New Home, New Set-up!

Many of you might be unaware, but I recently moved into a new home. I figured now would be a great time to show you all my new set-up and show off all my various comics and comics adjacent things and what has become to be known as my “LEGO Room”. Pictured above is the first picture I took of the space when I first started moving stuff in. You can see a handful of my LEGO sets already set up on the table and various boxes strewn about and no less than 10 comic boxes. It was rather comical going back for another set of boxes and realizing this is somehow not all of my comic boxes and finding more. The room has since been mostly set up, but before going too in depth I did want to show off a few other parts of the house with various comics related items.

First up is my collection of superhero related prose novels. There are also a couple of historical novels here, like Marvel Comics the Untold Story and The Secret History of Wonder Woman. as well as the Official Superman Quiz Book that I covered a few months ago. I do have a few Supergirl novels that I have over on my Supergirl Shelf (more on that later). Also on top of this shelf you can see my DCeased box set as well as all 6 of Frank Herbert’s Dune novels (I’ve only read the first 3 so far but they’re fantastic!). Also pictured here are all 10 of the Smallville YA Novels currently not organized by author as the rest are because I wanted them all together. I might re-organize this shelf to be organized by title instead to help limit this issue. The Smallville novels are actually a fairly recent addition and about half of them were found from a local Goodwill for about 99 cents a piece. That goodwill also had a handful of the full-length novels which will probably be next on my Smallville collection hit-list.

Next up, this is my main collected edition shelf. It also houses my superhero-related DVDs as well as my non-Supergirl/Nightwing action figures and cards. I have what I am pretty sure is the full set of the freebie JL membership cards that DC recently gave away at local comic shops, and since I’ll never have another chance to mention that the initial set of cards (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Darkseid, and blank) are cut into a more unique shape, while all the subsequent cards are cut into a standard card shape. I do have all my omnibuses and reference materials on the bottom shelf. I have always had some sort of DC and Marvel encyclopedia in my collection and a lot of my early childhood knowledge of superheroes came from the early editions of each company’s respective tome. While these encyclopedias aren’t my originals (because I read those until they fell apart) I do like them as reference, and my references have expanded to also include The Who’s Who Omnibuses as well as a handful of other character guides. Secret Identity should probably realistically move to my novel shelf instead since it’s more historical text as opposed to a collected edition or reference.

Here is my shelf showcasing my Nightwing and Supergirl paraphernalia. While I’ve had a love for Nightwing going back to when I was a kid, Supergirl has – obviously – worked her way to the top in regard to my favorite superhero. most of the Supergirl stuff seen on my figure shelf has been covered either as part of my Supergirl Figures coverage or in the 2 entries I’ve done on my Supergirl Trading Cards. Also here is my Supergirl (1984) Press Packet that I did a thorough examination of here. Some fun recent additions are the Supergirl Which Way book (behind the Injustice figure) that I’ll probably cover at some point, and on the Nightwing front, I recently got my hands on the Nightwing Rebirth Omnibus for a pretty good price and it covers quite a lot of Nightwing stories from right when I started collecting books on a weekly basis.

Moving into the LEGO Room now, you can see I’ve grouped things mostly based on theme. The table and corner shelf has been exclusively dedicated to the LEGO Friends line and Heartlake City. I’m using the corner shelf there to store the Friends Space sets since the higher level seemed to be a good place for space ships. The Friends Comic Book Store set is also on this shelf just because I like it, otherwise it’s a bit of a mess right now. The smaller table stores all my DC Super Hero Girls sets (and a couple other DC sets), if you’d like more info on those check out my coverage of the line here. Otherwise, the other shelf is fairly miscellaneous, it’s got my various Icons sets (like the Horizon Zero Dawn sets, both the Dune and Da Vinci Ornithopters, and Notre Dame) as well as other themes I just have one or 2 sets from. My LEGO displays are still needing some work but they’re approximately where I want them at this point.

I do have LEGO in a couple other spots in the house. You might’ve noticed the Great Deku Tree Zelda set on my Supergirl/Nightwing shelf. This set was actually a birthday present for my husband, but this shelf has a nice central location in the house so it works out good. Also my video game related LEGO sets sit on our game shelf instead of with the rest of my LEGO. For now it’s just the Gameboy set and a couple Sonic sets, but I have been looking at a few of the Mario sets recently. Also a recent addition to my DC Super Hero Girls LEGO came in the form of a retail display that I picked up a couple months ago. I don’t really have a final home for it yet and it’s currently holding a handful of to-be-read/filed comics which isn’t ideal, so it’s high on my list to put somewhere.

For posters and wall art in my LEGO Room, it’s still fairly bare at this point. For now, I’ve just got a Supergirl poster (promoting her current ongoing title), a Zatanna poster (from the Bring Down the House mini from last year), and a Map of the Multiverse. Both Supergirl and Zatanna were acquired from my LCS, and the Map of the Multiverse came with my copy of Multiversity back when I got that. I also have a big blue “K” that I need to put up, I think it’ll go in the blank area above Heartlake. I do want to get some more posters, definitely a Nightwing poster, but I’d also be into getting some older posters too, I know there’s some pretty cool ones. An Amethyst poster would be cool to have too.

Here you can see a full view of the room including how I have all my long boxes arranged. I’ve got 6 long boxes under the main wooden table that are full of comics organized from a-z, this is generally where a book gets stored unless it’s part of one of my main collections. To the right of that and under the folding table we have themed boxes. The short boxes between the tables are Supergirl and Nightwing and the first long box is Supergirl books. The next long box is Nightwing comics, and between the long boxes and the short box, this is all the Nightwing books I completed that collection a couple years ago (and add a new book every month). My Supergirl collection is a bit less complete and there’s still 2 or 3 books I need, but it’s very close and those boxes are full meaning I should upgrade Supergirl to 2 long boxes from 1 long and 1 short. After that is a long box of Action Comics (also just about at capacity) I will never have a full run of Action and that’s okay, but I do like collecting it and I’d like to get as much as I reasonably can (including 252). The last 2 boxes are for smaller projects, one is for Superman Family (all 59 issues fit quite neatly into a single short box) and one for Marvel/DC crossovers (including Amalgam and the 2 Access minis).

I hope you enjoyed this tour and if you see anything that you’d like me to cover, let me know! I do want to keep this blog strictly attuned to Supergirl and this post did stretch that a bit but I hope y’all didn’t mind too much.