Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes What odd quirk do you have about collecting?

Okay, mine are pretty straighforward. I just collect the books. I had the Green Lantern emotional spectrum ring set gifted to me a long time ago, but I've never done figurines, toys, etc...

Another one is I just collect for the fun of having and reading. I've never done the buy and sell thing. I think the single most expensive book I've ever bought is about $10.

I mostly try to buy from my LCS, even letting them do the online thing and then buying off them. I enjoy the hunt and the search more than just going online and having it at my fingertips.

Okay, those are my odd quirks.

How 'bout you'se sentients?

I favor artists. I have collected many terribly written comics that are beautifully drawn. I'm talking the dregs of mid-90s excess, just because I like the way they look. Meanwhile, I've gotten rid of tons and tons of comics by some supposedly "great" writers -- I won't name names, though. I've matured at least that much.

Same as both. Just comics, not figures and stuff (although I do have a plastic cheap Legion Flight Ring and Blue Lantern Ring, given away by my comic shop). I don't buy to sell, or bother 'bagging and boarding,' and given the number of longboxes I haven't opened in years, I'm seriously thinking of just donating a few boxes to my local comic shop to put in their bargain bins or whatever, just to sort of de-clutter the house... (Which feels like sacrilege, but, needs must!) Also rarely if ever buy anything except from my local comic shop. I just can't be fussed to hunt stuff down online. When I'm online, I've got more interesting stuff to do than shop! (Too many friends buy way too much crap online, and boxes arrive every day from Amazon and they open them up and are not even remotely interested in what they've purchased. Seems like a weird addiction, they enjoy that 'click' of spending money, then don't even seem to want what they bought when it arrives?)

And almost all the things by artists I like in the moment. For a while, I'd follow John Byrne around from Alpha Flight, X-Men and Fantastic Four at Marvel to Man of Steel at DC. Also a few like Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri and Whilce Portacio, from Marvel to Image (where I then discovered more artists I liked, like Michael Turner, Brett Booth, J. Scott Campbell, etc.).

As a result, I have all the Alpha Flight issues done by Byrne (2 copies of the all-white Snowbird-in-a-blizzard issue!), and not even a half-dozen issues of the dozens and dozens of issues that came after...

And while I sometimes get into some stuff by great writers with art I don't love, like Stracynzski's Midnight Nation, or Moore's run on Swamp Thing, I usually don't end up liking stuff by the 'hot writer of the minute,' even if they aren't obnoxious. For instance, Neil Gaiman seems to be a cool dude, and his Sandman stuff is practically legendary, and yet, eh, doesn't really do much for me, so I never got into it, and therefore never bought any of it. (Although I'm loving the TV adaptation! On... Netfix, I think?)

It’s recently become mainstream knowledge that he is in fact pretty terrible and has done awful things. I don’t want to have this veer the thread off from its topic, but thought it important to mention. Hopefully that’s okay.