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Whaddya own, then?

I own the complete "Mafalda", in one thick hardcover volume. All of "Calvin & Hobbes", in stray volumes, though I may be missing a Sunday or two. I'm reasonably certain that every "Asterix" up to Goscinny's death is back at my parent's house...oh wait, except the one with the vikings. I think.

I own all of "Preacher". A big part of that though was this comics-newcomer friend of mine, who I let read the few early volumes I had and then he was like "uhm, so don't you wanna know how the story goes on?", which had never really ocurred to me - I was just like "sure, sometime", just had this attitude of buying TPBs whenever. But, he made me curious, and then he found someone else who had them all, so I had to keep up!

I was going to read all of "Cerebus" this year, but gave up after "Minds".

Haha, well, I own both volumes of LOEG, and the two guides.

Another friend of mine is heavily into the downloading comics thing, and so he'll come to uni saying things like "read all of "Sandman" last night". Crazy stuff.

Yerself?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Nexus (minus the original B&W run), Grendel, Badger... the mid/late 80s stuff from my comics buying peak. All of the first Love & Rockets series except for #1.

Almost all of Cerebus, if you count the earliest issues in the form of the "Swords of Cerebus" collections, but I guess those don't count. Plus, I'm missing some from the 280s/290s when I was in some financial strain and couldn't spare a dime for comics. But I've got Cerebus straight through from #26 to the high 280s.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Maddie has the Invisibles and Preacher runs in singles. In trades, well, we have a disgusting amount of stuff.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

I assume we're sticking to things over twelve issues?

X-Statix
Invisibles
Promethea
Transmetropolitan

My best friend had all of Hellblazer up to maybe #150, which is dedication. Bought them all when they came out, too. Also Preacher.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

In single issues, I have complete runs of:

Morrison:

- Animal Man (spanish edition, though)
- Invisibles Vols 2 and 3 (Vol 1, I have some singles and some trades)
- Doom Patrol (well, I have the first couple of years in spanish edition)
- JLA (including DC One Million and every crossover, even the lamest ones)
- New X-Men
- And all of the minis

Milligan:

- Shade, The Changing Man
- The Human Target
- X-Force/X-Statix

Warren Ellis:

- Transmetropolitan
- Planetary
- StormWatch Vol 2 and The Authority (vol 1 in trades)

Giffen & DeMatteis:

- JLA/JLE

Robinson:

- Starman from ish 16 till the very end (yeah, I like Robinson, and I deeply loved Starman), and the Shade mini.

Mark Waid:

- Captain America

And:

- 100 Bullets
- Lucifer
- Bachalo's Generation X

I have most of the issues of the current Flash series, tough I missed, like, 15-20 issues, and a little less than the half of them are non-US editions. And waay to many lame Superman issues from the eighties, nineties and Y2K

Other than that, there are many not-that-long complete runs (like, Madman Comics, The Atomics or Ann Nocenti's Kid Eternity) or heavily represented by trades (Miller's Daredevil, Hate, Akira, etc). 2 trades for Preacher, 1 for Hitman, and I can't believe how bad those series have aged (especially Preacher)

― iodine (iodine), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I have all of mafalda, though that's shouldn't really be a big deal since I'm from argentina. I have a huge, decade-spanning little nemo book too (amadeo has another one like that)

― iodine (iodine), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Dude, a complete run's a complete run. If you don't have the Rachel Pollock Doom Patrols, you're a dilletante. And a happy man.

― Andrew Farrell (dilletante & happy man, for the record) (afarrell), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

But I have the kupperberg issues!

― iodine (iodine), Friday, 21 October 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

No one ever remembers Paul Kupperberg wrote the series before Morrison! Even rachel pollack's run is better known!

― iodine (iodine), Friday, 21 October 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

No one ever remembers Paul Kupperberg wrote the series before Morrison! Even rachel pollack's run is better known!

Just like Marty Pasko's run on Swamp Thing...

― iodine (iodine), Friday, 21 October 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

I used to have the Kupperberg and Pollock DPs as well as the Morrison ones, but I threw them out! (I went on a weird Doom Patrol buying kick as a teenager and I bought all the back issues and guest appearances I could get my hands on-- I've got most of the Silver Age series still.) Also I've got the Morrison Animal Man, the complete Zot!, and I think I'm only missing one issue from the run of Gerber Defenders. That's probably about it for complete runs of real comic books-- CBRs are a whole 'nother story, although I've cut way back from my downloading prime (but I've still got the complete Sandman, Elfquest, Ditko Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, Silver Age Doom Patrol, and probably some other stuff that I can't think of at present).

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 21 October 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

You know, I actually started reading DP during the Kupperberg era-- I picked up the first Morrison issues because I liked the previous Kupperberg series, although I only kept up with it sporadically before Morrison got the gig! I had terrible taste in comic books as a preteen-- my longboxes were filed with complete runs of things like Power of the Atom, Sensational She-Hulk, Who's Who in the DC Universe, Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, and fricking Tek World, not the fan favorites like X-Men (I had a lot of the JRjr issues, but never really followed it) or Nexus or Swamp Thing (I think I had more Marty Pasko STs than Alan Moore ones! Remember when Swamp Thing had to fight the Golem?) or The Sandman (although I did finally hop on board the bandwagon during the "Brief Lives" storyline).

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 21 October 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

The three issues of Cerebus I'm missing are numbered 5 and under. Even I'm not stupid enough to pay the amount of money I would need to acquire them (although, with all the trades and all the reprints you might wonder what I want them for).

Missing one issue of Saga Of The Swamp Thing (#4). I'm only missing one of the first series as well (14, IIRC).

Complete Hellblazer in singles (although it's Frances that keeps me buying them).

Lots of more modern things, obviously.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

> My best friend had all of Hellblazer up to maybe #150, which is dedication.

the lightweight! i'm missing #197 and #207 but will be switching to the books after #212. this just eclipses my previous complete run which was swamp thing volume 2 (eat my shorts, mr cowpat!). had all of the vertigo releases for several years, all sandman, all sandman mystery theatre, black orchid, preacher, shade, all that stuff, all individual issues. (until they started cancelling the classics in favour of, say, another witches mini series.)

all of akira (individuals), all nausicaa of the valley of wind. tom strong up to #30, all but 1 promethea (curses), kane up to #32... so many boxes...

but i guess martin wins with the complete LW&C (10,000 pages)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

I had/have all the DC Phantom issues (the 4-ish Joe Orlando mini, and the 12-ish Verheiden/McDonnell "ongoing"), JLI from #3 to about #48, Green Lantern from about #110 though #224, Green Arrow from #2 through #24, 1989 Legion of Superheroes from #1 to about #15, LEGION from '89 to '91, Hellblazer from the mid-20s to early 60s I think.

So really, the only complete run I have/had is the Phantom, and maybe GL counts, since, fuck, I had them all going back to when I was born! Dammit! Do you know how much work that was?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I used to have some sweet runs, but I purged my entire collection a few years ago for pennies on the C-note for the sake of personal portability and/or wanton Daver-patented stupidity.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

The Invisibles
Preacher

Uh, I think that's about it in issue form. I have all of Promethea except for the very last issue, which I've never read but have heard is more postmodern wankery.

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Everyone has "Preacher"! And yet you all hate it. :(

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I don't hate it. I think it's pretty politically objectionable and all the main characters are twats, but there's some good storytelling in there.

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I have a big Irish soft spot for the Empire State/Cassidy's origin story, and I really like the two war stories. The rest of it is fun, inoffensive offensiveness. Apart from Salvation, which was a bit pointless, and of course the Bill Hicks episode.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I like the big OTT arcs involving Starr, the Saint of Killers and HUGE PILES OF CORPSES.

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Garth Ennis think's he's good at the sappy stuff, but he's really not.

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

oh god the bill hicks episode. i tried to convince myself that wasn't lame and just couldn't quite.

― tom west (thomp), Friday, 21 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I think he is good at the sappy stuff, but not at the What Does It Mean To Be A Man stuff?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 21 October 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm not saying he can't handle sensitive material - the Arseface special is one of the best things he's ever written, but it was much more matter-of-fact in tone than the lovey dovey scenes in which Jesse and Tulip exchange endless platitudes.

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Yes, good point.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Wanton Daver-Patented Stupidity would be a great name for thee ILC Collective String Cheese Symphony & Tralala Orchestra with Chorus.

As I continually struggle with the politics of singles/trades, the only complete floppy run I have is Goth Central.

xpost I agree with Joe -- GE's sappism often broached reductive cloyingness in Preacher, though his first arc on Hellblazer was kind of awwww.

― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh fuck. I guess I also have a complete run of Superman/Batman! Wow. I am cool. Oh, and, um, Catpan AMcrirae and the new Ske-Hulh, and Gneer Retnlan and also, um, ALJ: Asscifledi.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Though if we're counting TPBs too:

Q&C
Blade of the Immortal (first 9 volumes, plus the following arc in floppies)
Madman (including the horrible first collection)
Bone (individual TPBs (9), One-Volume SC (since sold), One-Volume HC (still unopened), plus 3-issue Rose mini, and Stupid Stupid Rat Tales (since sold))
Kabuki (first 6 volumes)

― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

TPBs would be too long to list with me.

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I have a complete Sandman, twice over even (hardcovers and singles). I went ALL THE WAY.

Morrison Doom Patrol, Invisibles, JLA, X-Men and Flex Mentallo.

Kirby's Fourth World.

Hellboy (singles and trades because I couldn't find the singles when I was living and working in LA and wanted to read them for some reason.)

Swamp Thing by Moore and company. Also his Miracleman in singles.

Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot (which was certainly ahead of the game when I read it in the mid eighties as it came over to the states for the first time.)

The Shadow from the eighties, by Chaykin/Chaykin, Helfer/Sienkiewicz and Helfer/Baker.

I've never read a single issue of Preacher. Ever.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Agree on Arseface Special. I haven't gone back to it in years, but I remember him really nailing it there.

― iodine (iodine), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Are we talking about Arseface the former ward of Green Arrow or something else completely?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

We're talking about this guy:

http://www.utv.ee/~ivar/articles/pics/arseface.jpg

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I have a complete Sandman, twice over even (hardcovers and singles). I went ALL THE WAY.

How's that working out for you?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I was younger once than I am now.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I have the complete Giff/DeM Justice League run, most of PAD's Hulk, all Morrison's DP and Animal Man run, almost every Batman and Superman from 1989-2001, and, um, every issue of Dr. Fate and Mister Miracle.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 22 October 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

i'm pretty bad at this stuff. i don't even own both volumes of maus!

i do have the big book with all of lionel feininger's the kinderkids (only lasted 30 weeks), that's about it.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I don't own either volume of Maus. In fact I've never any read of it. I've always written it off as a comic for people who don't like comics. I admit I'm probably wrong.

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Saturday, 22 October 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Maybe so. I read the first book of Maus at least a dozen times when I was a teenager-- not so much because I love to read about the Holocaust, but because I thought the storytelling was really good. (Used to have both volumes, but they went out along with the Sandman comics during my first big purge.)

― Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, 23 October 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

i think a lot more of maus than i used to - the cat/mouse/pig/etc thing used to bug me, but now i can't really see how it could have been done more effectively any other way. it probably is a comic for people who don't like comics, but then i don't like 95% of comics anyway, so...

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

> Hellboy (singles...)

all these are numbered on the inside cover (independent of series, if you get what i mean) and are currently up to 25 or so. can't find a list of them mapping them to these numbers anywhere. anyone?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't really seem to do the 'complete run' thing. I think I have Suicide Squad in a box at home somewhere. And I used to have NEW MUTANTS omg, except my first Cable issue was 8th printing or something.

I never had a complete run of Preacher and thought it got quite shit quite quickly.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

I have a terrifying number of complete runs--basically every DC or Vertigo title of any note from the last decade, among other things. But if we're talking things that I actually had to go back and buy some or most of as back issues... well, I haven't quite accomplished the entire Legion run in Adventure Comics yet, but I've been chipping away at it for a while. Also managed to score all of Killraven (in his various titles) and all of Tomb of Dracula for 35 cents apiece, mostly, in my youth.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 24 October 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

I like digging back in your old boxes and finding completely mystifying stuff you never liked in the first place. Did I really need 30 issues of Starman? Aquaman? Twilight of the Gods?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 24 October 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

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