tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post8637851351056349305..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Wolverine #88Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-46795223772818428232019-01-30T11:14:46.718-06:002019-01-30T11:14:46.718-06:00I'm not sure how to get images on here, but I ...I'm not sure how to get images on here, but I had two of those 4 row racks from Costco and you could get I believe 8 boxes per rack incl. the bottom shelf, so 40 per rack and those two shelves held my own personal collection, so around 80 long boxes and then the rest were on tables and below tables and I used that all as my trade/sell stock and I started doing Comic Con here in Utah where I soon found out that comics simply don't sell in a state where comics were never big and moved heavily into the video game space instead and have spent 4 years doing conventions with video games. <br /><br />That's when I knew I needed to get rid of so many comics. I'm big into buying full series and then eventually reading them. I had every Malibu/Ultraverse comic even though I had never read one of them, same goes for Crossgen, Tekno Comix and almost all of Valiant but I had read and liked some of the Valiant books.<br /><br />I had every X-book ever made at that point, missing around 10 Silver Age and current Green Lanterns, and just so many titles and full runs and I needed to cut down. I was also going to finish my 1,600 sq ft basement where all of this was stored and realized I wanted to get rid of them instead of having to figure out where they go when it was done. <br /><br />I would usually resort all the books I had bought each year over Thanskgiving or Christmas days off and once it started taking over a week to just reorganize and track what I had added each year, it was just out of control. Scott Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795112175606617848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-21913526105752734652019-01-29T08:45:25.501-06:002019-01-29T08:45:25.501-06:00Woof, 170+ plus long boxes is impressive! At the p...Woof, 170+ plus long boxes is impressive! At the peek of my collection (I've been slowly winnowing it down for years), I had probably ~75 longboxes, and that was daunting (in terms of moving, organizing, etc.). I can only imagine what 170 was like! <br /><br /><i>This just felt like a throw-away script</i><br /><br />I will be speaking a bit to that sensation in the review for next issue, but totally agree. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-63778087831343122012019-01-29T08:43:08.217-06:002019-01-29T08:43:08.217-06:00Yeah, this is where I feel like maybe Hama was try...Yeah, this is where I feel like maybe Hama was trying to cover for the art? And not doing a very good job of it? Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-31664812781887553402019-01-28T18:07:08.470-06:002019-01-28T18:07:08.470-06:00I thought for sure that was a Tim Sale cover until...I thought for sure that was a Tim Sale cover until taking a close look at the signature.Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-91165062413490521182019-01-28T17:47:07.553-06:002019-01-28T17:47:07.553-06:00When I dropped down from 170+ long boxes to just 1...When I dropped down from 170+ long boxes to just 14, this was an issue I was going to keep as I remember it beeing Kwool as a kid, when I did a quick look at it to see if it made the 14 boxes, oh man, it's bad, haha. I didn't even realize Kubert did any of this issue, it's just bad. I didn't know they were swipes though. <br /><br />What a terrible script by Hama too, Copycat and Kane as actors is just stupid and that how if Deadpool had wanted her dead, it would have happened way before Wolverine randomly decides to check in with them. This just felt like a throw-away script and it makes me mad that I paid money for it at the time and that it has some collector value now as an early appearance of Deadpool. Scott Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795112175606617848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-65051506978286675182019-01-28T16:07:05.341-06:002019-01-28T16:07:05.341-06:00The sword thing makes no sense anyway. Wouldn'...The sword thing makes no sense anyway. Wouldn't moving in such a way as to rescue Vanessa also take Kane out of the line of the sword aimed at him?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com