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Depending on your collectibles insurance, you may have to send Registered - they usually have a couple different tiers for coverage. For my insurance, books under $2500 can go Priority Sig, books over that will have to go FedEx Sig or Registered. I was fine sending FedEx, but if I had some sort of crazy valued book at $30k or something, I'd be sending it Registered for the whole chain-of-custody, locked-in-the-safe thing from USPS.

Fifty bucks for a Razor action page, and all I have to do is glue on the word bubbles? Snag!

I am eagerly hoping that this movie is like one big, long, stressful episode of '24'. I'm super excited to see this on streaming.

This show is interestingly slow to me. I enjoy it, but it definitely falls into the modern styling of super-slow pace sci-fi. It strikes me as odd that I'm into the 6th episode, and there's really no drastically combative personality conflicts. People get along, then they don't get along and they separate. I think it really stands out to me since I am simultaneously watching Battlestar Galactica and the differences in pacing and character development are 180 degrees apart.

That turned out really awesome - Richard does great work, and to start with a Pajarillo penciled piece - you know it's gonna look great. That's a nice piece for the Witchblade collection!

That was an excellent pickup - congrats to the buyer! I came back to give this a second look on my monitor at home and damn if it's not gone!

Yeah, I'm in that boat as well - but I still have hopes to pick up a tight sketch someday. This was a neat auction to watch the last few hours of the bidding.

Yeah, the two-people-bidding scenario is a average killer. That's probably the likely explanation - but man, what a jump in price.

I was watching this one since since there doesn't seem to be a lot of inked Turner covers showing up - and not ones of this magnitude: https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fbids.asp&id=1760279 $22,472 - not sure if that's low, high or average, anyone chime in on this one?

It seems like when Jim Valentino is penciling, it really drives the price up. I've chased a few Valentino (non-Shadowhawk 90's pages) and I think he's a fan favorite. I picked up this DPS awhile back for $450 after it sat unsold for months, which was pencilled by Kirk Van Wormer (Vampirella/Shadowhawk book 1 from 1995). I thought it was a great action page, which is why I bought it and was surprised it hadn't moved - which makes me think the price on CLink is more about the artist than the character.

I am not a convention goer - but I always figured that prices at cons were lower than online/Ebay/Auction House prices? Is this not correct?

True what @CAHokie said. On the flipside, I also like the idea that you get a memento from meeting someone that doesn't require a bunch of extra expenditure, and if it's a key book that you want to sell someday, just wipe off the sharpie with rubbing alcohol (which when used lightly, won't damage the case).

The advancements and insertion of AI will be like everything else going on in the world: an extremely small vocal minority will rail against it, while everyone else could care less. When people as significant as Jim Lee find no problems with AI being used in media, you'll quickly find yourself surrounded by silence and eye rolls when complaining about the erosion of the human creative spirit. I, for one, welcome our new AI shiny boobed overlords.

Loved part two (my wife did not), I did think it was a little long and the transition of Paul turning into the direction of the Messiah could have been telegraphed a bit more. It was only until after I saw the movie that I read his *turn* (to use wrestling parlance) was meant to be legitimate. I felt he was making decisions at the end for the sake of strategy, not necessarily because his personality had changed. I do have one question for Dune fans: why was most of the pronunciations of the names changed, while some stayed the same: i.e., "Har-Cone-Nen" was the old way of saying it, now to "Hark-En-En", or Duke "Lee-toe" is now Duke "Let-Oh" but some, like Muad'Dib stayed the same. That was a very disjointed part of both movies coming from a longtime fan of the first film - was there some clarification that Frank Herbet had specific ways of pronouncing names that got ignored on the 1983 film?

I was 20 in the mid-90’s, so shaved-sides with a mullet is just going to have to be my legacy. Thankfully I’ve got some comic book street cred with my Wolvie shirt. That’s me in front of my 70 Impala with my dad’s ex-girlfriend in the photo with me. (Go, pops!)