Comic Book Day

So I might have already broken a New Year's Resolution.

I might not blog 5 days this week and I blame this entirely on my comic book obsession hobby.

I order all my comics online (and I save about 35-43%) and to save even more money, I have them all shipped to me in one easy end-of-month package. And today was the happiest day of the month, it is Comic Book Day. And I almost didn't want to blog forgot.

But I have a good excuse. My all-time favorite X-Man has returned from the dead. I think I will tweak my New Year's Resolutions and say Comic Book Day is also an official Blogging Holiday.

Comic Book Day!

Day 157

Short blog today. I am not feeling so great and today is also the day when I get new comics. So I would rather sit on my comfy couch, have a Coke, snuggle under a warm blanket and read some new comics.

And to celebrate getting new comics, I am posting a picture of the Danger Room. I drew this back in 1986 when I was really getting into comic books. Wolverine was obviously my favorite character and I loved to draw his claws. I remember having difficulty in drawing the front of his mask and that is why he has his back turned.

Maybe next week during Lost, I will draw an updated version.

Comic Book Day!

Day 93

Today is Comic Book Day!

I love Comic Book Day. I get a nice package once a month in the mail filled with tons of exciting comics and tradepaperbacks to read. I used to visit a local comic shop every week to pick up goodies but sadly those days are behind me. Nowadays, I buy all my comic books online (at HUGE discounts) and I have them ship them once a month to save a couple more bucks. But the excitement of new books has never changed. I still get giddy when it comes to getting new books.


Comic book collecting has certainly enriched my life and has also given me a place I can go anytime to just escape and relax. It can be quite an expensive hobby but it is not like I will only read these things once. Every month when I file away my newest books I also grab books that I want to re-read and I will read them during the course of the month. Which is another thing that I love to do. I strap on my iPod and grab a Mountain Dew and file away for an hour all by myself. At the peak of my collection, I had about 10,000 books but now I am down to about 6,000 or so. Lately my quest has been to filter out my collection and keep only the stuff that I really like. While my comic collection is down, my collection of hardcover and trade collections has skyrocketed. I have about 500 of them.

But of all the times collecting comic books, today is the best day of all. I sit on the couch and I sort through which books I want to look at and then I thumb through them. After I go through them all, I then pick out a few and I will read them cover to cover.

So if you call and I don't answer the phone, you know why. I don't like to be disturbed during comic book day.