Yesterday, a friend & I added 2,638 comics to my Comic Collectorz account. That's slightly over half of my collection.
This cataloging enabled me to grab out the Orson Scott Card Ultimate Iron Man comics I have, and prepare them for the shredder.
Why am I shredding comics? Well, it's both a long and a short story. The best way to describe it is thus:
When we're talking about my entertainment, I generally don't care what your political or religious views are, until your ass starts hanging out. At that point, I generally don't want to do anything to support you.
There's only three people who really stand out as having jumped the sofa for me: Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, and Orson Scott Card.
While I support other people's right to read and support what they want (and I highly support libraries having differing viewpoints and books that I might or might not find acceptable for myself and my family), Card's anti-gay marriage religious views that came up during the Prop 8 battle in California two years ago was so vitriolic, that I no longer care how good or bad a writer he is. His writing is now twisted to me, and thus unenjoyable.
I could give away the comics I have[1], but I don't want to get anyone else interested in Card. I know that he won't fade away into obscurity anytime soon, but that doesn't mean I need to help him find new readers.
As BF enjoys saying, "Raptors like to shred". And this raptor intends to shred what she's got.
[1]The few books we have of his are BF's, and it's his right to do what he wants with them.
This cataloging enabled me to grab out the Orson Scott Card Ultimate Iron Man comics I have, and prepare them for the shredder.
Why am I shredding comics? Well, it's both a long and a short story. The best way to describe it is thus:
When we're talking about my entertainment, I generally don't care what your political or religious views are, until your ass starts hanging out. At that point, I generally don't want to do anything to support you.
There's only three people who really stand out as having jumped the sofa for me: Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, and Orson Scott Card.
While I support other people's right to read and support what they want (and I highly support libraries having differing viewpoints and books that I might or might not find acceptable for myself and my family), Card's anti-gay marriage religious views that came up during the Prop 8 battle in California two years ago was so vitriolic, that I no longer care how good or bad a writer he is. His writing is now twisted to me, and thus unenjoyable.
I could give away the comics I have[1], but I don't want to get anyone else interested in Card. I know that he won't fade away into obscurity anytime soon, but that doesn't mean I need to help him find new readers.
As BF enjoys saying, "Raptors like to shred". And this raptor intends to shred what she's got.
[1]The few books we have of his are BF's, and it's his right to do what he wants with them.
