Get Marwood & I

Englebert.

Sounds like a comic. Are they flying nurses by any chance liz?

They gave him an award for it and everything. Top humper.

By being a very special person.

You're right. My one had it. You can see it in the scan above!

Very fair, no?

Good! Keep em peeled then, there's a lot of them coming....

I'm out of likes, alas. I may as well log out now. Can't show any more appreciation for 24 hours. Great system that, placing a restriction on the many, to prevent abuse from the few. To do otherwise might incur some work of course.....

Now that's a great post, the kind was hoping to see. I'm sorry to hear of the personal troubles Golders. Many of us have them, and soldier on quietly. Life's like that, and the boards are often a good release from it all, when things are going badly. I do wish I had found the boards earlier. If I had, I think I may not have sold up my Spidey collection. And I like to think I'd have had fun joining in with the fun you old timers used to have. But we are where we are. I disagree with you that this is as good as it gets though. I do think the owners can be more proactive, and run an excellent, industry leading forum alongside their grading activities. But maybe the trend is downwards, because the 'old' comic industry is going downward. All we seem to talk about now is money. I'm planning a new silver age pence thread soon, and I hope you'll drop in when it lands, if only to say 'nice job', if pence books aren't your thing.

Roy wanted to get into a ring alright, heh heh. And as for the box.....

And the strike was on his flippin birthday! Agreed. A real cretin. A cretin. One of the easy 20 cosmetic changes I'd propose, yes. Oh, it was nice liz. Meat, cheese, ketchup. Lovely

Monday is the new Friday

Yes. The good is very very good, I agree. But it could be much better. My final thought before dinner - I love the boards. They allow me to do what I want, which is bore people with pence ramblings, and muck about. I'm grateful for that. But participation is dropping, and the competition is drying up. I'd hate that to happen here, and think there is so much that could be done. Don't go down without a fight, is what I'm saying. And aspire to be the best, not just tread water. I try real hard to keep my tiny corner going. Now, dinner in Englandville!

Yep, that's where we are. Stagnant. And that's why participation is falling. At least I'm assuming it is, as no one has ventured an opinion to the contrary yet. If Arch arrives and tells us participation is up, we can all accept that we're all wrong.

I look at the questions area every day, and answer when I can. It's a 5 minute job. 5 minutes, to give the impression of caring / being 'on it'.

Cool. Let us know if the Kraken awakes

You could sign off every post with "I'll be back"

Fair point. It's a free site, and we wouldn't be without it. But I have a vision of excellence. I want it to be the best. The best comic forum by a country mile would: 1. Earn them total respect / industry kudos (it's not all about money) 2. Probably generate even more sales If they had vision, they'd be considering a 'proper' sales platform to rival eBay.....

You forgot "AF15 is worth more than 50p" and "ASM 667 is reasonably uncommon"

Yes. Badly. But don't worry, you can use the search engine to look for them. Oh, wait....

On that point, lets all send out positive vibes to our Jimmers, who has been offline for a while, and not responding to digs and prods. Let's hope he returns from his unauthorised hibernation soon, to face disciplinary procedures. Which @lizards2 will of course administer, with his usual flair and zeal. @porcupine48

One thing I think CGC could do is run a competition for board members with prizes to encourage participation. They could start a thread each month, and judge the best response. I could think of a few good ones. Prize would be free grading etc. That would encourage participation, from all segments, and new members. Or, they could give awards to people at random, who haven't done anything. Oh, wait, They do that already don't they

Oh, right.

Only the ones where you're clothed liz.

Glad you're enjoying it Rock! Keep watching. Arch will be along soon, to address our concerns....