Erndog

Sure, why not post it. Got this from you Doug

Spawn had a movie, a gazillion variants, countless comic spin offs (i.e,. Medieval Spawn, Curse of the Spawn, Sam & Twitch, etc), a rated R television show/cartoon, and a ridiculous amount of toy lines. The last 10 years popularity haven't been even close to the first 10 years.

There are slight chinks in the armor beginning now. The Walking Dead #100 variant covers made a few long-time fans upset that they had to go out of their way to buy multiple copies to keep their collection complete.Some of these variants went for hundreds on Ebay! Another thing I noticed for a good few months between January to about this June Walking Dead dominated the Amazon top twenty graphic novel list. This is not the case anymore. When we check the list this morning we find that most of the Walking Dead graphic novels have fallen out of the top twenty to be replaced by Batman graphic novels. Yes Batman is now the king of graphic novels according to Amazon! Does this mean Walking Dead is dead? of course not but it is not at the mania it was around May. Could Batman now replacing Walking Dead as the most dominating graphic novel seller on Amazon started the beginning of the end for Walking Dead? I don't think that makes any sense at all to be honest. At SOME point everyone has it and it drops off the charts. That doesn't mean they like it any less. It's just like when a new album from a popular band comes out... or new movie everyone's been waiting for. It dominates the charts for a while then eventually it goes away. Why? Because everyone's seen/bought it. My friends were buying WD trade paperbacks like crazy the last year. Now they all have it (love it). They aren't buying it any more. Doesn't mean the shows/comic is going downhill. Doesn't mean anything really.

This is something I've battled with myself. I'll admit, I was late to the party. I started reading the comic around issue #68-70 (about a year before the TV series) and back then, I saw TWD #1 at comic shows for $350-500. I wish I had jumped at it then. I have a hard time bringing myself to spend $800+ on a modern book that I feel, at some point, will inevitably slow down... I look at Spawn (not the best comparable obviously as there was over a million printed of number one) but the characters popularity now compared to what it was 10 years ago isn't even in the same ballpark. I've noticed the comic is starting to wane a little bit. It's still good, and I love the series, but I don't have the same "oh my god, I can not wait until the next issue" that I had before. As many have pointed out, I don't think this bubble will ever "burst." I'm just not sure it is a $1K book either.

Holyyyyy that right there is the best mail call I've ever seen, ever. Congrats!

Daredevil is, once again, the best book going! Great to see all the DD love here! I have a #1 but I need to upgrade mine. Looking for a 7.0 at least (I currently have a raw 4.0-5.0).

My scanner's busted and home computer is almost on the fritz, so I borrowed the ebay scans, but these all came in recently:

Hello, My name is Ernie and I am new here. I am 27, have been collecting all my life and have built up a decent collection if I do say so myself Hope to meet many great people and make many great deals! Looking forward to the boards! Please post any positive feedback. That would be greatly appreciated!