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Probably original storage conditions (pre-slabbing). If someone stored it upright with no support, or in a slightly tight box with no board, then it tends to develop this warp over time. I've seen it a ton looking at comics that are being sold by non-collectors unfortunately. But I don't think it'll affect a selling price since it's already graded, and modern paper is a lot hardier than it used to be, so the warp won't affect the cover ink.

Not particularly valuable (second volume, second printing), but it was a very oddly specific thrift store find. Might inspire me to actively start collecting the original runs, even though I have the very nice TPBs

Character posters dropped. Been loving everything I've seen about Hobie Brown.

Previous news about additional voice cast:

Official poster and release date dropped for Nimona. So glad it's been completed despite the original studio, Blue Sky, being shut down.

On 5/18/2023 at 1:04 PM, OtherEric said:

For whatever reason, that's the title where I wound up getting all the variant covers as well; although I didn't bother getting the trades and the variants they had on one or two of those.

I love the variant covers on WicDiv, they're gorgeous. I have a lot of them, so I would have to go into my collection and note down exactly what variants I have, but maybe after I get the base issues, I'll go for variants too. The variants on DIE are also stunning. I got a poster of the issue 3 second printing variant signed by Stephanie Hans way back in spring 2019 and it's been on my wall ever since.

On 5/18/2023 at 10:57 AM, Robot Man said:

Frankly, at the early SDCCs I was much more interested in buying books, meeting artists and smoking weed with my buddies. Just being out of my parent’s house was great. My girlfriend would have most likely put a damper on all that. 

I used to take my sister with me when I was young and toootally understand that. She was not having fun and it was a bummer. But once I found partners that already like comics and nerdy TV at least a little bit, they really ended up enjoying the cons! Even if we split off to do different things, and they aren't particularly interested in sifting through longboxes, they find their own stuff to be involved in, like the arcades and panels

Just watched it myself, and it was a really nice to just be watching something that was just naturally funny and not trying too hard to be ironic or meta about it. It really felt like how it feels to play right from the beginning; "Jarnathan" really caught me by surprise and made me laugh just by his name alone. Given how sequels have been going for the last decade, I'd be okay with it being a one and done. After the studio execs smell blood, they'll never give the crew as much freedom as this one had to make another fun, unrelated movie. Unless they went in an anthology direction like Knives Out/Glass Onion, then maybe they could squeak out another good adventure.

The real trick is to find someone and convince them to come to cons with you 

But fr I can't imagine trying to navigate who's emotionally mature mentally stable enough for that on a whim. Too many potential landmines

I could definitely see it bumped up to an 8.5 if you get it cleaned. The same thing caught my eye

Yeah tbh I don't think Echo was well introduced in Hawkeye. They blew through her whole backstory and revenge arc really quickly. I want to give the show a chance because it's going to be a different and probably interesting approach to the Marvel universe, but if Kingpin is the main villain again... kinda getting boring. Hopefully the trailer will look good once it's released!

A bit morbid but I found out Ryuichi Sakamoto made a playlist for his own funeral and have been enjoying it as I read through stuff in the evenings:

Gonna lean towards the 2.0... cool to have even as rough as it is.

Such cool little tidbits that don't tend to survive... I would totally be taking these straight to a good framing shop

Really odd when it comes to the staple... I know if things have become totally detached at one staple, it tends to fall to a 4.0, but I've never seen something graded that was missing a staple from a production error. Depending on that, the rest would have me guessing around 6.5

Very very nice looking, I'd say a 9.0 since some staple issues are usually allowed.

There's so much going on here lol, but I'm going to guess 4.0 just given the condition of the entire spine area and cover creases. If it was a production error and not an attempted fix later, it's a pretty funny error to have in your collection

On 5/8/2023 at 3:05 PM, stephenlev said:

It looks like you picked these out around the time the Sandman Netflix series dropped. If you're looking to offload some things just to reduce your collection size a bit, you'll want to get ahead with the issues that will be covered in the next season (coming out probably in 2024). Season of Mists will probably be covered, with a chance of continuing into A Game of You. Since Calliope and A Dream of A Thousand Cats were included in S1, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Facade might (and that's a big Might) also end up in S2.

On 4/19/2023 at 6:47 PM, maidenmate91 said:

Can anyone tell me about the rarity/value of these? They seem hard to find in my opinion. They are made of thin paper, like a ashcan. Any help is appreciated.  Sorry for not posting in a while, I have been lurking. My phone won't let me sign on in Chrome. 

This looks like a Cutie Honey doujin! Doujins aren't really worth much unless it's really notorious, like Clamp in Wonderland Summer 1994, or the writer/artist is otherwise famous. Some particular people also like to collect older doujin (pre-2005 or even pre-2000), but you would have to find the right buyer.

If the interior pages look as bright and unfaded as the back cover, I would definitely lean toward a 6.5. I think it depends on if that nick near the top of the cover drags it back down

I would probably lean towards it being a 6.5 with the amount of discoloring around the edges on the back

I really don't see AI generation improving enough to compete with good covers any time soon. AI understands math and patterns far more than phrases, which is why it's so bad at making people that look like people, especially if it's not meant to look like a photo or oil painting. Plus, while it might spit out what you ask, it never has the consideration for color, composition, detail, and imagery that an artist does. So you'll never get a super desirable, unique, impactful cover like you get from Phil Jimenez or Colleen Doran

On 5/14/2023 at 6:48 PM, Axelrod said:

I mean, the "rules" I read - which, I suppose might not be the ones actually implemented - are stupidly easy to comply with, and require zero changes to casting.  You can satisfy these "diversity" requirements with tech people/marketing/publicity.  Another one only says that the production, distribution OR finance company should offer "opportunities" to people from underrepresented groups.  There are four categories (or what they call "Standards") and you only need to meet 2 of the 4 for your film to qualify as a Best Picture candidate.  It seems so trivial to me it's practically meaningless - except as a way of raising awareness.  

Unless, as I say, something changed from what I read.  

You're dead on. The rules are actually incredibly easy to fulfill on the backend. Of those 4 Standards, only A affects anything on camera, and Standards C & D are so easy to fulfill it's laughable: things like 1917 and Banshees of Inisherin almost certainly fulfill those already because they're distributed by major companies like Universal and Searchlight, and in companies that large, it's harder to not fulfill those criteria. Is an intern or exec gay? Autistic? Hispanic? Mixed race? A woman? Hearing impaired? Any of those things can be used to fulfill the "underrepresented group" requirements.
I honestly think they came up with these guidelines to generate positive buzz in a new audience after their viewership has hit record lows without actually having to change anything at all. Or get free marketing from people arguing about it on Twitter.

I would guess around a 9.0 just due to the binding wear and what looks like a bit of a curve in that back cover image (though it might settle, since it's not bad enough for any print breakage).
There's some renewed interest in all of the DC cartoons of that era since a Static Shock adaptation is supposedly in preproduction.