June 6th, 2011
Over at the Standard I’ve got a long piece about the Great Comic Book Bubble of 1993. Surely you’ve been dying to read about this epiphenomenon for years.
(The art is from my collection; it’s kind of fun.)
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We have quite a few of the New Teen Titans. A friend of mine was a collector. When she found out my son (now 15) was interested in comics, she gave me several paper grocery bags of late 80’s comics. He loved them. They may not be worth money, but they got a kid hooked on comics. He went online and researched the back stories on all the characters. In some cases, he’s a walking encyclopedia. How many 15 year old boys know where the new X-Men movie went awry with Sebastian Shaw’s story? Of course, where the movies are concerned, they messed up the Phoenix story a long time ago. I guess it’s time for a reboot.
WershovenistPig June 6, 2011 at 12:59 pm
I’d like to make an analogy.
The New Teen Titans, DC’s attempt at mimicking Marvel’s success with angsty teenage superheroes in Uncanny X-Men, is like a second vacation home in the Carolinas, nowhere near any sort of economic center, and lots of acreage ready to be developed. Whereas the X-Men are more like a house in the Hamptons. Yes, it’s a second home, but it’s a short distance from New York, and there’s a far more limited supply of buildable shoreline on the South Fork than down south.
Ok, perhaps it’s a crap analogy. But I did enjoy your point that there’s plenty of real estate out there that’s basically worth scrap value.