Lucky Baru

@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.

On 8/22/2022 at 8:10 AM, Sideshow Bob said:

The Walking Dead is all about zombies.

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

On 9/24/2023 at 10:24 AM, cstojano said:

In terms of weird things people collect the concert posters for concerts one didn't attend rank up their pretty highly in my book (though not higher than graded ticket stubs of the same). But my question is how you have so many high grade 60s era concert posters like this? A CGC 10 poster from 1967??

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? 

On 7/4/2021 at 1:34 AM, Tedsaid said:

Actually, I didn't break any rules.  The rules were interpreted to apply to me. 

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.

On 6/10/2020 at 5:55 PM, Carl Elvis said:

Thanks Lucky! I’ve received about a dozen offers with the two highest just shy of $3k. Still a lot of love for Shadowhawk! Not selling now though, maybe one day.

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.

On 1/30/2017 at 8:05 AM, AKA Rick said:

... also artists who assume the inker roles like Scott Williams, Joe Weems, Alex Gardner, Matt Banning, Richard Friend, Terry Austin, Jay Leistein, Norm Rapmund, Giordano, Murphy Anderson, Wally Wood, etc - - if you've ever seen the original pencils vs the finished inked work on certain pieces, or if you notice you mainly like a certain artist when inked by one artist vs another (Kirby pencils w/ Sinnott or Stone VS Coletta or Royer inks) - - you can truly appreciate the artistic contributions of inkers, who are often credited as "embellishers" - - and that describes the craft more accurately in that the role of inker doesn't simply of course trace over pencil lines making them darker, the inker takes what exists and improves it, adding their own contributions, altering the artwork with their final touches, often including intricate details as well as backgrounds and scene support.

 

So, in that way, I hate to see the scarlet letter applied to inkers works disparaging their valued efforts and contribution while praising pencilers as the be all end all, at times.

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

4 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

That forum is a joke in the way it’s arranged and maintained.  I’m not making a criticism of the users or members but of the structure itself.  It is one cluttered mess.  I can only imagine what the tech and maintenance guys think of it when they have to service it. 

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.

28 minutes ago, gumbydarnit said:

Not me, my if the piece moves me it gets a comment, that said I do tend to pay a little more attention to my buds, and throw a comment on a piece that I know they really enjoy but may not be in my wheel house. Now if there's the rare occasion where a collector is a questionable character, he gets the cold shoulder no matter how cool the piece.

Like people that shill bid?

19 hours ago, Jay Olie Espy said:

I can’t speak to the problems of publicly sharing a world class collection, but I have a bunch of smaller pieces (especially by comparison) that I don’t even bother posting on CAF because no one bat’s an eye. If it’s not $20k it’s “whatever” to others. Very little CAF users leave comments...not even for support. There’s not even a spirit of reciprocity. So what’s the real incentive of sharing?

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.

4 hours ago, delekkerste said:

No, I didn't have that conversation with them (about where they may be seeing signs of softening in this otherwise strong market). 

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

26 minutes ago, delekkerste said:

...the flip side of SDCC 2019 is that I feel that dealer pricing this year was the most disconnected from reality that I've ever witnessed (and I was not alone in this characterization - I heard it from two auction house reps and a number of collectors as well).  I mean, it's not just that prices are at/near record highs, but, the pricing spread to FMV was just beyond the pale this year.  I mean, sure, collectors always complain about dealer pricing, but, normally at least prices are at a level where you can start a conversation or negotiation. This year, many prices were just so far in la-la land, having jumped by hyperinflationary levels since just last year, that few would even want to bother. I'm not going to name names, and will point out that it's not all dealers (but, enough of them to make this characterization); the ones who post here on the Boards are not the ones I'm describing. @Panelfan1 @hippiecop

 

 

 

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?

On 6/26/2019 at 2:29 AM, media_junkie said:

So I just saw this movie, and while it was good (not great), it was totally unnecessary.  The third movie wrapped the series up all in a bow, while this movie just felt tacked on.

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.

2 hours ago, Readcomix said:

All characters evolve but the analogy with DD is not the point I'm getting at. Some characters are intro'ed as a fully formed idea from their creators (and yes they evolve over time) and some seem like a throwaway, only to be more fully created later. Deadpool seems to fit the latter more so than DD. With DD, Lee clearly had a story to tell. Miller and others of course evolved it over time. Deadpool seemed in 98 like he could easily never be seen again, but clearly someone (Nicienza?) had fuller ideas that allowed him to evolve rather than fade to a one-appearance mercenary. 

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.

57 minutes ago, Readcomix said:

Thank you, I didn't think it was him, and having read the 98, it seems to me Deadpool didn't become Deadpool right out of the gate.

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.