comic books

the prices of comic books havent changed substantially. its still around P165. if i remember correctly, thats the price (somewhere around P165) of the marvel v dc comics i bought, i think, ten years ago.

i used to collect comic books, mostly marvel comics. im not much of a fan of DC comics. the only DC character i like is batman. as for marvel, ive always been a fan of the Xmen. not much of spiderman until the movies came out but by that time, ive stopped collecting comic books. why did i stop? well, because all of my collection vanished into thin air. ok, maybe not thin air. ok, not vanished too. my collection was borrowed from me and all of it werent returned. and from that point, i just felt that everything ive done, all those years of collecting, just went down the drain. i just lost interest in collecting comic books.

it wasnt cheap to collect comic books, even if i dont buy the expensive ones. i remember that my mother always accompanied me when i bought comic books. she was always patient with me when i bought these comic books because looking for the comic books i was collecting took some time. i had to rummage through stacks or bundles of comic books. usually, this was our last stop whenever we go to cubao before we headed home. i usually bought my comics from filbars ali mall (which is no longer there or no longer exist, the ali mall branch of filbars i mean) but sometimes my mother would tell me she saw some comic books on other stores with books sales and so we would go there. sometimes i find something i like, sometimes i dont. anyway, she sort of encouraged my comic book collecting. i remember that my mother always tells me to limit the number of comics i buy each time (maximum of five i think) and that my mother wouldnt allow me to buy any comic book more than a total P100.

in school, i had friends who also collected comic books. i remember sharing stories and i think trading comics with manuel and clemen. comic books were always one of the things we usually talk about and it also enticed us to draw. although it wasnt the comic books that made me interested in drawing, it encouraged me to make drawing as a hobby. but when i lost all of my comic book collection, i sort of stopped drawing too. i just lost interest in drawing because ive associated it with comic book characters. i stopped collecting because i felt that all the time and money spent went to waste.

i still pass by comic book stores, checking what ive missed over the years. im not sure if ill ever collect comic books again. i feel im already out of touch with the recent developments in the comic book industry and its a bit of a hassle to update myself or adjust to the changes.