{"id":1283,"date":"2008-09-29T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2008-09-29T10:47:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T17:47:09","slug":"the-50-things-that-no-great-comics-collection-needs-to-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Things That No Great Comics Collection Needs To Have"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by Tom Spurgeon<\/a>, my own public service.<\/p>\n

1. Lady Death
\n2. Chuck Austen
\n3. Brute Force<\/p>\n

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4. Milo Ventimiglia
\n5. Water damage
\n6. Psycho Pirate getting his eyes poked out
\n7. Three copies of Watchmen
\n8. CGC
\n9. The cast of Guiding Light<\/p>\n

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10. Polybags
\n11. Alan Moore’s WildCATS
\n12. Shitty minicomics
\n13. Power Girl’s rack
\n14. Alf
\n15. Film adaptations
\n16. Film adaptations of movies based on comic books
\n17. Mold
\n18. Liefeld<\/p>\n

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19. James Robinson’s WildCATS
\n20. The death of Justice League Europe
\n21. Nancy Reagan
\n22. Male superheroes becoming females briefly
\n23. The Beyonder’s hair circa Secret Wars II<\/p>\n

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24. Dust mites
\n25. Silverblade
\n26. Collectible trading cards
\n27. Ed Benes
\n28. Magical marriage retcons
\n29. Ass shots (see #27)
\n30. Henry Kissinger
\n31. A collection of webcomics printed off your computer on a dot-matrix
\n32. Nicholas Cage
\n33. Archie
\n34. Jason Todd…alive
\n35. Grant Morrison’s WildCATS
\n36. Anybody’s WildCATS (okay, maybe Joe Casey’s)
\n37. Mara Jade
\n38. Foil covers<\/p>\n

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39. Wonder Dog eating Marvin
\n40. Postcard inserts inviting you to get more information about the Navy
\n41. Danity Kane
\n42. Bloodwynd
\n43. Sagas involving clones
\n44. Harley Quinn
\n45. Freddy Krueger
\n46. Al Bundy<\/p>\n

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47. Cockroaches
\n48. Simon Cowell
\n49. Anything co-written by William Shatner
\n50. A blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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