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The completely self absorbed making of comic porn thread

Started by Colin YNWA, 01 December, 2013, 05:05:06 PM

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TordelBack

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Quote from: Hawkmonger on 03 December, 2013, 12:01:43 PMDo they come in black?

So young!   ;)

I'm developing cave-envy here.  My own holdings are scattered about the house and attic (although I did win the concession of a whole bookcase for GNs in our bedroom!), and despite putting up about 20m of shelving in my shed garage office this year it's all occupied with tools and work-related archives (and, inexplicably, my 1st ed AD&D manuals), and the other 10 bookcases jammed into the house are wasted on books and DVDs.  Be nice to have everything comicsy accessible in one place  Maybe if I sold one of the children and used the cash to shelve-out their vacated room? 

Colin YNWA

A big thank you to Tordelback I was waiting for someone to post so I was seen as spamming my own thread... damn that sounds even sillier now I've types it. Anyway Hawkmonger I've found the right shelves (just a proper  Google search away).

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/categories/departments/living_room/12151/

2000d storage on the £40 extension unit (shown in white) with no middle shelf. American comics on the £35 ones (again in white) with only one rather than two of the shelves in place.

QuoteI'm developing cave-envy here.  My own holdings are scattered about the house and attic (although I did win the concession of a whole bookcase in our bedroom!), and despite putting up about 20m of shelving in my shed garage office this year it's all occupied with work archives (and, inexplicably, my 1st ed AD&D manuals).  Be nice to have everything comicsy accessible in one place  Maybe if I sold one of the children and used the cash to shelve-out their vacated room?

To be honest I just got lucky. There was the very real prospect that my collection was going to an attic in the whatever new house we found. With Silveracre being the only people to benefit as I throw money at them for proper comic boxes to store them in. Apparently the child having their own rooms was more important than my hobby, I'll spare you the details of that one. As it happens when we saw this house and it had this random room at the back of a garage my wife - now of course completely redeemed and back to being the wonderful person she always has been... just with wonky priorities, immediately said something like 'Oh and you can store your comics in here'. It was simply then a matter of ensuring she loved the house enough to put a crazy high bid in the sealed bids lottery that so many Sheffield house sales fall to.

I'm jealous of your shelving space in the bedroom. When we thought we'd never find the house we wanted and were looking at what we could do with the old house I pitched for having the very 2000ad display seen here in the bedroom. While I never got an outright no, the look in my wife's eyes told me all I needed to know!

Oh and just in case my wife is reading this, she's taken to reading this thread - hi Deb - I'm not able to modify posts after a very short period but will modify my behaviour if needed!

TordelBack

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 03 December, 2013, 12:57:36 PM
A big thank you to Tordelback I was waiting for someone to post so I was seen as spamming my own thread...

I'm nothing if not reliable in that department.

Theblazeuk

My Dad has a 'comic room'. It's also where the PC is and where we keep various handy things for the house.

I'll post a pic over Christmas. Its a pale shadow of its former self as most things have been tagged, bagged, boxed and moved up into the attic. But it's still a thing of beauty...


Hawkmumbler

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 03 December, 2013, 12:31:47 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 03 December, 2013, 12:01:43 PM
Those shelving units looks perfect for my bedroom for storing my meg's and gn's in. Do they come in black?

Without having my info to hand I'm pretty sure these are from the IKEA Besta Range which does indeed come in black. They come with a middle shelve which as you can see I don't use so the pictures you see can be deceptive. If I think on when I get home I'll check details.
Top stuff. They will be mine come the new year. :D

Proudhuff

Quote from: Theblazeuk on 03 December, 2013, 03:43:45 PM
My Dad has a 'comic room'. It's also where the PC is and where we keep various handy things for the house.

I'll post a pic over Christmas. Its a pale shadow of its former self as most things have been tagged, bagged, boxed and moved up into the attic. But it's still a thing of beauty...

You'll find pages of that kind of thing here:

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,20831.0.html

and the comic type here:

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,20831.0.html

there's a thread for 'spines only' but thats just weird  ;)
DDT did a job on me

Skullmo

Quote from: Proudhuff on 03 December, 2013, 11:48:34 AM
Glad you mentioned the metal cat, I thought thought you had a LARGE rodent problem

It's to catch the Stainless Steel Rat
It's a joke. I was joking.

Trout


Colin YNWA

LET THE SORTING AND THE SHELVING BEGIN!!!!

This battle cry, this call to arms is on the surface so simple. It however disguises what is a gateway to some truly soul searching questions. So like all great leaders preparing for battle I gather my generals, I look at the resources I have to hand, I examine the terrain, look at its limitations and we plan how to taken on the enemy to ensure glorious victory.

Yes my friends YOU are my generals and so I ask you to gather round and discuss strategy before we launch into battle... hopefully for a couple of hours over the weekend, you know assuming other stuff doesn't get in the way, like 2 year old's birthday parties. Alexander the Great didn't have to deal with that nonsense let me tell you!

Anyway, first we must consider the terrain. In the first instance we have the primary hills. The best location is of course already given over to the elite troops of the Prog but there is another large hill to that needs filling.



Apologise for the quality of the image but reconnaissance had a lot of dishes to do last night and so didn't get time to get new photos ready.

Now special forces such as the Kirby Collection, current ongoing titles and maybe westerns will take that smaller hillack just to the left of the main hill. We'll come to that in time. Our first question is the larger hill, which consists of 12 shelves with a capacity for 190 men ... ahem I mean comics, I should try not to let the really stretched metaphor run away too far! Allowing us to deploy some 2280 comics up there.

So lets look at the numbers. We have 6600 comics, trades and graphic novels to deploy. Of those some 2250 are accounted for by 2000ad etc. A further 500 we'll be deploying to that smaller hillock to the right. That leaves us 3850 units. We need to reduce the number we can place on the hill by some 25% to allow for some future movement and to accommodate larger units, the trades and novels. So we have space for approximately 1700 comics (I use Collectorz.com Comic database if people need any exact figures)

Clearly our best troops go here. So my first question to you is do we split our divisions and pull out only the finest. So now clearly this rubbish metaphor has reached breaking point, let me use more clear language. Do we (I) have the courage to split my sets up. For example I have approximately 300 Batman comics trades   etc. As I'm very character driven I'd like to keep them together. Alas space restrictions mean this may be impractical. So do I pull out the best runs, Grant n Breyfogle, the Morrison run and consign the rest to the reserves? Similar issues exist with The Avengers, Flash, Spirit and potentially Spidey.

To help you answer this I guess I should show you the fate of the reserves. Its this...



Though we will be getting another shelf up and new comic boxes (short ones fit very nicely end on into this very deep cupboards) will be purchased.

So any further questions before we reach our answer?

Colin YNWA


Proudhuff

never mind all that, size and colour that's the only guide you need  :D
DDT did a job on me

SuperSurfer

Good thinking Colin on buying those shelves that can be rearranged. I am going to have a problem on that front.

Recrewt

I think a large part of the answer to your bookshelf query relies on your reading habits.  Do you have periods where you go through all you batman books or do you prefer more variety and flip between titles. The easiest option would seem to be to have all your batman and flash titles out and store the rest in the cupboard.  Then a few months later you can swap them around.  Makes storing easier too as you can box all of the same titles together.

Colin YNWA

Quote from: Recrewt on 04 December, 2013, 06:00:21 PM
I think a large part of the answer to your bookshelf query relies on your reading habits. 

This sentence firmed up my thinking and tonight I managed to fit in a couple of hours good solid nerd time. The results being (in the main).



As Recrewt suggested I needed to take it back to my reading habits and my reading list (its a spreadsheet by jeepers its the only way I can keep track of it!) is made entirely of runs. So I've decided to try to be strong and break the habit of a nerding lifetime and break by collections down to the runs NOT by company then character as I've always done in the past.

So on that basis the shelves above consist of all my favourite runs (well almost as you'll see later in the week I hope.) of American comics. As this is a tell all expose of the making of comic porn here's the list of whats on what shelves for anyone daft enough to care to look.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai5434SfdsurdEdrRGFGaXd1WC1leUk5ZWpIQVJSZ2c&usp=sharing

Except of course it not. This was a draft used to work out in rough what I could fit on. The act of actually doing it of changed things a bit some selections didn't make the cut and I also missed some stuff, like my Eisner Spirits, quite how I managed to miss them off escapes me. Anyhoo the final cut is different to whats on that list but it gives you the gist. If I get the time I might go into some of the more curious, nay controversial decisions I've made here at some point soon.

So there you have it a couple of hours and we've another set of shelves shorted (ish). Other decisions have been made as to what will be purchased extra shelving wise and what else will happen. Some other questions remain unanswered and we'll see what happens and a couple of other things have been sorted which I'll show you all later.

One final photo. Of course I'm showing you the stuff as it gets to the shelves. It all looks quite neat (skirting  board issues aside.) or at least gives signs of progress. This of course all comes at a cost.



The discarded boxes. Chaos comes from order it would seem.

I, Cosh

Bold decision Colin. By the way, I think I'd like to marry you.
We never really die.