joe randel's art dump

Today I gathered up all my comic books and took them down to the local comic shop at lunch.  It wasn’t a lot of comics.  Just a short box with about 60 or 70 in it.  Mostly Image comics from High School like Spawn, Savage Dragon, W.I.L.D. Cats, WetWorks with some Sandman mixed in for variety.  I was expecting to get about $20 bucks but the guy offered me $45 for everything.  I was happy with the price so I agreed and walked out.

I’m sure he’ll price everything a lot higher to turn a buck but I don’t care.  He has to wait for a buyer for those comics while I have his money in my pocket now.  Plus they where just sitting in my basement in a Rubermaid container doing nothing.  I realized that I was never going to look at them again.  So I might as well sell them and buy something that I’d like to have rather then forgotten comics in the basement.

This kind of thing is actually a big deal for me.  I’m a bit of a pack rat and put emotional attachment to a lot of things I own for no real reason.  It just makes me happy owning it (or saving something) and having it in my basement tucked away.  But I’m trying to put an end to that and only keep things that I really want and not things that I think will make me happy or things to fill a void or a loss.

It’s hard but I’m very proud of myself today.

Next I’ll dump my Magic the Gathering cards ^_^