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Congrats Vic! I hope it was as much fun as it looks!

Ah, okay. I’ll toss it on my list. Thank you for the other suggestions as well.

Excellent suggestion, the art is as captivating as the story is imo.

I may have to check this one out one day. It was also suggested to me by someone else for it's humor. Is it also comedic at times in your opinion?

Hey Stephen H, I have always gravitated towards the stories inside the books so I have not purchased any keys for just the cover, and if the story isn’t any good I’m not going to be buying the book. I do appreciate the additional art and virgin covers can be very stunning as you pointed out, I just don’t support the price tags and shady business tactics used to sell them.

Yeah, some people have unfortunately already walked away from the hobby due to all the variants. I’m sure the cash grab reboots don’t help as well but it was the variants that drove a few of my completist freinds away from the hobby. Now they read the stories via TPB’s, could care less about the shiny new variants of the week, and have no plans of ever returning.

You are far from alone bud. My suggestion, walk away from any variant that costs more than cover price and never look book. No matter what the print run is, the story on the inside is exactly the same. It also doesn’t matter how many scumbag dealers are screaming “BUY MINE!” with some form of misleading wording, you don’t need them. So just walk away and save your money.

Perhaps it would be more beneficial to the modern threads devoted to certain series and the creator appreciation threads if the constant value updates and variant links were housed elsewhere. Rather than the actual conversations about the creators or series themselves that the threads are devoted to. Just seams a bit backwards since the bulk of issues within the modern threads stem from value updates and individuals posting links to sales of variants they are invested in. On that note I’ll throw out the suggestion of eliminating any future posts of links to any current sales of any kind in threads not devoted to a sale of some type. It is certainly frowned upon to post your own sales thread link in threads, so I’m not sure why it’s allowed for individuals to post links for shop variant sales knowing how common it’s done to hype a book for profit. If we can have a section to promote eBay sales I see no reason why we can’t have a section for individuals to promote shop variant sales elsewhere.

Any new suggestions?

DYN-O-MITE!

That’s awesome @shortboxed, I’d love to see more of these from con to con. I’m in time permitting, if anyone wants to kick a few tires or get a jump start via pm before hand I’m up for it.

What’s not to like? Seriously, he’s an extremely talented artist. So much so that I’d say we are lucky to still have him in the comic world. He’s certainly one of my favorites and even if it’s a title I don’t collect I always enjoy the art. I do not collect any Dell’Otto books, OA, prints, etc...I just enjoy his art.

One last time. No matter what you say it will always appear differently to several others in this thread. So it doesn’t matter what you claim. If it’s a possibility you are profiting off the hype then it will always be suspect to some that your posts are to shill Bulletproof Dell’Otto’s for profit. Even if you’re pointing out other stores variants it won’t take thought away from some people minds. It can all easily be seen as part of the game, even if you're not playing one. Personally I can easily see you as completely innocent in all of this but because I’m aware of just how many scumbags are in this hobby right now when something feels a bit shilly, I call it out. If you don’t see that as a contribution okay, but I do. I for one would much rather have someone point out something that may be a shill or a bit fishy over pointing out where a few variants are going to be sold. I would hope you feel the same. We are only talking about comic books after all.

I’m not here to argue with you Polirer. Like several others I just want the thread cleaned up from any possible shills. Clearly you are choosing not to respect the that. Either way, do as you wish. I made an attempt to stop this by simply suggesting you let others post the images when they are made public. Which is typically as little as a day away. That’s seriously not too much to ask to stop this. So any future “insider info” Bulletproof posts are going to continue to cause issues within this thread. If you’re fine with that then don’t be surprised the next time you are called out, because you will be.

Okay Polirer, okay. I personally don’t want or need any of your info. I was simply pointing out how this could be all be easily seen as shill driven. None of us could ever know your true intentions, no matter what you say. It’s just an unfortunate place to be for you as a fan and being close to Bulletproof, but it is what it is and it appears shilly to several of us, even if it isn’t. So it’s probably best to just let others post the images and perhaps all of this will be avoided moving forward.

I hear what you’re saying but enough seriously is enough. I’m sure you’d prefer to enjoy the thread like just like I would right now which is why I’m speaking up. If that’s such a big deal by all means go right ahead and place me on ignore, because I’m certainly not going to let up and am definitely not here to entertain you.

No other accounts? That’s odd because you’ve stated to be part of a group on FB in the past. Which I’m sure can be a pretty easy place to sell books.

I value the response Jay but you and I both know you have absolutely no way of knowing that. You may know all of his accounts he could be selling these books on but I’m sure most of us don’t. Perhaps he isn’t, but he could just as easily be building Bulletproof Dell’Otto’s inventory to sell one day. There’s just no way to know his intentions. Which is why his posting style is so often looked down upon in the modern threads.

I am very aware that you do not work for Bulletproof. Like I have already said, no matter your intention it does not appear innocent to several of us. So I hope you can respect the thread and take it else where.