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Justice League Of America 4 5 6 7 10 13 15 17 21 25 40 54 61 lot for $220

This is my local Barnes & Noble. That's all manga. The flip-side of those shelves are also stocked with manga. No comics in the store anywhere.

#100 7.5 $225 at 20% off

From the seller.

Well played.

Seller has 655 transactions and positive feedback. Still...seems too good to be true.

I'm baffled by this one. Last month a 6.5 OW/W sold for $28,800. That big of a price drop for C/OW pages? Back to low-end 2020 prices? Or someone chose the weirdest time to sell a key book and someone else got a bargain?

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Jim Shooter. Back when he was a teenager at DC writing Legion stories.

I don't think you'd know. Unless you were super familiar with the copied scene. The algorithms are way beyond that now, so I don't think they're copying and re-presenting wholesale material. They're using the copied work as a template and reproducing something "inspired" by the original work. But I don't think we're far away from AI's creating entirely original stuff. It's getting really strange with music, since you can copyright AI generated songs. But who does the copyright go to? The creator of the AI or the user? I'm not sure that answer has been settled. As it relates to comics, if you created a new character and comic in the style of Frank Miller (without using an AI) would you be infringing on Miller's work? I don't think so, it's just an homage or something, isn't it? (Clearly, I'm not a copyright attorney). But if you had an AI do it, and it can be proved that the AI harvested the work of Miller, would that be different?

Agree with @Dr. Balls. I make my living as a novelist (Jamie Ford, if you're curious). AI's have harvested my work and the work of other writers and now use it for mimicry, without creator consent or the respect of copyrights. It's one thing to do this to dead artists if their work is in the public domain, but to harvest the work of living artists and writers, is terrible. In the earliest versions of these AI generators the algorithms would often leave in the signature of the artist it was copying. They've all fixed this now, but artists still recognize their work being used without their permission. I do realize that this is a genie that's never going back in the bottle. And as long as I keep evolving my style and what I write about, I'll always be ahead of the aggregators. But for screenwriters, it's a whole other thing. It's easy to see an AI harvesting the scripts of 15 years of Law & Order and then spitting out similar scripts incorporating current events. Who knows, when general AI arrives, we may end up with sentient AI boardies, arguing that Kirby's earlier work was way better than his later work. Ah, good times! Wait...are we sure Kav isn't an AI???

Less than on full generation of fandom ago, low-end boxing Nielsen numbers routinely quadrupled the number of viewers today.

I think the direct market distribution model, in the long run, was a horrible idea for the hobby. It's similar to how the PPV model was financially great for boxing in the short term, but longterm it's been catastrophic. Without free boxing on broadcast television, the sport has been unable to create a new generation of fans. Without wide distribution of comics, print runs are a fraction of what they used to be, even with the success of the MCU.

Matter Eater Lad was already priceless!

I was at the Aspen Ideas Festival a few months ago and AI was the unofficial topic of the entire week. There were talks by people like Eric Schmidt (Google), Daniel Huttenlocher (MIT), and the list goes on and on. The consensus was that we will have some form or general AI in FIVE YEARS. This blew me away since earlier predictions were that we were maybe 10-30 years away. There were debates about whether a general AI would/should have First Amendment rights.

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