Just 180 comics more t reach 1000

So, I keep on with my countdown for the big 1000. I don't have pics of my comics this time so, I'll be fast today.

The last comic I added was number 814, issue 815th was the Angela miniseries TPB, it's a reissue here in Mexico, it was printed originally in 1998, 1994 in the States. Mundo Vid, the editorial house that publishes comics in Mexico, resale the Angela TPB this month, with five more issues, Medieval Witchblade (816) Tales of the Darkness 1-4, but, I already had Tales of the Darkness 1, so I am only adding to my collection Tales of the Darkness 2-4 (817-819)

Since last April, Marvel Mexico printed in spanish the second arrival comic book, published last year in the States. We are now at issue 10, which is issue 820 in my collection.

You should know, just as a general knowledge comment, that since 1992 until 2005 Grupo Editorial Vid, printed every single comic book published by Marvel, Dc and Image in Mexico City, 1997 was the boom for comics and Mangas in the country, just outside my junior high school, was a newsstand where I was able to buy any amount of comics in 1997 like clock I knew that on wednesdays Spawn would be waiting for me there, just as the Cataclysm and Aftershock Batman issues, or The Onslaught saga, The Marvel vs DC which became Amalgam all those stories were published in Mexico in 1997.

By 1998, That same newsstand was selling a Manga called Video Girl drawn by Masakazu Katsura, but, no more Batmans, just Spawn and Marvel, any Marvel issue. But Not the way it used to be, because I wasn't able to find Spawn every wednesday, some times, i had to wait two weeks to get two issues, or even three weeks to get just one. missing two or three issues.

Then I entered High school, and there were no newsstands near, the only way I could get comics was at conventions. And I lost track of a lot of issues, by 2000, I was lost in the comic book world, the newsstand at my old junior high-school no longer sells comics, I kept buying Spawn, but at that time, my collection skipped from issue 30 to 35, then 35 up to 40, and so on, I was able to get issues 94 to 102 of Spawn in 2002 but then, again I started missing them. On 2005 things were bad for comics in Mexico, Vid was not selling Marvel comics anymore, they were left at newsstands all over the country. so Marvel finished his contract with Vid, and in a period of six months, every single issue of Marvel had to be taken out of Vid's stores. Thousands of issues needed to be sold, so, they started giving them away, Buy one Marvel comic and take two for free. I learned about that sale the last week of it and I only had $20.00 pesos on my pocket, I purchased a TPB of the Night Gwen Stacy Died, and got for free a Spawn, and another Spider man, I don't recall which one, I had the Night Gwen Stacy died...

After that Marvel started being sold under their own editorial house, Marvel Mexico, with the support of a mexican tv channel called Televisa (like abc,cbs,or tbs). The comics are cheap, the paper...mñña could be better, Vid had a great quality paper for comics, specially Spawns, woow, but, when the comic book boom ended, the quality of the comics lowered a lot.

Let's see if with the premiers of Captain America, Green Lantern, and the Mexican Conventions Comicon and ComicsMx the comic book industry has a year like the 1997-1998 we had, so long ago.

My collection 3

And I also love star wars

My Collection 2

I love Spawn

My collection

As I promised @ComixBokGurl I would be publishing some pics of my comic book and action figures collection. It's a small collection but every pice of it is very dear to me.

Here it is.

2005

I just re tweeted a comment about the cinemas in Mexico, we have 3 big companies back here Cinépolis, Cinemex and Cinemark. In that order they are the big three. And Cinépolis has the greatest VIP'S Theaters. Which make me remember of the first movie I watch on a VIP room Star Wars Episode Three back in 2005.

That week was the greatest to me because I was invited to the official premier two days before opening date, it was awesome, the date was at 8:00pm. That morning I went to college as usual, and my friends were asking me, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at the movies, you know, getting in line for the movie...I was like, It's 8:00am, the movie will start in twelve hours, yeah right, i went home, grabbed my lightsaber and arrived at the movie complex at 6pm, yes!!!! 30, maybe 35 people in line, I'm the coolest....yeah right....Loooser, a guy walked towards me and said, excuse me the line continues outside the cinema ...

Ok, How bad could it be? It was bad, the line actually circled the whole block, I actually walked around the building three times, to get a spot, when I did, someone said that people had arrived from the mexican state of Guadalajara (Home of Tequila) at 7:00 am, apparently they rented three buses to get to the screening. So I spent two hours outside on the street sorrounded by geeky guys dressed like Jedi, and....oh wait, thats the cool part, I was surrounded by thousands of Jegi Knights, and little kids dressed as Darth Vader, for two whole hours, Mexico became Coruscant, and i was a Jedi, everybody was chatting, comparing lightsabers, waiting for that epic moment to come true. At 8:00pm we were all inside the cinema, popcorn and lightsaber in hand, then it started the 20th century fox theme, then a brief moment of silence and ...as if we had thought of it, we turned our lightsabers off in a unison loud bzzzt, followed by the star wars theme and the cheering of hundreds gathered in one room. The movie lasted less than I would have expected. I would have wanted a three hour movie, but that would just have been too much luck. Two days after I returned to the very same complex and Got in line at 10am. Two other guys were already there, believe it or not we all had lightsabers with us. They had blue ones, I had a green one. At some point another guy arrived, but he sat far away from us. We talked about the original films, I talked about the premier, and then we learned why the other guy sated away from us, he was the first in line for the 8:00pm screening and he was going to buy tickets for like 80 people or so. He was recognized by a guy that had just arrived.... I'll never forget their conversation:

1st guy: Hey..I know you. You were at the London premier

2nd guy: Yes I was, I also made it to the Sydney and New York premiers

1st guy: Really? I was in New York, didn't see you there, listen I'm gonna grab a bite, care to join me? I'll buy...

2nd guy: ok, yes....

Geeky frindship, gotta love it.

After that, people started to arrive, and among them, He arrived too...The Sith Lord himself...Lord Darth Vader...age 5. With a lightsaber taller than him. But it was The Dark lord, I know it because his father videotaped us with him. It was cool. And then, the same thing happened, after two hours the moment faded. And just stood in my mind, and after six long years, it's here, on my blog, for you...so you can be a a part of it with me, one more time.

Pierre

Countdown to 1000

So, as I told you on my last entry, I'm trying to reach 1000 comic books, so here are the first 13 comics that will start the countdown.

Let`s

start with the special 5 edition pack of Green

Lanterns I found on a news stand.

The issues it contents are:

Green Lantern Zero Hour, when Kyle Rayner fights Hal Jordan in OA and Hal makes Oa explode.

I already had this issue, I've had it since 1995 I

believe, it has great value to me because, back then my younger brother also read comics, and he was the one who got this issue. Then we have Esmerald Knights, Im not sure if it was called tha

t way back in the States, sometimes editorial houses in México add new names to the stories to make them more attractive to mexican readers, this issue includes Green lantern 101 when Kyle comes back from Hal's past, and Hal is sent to the future because Siniestro interferes with Kyle's time travel. We have them in two volumes of 96 pages each. They are comics number 802,803 and 804. Let's keep

going on. We have another couple of Green Lantern's in Mexico the ser

ies was call

ed "fire baptism" again, not sure if it was

called like that originally, and holds the story line of Kyle Rayner trying to find out what it means to be a hero, and how can he become one, so h

e can be worthy of the name Green Lantern.

Also featured in a two 96 paged issue, which will become 805 and 806 of my collection. I must confess that this is the first time I read this many Green Lantern comics, specially after I was told that War of the Green

Lanterns was so great, that's how we reach new comics in this blog Green Lantern 63 Prologue to War of the Green Lanterns, is my 807th comic book, Now, I will stop giving out the content of the next issues because they are the latest on sale, well this one came out on april this year, but still is newer than my five previous ones, as well as Green Lantern 66 part seven of the same War. which is #808.

Wow, so many comics, we are halfway down this road, let`s talk about fear itself, so I have #809 Fear Itself the home front part two of seven, Fear Itself Spider Man one of three #810, Fear Itself Journey into mystery 624 will be my #

811, for number 812 I have Fear Itself Avengers 13, Fear Itself The Invincible Iron Man is number 813.

And, this will be another oldie for you, but is the latest here in Mexico, X-Men: Second Arrival part 9 is my number 814th comic book.