ECCC Jitters
Mar. 30th, 2009 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyCan't stop thinking of The Convention! Must blog advice to everybody!
First priority: Buy $10 worth of Quarter Bin comics. This serves three very important purposes!
ONE! It's time consuming and fun. Pull out every single comic that even REMOTELY appeals to you and then trim that down to $10 worth. Stuff that you scoffed at for $3 an issue is now readily available at the incredily low price of THE ENTIRE SERIES FOR $2.
TWO! It stokes the fires of your natural love of Comic Books. Thumbing through 27 boxes full of comics that are a quarter each sends you down memory lane and sparks interest where there may have been none before. I bought an entire run of Youngblood out of a quarter bin a few years back on a whim and was pleasantly suprised. Not worth $3 an issue, but at 4 for a dollar? Sure, it was fun!
THREE! Lugging a shopping bag full of comics through the convention makes you less likely to buy any more big-ticket items. "Do I REALLY need that Star Trek Phaser? I'm already carrying a shopping bag full of comics..."
NEXT POST: ECCC BINGO CARDS!!!
First priority: Buy $10 worth of Quarter Bin comics. This serves three very important purposes!
ONE! It's time consuming and fun. Pull out every single comic that even REMOTELY appeals to you and then trim that down to $10 worth. Stuff that you scoffed at for $3 an issue is now readily available at the incredily low price of THE ENTIRE SERIES FOR $2.
TWO! It stokes the fires of your natural love of Comic Books. Thumbing through 27 boxes full of comics that are a quarter each sends you down memory lane and sparks interest where there may have been none before. I bought an entire run of Youngblood out of a quarter bin a few years back on a whim and was pleasantly suprised. Not worth $3 an issue, but at 4 for a dollar? Sure, it was fun!
THREE! Lugging a shopping bag full of comics through the convention makes you less likely to buy any more big-ticket items. "Do I REALLY need that Star Trek Phaser? I'm already carrying a shopping bag full of comics..."
NEXT POST: ECCC BINGO CARDS!!!
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Date: 2009-03-30 11:51 pm (UTC)How big of a collection are you talking about? I'm always up for an appraisal :)