Phill the Governor

I'm sure he has a few pages put to the side that he's not selling right now. If he's smart enough to have kept most of them, no reason he'd sell all of the good stuff by now.

look on ebay completed listings.

Did anyone else notice that the original art to 85 page 14 & 15 is gone from splashpageart? Sold for 2K! Holy ! Not to mention all the other art that has been purchased in the last few weeks.

The answer lies in the subject title. You must be joking.

Sure- but it was also a jumping on point for new readers who heard of the comic through the show. Didn't affect my reading experience, but I could see how it affected some people's collecting experience. Guess it depends on what your trying to get out of the series. I say good for kirkman. If I created a comic that became this popular I think 15 covers for issue 100 would be an honor of sort. I chose to buy the two I liked, and I moved on. It's collectors own fault for trying to "catch em all", then get mad because more are being made. If you collect variants and can't see how they are money grabs that mostly depreciate in value over time, I don't know what to say. If you say you like the walking dead, what was your favorite scene, I'd say "Rick, you're back. What kept you"?

There may have been a bunch of variants lately, but it doesn't change anything about my reading experience. It's an ongoing story that costs 3 bucks a month - which is still well worth it in my opinion. I really enjoyed the last issue.

I mean it's fair. If we cared about purchasing the book, we'd look in the for sale thread.

Where is the cover listed for sale?

I agree, the wraparound cover was one of the best from the series! However, Look at the zombie in issue 101 and compare it to any zombie pre issue 60 and tell me it looks like it was drawn with 10% of the effort. This is only one example. on a side note, I almost died laughing at Abraham's death. I'm sorry I had to say it. For a death page of a very well liked character I thought it was appalling! I've been making an art database of all published art from the series, and just stopped at issue 98 because I really don't care anymore about the new stuff. Love the old, embrace the new with skepticism.

I like it. It's something that hasn't been seen so far.

Just read 101 and... Also, My comic store had the ghost variants for subscribers - and they were cover price! They also had some out on the floor for $15 a piece.

The fact that you are offering free shipping just restores my faith in humanity, thank you kind sir. To the assclowns who charge $999 for a book then charge $4.99 shipping can suck it. fixed that. How about that issue 101 guys? eh eh!!

Not to be cliche in recent times, but to be fair the single best comic I've ever read was The Walking Dead 48. I don't think I've ever read a more dismal piece of story telling that actually had me excited, angry, and sick to my stomach at the same time. I mean, a splash with a mother and infant getting shot dead takes the cake for me.

Portents, Omens and....Signs. Can you see them? Oddly enough the last time variants were this big in comics, and right before the market imploded, this was the #1 hit of 1994: HAHAHAHAHA!!!

I'm with Branget on this. I bought a copy a while ago but haven't read it. Every time I check this thread it's about how much it's selling for, and not about the content - so I figured it wasn't that great. How is it for content? Worth 3 dollars and 10-15 minutes of my time?

The detail on the Michonne tattoo is unreal.

I heard a rumor that Kirkman is going to start making variant covers for each issue mandatory so the Nowell brothers can have a perpetual influx of new covers to purchase.

Sorry buddy.... There's plenty of deaths of significant characters. It's really how it happens, because everyone in the series is going to die at some point. I don't think it really gives much away. Heck, there's a few covers that give plenty away - and vice versa. I dont think it should affect the overall reading experience (thumbs u

I think we can call Charlie out for obvious lack of detail/rushed art, but as for the image we know his style and either accept it or don't - the rest is really Kirkman's call. Personally I think Charlie's Work on the series from 7 - 48 was excellent , 49 - 70 was great (thumbs u and 71 - now is inconsistent, rushed, and has a whole layer taken out of the finished product All one needs to do is look at the double page splash of rick punching Tyreese, or the double page all zombie spread in issue 28 and then compare it to more recent work to see where something went wrong. I mean, all in all I think it's pretty remarkable that someone can draw the same characters in the same comic book for 8 years and stay as consistent as he has, even if it's gone a little sour. I can't shame him for doing an excellent job earlier on.

I get that, but at the same time the regular issue 2 had a very small print run. Maybe, for some, the second printing is the best course of action. My Issue 7, I recently found out, is a second print, and I really don't care. Still the issue, and it's not like there was a third print.

I asked him if he would consider selling any piece of art and he told me something short of "I couldn't, it's a part of my soul".

Wow! That's a nice copy! Oh, I'm not sure if I have ever casually mentioned it, but I happen to know the owner of the original cover art of MM #1. Manager at the comic store I use to work at.

To be fair though, you're not really looking at it from the other perspective. If it was an auction, and the starting bid was lower, then more people would initially bid. That "sense of entitlement" that Branget was talking about exists tenfold in an auction like that. People sometimes bid crazy amounts in the heat of the moment. While the exclusive nature of a blind auction may be the best way to do it, I think that for Charlie's sake it could be sold in a manner that would make him more money.

Why do the zombified versions of the characters on the second compendium cover have eyes while the regular versions don't? It's flip-flopped.

Sounds about right to me. I don't mean to come off sounding like a pessimist, in fact I actually love the comic and the show. It can just be easy to degrade something if you're a big fan. I notice all the differences and highlight them where as if I take my biased-perspective glasses off, the art of the comic is "okay" (still not better than it use to be), and the writing of the show is still, in my opinion, better than most other shows on television.