Nice, good luck on the Marvel trades. Let me know which ones they were when it's over, whether you win or not. I'm not exactly in the market to buy anything new (and won't be for a while!), but I am curious as to what's popular on ebay at the moment.

Got the rest of my B&N books today! The Clone Saga trades are great. Seriously, they're such a nostalgia trip for me…I'm so glad I got them, and I'll be buying the rest for sure.

I've been kind of skeptical given the notoriety of the source material, but as soon as I opened up the first trade I knew it was a great purchase. I actually have almost all the issues collected in the first one (and usually I'm not big on re-buying things I already own in a different format), but seeing them put together in this way was just fantastic.

By the way, how did those Marvel auctions ever go for you?

New Mutants Classic, or the newer stuff?

Yeah it is, but it hasn't been officially solicited though. I don't know what they're waiting for. I have the first trade, but I've only read a few issues from it. It's good stuff, at least at this point. I imagine it might get crappy later on, as the mid- to late '80s is when Claremont's writing really went down the tubes.

I know what you mean. As trashy as some of those books were (especially Uncanny X-Men in the late '80s) I still love reading them for some reason. And I know I'm going to LOVE the Clone Saga stuff when I go through it again, no matter how stupid it gets.