Angst In My Pangst

The Move is done. The living room still resembles an obstacle course, but it’s now possible to enter the kitchen without pole-vaulting over cardboard boxes. Settling down is in progress even as I speak.

One of the primary tasks to be done is to buy a book case. Or two. There are indeed shelves aplenty in the new house, but I need the bookcases for the comics and GNs. I even took the audio CDs out of their cabinet, arranged them in the TV stand and used the cabinet to stock manga. Loads of crates of comics abound, and I don’t want to leave them stored like that in this house, at least. Maybe I will hit one of those “buy one, get another free”-furniture houses. There seem to be quite a few of them in town, but I have no idea how it works – do they jack their prices up and shite?

Another priority task is to get the art pieces framed. Including the Mandala. The new house has extreme galleria possibilities, muhuhahahahah.

And did I tell you the bathrooms have sensor taps? Sensor taps! I wave my toothbrush at them every morning like a mad wizard, and finally give up and submit to getting my hand wet.

This was the first time I moved into a new house and was simultaneously in another part of the country. My flatmates rock.

More Ultimate Spider-man news. Issue 100 was released recently, and Marvel comics teamed up with the HERO initiative ( which is a trust of sorts for comicbook creators) came up with the idea of a 100 sketch covers. 100 issues of Ultimate Spider-man #100 were produced with a blank white cover, and 80 artists were commissioned to sketch on the covers – basically creating a 100 unique covers of Ultimate Spider-man #100. The covers are being auctioned off in batches. Artists contributing include the likes of Todd McFarlane ( who does his first work for Marvel after he split from them and founded Image comics with Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld sometime in 1992.), Frank Quitely, George Perez, John Romita Sr, Sergio Aragones, Alan Davis, John McCrea, Chris Bachalo and well, loads more. You can check out the complete press-listing and the images here.

The first two batches have already been auctioned. As it turns out, the first 20 in Orlando raised 6000$. While the 20 auctioned in NY made over 16k. Why the difference? Because John Dolmayan, the drummer for System of a Down and well-known comic-book fan bought half the lot. Gaaaaaaaaaaaah. Did you know the guy had A-level artists do artwork on his drumkit for FREE? Why does he need to increase prices in an already-inflated market? Why? WHY?

The ones that have sold so far are listed here.