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I bought a card on ebay last week for 2000 bucks when they had the 10% ebay bucks, i liked the price before and the added bucks bonus dropped it to effectively 1900. I went to pay after hitting BIN....got his with 158 dollars in sales tax?!?! That was a first, thats gotta work its way into my buying even on ebay!

Thoroughly average. Its been proven he was nothing special by the CGC arbiters...I expect this to go for the same as a routine Don Perlin cover, maybe Kupperberg.

agreed, that's easily my least favorite 0.08% of the piece.

Im not a big Gil Kane guy beyond respecting his large contribution to comics if on volume alone....but G.D. that's spectacular.

To be fair though he could probably knock a unique commission out once a day....making 5000 dollars pre-tax a day is probably pretty good even for him (unless they are paying 2 million+ a year)...Just saying that doesn't seem like a bad way to grind out over a million dollars profit a year sitting at your desk in your office drawing.

I have one. The real thing is much nicer than the painting - even though they're priced nearly the same Actually I do as well. Im usually not one to share much actually personal stuff but why not. This is mine, only 400 square feet on an island off a cliff in the forest. No plumbing or power but honestly you dont need it. This place is also why I love comic books and eventually art.

...You know....yeah...I sorta do too...

I actually liked that one. It was I think intentionally a little insane.

Wow, those are some tiny print runs. I have to imagine they still cover printing costs at this level. It seems like at that level they are basically subscription level only sales. I think its cool he is going out there plugging away at his book. He has a very small but loyal fanbase keeping it profitable, so on he goes. More power to him.

I love the critics consensus. Man, talk about desperate to influence people to not want to watch it.

I still don't know how this is going to work for Sony. 1. They cant reference the fact that Peter (and 1/2 of humanity) disappeared for 5 years. That would be the single greatest event in human history, it would define the world in a ways that make ww2 seem small. It would effect every single aspect of day to day life as it defined much of the last movie and Spider-man personally. How in the world do they continue this character without that narrative? 2. Everything about Peter is tied to his love/admiration of his mentor Tony Stark. His costume, his adventures, all of it is tied to a MCU owned entity. How can they get around that in their next movie? 3. The last thing we saw of Spider-man he was being accused of killing Mysterio and causing the catastrophe in London by using Stark Tech like some world conquering villain. The entire world knows his identity now and that he is using Stark gear like a terrorist. How can they get around this in a new movie since its so completely tied to licenses they aren't allowed to use? Doesn't that all mean that whatever Sony makes will have to be yet ANOTHER complete reboot, maybe without Holland? It sort of has to doesn't it? If so, it wont be the same. It wont be the brand they were hoping to pull back into their fold. They might as well just pull Toby or Andrew Garfield out of the retirement home and tell em to suit up.

I think anomaly films like this cause problems for many reviewers. I would think if a film comes out they all know is great but it might have social or political overtones they don't like, they are trapped in no-mans land. How can they like the movie without feeling like they are undermining their own driving set of core beliefs? This is the problem with using reviews as tools for advancing social/political issues. It forces you to occasionally do a weird limbo-style review that both tears down a likely very good film, but that doesn't make you look to incompetent to the buying audience when they see it for themselves and potentially love it. You basically have to say the equivalent of "video-games cause real life violence" to attack it while simultaneously being viewed by your audience as someone who scoffs at the "video-games cause real life violence" opinion in other circumstances. You need to find a way to tear this movie down for reasons that you likely have laughed at before publicly, but you need to not look like your trying to eat your cake and have it too. It seems a version of this situation came up earlier with Dave Chappelles new netflix special. Either way, it should be fun to watch this play out. Looking forward to seeing this one.

On some level, shouldn't Bill Watterson be on this list? Every cartoonist in the world is basically trying to be him, as are many of the indy writers and artists.

Just finished it tonight, god it brings back memories. I loved the artwork. Its funny, i actually meet my wife 21 years ago via a DD group I played in for years. Seeing that documentary really gave me a push to acquire at least one really great painted TSR piece.

Agreed, using the standard of how much it sells for to determine greatness is off...but clearly its what some folks here use. I will say this for Kincade, a lot of people seem to like his stuff since it sells so well. I dont get it myself, but to each their own.

Because the key word here is “Impactful”. If you drew more books, at a very high quality, than nearly anyone else in the industry...you are going to have a greater potential for impact long term. More collectors/future artists are going to grow up reading and eventually being influenced by the art you produced. It’s really I think pretty straight forward. Your work has to be seen routinely, to be everywhere, to have the greatest potential impact on the widest possible audience. Plus his work sells exceptionally well, which is the standard many people seem to use to determine if someone was “great” or not.

Ive come to understand how truly broken and off-course most media reviews are these days. Im surprised we still collectively give them the respect we still do. This movie will be good, if somewhat uncomfortable to watch and digest. I say sounds good to me. Its been a while since we have seen anything from the mainstream media that actually challenges instead of confirms our biases.

Ok, you came 1/2 way to right think so I will allow it...this time...

Don’t see it that way. That he worked on so many hundreds of books across so many companies, his impact and importance I think is locked up. Just on volume and longevity alone his influence was great and widespread.

Sir, the market has spoken.

Since I have it on high authority he is the definition of average....it’s neutral.

Never a fan of Neal's antics, this is just par for the course with him.

He's no Don Perlin, but I hear his work is passable...in some less informed circles....

1. Jim Lee (Artist) 2. John Byrne (Artist) 3. Frank Miller (Artist) 4. Todd McFarlane (Artist) 5. Frank Miller (Writer)

Went to the game BTW...saw my boy crush two HR's and make some great plays and I got a ball (I think however it was the double play ball Cano hit into in the 8th so that's kinda funny being a Mets fan). Just a perfect night.