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NYCC: Discovering Something New

Is something arriving on the scene so new and revolutionary that we will be upset we didn’t start with it at the beginning? Will CVA be just as big in ten years as CGC is today? Will they be the next standard? Which beg...
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New York Comic Con: A Personal Journey in Parts

The following is a small account of my own personal experience before, during, and after the con. They are also written with more of a blog type style. Are you like me and love the convention circuit? Are you also like me and j...
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NYCC: Is it an Addiction?

NYCC: is it an addiction or are the comic books? Anything can be an addiction, most notably are drugs and alcohol because they do something to your system that changes the way the body works, just look at cigarettes. The thing ...
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Getting Ready for Baltimore Comic Con

Every year I attend the Philadelphia Comic Con… multiple times. I go to this six hour show so much I consider it a monthly event (actually it is about ten times a year). 2011 was the first time I attended two major comic conv...
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My X-Men 132, I Mean 137

My 132, My137 At Wizard World Philadelphia 2012, I decided not only to get some signatures for books I previously had graded, but I also wanted to use Classics Incorporated to get some of my comic books pressed. Pressing is som...
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Wizard World Philadelphia 2012: From Buying to Grading

Somewhere, somehow I went from feelings of disdain towards CGC to craving them to grade my comic books. This also includes purchasing them already encapsulated like my favorite set, New Mutants (1983). I am happy to say I curr...
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Wizard World Philadelphia 2012: A Series

I know that Wizard World passed a few weeks ago, but I am not done with the memories or wishing to share why this was the best convention I went to in a long long time.     Over the next few weeks I will try to ex...
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Wizard World 2012: The Preview Day

This was the first year I did not have to wait outside. I don’t know if this was because of the added day or because Wizard World Philly became more organized. The star power seems to be larger than last year and I wonder...
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BOOM! IS Ready To Bring Extermination

Hot off of his hit Marvel mini-series starring the big brains of the mutant world, X-Club, Simon Spurrier finds a new home with BOOM! Studios. BOOM! has been making great contributions to the comic book industry with titles lik...
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My Pick of the Week (Week Seventeen)

Ok. I am in awe; once again the New Mutants was placed to my first read rather than my last. I saved that for Wolverine & the X-Men, Avengers, and Avengers Vs. X-Men, which the last of the three has to be my pick of the wee...
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Sitting on a Plane

I am in the front row of first class and it is nothing like the show Pan Am. I went through the security check and boarded rather quickly. The sun is rising as other passengers are making their way onto the plane and I am looki...
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Spending a Premium

My life seems to revolve around comic books. I bought shelves because they were the perfect size for the half boxes I store my comic books in. Every Wednesday I am either at my LCS or wishing I was. I take $50 a week to spend o...
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My Five Minute Article

With only five minutes before I have to get ready to go to work I am counting down to my vacation. This means tomorrow will be the last day I get any new comic books for two weeks. Unless I can find some comic book shops in the...
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An Imperfect copy or Not Good Enough

CGC has been around for over a decade, digital comic books have been gaining popularity, and comic books themselves have been around a lot longer than I. As a reader of comic books for 35 years, a collector for 28, and an enthu...
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