Sarfa

My all-time favorite X-men cover. Hell I would have bought it too

Here are a few recent items... There is a contest going on here in the modern section for recreating covers. This first one was a joke really because I asked what someone wanted to see, the 1st responce was MLP / WD variant, so... My entry that is in the top 5 right now... Then i started a new sketchbook this past week and here are a couple of the first entries in it... And finally this one. Which Riley even commented on and liked on Facebook...

just wanting to check the consensus around here, Is $75 shipped a good price for a #1 9.8 and 2-4 in "NM"? I mean I was able to buy 1-4 at my LCS yesterday for cover and all seemed to be in great shape. I generally figure for a modern book already CGC'ed at 9.8 is usually about $50 just to start since the cost of... Finding a 9.8 candidate packing it up and shipping it securely for submission all the fee's plus time waiting to get the book back. I still haven't seen what the print run numbers are like for each issue, but less each of the variants. Does anyone happen to have these numbers?

Thanks. Riley and I had a quick discussion about the perspective on both his original and my recreation. As well as the possibility of getting this graphic put onto a skateboard deck. I will say that is pretty awesome, for me, to get feedback from the original artist when I do something like this.

My only issue with people saying that unname girl in the panel from #1 is Harper Row is she looks nothing like that in #7.

Where in Batman #1 is Harper Row? I didn't see any panel with her in it.

For those that might be interested in seeing it finished...

I lucked out and got 2 regular copies and 2 combo packs. And those were the last that one shop had. The other shop a mile down the road was sold out. Now to see how they fair on that other market place. luckily they are all pretty cherry in shape. The combo packs have a bad habit of getting major spine creases.

I appreciate the input. And got the responses I was really hoping to see especially from Larry himself.

sweet, my last Bedlam sketch got a like from Rossmo on facebook

I'm going to ask a newbie question, what is with all the negativity towards Larry and his variants? Personally I buy variants because of the artwork, not because of the speculative market. And I personally like all of Larry's variants for Bedlam, including the one you guys seem to love to hate on. My point is this, did the cover artists get paid for more work? Does it get the book and the creative team more exposure? Do you like the cover art? Then what is the issue if its a money grab? Isn't that half the point on variants to begin with?

I nominate SARFA!!!!! No way dude, I am nowhere near Rossmo's level. I'm just a decent copycat I still have plenty to go on this one

Awesome! PM sent

Just ordered the Phantom variants from Larry for issues 1-4. Now I just need to find the 3rd Eye variant for #1 at a decent price. That cover is awesome.

You think evaluating and grading comics day in and day out is mind numbing, I did visual electronic defect inspection on Texas Instruments DLP chips for 3 years. The final stage before microscope visual inspection and shipping to the OEMs. The job was literally standing in a 10' x 10' black room, projecting a series of patterns, fades and color spectrum tolerances for 12 hours a night. That was fun We had to have our eye sight evaluated every 3-4 months to continue inspecting. But really as horrible as all that may sound, the job really wasn't so bad. Monotony sets on when you don't find defects. Because then you find yourself double and triple inspecting a single decide. I guess my point is, yes it is good to have a background and decent knowledge base of publishers, their printing and assembly practices per era and such, but when it comes down to brass tacks, it's still a visual inspection and evaluation job. Anyone that has a history of doing fine inspections on anything, being able to spot the slightest defect is all that matters.

I'm sure this has been mentioned like a million times, but I'm surprised they don't hire 1-3 more graders. Even if to only help through con season. I know you have to take into account the time needed to train to their standards so that consistency stays with the grading process and that takes someone away from the grading team. Then extra time on the quality control aspect to make sure the grades and inputs are done in the same fashion until the current team is happy with the results of the new graders are up to par. Hence the hiring of more than one more person. That way hopefully the new people "graduate" at the same time and then can really start banging them out. Maybe once they can get caught up to a respectful level, then if needed they can back off the newer graders. Or just maybe business will pick up enough to warrant the new graders sticking around. Oh well, one can dream.

Thank you!!!

If I might be so bold, do any of you RRP owners happen to have a fairly high resolution scan of the front cover? I'm wanting to do a reproduction for myself and have been having no luck finding a decent size picture of it on the net so far.

Here is mine. It's not finished and honestly I doubt it ever will be...

I have resigned to the fact that I will never get to own one of these, much like a TWD #1 unless it falls from the sky, off the back of a truck (into a large pillow) or I win the lottery Color me uber jealous!

Thanks

Well to break up all the sadness around here, I thought I would take my chance to show off my newly acquired collection... Pay attention

I too just recently read this series. I'm kicking myself in the butt because I remember the girl at my LSC saying I really needed to check out the book when issue 1 came out. I passed on it when there were 50 copies on the shelf and my shop owner doesn't limit the number of copies you can buy. And now in the last 2-3 weeks I've bought 2 1st print sets after buying an Image First #1 and 2nd prints of 2-7. I love this series. The story is great and the artwork has really grown on me. I hope this series goes at least 50 issues if not more. I missed out on Walking Dead for so long. I'm glad I'm not too far behind the curve in this one.

That is friggin' awesome!!!!

I did this back in 2002 And this one in 2003 and something I did way back in 1993 and never finished or submitted...