BrashL

Lost his job and chose to sell comics. Dude is giving it a go and that takes a lot of balls. We all talk about the hobby dying and this dude is taking a leap of faith trying to keep it alive. Not sure why that deserves anyone's scorn.

"Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind" You never really know what most people are going through. I try to live by that phrase and fall down much more than I'd like to admit but if we could all just treat each other kindly what a world we would live in.

I was speaking specifically to your paragraph about not believing rape victims. Why you spun that into a racial thing I have no idea. Eyewitnesses in general tend to be unreliable for a lot of reasons and racism is generally pretty low on the list. I practiced in Cook County and the number of white witnesses testifying against minority defendants was less than 10%. The victims of most crimes committed by minorities are minorities, as are most eyewitnesses involved in those cases. It's just the neighborhoods the majority of crime occurs in. Most prosecutors and cops I dealt with just wanted to find justice for victims. I practiced in Cook County but after the Burge years; I'm not naive enough to think there aren't some evil people in positions they shouldn't be but they are far outweighed by good people doing hard jobs for low pay because they believe in what they are doing.

Fault is a tricky word, I assume you mean liable or responsible for his death and I agree, she is not. I don't think she did the right thing by blasting out her grievances the way she did and I won't speculate on why she did, but had her post gone into the ether and stopped there this wouldn't have ended how it ended. Planes rarely crash for one reason and usually could have been prevented at multiple points in the causal chain. Unfortunately nothing stopped that first fallen domino from reaching the end. And sure, you could argue that his behavior was the first domino, or him getting to be big in the industry, or some unknown childhood trauma. The point is that at multple points someone doing the right thing could have stopped this and bad decision after bad decision led to tragedy.

Take on what responsibility? I said actions have consequences. So if you're saying would I have to deal with that as a potential consequence of my actions then yes. It doesn't automatically mean it's my fault or even a contributing factor, it's just a fact.

They are equal in the sense that they are human beings and deserve some sympathy for what they felt they had to do, not "They took the easy way out."

The thing that kills me the most is this is a comic book collector forum populated by a bunch of middle age nerds. If anyone here thinks they haven't given off creepy vibes to a woman they were trying to flirt with....lol...carry on I guess

Cool deflection.

I was a criminal prosecutor for many years and i never once encountered anything like this. Where in your legal experience did you see this happen or are you just smearing two professions based on something you saw on Law and Order SVU?

I'll be sure to let the friends and mother of that Trans girl in Oklahoma that killed herself after being mercilessly bullied and raped by her father for years know that it was on her. I'll be sure to tell them how she took the easy way out. Jesus the view must be great on that high horse of yours.

No you can't, but you also shouldn't excuse them from the consequences of doing so.

What a sad strawman. Yes suicide is bad, no one has or would say different. That he felt the need to take his life over this is sad as we all recognize his life had more value that whatever damage had been done to his work and reputation. No one has stated otherwise. The point being made is that just because you don't pull the trigger doesn't mean you contributed to someone's death. I would think this would be uncontroversial as well. Another important point is that if this girl had confronted him personally and expressed the hurt he caused, or shared it in a small circle that included him and that guilt drove him to suicide it's sad but ultimately it was him being unable to cope with it. In this case he was publicly destroyed for no reason more that I can see except that there were a lot of people with a platform that didn't like him and this girl for whatever after three years decided to give them the ammo they needed. His note made pretty clear it wasn't guilt that got to him, it was being publicly shamed and having his life (in his mind) irretrievably destroyed.

Well here's the problem with that statement, without the guiderails of the criminal justice system that statement is totally subjective. It can be true that the 17 year old was the victim of "grooming" and Ed was the perpetrator. It can be equally true that the 17 year old posting to social media three years later saying the equvalent of "I think this guy is a creep and if anyone else wants more dirt on him let me know" is harassment and Ed was the victim. The way we avoid this is dealing with these issue through the courts and not Instagram Stories.

This is an extraordinarily bad take. Substitute Ed for a 32 year old Trans person who was being relentlessly mocked and abused by his community. Substitute a 25 year old rape victim who is drug through the mud for accusing someone of power. To say that their suicides exist in a bubble and they just decided to be suicidal one day is gross. That's the problem with social media lynch mobs and whisper campaigns. He can't defend himself because he's already been convicted and sentenced. He already lost all his work, he already had people start to pull away from him for fear of guilt by association. This is exactly why we have a criminal justice system to being with.

So these people ruined his life and drove him to suicide but he’s supposed to protect them in case they get any blame? Please. Had any of these folks shown restraint in dealing with their opinions about him this thread would never have been created.

Hey here’s an idea, why don't we stop using the internet to “call people out”. What kind of world is this if every time anyone makes a mistake it’s fair game for it be blasted to the entire world. It’s just a disgusting lynch mob at the end of the day. No one was trying to protect anyone from him and they weren’t trying to confront him. The goal of putting that all out in public was to ruin him and I’m sure they were very pleased with the results right up until he took his own life. This whole thing is sickening and sad. If someone did something you think is wrong but isn’t criminal, don’t use social media to convict them in the court of public opinion. Being a creep isn’t a crime, neither is being an individual_without_enough_empathy or weirdo or whatever. No one deserves to have their entire livelihood and identity dismantled for being guilty of any of those things. Social media really is the worst thing to happen to society.

I'm in, let's boogie

Until CGC grades 5 more at 9.9 or higher. That's kind of the problem isn't it. 9.8 was B-E-S-T copy and no one could change that...until they did

I mean to be fair I feel like everyone on this board is too. I get the impression the ratio of people who submit books for resale vs people who would actually buy a CGC slab is like 80:1

My much worse copy doesn't have any color rub there. What's interesting is there's another GSX 1 from the same submission with the same defect, likely from the two of them being packed together with other squarebounds in whatever collection these were in.

Sometimes, but sometimes not. We'll know in 6 months. What's the over under on Ultimate Fallout 4 9.9's discovered in that time?

You forgot option D: Bronze and Modern will be graded on a different scale going forward and this is just the start. If that's the case then yes, that's a sea change.

Well, I guess ask yourself if this is the best GSX 1 you've ever seen. I pointed out some potential flaws earlier that would suggest maybe this is the opening salvo of changing the grading standards.

Looking at it a little closer on the hi-def scans. The bottom right front cover isn't perfectly aligned, you can see the interior pages. Not sure if that's a twisted spine or just the way it's in the case. Also, the upper right looks a little, idk bent or indented, certainly not a sharp edge. Am I seeing things? Are these to be expected now for a 9.9? I'm seeing some YouTubers get surprising 9.8s for books with color-breaking spine ticks so I wonder if we really are looking at updated grading guidelines.

Metropolis Comics just announced it will be up for auction. I wonder if it will come with Grader's Notes? Edit: Nope, gonna be hard to press it up to a 10.0 I guess.