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Good Grief, I could only manage to get $40 for 1-6 raw just a month ago. Congrats on the sale Ryan.

You can't claim a book is "heating up" without looking at historical sales data. Number of bidders and number of watchers shows interest, but tells you jack squat about where a book is in its sales cycle. I see Lyria as a tool to understand what's selling. It's a snapshot of the moment. Well, anything with bids (and no reserve) is going to sell ... I see it more as a list of items that garner a certain amount of attention when they're listed on eBay. But, again, without historical data, it doesn't tell me anything more than that book X has Y number of bids and Z number of watchers. Does this mean a higher or lower ending price than when the last copy of book X was listed? There's no way to tell. Historical data would be nice, granted, but I never saw Lyria as that type of service. I do think its a great site that aggregates current data from eBay for collectables and (to my knowledge) is the first site to do so. I'm only defending the site to the extent that I never saw it as misrepresenting what it is and that I am able to use that information to my purposes.

You can't claim a book is "heating up" without looking at historical sales data. Number of bidders and number of watchers shows interest, but tells you jack squat about where a book is in its sales cycle. I see Lyria as a tool to understand what's selling. It's a snapshot of the moment.

From what I understand, Whetton's service looks at the number of watchers & bidders and lists the highest for each category (and is further broken down by age: modern, bronze, etc). That number is used to define 'heat'. There will be outliers due to this metric. So if a high value book (for example WD#1) listed for $1 & has 100 watchers, but no bidders, it would still show up as 'hot' in the Lyria formula. The bidder/watcher value is a relative measure of heat, not an absolute measure, and is more easily handled by the algorithm Whetton developed.

He's also on twitter @lyriaexchange

That's really awesome! Congrats!

Does anyone else think being published by Top Cow hurts Think Tank? I know Matt is the CEO, but Think Tank is more cerebral than other Top Cow books.

A couple of comic-con purchases. I didn't get much this year, but I'm extremely happy with my pieces. Rachel Rising (posted in the RR thread too) Helheim #2 cover. Posted in the Helheim thread a couple of days ago. Apparently Joelle doesn't sell her covers, but I must have caught her in a moment of weakness.

How many Damned pages do you own now? It seems like you've bought a whole Damned issue by now.

Kinda funny that he collects the bed pages. He's also got the cover to issue 5; one of my favorite Chew covers.

I think he is Access & I've thought the same thing. I don't remember his board name, tho. BTW best ebay handle for a comic dealer I've seen is 'spinner rack'.

Has anyone read Super-spy? I seem to remember Kindt saying that was his favorite story he created. I read Three Story a few weeks ago... A+

http://robguillorystore.com/covers.html Also keep in mind all the pages that are left. You may notice they are disappearing. Are you hoarding Chew OA Jeff? I never got into purchasing OA, but ever since I bought that Panzerfaust page, I've been thinking of getting a Chew page... just gotta find something i really, really like. I'm still waiting for you to create a Chew art CAF gallery

Wait; you act like a clown sometimes?

X-men 101 is already hard/expensive to find in high grade ...14 too ...

If you want a #1, I'll trade you a raw for that page Seriously tho, nice page.

Nice Matt! I haven't read this series, but the OA looks cool. Reminds me of platinum age era comic art.

Nice score Jimmy! The only known Saga OA... That piece is a definite keeper.

Good. I regret not buying it

CPW3!

Awesome additions; great collection of current modern covers & pages!

In the interview segment, ES refers to EoW and JL as 'upcoming' - that's what I was basing my statement on.

I saw that. I think it was an old interview recycled for FCBD. In the article, ES made is sound as if East of West as yet to be released.

Good grief I sucked at that game. Defender too

I thought the exact same thing