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From: rs@mirror.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: About little plastic bags
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Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 23:34:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 24 23:34:00 1985
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Well, I finally broke down and did it, I took the big step:
I put all my comics in those silly little plastic bags.
Now, this is really no big deal, as I only have about 150 comics
and the first five years of Heavy Metal, but I found myself
reacting very strongly to what I was doing, and I'd like to
bring the topic up for discussion on the net.

Up until today, I had sort of kept the comics piled up on my
floor and on my records.  This was messy, but it was oh so
convenient to grab back issues of Cerebus when the latest issue
arrived, of American Flagg! when I was feeling randy :-), of
Heavy Metal when I was "altered," etc.  These comics were my
friends, in a way.  They provided me with hours of enjoyment
and (sometimes) stimulation and challenge -- everything one
could ask for in a good conversation.

Now, of course this casual treatment got to be rather hard
on them.  A couple of the HM's have food smears on them (at
least, I think it's food smears).  A few Cerebus's have sand
in them from a Cape Cod vacation/reunion where I turned my Mom
on to the little gray fellow.  And so on.  I wanted to protect
them, and make sure that the comics would be around years from
now, not just months.

Still, I can't help but feel that they way I used to treat
them is the way comics SHOULD be treated.  These are COMICS,
right?  Not High Art.  They should be around and available,
and picked up and put down as convenient, and on a whim.
Now I feel it's gonna be a big production number for me to
idly thumb through them.  Now I'm scared I'm not gonna do
that any more, and I'll degenerate from a comics fan and
reader to a comics collector.

What can I do?  What do YOU do to keep your comics safe,
yet there?

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