Welcome!

Hey all and welcome to my new blog! I'll be double posting these on MySpace, but since that seems to be petering out and a lot of my friends seem to be letting their accounts die, this will be a nice place to keep doing what I do. And to warn you now, I'm considering starting a comic-a-day blog type thing since I recently acquired quite a large collection and I hope I can use it to inform fellow nerds and entertain non-nerds and nerds who won't admit it.

Kind of ironic that I was about to start this today, since comics were a major feature on the news, something most of the country hasn't seen in quite awhile. I say "most of the country" because the Denver PD just busted a huge meth operation and they only tell us two things about the operation:

1. Women smuggled meth in their vaginas
2. The money was laundered through the purchasing of rare comic books

Point 1 makes no sense to my. Why is this information shared? Are the police only releasing statements that are guaranteed to make people tune into the news or catch the ear? Nothing about amounts of money or quantities of drugs or how it worked or anything. I know sex sells, but the city is trying to make this sound like a huge bust and when THAT'S the info we get, I feel like they're desperate to make it sound important.

Point 2 makes me wonder a few things. Are the comics ok? I have to assume they are because the story states the sibling leaders of the ring wanted to start a high end comic store, so I'm pretty sure they were safely bagged and boxed and stacked neatly in a closet. Was my comic store involved? I go to Mile High Comics which is nationally known for being a huge comic retailer, some 6,000,000 issues in stock on any given day, and a large collection of extremely rare and valuable issues. And finally, what happens to the collection? I'm no legal expert, but once the trials are over, do they sell evidence at police auction? Can you imagine an auction where not only are there rare and valuable comics for sale, but the proceeds go to public safety? That's a win/win and I think it might drive the bids even higher. I have to figure out how all this works.

That's all for this one, but I'm going straight into #2 right now. Figure nobody wants to read a wall of text and that's what I was going for. Welcome again and hope you stay awhile!