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Amazing. Heritage is a freight train.

So does everyone! Great card and it might be the most played card of all time if you think about it. It was good then, it was good later, and it was an uncommon so everyone had one, and it worked in basically every deck.

Yeah. Detective Pikachu is a step in that direction, but that will happen for real in 2022 when the Super Mario Bros movie comes out. The Illumination people are handing it so if I was betting on something to be a slam dunk, that would be it. From there I imagine we will get a good 10-20 years of nintendo related movies, sequels, and spin offs. Mario, Link/Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, sequels to all of them, blah blah blah. There's a whole universe of characters there, not dissimilar to marvel, and they've been around so long in so many games that there is a pretty decent amount of plot lines to work with, and obvious villains like Wario and Bowser and Mother Brain to work with too. That isn't always the case for something like Angry Birds (how they made an enjoyable movie out of that!... kudos to them!). The potential is there for that to turn into something that mimics the experience that marvel has had at the movies.

So Eat, Pray, Maple.

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Alpha Sol Ring just hit the market... already offers at 250k

Okay. But to the extent that's true, Hollywood will not limit itself to comic material. It will use anything and everything it can to make a buck. It may be that the best movie related spec of the future will relate to something other than comics. Anything you can think of with a large built in audience will be grist for the mill. Comics do make for a nice transition since the comic almost acts as a storyboard, but ultimately, its anything and everything with audience.

Fair point and its nice to get that macro view of things sometimes during these discussions. You do bring a different perspective and its nice to hear it. That being said, I was just referring to collectibles specifically and I think there's always opportunities there precisely because does tend to follow that demographic wave. I suspect your macro counterpoint would be that this is a digital generation etc etc as you've mentioned in the past and there may be truth to that. However, I think the drive to collect, for at least a portion of the population is as intrinsic as the squirrel's drive to collect nuts for winter. I don't think you can ipad that out of certain people. Now, what they will collect...... a whole other ball of wax.

agreed. looks like the only downside was the margins got erased

Most people don't have the stomach for that kind of risk. They'd rather buy at 10k (when its already established to have value) and net 15k out of it later. Besides, those early buy opportunities aren't really there in comics anymore.

No but he’s MMehdy’s old running mate from back in the day

And thx for the link Felix

Unpublished art not meant for public consumption. Don’t care. Slippery slope when we start judging people on what they do privately.

Oh, Theo.

well, they were sold at auction? Perhaps an auction house link is still active? Edit: nevermind, I don't see it in the PIH auction. I guess he sold from his own site.

Fantasy Art and/or Illustration may gain more prominence in time but if that happens it will write its own story. It will not be written, after the fact, into a story that has already gone in other directions.

Well, that sounds a little disrespectful to Frank, but I think its a useful exercise for comic book art fans who see the price paid as making the picture matter to fine art to ask themselves this: - "when you see a David Hockney or Jeff Koons piece selling for $90m, does it make you suddenly care about Koons or Hockney?" No? So why would a 5m Frazetta sale suddenly make the Koons/Hockney crowd care about Frazetta? When we see a Hockney painting of two guys and a swimming pool sell for $90m, most of us here think 'wow that's an insane amount to pay for that trash' and move on. Its only natural to assume that when the Hockney crowd sees a 5m Frazetta, the natural reaction is going to be: 'wow that's an insane amount to pay for that trash'.. and they will move on. I.e. just place yourself in the other person's shoes. Its not hard to do but we so often fail to do so.

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They’ve published it as 5.4 and they are generally a tightly run ship. While I get your POV I think it has to be 5.4 unless there is any evidence to think otherwise; that’s the announced number, and the one we all saw on our screens . Anything else is conjecture and speculation and needs to be backed up with something

Barry is my favorite auctioneer on HA's staff. Upbeat, knowledgeable

I understand the other issues as they'd be viewed. I reject those views too, but given that anything one says about any of these topics is going to get picked apart, its not worth the time.

The narratives of lobby groups are not (always) reflective of the truth. The truth will win out in time. In our hearts we all know what’s BS and what isn’t. And saying a woman (or a man for that matter) with a ‘come hither’ look is offensive is BS. Sometimes people have sex and sometimes they use that look. So what. That's no indication of victim and oppressed.

I wasn’t suggesting it was puritanical. I was referring to identity politics outrage And don’t take my pendulum hope away, I’ll have nothing left