DeliBebek

I like it. It doesn't look brittle, but soft. The sad part is that piece of tape looks pretty new. Both pieces look pretty new, I should say.

I got my JB Omni in the mail yesterday. Which one? His complete FF work. I've been meaning to ask you, did you buy/read/enjoy his new science fiction comic with the terrible title? I bought the first issue and enjoyed it but can't find subsequent issues locally. Did you mean Doomsday.1? I enjoyed it too and am waiting for the rest of the series to trickle into my mailbox. I'm glad IDW is letting him do the things he likes to do. No, it's set on a space station. I just looked it up. "The High Ways" Yeah, I missed that one, but I've got the trade coming in the mail.

I got my JB Omni in the mail yesterday. Which one? His complete FF work. I've been meaning to ask you, did you buy/read/enjoy his new science fiction comic with the terrible title? I bought the first issue and enjoyed it but can't find subsequent issues locally. Did you mean Doomsday.1? I enjoyed it too and am waiting for the rest of the series to trickle into my mailbox. I'm glad IDW is letting him do the things he likes to do.

But after saying that, he makes another half dozen posts, complaining that the thread is still going on.

Those are comics you can take your time reading and savoring. I've found myself slowly and un-methodically putting together a collection of Moore's run on the title. Even years later, the stories, writing and art amaze.

The GCD does have it listed but no one has come along to provide any of the contents, or even a cover scan. The site relies on collectors to contribute.

I'm glad Cap is showing some discretion by using his shield to hide the dirty word on the little banner.

I only bought the 14 and 15, but the seller threw in 13 as a bonus. Good dealers know how collectors love to be complete.

Hat's off to cracking! Beautiful book.

Wow! And the upside down variants too! I cracked my monitor trying to turn it upside down to see these. I'm thinking of suing.

Nice. I got one of those, but it doesn't have all that heavy plastic around it. Same grade though. They could be twins.

Upside-down bondage! I have a new fetish!

They didn't have enough confidence in the John Byrne cover to sell the book. They had to announce on the cover that John Byrne was the cover artist.

Are you sure this a price variant? It isn't a different price from the regular newsstand version. It looks like just a direct market edition.

Nice! Was that an "early bird" special?

I really can't get over how badly-drawn that foot is! I mean, it's just that much worse than everything else on the cover. But I like how he took so much time with the colored pencils.

You're not a real Marvel hero until you've been dead at least once.

Do these have stories inside, or are they exactly what they appear to be?

I like this one.

Do you have any idea who inked that one? It's undeniably Kane, but the best of it gets lost under those inks. I love how the main figure is so off-balance. It gives the design a sense of motion. "Sweet Sister!" I love the Bronze Age! And we have nostrils! I do love Kane, but when I see what should be a two-dimensional image, like a poster, I always wonder why it isn't drawn as it would appear. It's drawn as if we're seeing the figure from slightly below and in 3/4 view, even though it's doubtful a real billboard would have been designed that way. Maybe it would just look too weird otherwise. Still, a cool idea to have the billboard look as if it's blowing smoke rings around Power Man.

More than 10:1 ratio of views to posts, so there are a lot of people being entertained silently.

At the risk of playing off of Architecht's speeding analogy… It's like driving the same stretch of road every day at the same speed and seeing the same cop sitting by the side of that same stretch of road and then one day the cop stops you for speeding. You'd have to wonder why the cop suddenly stopped you for something he's seen you do numerous times. He's suddenly enforcing the law you both knew about. I guess at some point you've been given enough grace. While you're getting a ticket, many drivers speed by laughing, playing loud music, maybe even throwing something out the window at you and the cop (probably a hastily-constructed use of the meme of the day). The cop can't chase them all down and give them tickets. So you get a ticket, then drive away speeding again and throwing the cop the bird. WTTB.

… I have learned a number of things on this thread I never knew before. I can impart a few tidbits here and there of which a few others may be unaware. Opinions, if based on fact and not emotion, should all be worthy of consideration and honest debate, and if derived honestly, should be above ridicule even if disagreed with. Despite a couple of moments, I think for the most part this thread achieves that. And Bob, the reason people don't take your history posts seriously and treat you like a huckster is because you keep acting like a huckster. Try making a post on comics history without including a link to your eBay store or appealing to us to buy something. There are dedicated places on this forum to hawk your wares -- this isn't it. You can't wear both your dealer hat and your historian hat at the same time and expect people to take your conclusions seriously when they relate to products you are selling. … I'm not trying to pick on you. I am truly interested in this subject and I simply want to see formulate your arguments in way that allows us to truly weigh their merit. I'll add to this that BLBcomics should re-read before posting. Sentences that twist into each other are avoidable on a second reading. Statements that are presented as facts shouldn't have lavish metaphors which render them non-factual. I'd love to be able to look at the facts and understand what the poster means, rather than to unravel a sentence that isn't really a sentence, and assume that I have deciphered the meaning correctly. Otherwise, it's good enough for me at this point to know that comic books developed out of a long tradition of illustrated text and captioned drawings.

Such a detailed list may be a case of missing the forest for all the trees. I'm sure that most of that list can be consolidated in groups to represent certain trends in the industry. Those trends are what define it, not just a single issue. The single issue is simply the first real instance of the defining trend. In my opinion.

Since they're bringing Blink into it, it's wide open. Maybe Maggot will show up, too! It's "Days of Future Past" in title only.