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PIPELINE COMMENTARY AND REVIEW #67
14 September 1998
by Augie De Blieck Jr.
http://www.nic.com/~augie/pipeline
Sorry, gang, no reviews this week. I really haven't read much this
past week, save for Ben Bova's excellent novel, MOONRISE. (I'm
still not done with it, and I fear this paragraph might prove
paradoxical in that I just reviewed something. ARGH!)
MORE ON STORAGE
Joe Torcivia poses the following question:
How does one store original art?
I don't really have much. Just a couple of sketches. But it is an
interesting question. Those of you who do have original pages of
comic art, what do you do with them?
BRIEF COMIC FANDOM ASIDE
I spent the weekend out at Joe's house celebrating his son's big 5th
birthday party. Had a great time, talked to some real comics fans.
Then I had to explain to some people back at home what I did this
weekend. They had a tough time understanding the fact that I have
friends who are -- sorry to do this to you, Joe -- old enough to
almost be my father. I looked around me and realized most of the
fans I was with this weekend were in their thirties. I was the
baby. And it didn't feel weird to me at all.
Other people think it is. But feh on them. Comics fandom is a
strange thing for this other reason: Age doesn't really matter all
that much. Oh, sure, Joe may have a greater affection for Silver
Age DC's than I do, but he can't stand the early Image stuff I used
to worship at the time. On the other hand, both things have one
thing in common: They go back to what we grew up with. It's the
whole Golden Age of 8 routine: Whatever you read when you were 8
years old was the Golden Age. (OK, in my case, I was 13.)
BACK TO COMICS STORAGE
Ben Herman, sometimes seen lurking in the pages of THE SAVAGE
DRAGON's letters column, chimes in with his method of comic book
storage:
How do I organize my collection? With some confusion. I have
most Marvel titles alphabetical on bookshelves, followed by
most DC titles. Then I have a whole mess of stuff in boxes.
Two boxes for X-books, one box for Spider-Man books (not much
has gone in there in the last three years), two boxes for
Image books (used to be only one, but it got filled up), a box
for Batman and related characters, a box for Superman (another
one that hasn't gotten many new additions recently), a box for
Valiant/Acclaim, a box for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles books
(including Image ones), two boxes for pretty much any other
company (Dark Horse, Slave Labor, Harris, you name it), and two
boxes for media related comic books by all manner of publishers
(series include Transformers, G.I. Joe, Robotech, Battlestar
Galactica, and, yes, Disney). Finally, there's one box which
has the majority of my autographed comic books.
Ben gets the award for the first (and so far only) person to have a
box separated for media tie-ins. Like Ben, I have a box separated
for Superman comics. It still stands separate from my on-going
alphabetical order scheme. Thankfully, I stopped reading the weekly
comics just before I ran out of room in the box.
Now I'm tired and want to go to bed. Pardon the short column this
week. Next week we'll be back with a ton of reviews. I hope.
Thanks to Ben and Joe (and little Joey) for the material for this
week's column!
-Augie
P.S. For those of you reading this on the web, take the opportunity
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movie reviews (of any format) that I've ever seen.
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