It might shock you to learn this.\u00a0 But I was, at one time, the owner of a complete set of X-Men Series II trading cards.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
I also collected baseball cards, because like any self-respecting tomboy I played baseball, not softball.\u00a0 Softball is for chicks.<\/p>\n
But Series II was my most favorite set of any kind of cards I ever collected.\u00a0 (I know this sentence isn\u2019t grammatically correct and yet I choose to type it that way anyway. Deal with it).\u00a0 The Fleer Ultra series was OK, but it just didn\u2019t have quite the same magic to it.<\/p>\n
The tall, narrow type on top.\u00a0 The dramatic action shot below.\u00a0 The statistical data on the back.\u00a0 They were pure perfection.\u00a0 I even had the cards from the cartoon series with the film strip border.\u00a0 They were great as reference material or for just sitting down and reading.<\/p>\n
And then one day my brother stole them.<\/p>\n
He also collected baseball and X-Men cards.\u00a0 It was something we did together as loving siblings.\u00a0 We would walk up Country Club Lane to the comic book store and buy them and trade them.\u00a0 We also went through a pog phase but try not to hold that against us.\u00a0 I kept my cards in the same navy blue binder in nice segmented card protector pages on a shelf in my bedroom.\u00a0 They never deviated from that spot and I never took them outside.\u00a0 At some point my brother lost a few.\u00a0 I remember thinking, damn, that sucks for him, at least I still have all of mine.<\/em><\/p>\n The next time I pulled my binder out, the ones he happened to be missing were now missing from my binder.<\/p>\n WTF.<\/p>\n I took mine back.<\/p>\n He stole them again.<\/p>\n Little shit.<\/p>\n This went back and forth for years until he finally hid them where I couldn\u2019t find them.\u00a0 My brother, my own flesh and blood, saw fit to steal and hide my own X-Men cards from me and had the gall to claim that I had stolen them from him.\u00a0 As if.\u00a0 This is the kid who opened up his Superman death comic when he was explicitly told not to and the kid next door had a perfectly good opened one he could have read instead.\u00a0 And he accused ME, who won\u2019t even open the Star Trek Christmas ornament box?\u00a0 Psssh.<\/p>\n I never did find my X-Men cards after that.<\/p>\n So I stole his star ships.<\/p>\n Three beautiful Enterprise models, the Enterprise NCC-1701, NC-1701 refit and Enterprise NCC-1701-D.\u00a0 All beautifully hand painted by\u00a0our Dad.<\/p>\n What?\u00a0 He didn\u2019t appreciate them anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It might shock you to learn this.\u00a0 But I was, at one time, the owner of a complete set of X-Men Series II trading cards. It\u2019s true. I also collected baseball cards, because like any self-respecting tomboy I played baseball, not softball.\u00a0 Softball is for chicks. But Series II was my most favorite set of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,11],"tags":[303,845,885,923,1015,1097],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-reviews","tag-enterprise","tag-series-ii","tag-star-trek","tag-superman","tag-trading-cards","tag-x-men"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}