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So I see that you are saying... "Nala? What's the point of this utterly pointless waste of this Apache directory filler called Paper Crack now that you've sold off your 15,000+ comics and you always seem to hate comics anyway?"

Well...

While I have a love-hate relationship with comics that exceeds my love-hate relationship with Plastic Crack, there's still some strange lame vane part of me that wants to write and discussion frigg'n comic books.

Yes. I barely buy anything any more.

And no, my opinion is absolutely not important either.

But let's face it... I'm a f'n geek and if there's one thing geeks like to do is pointlessly waste valuable personal free time discussing the useless minute details of utterly worthless shit.

And so... Paper Crack™ is resurrected to not annoy the few readers/contributors I have over at Plastic Crack by my mixing comic shit in with my Transformers shit.

So there.

I've wasted another $10 on registering a domain (though I should have done that ages ago) and because I am the World's Most Beloved Polish-American™, you now can read my comic book rantings almost 99% free of my gay Transformer rantings.

Well I'm finally working on the comics in the basement.

Yay!

Must... get... rid... of... 90%... of... them...

Well the back bedroom remodeling is almost done!

And that means I can start sorting through all the comics soon!

I so need to get that done and get these out of my life.

So with the recent holiday, crack day got pushed to Thursday. Since I'm on vacation I decided to join Giga and Sutekh on their paper crack adventures.

We arrived at Discount Paperback, the local crack dealer who supplies Giga's weekly fix of four-color addiction.

DP is pretty much you typical comic shop/geek toy shop/porn shop/miscellaneous paperback shop.

The 50% off bins (above) were rummaged through for goodies. I was going to get a Sandman Mystery Theatre trade and a Judas Contract trade but ended up putting them back since I have no need for more paper here in the House of Love at all.

DP has quite a selection of graphic novels and trade paperbacks. My eventual goal is to only by trades of content I want to own. It takes up less space than the individual issues and of course can sit easily on a shelf where the issues kind of fall all over the place. However, I wish Marvel and DC would trade shit that probably will never be done such as ROM and All-Star Squadron and such.

DP also has a ton of non-transforming-flavored plastic crack running the gamut from superhero shit to mango to a ton of crap that I thankfully don't know about. (It is a point of pride for me that I know so little about a ton of modern current geekage!)

Last night, while at The Family T's house, we discovered Mister T. reads Ramayan 3392AD, an totally kickass beautifully illustrated comic by Deepak Chopra of all people. This book is sweet and I may end up getting it when it is collected... or at least borrowing Mister T.'s copies.

I finally got my hands on a copy of Volume 1 of The Absolute Sandman collection. Damn this is purty.

Of course, I own the originals and the trades already and I can't justify buying yet another version of the same thing but man it is nice. Someday. Maybe. I suppose a lot depends on how much I can make off the comics collection and crap when it goes.

In the end, Giga got 52, the new JLA, and some books I don't read. He got a Weaponer of Qward too.

On hiatus until after the holidays!

What am I going to do with this shit?

Yes. You read that correctly.

This shit.

It is going to be extremely hard to make any form of return on the 20+ years of investment made in wasting massive amounts of money on comics.

I'll be lucky to maybe get 25¢ a book for the majority the contents of my 70s and 80s stuff and Giga and I will be lucky to get even less for the stuff we've mutually purchased from 1997 to the present.

Right now 95% or so of the comics in this house have been moved to the Basement of Love pending the completion of the back bedroom remodeling and the holidays.

There's many many many hours ahead of sorting and cataloging this stuff just to see if anyone wants to buy a run of this or that book.

I talked to a friend who manages a Half Price Books and even he has said they rarely buy many comics.

The local paper crack dealers aren't really buying this stuff either.

Know that when all is said and done, if I can't sell some of this stuff I will be giving it away to any readers that want to pay for the shipping and handling of the books to their homes.

Paper Crack: From the Massive Comic Boxes of the Attic of Love™ is now officially 2 minutes old.

In the hopes of not boring my Plastic Crack readers I've split off any conversions about comic, comics reading, comics lameness, and all other assorted comics related shit to this new blog, much like I split Plastic Crack off of my main blog a 18 months ago.

While the real purpose of this site is to document and explore the massive 30+ years old comic collection before I dispose of it to the public it is also an experiment for me to learn some additional internet-related crap, especially where Movable Type is concerned.

But rest assured I will have absolutely nothing of true value or importance to say about the sick disgusting habit of reading comic books.

So bookmark Paper Crack! This isn't The World's Most Useless Spin-Off Website for nothing now!