Evan's Comic Book Blog

I've been collecting for about 15 years now and have been selling and speculating for the last 5 or so.  But I think its time to slow down.  I have spent a lot of time and even more money hunting for and buying books just to resell them.  I have pushed my personal collection to the side and looking back I really regret doing so.  I cant even imagine the books I could have picked up for myself 5 years ago and the prices I could have got them for if I wasn't so focused on speculating and buying multiple copies of books I didn't even want. I have spent way to long chasing variants and so called key issues and first appearances of characters who have no staying power.  Its time for me to end all that and refocus on actually collecting.  I need to finish off my JLA run that I've been putting off forever. I only need about 30 issues which I could probably find at just one convention if I tried. For those of you who are just getting into collection my recommenda...

I haven't had time to write any posts lately, work and life has been wicked busy.  I've been to several conventions since the the last time I wrote something, quite a few actually. I went to Garden State Comic fest in New Jersey back in July.  I had heard great things about New jersey conventions and this one didn't disappoint. It was a small show but had a lot of comics for sale and I walked away with a lot of great deals.  I will definitely be attending again next year.  I went to a very small show in Fitchburg Massachusetts called Plastic City Comic Con.  It was a fun time, maybe 10 guys selling books but books were priced to sell and i did very well there.  I attended Boston Comic Con for the 4th straight year and it was different.  New much larger location.  It was a good show, not as god as last year but still fun.  I met some great artists and walked away with some incredible commissions. The weekend right after Boston was Terrificon a...