![]() Gas atoms at room temperature bounce around at quite high speeds, so they tend to expand out and fill whatever container they're placed in. That's because the gas contains the potential energy of heat and, as we've seen earlier, heat is equivalent to kinetic energy (or energy of motion) of the atoms within the gas. But rather than collapse into a pile on the floor, they fly about all over the place. In the noble gases-helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon-the atoms simply don't stick together at all. Well, that's sort of what happens with gases. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike image, © Anders L. I can’t figure out why.So if stuff is made of atoms, how do the atoms stick together? Why doesn't stuff just fall apart into piles of loose atoms? Reading basically decent comics somehow seems attractive these days. Nothing too outrageous, but basically decent. They published a lot of slightly quirky genre stuff. The allure of Eclipse Comics is perhaps that they were a sort of midpoint between “mainstream” superhero fare and “alternative” comics. I hope you were as bored reading that as I was writing it. ![]() Which means that “investing” in Eclipse Comics was not a good idea, if anybody had ever imagined that. The median acquisition cost for the comics I bought I guesstimate is around $1.80, which is quite cheap by modern comics standards, and is about the median cover price. If you’re buying hundreds of comics in one go (which I did for this project), shopping around this way decimated the cost compared to buying from just one of the major ones (i.e., Mile High or My Comics). ![]() So it’s so complicated: You’ve got to get the volume up at all of these if not, the postage is going to dominate. But if you’re buying graphic novels, Amazon is usually cheaper than all the options I’ve mentioned above. If all else fails, I go to Amazon, but since you’re bound to get a $4 postage surcharge, buying single issues there isn’t the most economical thing to do. But they basically have a price floor at $1.70, so Mile High are cheaper on the cheap stuff. (Postage is a flat $5 no matter how much you buy.) They have almost as much as Mile High, and their prices are more “even”. So I go to the My Comic Shop tab and find #4 for $1.95. So I see #2 posted as $1 (so it’s $1.25) and click “buy”. Their normal postage is $4, but it drops to 25c per issue if you buy a lot). Then I go to CyberspaceComics on ebay, because they are the cheapest (if you buy a lot. I quickly click “buy” on #3 and #1 (so those are 50c and $1). So let’s say The Blanderizer #1 is posted as $2, #2 is $45, #3 is $1 and #4 is $5. But even with that rebate, their prices are sometimes “whaa?”. They also have the absolute highest prices for a lot of stuff, but there’s usually a “codeword sale” going on that drops the posted price by about 50% (so get on the mailing list where they tell you what the codeword is). ![]() So I go to Mile High Comics, because I like them and they have a lot. I find one that wants to all four issues for $1… but with $13 postage. OK, here’s my methodology, if I were to buy, say, the four issues of The Blanderizer series, in lowish grades.įirst I go to Ebay and search for “The Blanderizer complete”. ![]() (This long and even more boring Shopping Comics For Dummies can safely be left unread.) I mean, if you don’t want to spend the absolute max amount. Meanwhile, I’m starting to buy the Eclipse comics I didn’t buy in the 80s. So why Eclipse? Why would a grown person be interested in re-reading a publisher who produced comics mostly for 14-year-olds? I don’t know, and I think I’m talking myself out of doing this now. Miracleman, Zot!, … Er… That might be it. Virtually none of what Eclipse published has been reprinted. Fantagraphics has published their share of dross, but also a lot of interesting stuff. Fantagraphics has Love & Rockets, Eightball, Way Out Strips, Acme Novelty Library. Now, Fantagraphics has published some wonderful comics that have gone on to live forever. EVER!īut then time passes and I started thinking about doing another one… but perhaps with a smaller publisher… one that had published some great comics, like Red Ink, Vortex or Tragedy Strikes Press. After finishing the Fantagraphics Floppies series of blog articles, I promised myself that I’d never do anything like that again, and I’d probably never read a comic book again. ![]()
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