Longbox Long Haul
Mar. 30th, 2019 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crockpotcauldronWent to the comic book sale! Arrived early, got a fantastic parking spot, and plunged into the longboxes. Nine hours later, came out with not quite enough comics to make getting a shortbox cost-efficient. Half of the comics were for friends with very easy wishlists, and the rest were glorious garbage for me. I've got ten new werewolf comics, some Fantastic Four, THREE Phil Foglios I've never seen before, a copy of a Hitman comic I regretted giving away years ago, a couple Astro City issues, and a bunch of stuff that caught my eye.
I have a warm glow of satisfaction (and a quiver of regret for the fish that got away in previous years) but I will not be attending the sale tomorrow, or trying to complete a tour of the longboxes again. That was an ordeal! The temperature was okay, and I packed a little cooler of sandwiches and ice water, but I kinda got tunnel vision and didn't take breaks or eat a proper lunch because I wanted to keep going. (Don't do that, kids. I had to eat my sandwiches in the car before I drove home because I was dizzy.)
Anyway, I think I got it out of my system, and in the future I will spend a more moderate amount of time at comic book sales. I didn't even look at the comics bundles, the toys, DVDs, graphic novels, or the back issues in the store. One human being simply cannot accomplish all that in one day, and though the sale runs two days, I have had my fill, and will quietly digest my prey and wait six months for the next sale.
I have a warm glow of satisfaction (and a quiver of regret for the fish that got away in previous years) but I will not be attending the sale tomorrow, or trying to complete a tour of the longboxes again. That was an ordeal! The temperature was okay, and I packed a little cooler of sandwiches and ice water, but I kinda got tunnel vision and didn't take breaks or eat a proper lunch because I wanted to keep going. (Don't do that, kids. I had to eat my sandwiches in the car before I drove home because I was dizzy.)
Anyway, I think I got it out of my system, and in the future I will spend a more moderate amount of time at comic book sales. I didn't even look at the comics bundles, the toys, DVDs, graphic novels, or the back issues in the store. One human being simply cannot accomplish all that in one day, and though the sale runs two days, I have had my fill, and will quietly digest my prey and wait six months for the next sale.
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Date: 2019-03-31 11:44 pm (UTC)Pretty sure comics are not supposed to require athletic endurance to purchase.
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Date: 2019-04-01 02:33 pm (UTC)Most of the crowd thinned out after a couple hours. Only a few people were committed to the full Nerdathon, and most of them came with friends or family who didn't realize how long they wanted to stay and insisted on leaving after a few hours. I'm glad I stayed to the end, because I found a lot of cool stuff and didn't have to worry about The One That Got Away lurking just one more box away, you know? But I think next time I'd be fine with just a couple of hours.
The werewolf comics are all different! I picked up Moonstruck by Grace Ellis (a cute urban fantasy coffee shop story), The Astounding Wolfman (looks like a superhero story), 3 Devils (a western with a Wolfman on a leash), a Marvel Dictionary with an entry on Deadly Nightshade: Queen of the Werewolves (one of my favorites), Jughead: The Hunger (probably a comedy? Definitely werewolves, at least), Mad-Dog (looked like a victim of mad science werewolf?), Boogieman (probably urban fantasy comedy), Rise of Magic: Possesses Megalith (saw a wolfy dude in there, who knows what's going on), Leo the Lycanthrope (manga for a friend), Legend (talking dogs, close enough), and Wolff & Byrd: Counselors of the Macabre (urban fantasy parody, saw some wolfmen in there). A few known good woofs, but the rest are basically a gamble.
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Date: 2019-04-01 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-01 10:39 pm (UTC)