This is especially true for the comics that I have amassed. About 3-5 years ago, I had a major comic collector, and I’ve amassed a collection of monthly issues and all the classic trades, but I don’t feel that I am able to properly enjoy them on a regular basis.  No matter how often I tell myself that I don’t care about comic conditions or value, I end up treating them as ancient treasures that cannot be damaged.  I would say that 99% of issues that I have have been read through once and stored bagged and boarded in alphabetical order by series for years.  It’s a rather sad existence for some wonderful art that someone put so much time into to write, draw, ink and color.  By selling them, I hope that someone else is able to get better overall enjoyment than I ever was.

I started the process with comics, because I find that I care less and less about the characters that I once loved.   At the time,  I was obsessed with super hero comics, especially Batman, but in hindsight these are characters and stories that I can relate to less and less as I get older.  When you take away some of the magic around ’super heroes’, I don’t think that I am able to properly appreciate the books any longer.

Thankfully,  this is stuff that holds it’s value pretty well on the open market due to the success of the recent movies.  I have been putting up a bunch of them up on eBay every week in an effort to clean things up.  So far, I have been fairly successful,  almost everything is selling because I am setting the starting prices super low in an effort to unload it.  Once the comics are done, I hope to undertake a similar effort on the books and DVD’s.  Due to the bulky, heavy nature of these things, I haven’t come to terms with how I am going to post them up on eBay. I think I am going to just post them up in lots and let people have at it.  At worst, I will end up giving them away, because this is more about removing the clutter than it is about recouping the money.

Do you have any tips to unloading unwanted comics, books or DVD’s?  Any success stories to keep me on this path would be greatly appreciated

I just watched the trailer for the upcoming Bruce Willis film Surrogates, and the concept is pretty interesting.  To be honest, I am not familiar with the original comic book series that it is based on, the concept seems rather interesting:

I’m not sure how interested I am in yet another Bruce Willis action film however, the state of the world in the film is more than enough to get me to see the film.  To me, it seems a little bit like the Matrix, without the artificial virutal reality world. It seems that in Surrogates people are able to do whatever they want, whenever they want without the usual physical limitations. It’s fascinating to think about living in a world where you can we whoever you want, and do whatever you want without any sort of ‘real world’ implications on yourself. It raises so many thoughts about how this would effect our humanity and day to day lives if we are not achored in a world with direct consequences for our actions

I am interested in learning much more about the technology, and how society changed to make this so prevalent. Who made the surrogates? How were they sold/given to people?  How do the real people manage never leaving the house? and How did society come to accept this?