Pete Marino

I think it's a good time to wrap up. I've been enjoying this season, but it doesn't have the luster of the previous ones. Overall, great series, well written characters with their own motivations are the highlight for me.

Wow, An amazing 1st 7 episodes, and I feel like a total face plant in the last 2. The tone and quality of writing just felt like it fell off a cliff once the big-blue wonder came onto the screen. This is one of the hardest series for me to or not to recommend to people, because I have so many mixed feelings about it.

wow, brings back memories, great stuff.

Let's be real, in 10 years Kirkman will hire someone to write before walking dead and we'll all find out that Dr Manhattan was behind it all. These were the new lifeforms in distant galaxies that he talked about.

You should check out east coast comic Con then, they usually have a pretty good guest list, a few oa dealers and the crowds are down right reasonable.

Read yesterday that it was done by Lucas when doing the remaster / touch ups to 4k / 3d for a release years ago, but because there wasn't enough demand the version was never in theaters and this is the 1st we're seeing it. So this is a "real" 4k version of a new hope, not just an upscaled version of HD.

I usually don't react much at the movies, but I'm pretty sure I said outloud "OH $#!7" when that happened

So, I just read an interview with Wener Herzog, and he said a lot of the fx in the show were practical. So, I think that's why it looks so much better than a lot of stuff we see today.

I'll just add, you are dealing with people. So it helps to get to know them, or ask a mutual friend. You'll quickly know who is fair to deal with, who the scammer/hucksters are, who has insane expectations, and who's just insane. Over the years I've found there no one set way to make deals, is matters how hot you are for the art and who the seller is.

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Saw it this weekend and was blown away. The ending from the point at which de niro was killed to the very end was about as intense as I've seen in a long time. With the perfect crazy end scene in the mental hospital. As good as it was, I almost hope they don't make a sequel and just keep it as 1 great movie.

I think it's going to be impossible to form an opinion off 1 episode. I can tell already it's not the tightly controlled narrative of the comic, it's something different, it's not a deconstruction of comics and their tropes, I'm honestly not sure what it's "saying" yet, but I'm sure it has a message.

Wow, that's awesome. Huge congrats.

I have only erased back of the board notes once. One of the previous owners had written the wrong artist on the back of the board (I'm sure to deceive someone) so I erased it and wrote the correct artists on the back.

Ugh, so I guess that means we'll see half of it up at Anthony's in a month?

Watched it on a long flight, wow. Last stand at least made me care enough to be mad. This I was just apathetic.

I saw what he had left about 6 months ago, and it was pretty impressive, there's some treasures to be found for sure if even 50% of it is still left

I still can't believe I got this one, a personal grail. The cover to rifts RPG: dimension book 1 - Wormwood

I stopped buying floppies around 2013 or so, but if you cherry pick there's been some damn good marvel stuff in modern times. Uncanny X-Force 1-18 was amazing, was it a bit of an homage to dark Phoenix sage, sure, but it wore it's influences on it's shoulder and made itself into it's own great thing. Journey into mystery by Kerion Gillen, the kid Loki story was something special, from beginning to end a great "journey" and a lot of fun. A lot of Peter David's X-Factor is a fun read. Wolverine and the X-Men was a fun read as well, where wolverine takes over the school. That's all I got off the top of my head though, I'm sure I'm missing a few that I thought were great and I enjoyed a bunch that were not great. 90% of what I read and have read in modern comics has been Indy stuff. What kills me on modern comics is the price, I walk out spending $50 for a very small time investment in reading way too often.

At least it's hand drawn art. The prints & signed and graded comics that dealers (and a few collectors) post drive me nuts.

Todd changed how Spider-Man was drawn, Jim Lee has changed how every other comic was drawn.

Man, I think this one is impossible. A quick list of 10 off the top of my head Neal Adams Frank Miller Jim Lee Art Adams John Byrne BWS Mignolia Starlin Laird/Eastman

I was thinking about this last night, I had a Boland prelim at one point, it was about 8x10. But because things all look about the same size on a computer screen, I feel like the size differences in art can sometimes be undervalued. Vs when art was bought in person so you can appreciate the true scale of the image.

I have a copy and it's a really cool book to flip through. For some reason, I think they can still be ordered as well when I last checked.

You are correct, I was confusing Swamp Thing and Sandman. But I think it's fair to say that you can draw a direct line from Swamp Thing to Vertigo.