If I do wind up selling my collection, I'm just going to approach it the same way, albeit even more meticulously than I have in the past. And if that takes longer than our timeline allows, I'm not above getting a storage space temporarily to hold the stock until it's all gone.

That's a fair suggestion but I'd go even further. If it's space reclamation, then I'd go the whole way and just replace physical books with digital. I mentioned in my OP that I haven't read a physical book of any kind in years. But I still read a ton digitally. Comics are only a fraction of that. Mostly nowadays I find myself reading RPG rulebooks and supplements more than anything else. Oh, and board game rulebooks.

Thanks for all the advice folks. It's very appreciated. Fortunately, I don't have to make a hasty decision. I've been thinking about it for a long while and we've only just begun shopping for our forever home. So I have some time.

It's more the space thing that concerns me. It's something like 46 long boxes with all the books boarded and bagged. The moving stuff part is a consideration but fortunately, our lives have gotten to a level of comfort that I can easily afford to pay someone to do the moving part. And if I do keep them, my intent is to have a custom cabinet/enclosure built for the lot of them. I can afford that too. Whatever that winds up being, it will most definitely include the capability to access boxes individually without moving anything around.

At the risk of sounding fatalistic, I think my kids would get a kick spending a weekend or two going through "dad's stuff" after I'm gone. But they're not nearly as geeky as their old man and don't have a great interest in inheriting the books. That said, they will have kids of their own someday... Maybe the nerdiness skips a generation.

My wife is not the issue. She's perfectly fine with my keeping the whole collection and us making space for it wherever we wind up. She knows how important my "toys" and various collections are to me. I'm the one who's waffling on all the work that'll be involved with moving it around.

It gives me a lot of joy every time I open a comic book to read or even look at. But it's been a long time since I've bothered doing even just that.