Happy Saturday and welcome to Shelf Porn, our weekly look at one fan's collection. Today's Shelf Porn only has one picture to go with it, but there's a timely and compelling story behind it that any fan with a collection they fear could someday be ruined by Mother Nature will appreciate.

If you'd like to see your collection featured here on ROBOT 6, you can find instructions on how to do so at the end of this post.

And now let's hear from C.T. from Napa, California ...

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So, I live about a 5 minute walk from downtown Napa, CA. I rent an upstairs apartment that I share with a roommate and although he's not a nerd, he totally doesn't mind the Annihilation poster hanging in the living room. Anyhow, I don't know if you heard (I have no idea how much news this has gotten, I just read the local paper), but Napa and the surrounding areas got hit with a 6.1 Earthquake Sunday, 8/24/14 at 3:20am, with the downtown area getting hit the worst. Now I'm OK and thankfully no one I know was hurt beyond a few cuts or bruises, but damages were pretty heavy for me. I guess that's how it goes renting a top-story apartment in California, but damn it still sucks! Funny enough, just about all nonessential I own got busted except a tackle box full of heroclix. TV, Wii, bookshelves, book, nerd collections, dishes, everything got busted. Really sucks, but I'm just glad everyone I know is well though. But a few months back I took a photo of my graphic novel collection/nerd-display and since my years of collecting are now crushed/ripped/water-damaged/shattered, I figured I'd at least share the one photo of it (because it was awesome!).

Cut half way off screen to the right displayed on the wall is a monolith 'non'-action-figure from 2001 A Space Odyssey, a guardians of the galaxy action figure box set, my graphic novels sign from the Bookstore I used to work at, a Cap shield Frisbee and a Starship Enterprise. That brown thing to the viewers left is just a cold weather hat hanging off a hat-rack.

The top of the book selves are from left to right a Giant Man heroclix, a Ragnarok Surtur heroclix, Daredevil statue, Alien VS Predator diorama, Batman Arkham City Black & White statue, a Frost Giant heroclix, Thor's Mighty Chariot heroclix, a Frost Warrior heroclix, Doctor Strange statue, Green Lantern heroclix resource, Metroid Prime Samus statue, Jack Knight Starman statue (that one was fun to hunt for because it was Jack Knight, lol).

Quick note: its not high res, so for the smaller print books I'm going more from memory than photo

From the top shelves left to right: Starman omnibus collection (all of em), The Shade series in singles that came out a few years back, all of Ex Machina, 9 volumes of Hellboy, vol 1 of BPRD, a few Call of Cthulhu books, Doctor Strange Season 1, a collection of the Strange stories from that 90s Strange/Cloak& Dagger series, 2 different Strange/Spidey graphic novels, Doctor Strange: Triumph and Torment, Doctor Strange: Shamballa, the Jenkins Inhumans book, Silver Surfer Requiem, Silver Surfer Parable, Annihilation 1-3, Annihilation Conquest 1&2, all the 08 Guardians of the Galaxy series TPBs, War of Kings, Realm of Kings, Thanos Imperative, Annihilators 1 and 2

Second row: Old Man Logan, the oldschool Wolverine mini, the entire Immortal Iron Fist series, The Immortal Weapons TPB, Planet Hulk, Ed Bru's run of Daredevil as TPBs, the Thunderbolts series from Ellis as HCs, Nextwave vol 1&2, 1001 Nights of Snowfall, Scud The Disposable Assassin: The Whole Shebang!, Spider-Man Blue, Kraven's Last Hunt, The Complete Clone Saga Epics (all of them), The Complete Ben Reilly Epics (all of em), New Ways To Die, Return of the Black Cat, Origin of the Species, Grim Hunt, Slott's Spidey/Human Torch, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four (the 07 book), Spider Island, Ends of the Earth, a few more Spidey books I don't recall and can't make out in the pic (I've read a lot of Spidey), Scarlet Spider vol 1-3, Venom (Flash series) vol 1-5, Kelly's Deadpool omnibus

Third row: New Avengers vol 1-7, Civil War, Secret Invasion, Bru's Secret Avengers vol 1 and 2, Remender's Secret Avengers vol-1-3, Exiles vol 1-3, Marvels, Slott's Mighty Avengers complete run in TPBs, The Sentry, Beyond!, a few ones I can't make out and don't recall if they're on that or the bottom shelf off screen. JMS's Thor vol 1-3, the Gillen Thor books, Tales of Asgard, Simonson's Thor omnibus, Ages of Thunder, Gillen's Journey Into Mystery series (all of it), Ironman TPBs (from Extremis to Director of Shield), All of Ed Bru's run of Cap from Winter Soldier to the Trial of Captain America), Winter Soldier vol 1-3, Ed Bru's Cap omnibus vol 1.

Bottom Shelf (and maybe the unreadable ones from the higher selves): West Coast Avengers omnibus, Batman: Year One, The Long Halloween, Knightfall, Gotham Central vol 1&2, No Man's Land vol, Superman For All Seasons, Superman: Birthright, Superman: Secret Identity, Superman: Exile, Kal, those huge DC complete books version of New Frontier signed by Cooke with a Hal sketch on the inside cover, Justice League International (the whole series in graphic novel), Generations Lost vol !&2, new 52 Swamp Thing vol 1&2, new 52 Animal Man vol 1&2, Hum, Dr McNinja omnibus vol 1, Judge Dredd Case Files vol 1-5, Perry Bible Fellowship's The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories, The Marvel Art of Marko Djurdjevic, DMZ vol 1-3, The 5 Fists of Science, Fear Agent vol 1&2, Axe Cop vol 1, Fables vol 1-5,

All my Starman Books, my Immortal Iron Fist books and my big ass Ed Bru Cap omnibus were all signed too. It was pretty awesome.

Anyhow, I just wanted to share. I never planned to ever show my nerd display off on the net, but I figure since no one can ever see it again, I might as well share the one picture of it I have.

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If you’d like to see your collection featured here on Robot 6, here’s what you need to do:

1. Take some photos and save them as jpgs.

2. Write up a little something about your collection.

3. Send them to me in an email. Please put the text into an email and attach the images as separate files; don’t embed them into a Word doc. Uploading them to Dropbox or a similar service also works.