Revenge of the Living Schmovies

In case anyone's interested, I've resurrected my other other blog, Movies Schmovies. I should be resurrecting this one any day now.

Can you spare a dime?

Okay, allow me to be totally shameless for a moment: I've decided to thin out my comic collection a little bit, which means I'm selling some stuff on eBay. I've got three auctions up now, with more to come in the next couple of days, and it'd be great if you'd all go and check them out and maybe bid on them so I can pay my loans and bills and stuff. Okay?

If that doesn't interest you yet, how about this partial list of the things I'm selling:

• "Astonishing X-Men" #1-12
  
• "New X-Men" #135-154
  
• The complete "Bruce Wayne: Murderer/Fugitive" issue collection
  
• "Civil War" #1-7 (first print)
  
• "Civil War: Front Line" #1-5, plus the Wizard World Chicago exclusive #1
  
• "Secret Invasion" #1-8
  
• The complete "Truth: Red, White, & Black" miniseries
  
• Issues #1-13 of the 2001 "Captain America" relaunch
  
• The complete Batman "Hush," "Broken City," "Hush Returns" and "Snow" story arcs
  
• "Thor: Blood Oath" #1-6
  
• Early issues of "Spider-Girl" (including #1) and other MC2 comics
  
• "Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil that Men Do" #1-6
  
• Kevin Smith's first "Daredevil" issue

And a bunch of other stuff. I know, I know, some of it is stuff I'd probably not buy again either, but there's bound to be something of interest to someone out there in the blogohedron.

Now if only I could unload all these copies of X-Men #1...

Confluence

So, one of the few crappy things about Wizard World Chicago last year was that I ran into the When Fangirls Attack ladies (repeatedly) without realizing precisely who they were, and gushing at them about how awesome their blogs are. To avoid that problem this year, I'm putting the bulletin out to the whole comics blogohedron: post here (or on your own page, or both) if you're going to Rosemont this year to engage in the Midwest's finest summer nerdathon.

I'll be there, working the Stand-Up Comics booth with some of the best guys in comics retail. Of course, I'll spend some time on the floor and in signing lines too, but I should be hovering about the Stand-Up booth for the majority of time. After all, this year I have far, far less disposable income. Drop by, say hi, and maybe pick up a Strong Bad DVD set or something.

I have three goals for the weekend:
1. Find Avengers/Power Pack #3, which I somehow missed or lost.
2. Buy oodles of trades.
3. Meet Will Pfeifer and tell him how awesome he is.

So, how about you?