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Why do we (I) have this drive to collect rectangles of pulp wood and ink?

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bminor:
I am in the grocery store, checking out. Next to the register I have to pick up the Archie Digest and look it over. (You know he got married last year!)

Go into a antique store, gotta ask if they have any for sale...

When I was a teenager, one of the questions I would always ask a new acquaintance, after I knew them a day or two, was "Hey, got any old comics laying around?"

Why do I have this drive within in me to acquire and read these things?

You know it is almost like a disease or something. It is an obsession.

I have come close over the years to have to sell them, or at least sell some of them. But have always found a way to address the monetary crisis, and save the collection.

I could boil it down to: 

enjoy great stories
enjoy great art

b.

 :-\p.s. Please excuse my rambling...

Yoc:
Hehe, sometimes it can feel like an addiction for sure B.
I like to think 'at least with scans I don't have a dozen long boxes filling a room.... but then I see pics of JVJ's attic and I'm jealous too.

Hang in there brother.

cimmerian32:
I chalk it up to the fact that we live in an ugly, random world of petty people, greedy corporations, and violent chaos, but, in our collecting focus, we find clarity, order, and beauty.  Clarity, order and beauty are things you just can't get enough of, resulting in a steady rate of acquisitions.

Well...  that's my justification, anyway :D

Yoc:
I think a therapist would have a field day with us Cimm.
Mix in some OCD with it as well.  But I agree you meet a nice class of people in our hobby!

-Yoc

John C:
It's not in context at all, but I'm reminded of Tom Lehrer's "Lobachevsky."  "Please always to be calling it 'research.'"  I mean, you never know when you'll find that one piece of information in a comic that will make or break your career, right?

...uhm, right...?

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