Ya Did What to Yer Comics??

Doug: So here I sit, looking out at what was supposed to be 20+" of snow -- yeah, you read that right. Two feet, comrade! Storm of the century -- the 20th and the 21st!! We officially got 13" where I live. Suffice it to say that the snowblower's been abused, the winds were whipping (so I really have no idea how anyone can truly say how much snow we actually got), and we had no school yesterday nor today (making that up in May...). I've included a couple of photos for your viewing pleasure. Both are out our back door. The brown brick building is a vocational school that's about 80 yards out (the basketball hoop is part of a half-court in our own yard). If you notice, the drift up against the wall is slightly higher than the lock on the visible door. The second shot is actually to the left, of our neighbors' back yard. The snow is two feet up the trunk of the tree, and the drift running between our houses is over 3 feet deep. It was not a fun day cleaning up the driveways and sidewalks in our neighborhood!

Of course, there sits Karen out in the desert -- probably 80 degrees at her house today! The only person fit to live in the Chicago area right now would be Bobby Drake...

Doug: So, as long as there's a little time (as I write this), does anyone want to discuss Marvel Value Stamps? I'm one of those saps who had self-inflicted holes in his comics. I never did "Collect 'em All!", nor did I have that cool stamp album. I don't recall if I began to clip the Series 2 stamps. Even today, if I decide to buy some comics from that era, I cringe when I get to the letters page -- will it or won't it be chopped out of there? How about you?

EDIT (4:50 CT) -- Hey, I was just doing some reading for our upcoming look at the Avengers vs. Zodiac, and I came across the page below within the pages of Avengers #121. Seemed topical, so here it is!