|
quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
2/2/2018
|
Ok, I’ll bite on the non comic goals.
#1 Quit smoking. Smoked 10 packs a week, now 1 pack a week. Nasty habit, been smoking over 35 years. Live a more healthier life style.
#2. Get my telescope out at least once a month with my dad. Great bonding time with dad. He is 80, time/life is going by to fast. Fun deep thinking conversations while looking for objects
#3 buy more 4K Blu-ray’s...I’m hooked.
#4 don’t talk politics.
#5 save enough money to send my daughter a few months of her mortgage payments or car payments.
Hey strange, I thought I was signed but posted as a guest....SOO THOSE ARE MY NON GOALS ABOVE.
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
2/3/2018
|
Hey it’s tax time, the money I get back I can get some of my artwork framed!
|
|
|
+1
link
|
|
kitdog Posts: 14
2/3/2018
|
I get excited when I get close to finishing a run, my wife gets worries cause that means I will start something new.
Oh I have a non comic collecting goal too
Want to get a full set of the original garbage pail kids series 1
I will have to get them 1 at a time but I only have the 88 cards left from series 1 to have all the original series complete.
But then I guess its kind of comic related since collecting GPK's is what got me into comic shops in the first place... and got me collecting to begin with.
edited by kitdog on 2/3/2018
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
Gilgandra Posts: 1246
2/3/2018
|
jokerbangedquinn wrote:
Ok, I’ll bite on the non comic goals.
#1 Quit smoking. Smoked 10 packs a week, now 1 pack a week. Nasty habit, been smoking over 35 years. Live a more healthier life style.
#2. Get my telescope out at least once a month with my dad. Great bonding time with dad. He is 80, time/life is going by to fast. Fun deep thinking conversations while looking for objects
#3 buy more 4K Blu-ray’s...I’m hooked.
#4 don’t talk politics.
#5 save enough money to send my daughter a few months of her mortgage payments or car payments.
Hey strange, I thought I was signed but posted as a guest....SOO THOSE ARE MY NON GOALS ABOVE.
HR, Can you play those 4K Blu-Rays on a normal Blu-Ray player or do i need another one?
My current player is old Lol.
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
Guest
2/3/2018
|
I’m so glad I’m not a completionist type of guy, it would use up too much time in my head and money.
But since you bring up garbage pail kids cards, I can really understand completing that. Marvel X-Men cards and Spider-Man cards from the nineties I tried to complete all sets for my daughter. I was buying many boxes searching for chase cards and at the time comic stores near me had a lot of chase cards I needed. Buying boxes I ended up with extra basic sets(minus some chase cards) so I had sets for my daughter, her cousins and me too.
I really enjoyed opening packs with her and organizing them in the folders we bought to store them. Some cards of course explained when someone fought against a villain and what comic issue. So if my daughter was interested we’d hit the LCS and look for the back issues the cards listed.
Enjoy completing your set kitdog!
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
2/3/2018
|
I’m so glad I’m not a completionist type of guy, it would use up too much time in my head and money.
But since you bring up garbage pail kids cards, I can really understand completing that. Marvel X-Men cards and Spider-Man cards from the nineties I tried to complete all sets for my daughter. I was buying many boxes searching for chase cards and at the time comic stores near me had a lot of chase cards I needed. Buying boxes I ended up with extra basic sets(minus some chase cards) so I had sets for my daughter, her cousins and me too.
I really enjoyed opening packs with her and organizing them in the folders we bought to store them. Some cards of course explained when someone fought against a villain and what comic issue. So if my daughter was interested we’d hit the LCS and look for the back issues the cards listed.
Enjoy completing your set kitdog!
Darn it, my post was as a guest again....
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
2/3/2018
|
Gilgandra wrote:
jokerbangedquinn wrote:
Ok, I’ll bite on the non comic goals.
#3 buy more 4K Blu-ray’s...I’m hooked.[/quote.
HR, Can you play those 4K Blu-Rays on a normal Blu-Ray player or do i need another one?
My current player is old Lol.
As far as I know, no you can not play a 4K disk on a Blu-ray player or DVD player. Need a 4K tv, 4K player for it to work right. Having a 4K player will though play Blu-ray and dvd disks though. The player will as I understand it, will make a Blu-ray disk look better than just a Blu-ray player. Well there is plenty of articles out there explaining this, Google is your friend.
I will say there are movies out there that are made on 4K disks. But you know, not ever movie on 4K is worthy to buy. Be selective if buying them. If you want 4K movies but don’t have a 4K player yet, most movies come with a Blu-ray version with it, just like a Blu-ray movie comes with a dvd disk. Right now, there isn’t a very large selection of 4K movies yet, but that will be changing soon enough.
4K tv and 4K player is worth saving for. I just watched Valerian and the City of Thousands Planets, that was really fun on 4K😎
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
solarno Posts: 166
2/8/2018
|
This thread has me thinking....
Comic Book Goals:
- Buy fewer books. I'm going to be moving probably within a few months and moving the collection is a pain (literally, in my back), plus I don't know how much space I'll end up with in the new place. I suppose this actually means be more selective and only buy titles that really move me in some way, cut out the crossover events, and I probably don't need those variants (unless it's Skottie Young)
- Reduce the chaff. Speaking of titles that don't move me, it's time to off-load them. That will be an ongoing project though as finding new homes is not always quick.
- Replace some of the older boxes. A few are pushing 20 years old now. They still work, but are they ugly. Considering some of those shiny new BCW plastic bins.
- Get caught up on the reading backlog. The need to read stack is also a good tool to determine which titles to drop. If I haven't been compelled to read something for weeks or months, I certainly don't need to keep buying it.
Non Comic Book Goals:
- Get caught up on the reading backlog. (Actual bound books, not just comics!) I have so many books stacked up in various places. Fiction, history, science, music.
- Reduce the debt load. Buying comics doesn't help.
- Release new music. It's been 3+ years since my last release and I have loads of unfinished tracks and projects.
- Frame and hang a bunch of illustrated art I've collected. This will be dependent on what the eventual new place is like though.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Cheers!
Jim
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
comfan Posts: 85
2/8/2018
|
Got the Overstreet grading guide for Christmas. So I'm going to hand grade all my comics.
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
2/8/2018
|
solarno wrote:
This thread has me thinking....
Comic Book Goals:
- Buy fewer books. I'm going to be moving probably within a few months and moving the collection is a pain (literally, in my back), plus I don't know how much space I'll end up with in the new place. I suppose this actually means be more selective and only buy titles that really move me in some way, cut out the crossover events, and I probably don't need those variants (unless it's Skottie Young)
- Reduce the chaff. Speaking of titles that don't move me, it's time to off-load them. That will be an ongoing project though as finding new homes is not always quick.
- Replace some of the older boxes. A few are pushing 20 years old now. They still work, but are they ugly. Considering some of those shiny new BCW plastic bins.
- Get caught up on the reading backlog. The need to read stack is also a good tool to determine which titles to drop. If I haven't been compelled to read something for weeks or months, I certainly don't need to keep buying it.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Cheers!
Jim
Jim, moving is the worst especially if you're moving long boxes up and down stairs. We are putting our house up for sale next week and I dread moving. I keep telling my wife. I want to move just once. No double move into an apartment and then into a house. Keep putting your comics in the small boxes instead of long boxes. I've been working on that goal for a while.
Comic chaff. Yeah, we all need to do that. There are books that look so interesting under the lights at the comic shop and then I get home and think why did I buy this?
Ron
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
solarno Posts: 166
2/8/2018
|
Ronbatman wrote:
solarno wrote:
This thread has me thinking....
Comic Book Goals:
- Buy fewer books. I'm going to be moving probably within a few months and moving the collection is a pain (literally, in my back), plus I don't know how much space I'll end up with in the new place. I suppose this actually means be more selective and only buy titles that really move me in some way, cut out the crossover events, and I probably don't need those variants (unless it's Skottie Young)
- Reduce the chaff. Speaking of titles that don't move me, it's time to off-load them. That will be an ongoing project though as finding new homes is not always quick.
- Replace some of the older boxes. A few are pushing 20 years old now. They still work, but are they ugly. Considering some of those shiny new BCW plastic bins.
- Get caught up on the reading backlog. The need to read stack is also a good tool to determine which titles to drop. If I haven't been compelled to read something for weeks or months, I certainly don't need to keep buying it.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Cheers!
Jim
Jim, moving is the worst especially if you're moving long boxes up and down stairs. We are putting our house up for sale next week and I dread moving. I keep telling my wife. I want to move just once. No double move into an apartment and then into a house. Keep putting your comics in the small boxes instead of long boxes. I've been working on that goal for a while.
Comic chaff. Yeah, we all need to do that. There are books that look so interesting under the lights at the comic shop and then I get home and think why did I buy this?
Ron
Thankfully I learned the long box/short box lesson many moves ago. And it's a good things as the last few moves have been to apartments, involving stairs. Lot's of stairs. 
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
pthomas2010 Posts: 116
2/13/2018
|
Can't believe there's activity here. Better take advantage of it!
My Goals for 2018:
1. I've got to trim down my new titles and start reading them during the week I buy them. I'm so far behind on so many titles, and also have so many thousands of back issues to read,
that I don't even know where to start. My hobby, that is supposed to be something relaxing, has turned into a source of stress.
2. Although this runs counter to my first goal, I want to continue filling my runs of Batman, Detective, Action, and Superman. Most of the ones I need are Silver and Golden Age.
3. Finish Daredevil run except for #1. Need about 4 others.
4. Finish Thor run except for JIM #83. Need about 15 others.
5. Finish FF run except #1. Need about 6 others.
6. Buy Amazing Fantasy 15 before it gets too far out of reach. Been planning for last couple of years, but this year I just need to do it.
I think that's enough. If I can complete #1 and #6, it would be a great year for me.
For some reason I posted this as a guest and didn't notice until later. Bugs, I guess. Anyway, those are pthomas2010's goals.
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
2/13/2018
|
Those are great goals, hopefully achievable for most of them pthomas2010. Amazing Fantasy 15 is out of my budget, hope you find a nice copy this year!
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
Guest
2/14/2018
|
I love this thread.
A lot of my goals are very similar to what many of you have posted already:
1. Save space by converting floppies to TPB's. (There are exceptions to this. I still want to get a full run batman vol.1 and UXM as well as a few others.)
2. Convert long boxes to short ones.
3. Read more of my comics! (Another reason I've decided to go the TPB route. I keep putting off reading titles that I don't have all the issues of. I started by filling in missing issues of 2,3&4 part mini-series as well as 12 parters like Will To Power and Superman: Metropolis
I also just finished Soldier x.) On another side note to this I did finally finish putting together all 112 issues of Ghosts.
4. I'd like to get to a few more conventions this year last year I only got to 2, Steel City Con and 3 Rivers Comic Con.
5. Get back to my creative roots. As a child I wrote stories, drew pictures and from age 14-29 I played a lot of music. So I want to get back into being creative. Even if it's just a few sketches or a short story or two or record a song.
6. This one is kinda silly but I want to get my brother into comics more this year. I've always been picked on by my brother for not "outgrowing" my obsession with comic books but last Christmas I got his attention by buying him the Metal Gear Solid comics by IDW. He's always been a big video gamer so he was surprised to know they did such a thing. ( No need to point out the irony here I have to "outgrow" comics but he can binge on Mario and Zelda for 14 hours and I'm supposed to be cool with that right? Not that there's anything wrong with that, he lives alone so other than work that's his hobby.) But to sum this one up I've got him looking for other things too. He's now trying to hunt down the Valiant Mario stuff, lol.
As far as non comic related things my son and I are going to buy a "cheap" classic on craigslist and we'll build his first car together. Nothing crazy just something to build memories on that will hopefully last long enough for him to get around to his first job and maybe to college. He's a lot like me doing as much as he can on his own so he'd rather build/create something than just buy something that he didn't make.
Also this year I want to knock out a lot of old debts the wife's student loans and some medical bills.
(The two months out of the year I didn't have medical coverage I managed to cut my eyebrow open and needed
stitches. Hello $5,000, can you believe a CT scan is $2,900? SHEESH!)
|
|
|
+1
link
|
|
Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
2/15/2018
|
Nice Goals
When I read your #3 I laughed because I put off reading a title when I'm missing one. There can be 11 of the 12 issues and I won't read it.
#4 Conventions are funny things. My favorite conventions have toys, comics, original art, artists, and cosplay. I love talking to artists, watching them draw something and occasionally buying something. Cosplay just intrigues me. People make very specialized costumes, spending months to create something and then showing it off. very cool.
#7 Goal with your son and his first car. Good Parenting! I tinker with cars buy one and work on it for a month or two and then sell it. Nothing big. I'll buy a Miata with a bad top, replace the top for $130 bucks and sell it for $1000 more than I paid for it. Whatever you decide to buy with your son, find a car that has easy to source parts.
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
expander Posts: 241
2/18/2018
|
I don't know why I got booted while typing so by the time I posted those I was a "guest."
Ronbatman wrote:
Nice Goals
When I read your #3 I laughed because I put off reading a title when I'm missing one. There can be 11 of the 12 issues and I won't read it.
Yeah missing #5 out of a five parter it'll sit till I get #5.
Ronbatman wrote:
#4 Conventions are funny things. My favorite conventions have toys, comics, original art, artists, and cosplay. I love talking to artists, watching them draw something and occasionally buying something. Cosplay just intrigues me. People make very specialized costumes, spending months to create something and then showing it off. very cool.
In addition to getting to a con I wanna take my oldest two kids with me to let them soak up some of the culture and atmosphere.
Ronbatman wrote:
#7 Goal with your son and his first car. Good Parenting! I tinker with cars buy one and work on it for a month or two and then sell it. Nothing big. I'll buy a Miata with a bad top, replace the top for $130 bucks and sell it for $1000 more than I paid for it. Whatever you decide to buy with your son, find a car that has easy to source parts.
Right now he thinks he's gonna be getting our clapped out '98 Acura CL with 275,000Mi. on it. Although he helped me swap a used transmission into it I think it's just about had it.
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
Defiant1 Posts: 720
2/18/2018
|
My only goal is to get through this year. It offers more questions than answers as everything is in extreme transition. I have no particular want list this year for comics.
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
deadone Posts: 42
2/20/2018
|
Hey everybody.
For most of 2017, I have been really focused on Horror, SciFi, and Fantasy Magazines from the late 60's through the early 1980's. I've been cycling through these fairly quickly, reading and enjoying for a small while then moving on to the next title. Nothing really worth keeping (sorry Ox, no Savage Tales #1) but a few nice issues I'll hang onto for a while including nice raw copies of Deadly Hands Of Kung Fu #22 and Marvel Super Action #1.
I've been laid back when it comes to buying and have been letting the books come to me (so to speak) and not actively searching for anything specific. I'll probably continue this throughout 2018 and focus on just becoming a little bit more organized.
Hope everyone is doing well. 
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
2/21/2018
|
Deadone,
I'm guessing that there are a lot of strange and wonderfully terrifying things in your collection. What is your favorite book? Story? Artist?
I dabble in 70's horror but just the DC and Marvel stuff. Mike Ploog fan as you can tell by my video and article.
http://blog.comicspriceguide.com/2018/02/13/mike-ploogs-best-comic-cover-art/
Although I did pick up an Eerie magazine recently and it was awesome.
Ron
|
|
|
0
link
|
|
deadone Posts: 42
2/22/2018
|
Ronbatman wrote:
Deadone,
I'm guessing that there are a lot of strange and wonderfully terrifying things in your collection. What is your favorite book? Story? Artist?
I dabble in 70's horror but just the DC and Marvel stuff. Mike Ploog fan as you can tell by my video and article.
http://blog.comicspriceguide.com/2018/02/13/mike-ploogs-best-comic-cover-art/
Although I did pick up an Eerie magazine recently and it was awesome.
Ron
My collection, if you can really call it a collection, it fairly tame. Most single issues generally only find a home with me for a short bit. Right now I only really hold onto hardcover collected editions because they fit nicely into what little display space that I have.
As for my favorite artist, when it comes to the older magazines, is a fairly close, three-way tie between Frazetta, Wrightson, and Sanjulian with Bernie Wrightson probably leading between those three.
My favorite story is "Jenifer", written by Bruce Jones and illustrated by Wrightson in the pages of Warren's Creepy magazine. Although my love for this story was probably ingrained in my head from seeing the live action story portrayed in Showtime's Masters of Horror series quite a few years ago.
Ploog is great, and his work on Ghost Rider was a favorite of mine when I was younger. A lot of work in the early Warren horror magazines as well.
Eerie's a great title. Worth picking up more if you ever have the chance.
It's hard to hold a regular sized comic after handling magazines for an extended period of time. They're just so hefty.
|
|
|
+1
link
|
