#2135226 - 01/13/0811:06 PMRe: What does your family/friends think about you collecting comics
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Originally Posted By: hellblazer
I have never in my entire life met a single person anywhere who understood why anyone would collect comics! (Except on these boards of course)
Even people who watch movies? Surely fans of movies such as X-Men and Spiderman have some understanding?
A few weeks ago I got a co-worker to watch the movie 300. She loved it! When I told her that the movie was based upon real events, inspired by a graphic novel, she was like really?
#2150110 - 01/21/0810:50 AMRe: What does your family/friends think about you collecting comics
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My wife - 1) Collect - thinks it is crazy/geeky/nerdy of me 2) Spend large sums of money on your collection - throws a fit 3) Fly around the country to buy comics/ have dinner with fellow collectors, etc - combination of #1 and #2
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#2150115 - 01/21/0810:54 AMRe: What does your family/friends think about you collecting comics
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Originally Posted By: pennynike1
A few weeks ago I got a co-worker to watch the movie 300. She loved it! When I told her that the movie was based upon real events, inspired by a graphic novel based upon real events, she was like really?
Fixed that for ya! otherwise, I didn't know the Persian War was inspired by a graphic novel
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Originally Posted By: pennynike1
Originally Posted By: hellblazer
I have never in my entire life met a single person anywhere who understood why anyone would collect comics! (Except on these boards of course)
Even people who watch movies? Surely fans of movies such as X-Men and Spiderman have some understanding?
A few weeks ago I got a co-worker to watch the movie 300. She loved it! When I told her that the movie was based upon real events, inspired by a graphic novel, she was like really?
Buying comics, reading comics, sure, anyone can understand that. That's no different to playing video games or watching sci-fi movies. Boy's stuff.
But collecting comics, revering comics, spending half a month's wages on a comic... that's what nobody else can relate to! Also, no matter how many times I explain the simple, sound financial reasons for not damaging my comics, friends and relatives still try to dismiss my fears as insanity. e.g.:
HB is looking through a longbox of 1980's comics. In walks UNCLE DOUGLAS.
UNCLE: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? HB: Oh, just looking through some of my old comic collection... UNCLE: WHAT!? COMICS?!?! HB: Yeah, I used to collect them. Thought I'd put some of the ones I'm not so interested in up on ebay.
Uncle quickly pulls a random comic from the box and appraises it, gripping it tightly by the spine.
UNCLE: THEY WORTH ANYTHING THEN? HB: That one isn't. Not anymore. But yeah, some of them are worth a fair bit. UNCLE: REALLY?? WEIRD!!
Uncle gives the comic an incredulous look, then hands it back. Luckily it's a post-unity Valiant.
#2150684 - 01/21/0803:35 PMRe: What does your family/friends think about you collecting comics
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DevilsRainDevilsRain
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As far as collecting, anytime a new girlfriend comes into the picture, they think im nuts. I dont mention how much is spent on them because then (im almost positive) theyd walk out the door.
My mother doesnt understand it, my father who collects coins understands it but freaks when I tell him what I pay for certain ones. My cousins collected books and baseball cards in the past so theyre the only ones who can appreciate it.
Havent traveled yet (with the exception of driving an hour) but plan on doing so soon. When I do I think Ill save myself the aggravation and not mention it.
#2359334 - 05/01/0801:27 PMRe: What does your family/friends think about you collecting comics
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From the book "Why I Like Stamp Collecting" by Ayn Rand:
Hobbies and relaxation
Hobbies and relaxation serve the same function as a vacation; they are ways to refuel your body and mind. A hobby can be a remedy for mental fatigue resulting from a profession that involves bringing work home. Often, an hour at a hobby will make you able to resume your work. It can be an effective brain-restorer.
The more you have done to take a vacation from work, the more purposeful you are, the more rewarding a vacation or a hobby can be. But not just any hobby. It also must meet your need for purpose. Collecting soap from different hotels will not do.
To the extent that a hobby resembles a career, it has the added benefit of a career; you can maintain a purpose over a long period of time. Although people can find pleasure in single occasions, such as a party or a show or even a vacation, this is a pleasure that ends right then and there, with no further consequences. Yet they need relaxation and rest from their constant, single-tracked drive. What they need is another track, but for the same train - that is, a change of subject, but using part of the same method of mental functioning.
A hobby allows the individual hobbyist to remain in his own private world, under his control. Depending on the hobby, he can avoid the dishonesty and irrationality of other people he often must deal with in a career. Nobody can interfere with his hobby, nobody needs to be considered or questioned or worried about. The choices, the work, the responsibility - and the enjoyment - are one's own. So is the great sense of freedom and privacy. For this reason, when one deals with fellow hobbyists, it is on a cheerful, benevolent basis. There is the sense of a "brotherhood" of people with shared values.
GE
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I don't really care what people think about collecting comics. I've done it forever and will continue 'till I tire of it. I think life is about finding and doing the things you love and comics fits the bill for me. Any person that thinks it is silly usually has a bad habit like smoking, gambling, drinking etc. and I will take my 'bad' habit over theirs any century. Of course, keeping my comic budget to a reasonable amount, keeps peace in the household.
#2359893 - 05/01/0809:11 PMRe: What does your family/friends think about you collecting comics
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Here's the weird thing...throughout the years, I've always had a friend who was into comics too. Lately, my one friend sold off his collection, my sister's comic collecting boyfriend broke up with her and moved away, and now I'm stuck by myself in this hobby, with no like-minded friends. Now I go to cons alone, and don't really have anoyone to talk comics with. And oh yeah, my girlfriend thinks it's ok (though she wants me to sell my collection), and her family thinks i'm nuts.
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Originally Posted By: GreatEscape
From the book "Why I Like Stamp Collecting" by Ayn Rand:
Hobbies and relaxation
Hobbies and relaxation serve the same function as a vacation; they are ways to refuel your body and mind. A hobby can be a remedy for mental fatigue resulting from a profession that involves bringing work home. Often, an hour at a hobby will make you able to resume your work. It can be an effective brain-restorer.
The more you have done to take a vacation from work, the more purposeful you are, the more rewarding a vacation or a hobby can be. But not just any hobby. It also must meet your need for purpose. Collecting soap from different hotels will not do.
To the extent that a hobby resembles a career, it has the added benefit of a career; you can maintain a purpose over a long period of time. Although people can find pleasure in single occasions, such as a party or a show or even a vacation, this is a pleasure that ends right then and there, with no further consequences. Yet they need relaxation and rest from their constant, single-tracked drive. What they need is another track, but for the same train - that is, a change of subject, but using part of the same method of mental functioning.
A hobby allows the individual hobbyist to remain in his own private world, under his control. Depending on the hobby, he can avoid the dishonesty and irrationality of other people he often must deal with in a career. Nobody can interfere with his hobby, nobody needs to be considered or questioned or worried about. The choices, the work, the responsibility - and the enjoyment - are one's own. So is the great sense of freedom and privacy. For this reason, when one deals with fellow hobbyists, it is on a cheerful, benevolent basis. There is the sense of a "brotherhood" of people with shared values.
GE
Ayn Rand is incredible. Although she would tell us that, "you do not need me to tell you that it is okay to do what you enjoy. As long as you do not infringe upon someone else's individual rights and property, do and collect what you want." At least that is what I hear every time I get ready to raise my bid.
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It really is a smaller hobby than some collectors would like to think.
