[crabapple]

My "collection" (if you can call it that) is even more miniscule...maybe forty or fifty assorted issues of this or that. Some comic books, some magazines. When I read one through and find it bores me, I try to trade it for something else, or sell it to get money to buy something else.

But I really do love these things, though. I even love trading them away, because I know they're going out there "into the world" to make someone else a little bit happier. There is a weird kinship between book collectors, have you noticed that? They share the same geekdom or something. And if there's one thing that makes me happy, even more than hips, lips, and finger-tips, it's being a GEEK for dumb stuff like comic books. There is something really satisfying about it.