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You could tape it and get a universal, though a very low grade (0.5 I would guess for this one) which would then continue to degrade in the slab - slapping tape on a book just isn't a good solution ever. I would recommend just investing a small bit of money to have it properly conserved (with someone like phantomrestoration.com ) and get it to maybe a 1.5 (or more, depending on work. Leaf casting just the cover would do wonders).

For me it is less about a persons opinion on this situation and more about people dropping claims about the people & situation without even providing a source for it when politely asked (as how can we form an opinion on it ourselves?). I understand the many reasons someone might not want to explore and expand on their own opinions in depth here, but when asked for the bare minimum regarding a claim (I'm not asking for evidence, I just want to know where they heard it from so we can all think for ourselves about it and look into it) they go silent (but still post an interact in the thread?). That is some real toxicity; spreading claims about people which can grow out of hand, getting repeated as fact, and refusing to even talk about something they felt was important enough to share in the first place. edit: They Dm'd me very important context. Well, in THAT case I totally can trust your wild claims at this time.

"Guys, I'm now getting involved in this thread and here is a WILD new claim." "Source?" "Screw you guys, this is exactly the sort of attitude that caused people to get hurt in the first place! I'm not getting involved!" *makes tiny baby sniffling noises, picks up ball, goes home. Continues to interact with the thread reacting to posts.*

You didn't want to get caught up in this, but just casually dropped serious allegations that nobody else is talking about and expect everyone here to believe you. Gotcha.

Any reason you haven't provided a citation yet for this claim (your account does show you've been online and in this thread liking posts since asked for it)...it's a real doozy, but I have failed to find anything online in the last three days that sounds anything like this (which is odd cause this is pretty big, but not even the big comicsgate accounts on twitter are talking about it from what I can see)

Personally for me as a stand alone comic, it isn't all that great (his other works are much better overall). At best it is a great 'remember when' walk through memory lane (much like a Family Guy call back reference scene) for those who might have grown up with the X-Men though.

link? I can't seem to find anything for this claim anywhere so far, the only recent stuff coming up are some very low effort YouTube videos trying to delve into her statements (poorly).

Would you let your (hypothetical) daughter hang out with someone with as many allegations as him, or do you think it would be unfair of you to make such a judgement call and hold such an opinion?

What point? You said "People here still think Justin Roiland was wrong, even when found innocent in a court of law" He wasn't proved innocent, and it is more than reasonable for common people, not the courts, to have the opinion he is still 'wrong' based on continued allegations...over and over again.

He had many allegations against him (domestic violence, abuse), and even after all those were dismissed due to lack of evidence (once again, not zero evidence, just not enough to be beyond a reasonable doubt)...he had even MORE new allegations come up last year. Sure, he isn't technically guilty by a court of law, but he sure doesn't seem to me like someone who is squeaky clean innocent (Hence me saying I get the feeling of 'where there is smoke, there is fire' with him)

Yes, but also no. Courts do not determine innocence, it is of course assumed the default state, but rather courts determine guilt. His cases were dropped because of insufficient evidence to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt (Not making a value judgement on him either way, though with him the adage 'if there is smoke, there is fire' comes into my mind, but prosecution will not just take a risk if it isn't close to being a sure thing)

Jesus wept, gross...hand waiving away her possible victimhood because it doesn't match your own notions of what rises to that definition is certainly a choice - she felt manipulated enough, as did other women, to come forward to raise a red flag (often the ONLY recourse women feel they have when there isn't anything outright illegal, whether it was the right decision is a separate beast). Regardless of what societies 'allow' does not mean it is correct or just - the average age of consent in the world is 14-16 but I personally don't think that makes it right for an adult to be involved just because it's legal. Just because she sought him out first, or made spicy art, doesn't mean she should have known what was coming to her or is any less a victim. Maybe you would like to also question what she was wearing at the time when he decided to DM her? Were people calling him a pedophile wrong, yes, and were there people who took it too far and harassed him online, of course (in that case he was a victim over a news/online cycle that overreacts and feeds into itself) but this nitpicking of the victim involved really evokes the tired & problematic myth of the perfect or ideal victim.

Lots of attention is, rightfully so, being put on the 'internet mob' part of this but what I feel is getting lost is how that WTAE-TV Pittsburg newswoman helped drive more stress to Piskor by stalking his parent's house and demanding his elderly father comment on the allegations. Online DMs are one thing (and I'm not diminishing their impact) but having your parents being pulled into a mess (of your own doing) in person is another level. You can tell by his letter he had lots of concern for his parents welfare, so knowing he was going to bring them continued shame & grief would have certainly helped drive him to making such a rash decision.

Those collected editions of Hiphop are one of my top purchases of the last decade (oddly Grand Design was one of my least favourite, but still nice to look at)

Not all situations are created equal, we don't have to have an opinion on a matter that covers ALL instances of that topic. We are talking about Piskor here, that is the context, so don't going tossing in some random whataboutism regarding another person. Nobody is saying suicide is a good thing, or a good outcome. A 16 year old that has been assaulted and harassed for years, for something out of their control, and who has not close to even maturing mentally is not equal to a well-off famous 40ish year old man who JUST started to feel consequences from his own actions (justified or not). Yikes.

That would not have been sexual assault, that has a very clear definition, but I see this sort of thing all the time; People hand wave away a victims experience as being 'not that bad' in comparison to other heinous possibilities (we don't have full context, and might never have it, all we know is it was enough for her personally to come forward). People were not distancing from him because he sexual assaulted someone, but rather that his behaviour was giving off grooming vibes. Also, regardless of if what he was doing was TECHNICALLY legal in his state, that was still an older man acting inappropriately with a kid (let's not pretend being 17 old is adult territory). You also are glossing over the other sexual misconduct issues he had; including another woman that said he asked for a in exchange for his agent’s phone number (which to me is a big issue, and mirrors what Warren Ellis was doing years ago. This sort of 'joke' offer is all too common)

and countless other professionals as well both in this industry or others, to the point I actually find it harder to name someone who ACTUALLY has been outright cancelled, as in they have lost all platforms willing to host them and they get zero work in their industry (actual zero work, not just a lack of high profile mainstream work like Gina Carano lost). So many of the 'cancelled' people simply get propped up by a right-leaning base and have guaranteed income and interviews forever at that point...or come back in a year or two after self reflection and working at it (Dan Harmon is a good example of this) (also Warren Ellis, he has taken a 'break' since the allegations so has not released new stuff in the last two years while going through mediation, though he is being a jerk and hasn't changed, but has just recently started his newsletter back up and is gearing up for a comeback - something Piskor could have done in perhaps less time as I'm sure his hometown showcase would have simply been rescheduled to a later date once things died down)

It varies by country drastically as well, I know here in Canada when they say Suicide is illegal that includes criminalizing anyone who encourages someone else to commit suicide, or a person who helps another person to commit suicide (outside of MAID, obviously).

Likewise it ignores the fact that victims can still regard their abusers as 'friends' & loved ones, there are lots of rationalizing that goes on and might take years for a person to even realize they were in fact victimized in some way or in a situation they feel they can finally share their story safely (often from hearing other people tell their stories and coming forward). It is sad, but I can only recall a single person I know who came forward immediately to friends/family (not police, as it wasn't technically illegal) after similar advances from a 'superior' at work. Victim statements/actions, or anything regarding manipulation/abuse after the fact, are very complicated and not so cut and dry with solutions ("just block them online!")

Her deleting the post doesn't tell us anything either way, as when news broke that he killed himself there were already a legion of people blaming the women for all this (so her distancing from socials is exactly what Piskor should have done, it's vicious). We also can't just take Piskor at his word, even in a suicide note, as of course he believed otherwise - like you said, we don't know the real truth and may not know (though given how absolutely common place these sort of abuses are I have no reason to suspect them of being false, maybe lacking context, but not outright false). Also I find it very troublesome he went out of his way to name all his accusers in his letter, explicitly blaming them. Felt more like he did that out of spite rather than any real sense of remorse or guilt (This just might be me though biased, because it sucks having the reference of having read SEVERAL suicide notes by people over my life, several of which who did live and did say they only said things meant to hurt others as a final act out the door)

Don't do that - don't be that guy who starts to throw the victims under a bus with absolute zero reasoning even if it is in the 'just asking questions, bro' framing (if you know any abuse victims IRL you know how common it is to NOT report at the time. I guess all the women I know who were raped had a 'motive' for waiting years before reporting). There were MULTIPLE women who accused him of being a creep, including using his position in the industry to try to get sexual favours from them.

I never implied that, but unless the actions are found to be criminal and charges made, all we can do is call out horrible actions and those who perpetuate them.

I think he made a massive series of poor choices, and being a groomer / creep utilizing his position to solicit sexual favours from younger women needs to be called out, but I do not wish this on anyone and always hope those in such situations can get help.

Regarding Mike's skill level, he did some major restoration on the first book I sent him almost a decade ago (an early Adventure Comics) which included leaf casting, color touch and lots of other stuff (brought a low grade 3.0-4.0ish up to a 6.5, which was less than we had hoped but still looked nice). I felt he knew how to do the stuff needed on most jobs, though quality might vary and often with a 'heavy hand' so more restoration was applied when less would have been possible, so him taking on work he could NOT do never crossed my mind. Also consider he didn't personally restore all the books sent to him - he sometimes sent the books to OTHER restoration pros to do in order to help him catch up on work (won't name em)....so in those cases those clients might have ended up getting even better work than everyone else.

My opinion is that they will end up using the same yellow labels, if only from a cost saving stance (and from a marketing stand point, as doing so would cause more people to resubmit to get the yellow label to match their other books, something they might not want to do if a new color is introduced). The downside of this is the moment we get a fake signature authenticated and slabbed in a yellow signature series label (and make no mistake, it WILL happen. Remember James Spence’s appearance on Fox News, where he authenticated forged autographs as genuine) it will greatly lessen the strength of the yellow label and tarnish what was previously one of the most clear & trusted guarantees offered by CGC.