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

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Yoc:
There's an awful lot of teachers, scientists, librarians, etc that collect comics.
Is there a connection?  Doc Wirtham would say that's enough evidence.  ;)

narfstar:

--- Quote from: Yoc on March 19, 2011, 03:53:26 PM ---There's an awful lot of teachers, scientists, librarians, etc that collect comics.

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I resemble that remark. With me it is the feel I get. It is a momentary relapse to being ten again. It hits me with SA books but the medium itself revives me.

builderboy:

--- Quote from: bminor on March 19, 2011, 04:15:59 AM ---I could boil it down to:  

enjoy great stories
enjoy great art

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b- that doesn't explain the ones that I still obsessively collect that have BAD stories and writing!  Which...I STILL ENJOY READING!  Go figure.  I think it has something to do with what Narf said...that ability to transport us to a simpler time.

Oh, and I am WAY with whoever said the OCD thing.  Why does owning EVERY...SINGLE...ISSUE of a particular run give me such satisfaction?  I am sure it is that it scratches the OCD itch that I otherwise might not even know that I had.

Strange stuff, this collector mentality thing!  25 years of marriage, and its practically the only thing that gets me into hot water with my wife.   ;D

Roygbiv666:

--- Quote from: builderboy on March 21, 2011, 08:40:00 AM ---...
Strange stuff, this collector mentality thing!  25 years of marriage, and its practically the only thing that gets me into hot water with my wife.   ;D

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Then you must be doing something right.

narfstar:
My wife and I hit 30 years in a week. I buy cheap and it is mainly the space my books take up that is more the problem.

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