Mike's Rack

Bwah, I came to buy comics and they told me to come back later… Terry how does one achieve VIP status? 

I might be able to do some at least behind the booth shots. But I suspect it will be quite busy. Will be busy digging out books today to bring. Would be fun to if nothing else, say hi to any boardies that come. I have one table along the back side of the wall.
This show is always VERY busy and fun. Come on down you won’t be disapointed.
From the last one. A lot of my happy customers.

Getting ready to board. Took a nap first. 
 

I'm looking forward to this one.  I haven't been to an out of State show since the last California Comic Con in 2020.  

It must be an outlier…

This.

This.

I blame the lawyers

never understood the need to bring sand to the beach or in the case of this thread crap to a crap show

What a mess show.  

What a mess show.  

What a mess show.  

What a mess show.  

What a mess show.  

It won't be the first time people have been upset at grades/labels they get back from CGC. 

Since 2018 I’ve submitted around 1700 modern books with a 9.6 prescreen … 0 9.9 and 0 10.0. 
No custom acetate covers though. 

Someone told me recently that the way I sell is the old way and is dying out.  Whatnot is the new way.  I thought I should adapt so it gave Whatnot a shot.  I realized that I don’t enjoy selling the new way.  It’s more like entertainment centered on and funded by a transaction.  I realized that I don’t enjoy selling comic because of a transaction I enjoy the deeper interaction with fellow collectors who share a common interest with me.  I experience this at conventions, on the boards, at local shops and to an extent on Instagram.  Whatnot is more of a streamlined commodification, hyper-focused for a brief time on individual items.  I sold some books and made some money, but I didn’t enjoy it.  I sell comics because I enjoy it, if it’s not fun, then it’s a job.  I want to keep comics as my hobby not my job.  That’s the old way.  I like the old way, I think the old way will be around longer than I will anyway so I’ll leave the new way to the ones who grew up with Tic-Tock.  

Someone told me recently that the way I sell is the old way and is dying out.  Whatnot is the new way.  I thought I should adapt so it gave Whatnot a shot.  I realized that I don’t enjoy selling the new way.  It’s more like entertainment centered on and funded by a transaction.  I realized that I don’t enjoy selling comic because of a transaction I enjoy the deeper interaction with fellow collectors who share a common interest with me.  I experience this at conventions, on the boards, at local shops and to an extent on Instagram.  Whatnot is more of a streamlined commodification, hyper-focused for a brief time on individual items.  I sold some books and made some money, but I didn’t enjoy it.  I sell comics because I enjoy it, if it’s not fun, then it’s a job.  I want to keep comics as my hobby not my job.  That’s the old way.  I like the old way, I think the old way will be around longer than I will anyway so I’ll leave the new way to the ones who grew up with Tic-Tock.  

Just because they are making “fat stacks of skrilla” (do the kids still say that?) doesn’t mean that I have to respect them.  I reserve the right to be an old .  When I was young, old bastards ridiculed me relentlessly, now it’s my turn 

There are quite a few, most of us won’t drop any advice unless we can bill someone for the time though. 

That would make him an artist and a retailer.  An artist and a retailer is still a retailer.

I’m pretty sure a trumpet blasted, four men on horses rode out from Sheol, and a woman with loose morals riding a dragon flew across the horizon when this announcement was made.

I’d fight anyone from Merced California.  But we’d have to do it in TJ and he starts under the donkey.

I hope this doesn’t provide incentive to butcher the book in the theory that the sum of the parts are worth more than the whole…