Monday, August 1, 2011

STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

Yes  I admit it. I am guilty. I still dig comics after all these years. I started reading comics during my school days and I was still crazy even through out my working years. In fact working life give me even more opportunity to read and explore to other comics title.  In fact my best friend, the late Richard chua was even crazier than me and being a business man he could afford to buy more comics than me. We used to travel regularly almost every week to a novety shop in kuala lumpur that sells comics. So you can understand whenever one of our superheroes make it to the big screen I am excited and looked forward to catch the movie. My only regret was if only my friend were still alive , we would have fun together to catch the movie,just like we did whenever we go through our comics collection. As our collection grew I  realized the need to get organized . That was when I suggested we have them all bound up , just that those journals and magazine, people sent to the bookshops to have them bound. When we first sent our comics , we used go get funny looks, but as kept sending more and more order, the looks changed to that of a welcome look. I guest we were the only one that kept coming back weeks after weeks, whereas the others only comes once a year.
One of the many volumes Comics

While searching for something in my cupboard this morning I saw my lost comics . It's a shame none of my children have any interests in them. My late friend's collection must have been destroyed during his demise and I dare not ask for them as my wife was already complaining my collection was taking up space at home.

2 comments:

  1. You know I've got a friend who is so crazy about comics, guess what? he has been collecting since he was 13 and now he is 41 and guess what again? he is still keeping, guess what what again? he collects every month,,, he has like the standing instruction from the publishers one,, geng lah

    you will be surprised, one day this collection will turn out to be good ROI one lol

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  2. Eugene,
    I am not surprise at all. in fact if not because of $$ reason, I would have keep on collecting. The tax in malaysia for reading material is just crazy.like that how to encourage people to read? those days I have to look for paper back whenever I want to get a novel or book. comics is no exception.

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