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Michaeld

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  1. 2 hours ago, Varanis said:

    Any manga recommendations for someone who has watched a ton of anime but read very little manga?

    Also, any recommendations on where to find manga OA and where to set expectations? There are many Japanese artists and properties I'd love to have examples from, but I've found they're essentially impossible to acquire due to cultural etiquette in the country around art.

    They just don't sell their art so don't hold you breath. I recommend "One Punch Man", "A Silent Voice", "Gigant", "Blame!", "Gyo" (or anything by Junji Ito), "Downfall", "One Piece", "Food Wars Shokugeki No Soma", and just for fun "Jaco The Galactic Patrolman".  

  2. 1 hour ago, RBerman said:

    Keeping Sturgeon's Law ("90% of everything is ...") in mind, there's plenty of great work both in Marvel/DC and outside it in the last decade. I'm just scratching the surface but am turning up stuff all the time that I enjoy. Some recent reads, some of which involve men in tights:

    Marvel: Aja/Fraction on Hawkeye (2015). King/Walta on The Vision (2015). Bendis/Mack on Cover (2018). North/Henderson on Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015-2018). Wilson/Alphona on Ms. Marvel (2014-2018).

    DC: Morrison on Multiversity (2018). King/Gerads on Sheriff of Babylon (2015) and Mister Miracle (2017). Johns/Frank on Doomsday Clock (2019).

    Other: Vaughan/Staples on Saga (2012 onward). Hickman/Pitarra on The Manhattan Projects (2012-2015). Luna/Luna on Alex + Ada (2013-2015). Kirkman/Adlard on The Walking Dead (2003-2019). Byrne on X-Men:Elsewhere (2019 onward).

    I'm sure there's good manga out there too, but it's so overwhelming that I wouldn't know where to start. I did read Gantz, which was interesting but went off the rails at the end. Anybody have a recommendation for something that's not 10,000 pages long?

    Start by reading "One Punch Man" or watch the anime. It it the best superhero story I've read in decades.

  3. 5 hours ago, Varanis said:

    How much do the other WW head shots go for? I'm definitely not the best to advise on the Timm market, but my gut reaction is it would price at just above the typical head shot. I would not expect the shading to elevate it to a higher tier, but rather would differentiate the piece against similar pieces in the same tier.

    Batman and Harley sell for $600 but he is famous for those characters.