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because its awesome I have no frickin idea tbh. I've never played the game.

hahaha, okay, okay That reminds me, I just bought the cover to Super Valis IV which is right up your alley This pic is just for you Tim (thanks Steve!)

Well you can't fault him for posthumous works

Not to mention that based on the era the illustration is clearly set in, it should be the Justice Society not the Justice League! Who will know the difference? They thought! WE WILL

From that POV I agree. I was looking at it simply from the POV of 'is it a competent illustration' because ultimately I think that's the benchmark.

Haven't heard the Dollop (what is that?) but yeah, I agree, I think that's what leaves the bad taste. When the subject matter is kept in check (big assumption at times ) the art itself is perfectly fine.

Its not that bad. People like to bag on Kinkade (and for good reason, don't get me wrong given way that art was promoted) but on a technical level there's really nothing "wrong" with his art. There's a reason it appealed to a lot of people. As a straight illo from an unknown illustrator, publish that as the cover of "JLA: Dateline 1942" or some dumb crepe like that, and somebody will want to buy it for 2-5k. To me Kinkade hate is sort of the flip side of the coin from "Buscema Love". The one's not that bad, and the other's got his flaws.

Awesome! Hey maybe hit me up when you sell the undercopies it is funny to think of this entire great little niche being under 200 books. That’s like two weeks of current releases!

Thanks bc! You had to know I’d be back... one does not simply quite pre heroes! So how is your collection coming? I remember it was already spectacular years ago

Hey folks first time in a long time. I scaled back my high grade PHM almost completely but I've kept all the mid grade readers as I love the books. Sold the nice ones against my better judgement when I needed money for whatever else it was at the time. Anyways, first addition in a while

I haven’t read the book but Stan was their boss. Every boss is going to have some ex employees that didn’t like him or that didn’t like being bossed around. Now take that boss and make him incredibly famous and likely quite wealthy to boot. The sour grapes factor only ramps up. The only reason there aren’t more books along those lines is because no one would find a tell all about the office machinations at Fifth Third Bank to be very interesting

Umm I already did? Look, if you want to hang onto your viewpoint and your “because reasons” then be my guest. We can all have our opinions: But don’t expect me to agree with “because reasons.”

I know you’re talking to Michael, but if I’ve been snide on my end it’s because I simply don’t see the application of any real logic. It very much seems to me that you’re starting with your desired outcome and then actively searching for reasons that it wish it could, wish it might, come true. That’s not a nuanced discussion and it doesn’t leave those of us listening to that with anything of substance to debate. Which leads to snide because there’s precious little to have an exchange about.

Permission denied

Go ahead and beg me. Your request will be denied :P

You're absolutely right, best is a qualifier which invalidates that macaroni example, but with all due respect, the oversimplification is in comparing Jim Lee to Henri Toulouse Lautrec as if they have anything in common with each other. Jim Lee, HTL and macaroni landscapes have no overlap beyond all being 'art.'

Sorry but that's such shlitty logic. My daughter's second grade macaroni landscape is art too.

Oh it’s art! Why didn’t you say so!

Yeah agreed. Some real trouble spots too like the inking on the rocks (done in the frazetta way but with a rather pointless outcome), the outlines of the birds being really imprecise, etc etc. The face looks good for two seconds but anywhere you really look there's an issue

Definite dud.

Like when Lucy moves the football

Beautiful

Hey he’s got to hustle a few Cap 100s to earn an Action cover Nothing wrong with that!

No idea how you or any particular person would act but most people waiting for that day will be scared poopless by it . If the market tanked tomorrow and the shine came off the apple a lot of people would suddenly see the art as a little less special, and they’d suddenly have a few more real world expenses, and suddenly be afraid that things are going to fall further , or tell themselves they are going to be smart to wait for apocalypse 2 because apocalypse 1 left too much value. Whats the right time to buy? When things fall 10% ? 20? 30? 40? There’s no clarity about what happens next at any of those points. IMO some people who say ‘I’d buy more if it was cheaper’ are in fact justifying their current purchases to themselves rather than making any kind of analysis of what they’d really do if the market took a poop. Ie it’s easy to say that on a surface level but I think we underestimate how much of a bummer it would be mentally if the market deflated. Whether we consciously admit it or not, rising prices keeps us interested to some degree

probably. pm'd