MTV.com has some more info on the story, including some bits on, yes, the invisible plane and magic lasso and such. Nothing revealing, but Joss wasn't going to toss 'em.

I gave up on waiting for that page to load, bit by bit. Rich media my ass.

Season 8 Spoilers at AICN.

After much searching through all the bookshelves, it became obvious that my TPB of The Books of Magic has vanished. So I just went and rummaged through my box of "good" comics until I found the 4 original issues. I feel kinda odd about taking them out of the bags to read them, as if I'm committing a minor crime. But rummaging through that box prompted me to send mail to a friend of mine who is an online comics dealer; apparently having all the original issues of The Crow from Caliber Comics is a rarity.

("It is? Huh. Some of them are signed."

" ... ... you don't happen to have Caliber Presents #1, do you?"

"Yeah. And the Caliber Christmas special."

"Oh. My. God.")

Which brings me to an oddball question: what do people think about selling off one's comics. I mean, I've got the collections of The Sandman, do I really need or want to hang on to the separate issues? I'm not sure.

Go for the cash! The bound editions are easier to read.

If you do sell them, use the money to buy more comics.

I think that's about the only way I would be able to part with them, if I had collected them in the first place.

I'm going to hop on the "sell them" bandwagon, Jilli. You might keep them, but you'll either rarely (if ever) get the joy of reading them again, or you'll destroy any resale/investment value they might have. Their value might go up over time (actually, they almost certainly will), but unless you want to wait several decades to sell them, they probably won't be rising dramatically in value suddenly or soon.

There's certainly a case to be made for keeping them, but money is better than comics.

Most of the time.

If money is better than comics, why do I keep giving it away to get more of the damned things?

Right now, having lapsed in purchasing, I'm looking irritatedly at much of my current collection. I know a fair bit of it (X titles, I'm looking at you) will never be read again. But here it is, taking up space. I did quite want to read it the once--but that's all. It's no more a waste of money to buy and toss a comic than it is to buy and never touch it again, but there's no way I could countenance the former.

Do I not resume buying all those titles? But I want to digest the narratives!

It's annoying me. Thankfully I have nowhere to put long boxes. I think.

Sell 'em, Jilli. They can buy you more *new* comics. And if you have it all in other formats anyway...

If it weren't a series you were crazy about I'd agree with the above posters, but to me the corresponding Sandman issues have sentimental value and I don't want to part with them. Those very comics, physically, are the ones I was holding when Neil Gaiman pulled me into that world.

An aquaintance of mine who worked at a comics store years ago asked me if I was in the market to sell my original issues, and I just walked away laughing.