Thanks guys! As for what I read. I mostly follow writers. Warren Ellis, Gail Simone, Brian Bendis, Jeph Loeb, Geoff Johns, etc...

I love Fables! I have the first 11 trades right now and am now aiming at getting the hardcovers. I am working on the hardcover collection for Starman and Preacher as well.

Current books I am getting: Green Lantern, All the Avengers books, Ultimates, Secret Six, Fables, Iron Fist, and basically anything else that strikes my interest. Even though I am technically behind on the books since I am getting the stories 6 months from the start of the runs...I just can't deal with the floppies. I need the whole story.

The one con I always go to every year is Charlotte Heroes Con for the entire weekend. I usually hit one day of the Baltimore Comic Con, I occasionally get to the Pittsburgh Comic Con (usually only if the Pirates are playing so I can get in a game...Go Bucs!) And my wife and I were going to the New York Comic Con every year but it just got too expensive. I currently have 1546 hardcovers and trades and the collection keeps getting bigger...and while I am thinking about it...I really need to get it seperately insured. *sigh*.

I collect trades and hardcovers and I am the luckiest guy in the world as my wife is into comics and goes with me to comic conventions.

Here is one wall of my Comic Book Armory:



This is an old pic...all of those spaces are filled and then some.

I have another wall that contains my novels, one wall that has the closet containing all of my various weaponry...and the fourth wall has a futon, lamp and a new bookcase that is my newest addition.

Now if I could just get some signed FPW books to put on that wall.
I'm going to keep an eye out for when FPW does a con or signing in my area.

That's a nice little collection you have started there Ed. Here's a sample of mine...[ATTACH]

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The shelves are from my old bookstore. I got them free after we "condensed sections". They are six shelves high and each one holds almost a longbox and a half. I've been collecting a long time. If you look at the bottom picture you'll see some hardcover Masterworks, the rest are floppies. I still have longboxs as well. In another room I have 70+ DC Archives, Some Absolute editions and other slipcased collectors editions.

BTW Scott- I will suggest Cerebus for your reading tastes. It's a 300 issue limited series that ran from 1977- 2004. They are collected in "phone books" of 25 issues give or take. The first volume is crude and somewhat amateurish, Barry Windsor Smith Conan tribute, but after the second volume it becomes a riot. Make it through the first volume and it does have it's moments. But the second volume on becomes amazing.

Also Greg Rucka & Ed Brubaker did a series called Gotham Central for DC. Batman's not really in it but it follows the Gotham City PD. Great twisted stuff.

I also have more bookshelves for novels. Including a nice FPW mostly autographed limited edition collection.
For more FPW comic book work check out,
Eerie #34 (8/71)
Creepy #44 (3/72)
OPEN SPACE #2 (Marvel 4/90)
Doomed #3 (IDW) 10/05

...and yes I know I'm sick.

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That's a nice little collection you have started there Ed. Here's a sample of mine

Holy shit Batman! I thought Ed's collection made mine look puny; I've got maybe 500 single issues and about 30 trades. So do you read them or bag them?

BTW Scott- I will suggest Cerebus for your reading tastes. It's a 300 issue limited series that ran from 1977- 2004. They are collected in "phone books" of 25 issues give or take. The first volume is crude and somewhat amateurish, Barry Windsor Smith Conan tribute, but after the second volume it becomes a riot. Make it through the first volume and it does have it's moments. But the second volume on becomes amazing.

I'll look into it; I don't believe I've heard of it.

Also Greg Rucka & Ed Brubaker did a series called Gotham Central for DC. Batman's not really in it but it follows the Gotham City PD. Great twisted stuff.

I liked that series a lot as well.

...and yes I know I'm sick.

Probably not looking for a cure though.

I've read close to half of them (carefully-at least usually). I then bag and board. I used to buy a lot at conventions when I could get great prices, After a while I'd sort through an older series when I felt I had 3/4rths of it done, or at least a strong run, then fill in the missing issues and read straight through. I have every issue of Daredevil from issue #1 in 1964 to present.

I also have a few pages of original art. I have a page Gene Colan did for Detective Comics. As well as a page I'll eventually frame and hang on the door to my library, it's a page from Last Temptation that Michael Zulli drew and Neal Gaiman wrote for the Alice Cooper album tie in novel. While it's not an "iconic" page that people see reprinted or tributes to. It's a page of Gaiman's words, Zulli's art referencing a library and Alice Cooper. In other words it's the perfect page to use as the entrance to my "library".

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BTW Scott- I will suggest Cerebus for your reading tastes. It's a 300 issue limited series that ran from 1977- 2004. They are collected in "phone books" of 25 issues give or take. The first volume is crude and somewhat amateurish, Barry Windsor Smith Conan tribute, but after the second volume it becomes a riot. Make it through the first volume and it does have it's moments. But the second volume on becomes amazing.

I have pretty much the complete Cerebus, bought an issue at a time. The first 200 are some of the best comics evah. Some time after that, Sim went astray. The digressions became longer and increasingly irrelevant, and I lost interest. I found myself buying them without reading them.

But start with the first phone book and keep going till you run out of interest. There's a ton of hilarity in the social commentary, especially aimed at superheroes (wait till you meet the Cockroach in issue #11).

I've read close to half of them (carefully-at least usually). I then bag and board. I used to buy a lot at conventions when I could get great prices, After a while I'd sort through an older series when I felt I had 3/4rths of it done, or at least a strong run, then fill in the missing issues and read straight through. I have every issue of Daredevil from issue #1 in 1964 to present.

My collection is way too well read to be of value to anyone but myself. The complete Daredevil-that is awesome. I have about 50 issues from about #135-#185.

I also have a few pages of original art. I have a page Gene Colan did for Detective Comics. As well as a page I'll eventually frame and hang on the door to my library, it's a page from Last Temptation that Michael Zulli drew and Neal Gaiman wrote for the Alice Cooper album tie in novel. While it's not an "iconic" page that people see reprinted or tributes to. It's a page of Gaiman's words, Zulli's art referencing a library and Alice Cooper. In other words it's the perfect page to use as the entrance to my "library".

Not my favorite Gaiman story, but Zulli's art is great and that does make for a cool entry picture.

Yeah, Dave Sim went off the deep end when he got divorced. Though I will be picking up the full Cerebus run when they re-release them in hardcover.