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When its done We get to pimp out our shelves with the oversized slipcased hardcover editions you mean.

Im sure the number slabbed will at least double after nycc, if not more. I'm just glad I managed to get 4 copy's for myself. One of those has got to come back 9.8. Not sure of the print run either, heard both 500 and 300. Anyone else know?

Its up there. If you click on the top east of west #1, its at the bottom of the page. Its listed as variant cover. Looks like theres 44 listed as slabbed. And you can add four more for the copy's I'm sending to NYCC to get signed and slabbed. They seem to be steadily climbing in price, plus the covers awesome.

I just looked at a few graded 9.8's on ebay, which both had light ink rubbing just by the top staple, so its looking like eyre allowing at least that. I'd imagine as the rubbing gets more extensive, that it effects grade directly. All my copies have very light rubbing, so lets hope cgc's feeling lenient that day.

How is cgc grading the ink rubbing/smudges? I have 3 rrp's all of whick have very light grey ink smudging on the back covers (like pencil grey). Are they considering this a printing defect and grading on condition alone? Or are they grading down for the ink smudged copy's? Anyone who has a cgc'd east of west 9.8 rrp, does yours show any signs of ink smudging on the back cover?

I agree. These two titles are the future of comics. While saga has hit a personal chord with alot of readers, both male and female, east of west seems almost grander in scope, more epic. Im exited to see where their respective creators will take these stories.

I think in this case, the hype doesnt have to neccecarily come from tv shows/movie deals. I think that one of the things that we all love about saga, is its a comic book made specifically for fans of comic books. (The references to D. Oswald heighst's work influencing alana profoundly, the inside "writers" jokes, the epic space opera on nearly the same scope as star wars.) This is a comic for comic fans. And I think that sales have reflected that. With no tv show, movie, or cartoon to hype the book, and In todays market, 70,000 issues sold is nothing to scoff at. Some of us "obsessives" are buying them for collcection and investment, but alot of people are reading these, and connecting with them. Walking dead issues were still relatively cheap before AMC announced the tv show, and now kirkmans licensing the series to everything from cars to clothes, to action figures. So naturally there would be a collector market for individual issues. But saga built this hype on its own. And it really built after the first few issues were released and people saw what we were working with here. Does anybody else remember a series that was fetching these kind of prices for a slabbed 9.8 first issue only 12 months after it came out? I personally dont. And coupled with the amazing story and acessable art, I think saga is in for the long haul. Whether it gets syndicatedto tv or made into a movie. And on that note, Y the last man was recently optioned for a movie, with vaughan basically playing no part in that. Once Y blows up in the theaters (lets face it, no matter who makes it, its a much more original premise than the that hollywood recycles into movies) brian vaughan's going to wonder if he could do e same thing himself, with a story he owns the entire rights to. So far, the only work he outright owns, is saga.