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@John E. Maybe you've missed the spectacle of Yellowstone unfolding before your eyes? Yellowstone, with its reruns gracing the CBS screen, drew an audience of 5.49 million, akin to the viewership that accompanied The Walking Dead in its inaugural season. As the seasons unfolded on the Paragon network, the audience burgeoned steadily. Come the premiere of the fifth Yellowstone season, a staggering 12.1 million pairs of eyes were tuned in.

Negan, with the customary wielding of Lucille, never fails to stir a considerable measure of interest.

I read an article that stated that Bob Ross painted over 30,000 paintings in his lifetime. He might be famous but his work isn’t rare if he produced that amount of works. If he painted for 30 years then he churned out a 1000 per year 😱 “By the time Ross died in 1995, he had produced some 30,000 paintings – on-air or during his traveling workshops – depicting idyllic woodlands or alpine scenes cast in tranquil blues or candy-coated pinks.” https://www.cnn.com/style/article/bob-ross-netflix-documentary-culture-queue/index.html

I waiting for Ha.com to finally notice that magic apparatus, magic poster, and certain Houdini items have seen big leaps and jumps in value over the last 5 to 7 years.

Comic Link had about 50 OA pieces end on 9/19/23.

Does anyone have thoughts on the Bloom County daily strip’s hammer price of $2001.00. It had Opus in all the panels. It provided the first look at the offspring of Rosebud the Basselope and Hodge-Pudge. I’m alway curious about any information on the strip as it was a favorite of mine to read in the 1980’s. I’d like to add an example of the strip to my collection in the future. Thanks.

@TedsaidI tend to think that their head moderator is a blowhard who cannot handle being challenged. You might have rattled his cage which forced him to feel threatened.

@TedsaidSo, you broke a rule on voldy's boards and got told on. Then you continued to break that or other rules and got bounced?

Why did voldy's moderation ban you? Do you believe you were singled out for a particular reason?

The 2 Platt pages had mixed result. The MoonKnight page went for a strong price. While the Playstation cover was well bought, IMO.

While not in the the Aug 13th auction, that Valentino ShadowHawk piece that just ended had a surprising hammer price.

My memory is failing. That cover was offered about 36 months ago. You got a great splash page!

Valentino's artwork from SHadowhawk is very hard to find the FMV on. Lot of reason for that but people generally want his Guardians of the Galaxy work, there isn't that many ShadowHawk pages he worked on, and ShadowHawk has fallen out of people's memories. For example, I remember that in the last 24 months the "Secret Reveal" cover was sold through a private transaction. It failed to register a bid when it was offered on eBay. Weird for sure. If you ever want to part with it send me a PM.

Brett Booth's Backlash and Taboo offering provided a glimpse back to the early 1990's.

Besides the ones already posted Jeff Smith, Mike Mignola, Eric Powell, Stan Sakai, and Sergio Aragonés.

The inking that McFarlane did over Greg Capullo's Spawn pencils comes to mind when I read your post.

That might be why it is still down. Maybe they are revamping it to be more like the CGC boards? Just an observation but if the head voldi mod puts up anymore sticky threads then the entire first page will be sticky threads. A cluttered mess is right.

Like people that shill bid?

CAF is cliquish. It seems that collectors within whatever click respond to one another and ignore all others.

For me it comes down to whether or not you’d want a beloved member of your family selling something for $ 800.00 only to find out it was worth $ 50,000.00+. I wouldn’t want my mother being the seller in that type of hypothetical sale. Oh, and I wouldn’t want the buyer in my hypothetical sale teaching ethics to my child either.

Touch base with them. You might be surprised by the answer that you are provided.

In your conversations with the auction house personnel, did any of the bring up where they have a seen a softening of the OA and comic book market(s) over the last year?

Your post is spot on. Saw it yesterday morning. The animation is off the charts but they should have 1) left well enough alone and 2) thought about putting such and adult theme/message/philosophical question in a kid's movie. I asked our 6 year old if he'd want to see Toy Story 4 again or the Secret Life of Pets 2 again and he said "Max, I wanna see Max." I have no doubt the movie will make tons of money for Disney.

I'm lost. Yep, Stan had a story. A story that Miller threw a huge wrench in with Matt's dad becoming a drunk who beat Matt, Stick being introduced, and turning Matt into an antihero. Matt evolved but his origin and what he got turned into are nothing like Stan's and Bill's starting point. The same can be said about what Kelly and McGuinness did with Deadpool. Please note that I enjoy the Deadpool that Kelly and McGuinness brought forth. That look and writing of the book are Deadpool to me. Just as Miller's Daredevil is Daredevil to me.

That can be said about every character. They all evolve. Yes, Deadpool was shaped by Kelly and McGuinness. He's been shaped by just about everyone who wrote and drew the character. To not recognize that is like saying that Bill Everett doesn't exist because Miller made Daredevil the character we all associate him being today.