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Got It Covered
Got It Covered
Apr 08Sigh. Recently, I’ve discovered that certain key titles have somehow gone missing from my graphic novel collection. These aren’t just any ol’ GNs, but much-beloved favorites, which indicates to me that I probably loaned them to someone in a “you must read! You will loooove it!!!” frenzy and then promptly forgot about it. The missing titles are (oh, this breaks my heart): Blue Monday: The Kids Are Alright, Box Office Poison, and the X-Men Dark Phoenix Saga. Sob!
The plan is to thoroughly search our comic archives and bookshelves and if that fails, I may just have to replace them. I can’t not have these things in my collection. Anyway, the dilemma I’m facing is that all three of these things (I think) are currently in re-print mode, which means I could either hunt down the editions I previously owned (which aren’t all first editions or anything, they just have sentimental value) or just get the newer editions, which have different covers. I’m not sure how much I care about this.
Like, for example…this is the cover of the Dark Phoenix trade I originally owned. Kickass, right? There is something undeniably classic and elegant about the cover. And yet…there is also something old-schoolish and crazily awesome about the cover of the newest re-print, which comes out next week. A little more neon, yes. But still neat.
What would YOU do?
Weep uncontrolably?
Good luck searching and be prepared to ask likely culprits – most times someone has it and they just haven’t thought to return it. If it sucks to lose something, it also sucks to pay for it twice, when once day they move or whatever, find the first book, and return it to you.
A friend of mine has an excellent method – he’s not a diary kind of guy, but does like to keep track of what he’s done, so he has a calendar. Not only can he mark upcoming events, but make notes on things than have happened. So, when you loan something to someone, you write it down on the day you loaned it out. A quick calendar scan will tell you who has what.
i’m not Mr. X-Men, but I’m pretty sure those Dark Phoenix issues are in the first two Essential X-Men trades. i have those. you can borrow them if you want. or just pick them up yourself–you get dark phoenix, days of future past, Giant-Size X-Men #1, and more Claremont/Byrne fun.