Anita is big enough that it's time for her to have her own room. Her room, though, was the comicbook room. Oh, what to do? What to DO?
An insulated shed would be nice but I don't have the thousands of dollars for that. I thought of renting a storage unit but, again, that costs money. I would have found a way but I thought of another solution. My Mom's parents have a large basement, much of which they aren't using any longer. I asked Grandma and she gave me permission to store the bulk of the collection there. Whew.
I still have the trade paperbacks and graphic novels here, as well as comics I'm planning on selling on eBay. Everything else is out of the house.
It kinda hurts. It's an itch that's hard to scratch. All of the sudden, there are stories I haven't read in a long time and I want to but they aren't there. And I can't reference anything that isn't in a tpb. Oy.
Should Marvel or DC offer same-day release subscriptions for the iPad, I'll buy an iPad and subscribe so fast that heads will spin. I love my hobby but I'm hating the storage. (Plus, I like the idea that virtual comics are more environmentally friendly, too.)
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Half my monthlies collection is at my parents house and would be quickest accessed via one of the Mole-man's driller-nosed machines through the centre of the Earth.
I have to beg intercontinental travellers to bring back a few copies of this or that when they visit Ireland. I still can't believe I am here and my copies of Alan Moore's Captain Britain stories are there! Bah!
I wonder where this puts me with regards to the Captain's rule #1 - "If you can't find it, you don't own it."
Still, as someone who has just recently got a room for all my comics that I can currently lay my hands on, and all my TPBs, I sympathise with you Cav.
At the moment I have two boxes beside my bed of stuff I'm trying to get through, and I don't go into the comics room all that often to get stuff to add to them. At least it'll be an excuse to visit the Grandparents more often, which is never a bad thing.
Life is all change.
something that doesn't occure to the kid in 1974 who used to store his 24 comics in a shoe box and wondered if he'd ever fill it.
Hah! I remember trying to impress one of my friends by telling him I had TWENTY-SIX superhero comics, and was swiftly put in my place by being told he had SIXTY-EIGHT!
Ah, that's nothing! My LCS is 13 miles from where I work (and I work 15 miles from where I live). Your granparents are going to benefit from increased visits, I'll bet. If it was my mom, she'd say, "I know you're coming to see your comic books, not me!"
What? How do you get your comics, Pony Express?
NOTE: There are comics shops closer to my house, but none better.