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My neighbor's kid just called my collection 'old stuff' and it got to me
I was showing him my longboxes, mostly 90s X-Men and Spider-Man runs, and he said 'Why do you keep all this old stuff when you can just read it online?' He's 12. It wasn't mean, just honest. But it made me realize I'm not just keeping comics, I'm keeping the act of finding them, the smell of the paper, the whole hunt from back when the only place to get them was that shop on Maple Street. Do younger fans just not get that part of it?
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young.val6mo ago
Oh, I bet he just doesn't know that feeling yet.
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harper4086mo ago
My dad kept his old baseball cards in a shoebox under his bed. He didn't care about their value, he just liked the pictures and remembering where he got each one. That kid might see a digital copy as the same story, but it's not the same object. Your longbox has your fingerprints on it from twenty years ago. The screen doesn't have that. Honestly, he might get it one day when his own favorite things from now feel distant.
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eva_henderson225mo ago
My uncle had a whole garage full of old records he never played. He said the smell of the sleeves mattered more than the music. But honestly, @harper408, sometimes I wonder if we make too big a deal out of stuff. That kid's digital comics are still his story. My fingerprints on a box are just dirt I never cleaned off. Maybe the feeling is real, but it's not the only real thing.
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