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couldnt finish ep1, i found it unwatchably boring.

according to the article, the direction they had taken did not even have dd in costume until ep4. they call it a 'legal procedural.' good g*d what an idiotic direction that would have been. better late than never to start over.

i did! i love this actor, hes amazing in everything he is in. if you havent seen 'green book' i recommend it. disappointing that marvel has had its head up its butt on this project for years now. guess when your finger is constantly in the air to gauge how the culture war winds are blowing, its impossible to choose your direction.

word is he will be appearing in the next avengers movie. whether it is as a member of the team, or the villain, no one seems to know yet.

this little snippet looks like mike allred and brian bolland had a baby who makes comics. but it is impressive nonetheless, and quite clear that it will be incredibly easy very shortly, if not already, to make a visually compelling comic with zero artistic ability. this does not mean that there will be no jobs left for great artists. but probably there will be less and less of them, like in illustration and other commercial art fields. pretty sure that at some point almost all hit songs will be either fully generated by AIs, or at least written by them.

just rewatched this with my son on bluray and i believe it is the best animation ever done in a movie, from start to finish. i personally think it is also a wonderful, amazing film, possibly the best animated film ever. so nice to see them crush one ever once in awhile. it's getting farther between the good ones the last couple years in terms of superhero stuff.

the lack of excitement here for this show is palpable. not even a shadow of what the original was. i dare not hope that the forthcoming jon snow show will be better (but i still do). i'm still astonished that a show would have the gall to replace it's two leads with marginally older actresses halfway through a season, for no good reason at all.

if you're talking pre-AI, not really. learning illustrator, photoshop or other 2d design apps, and then making something that looks nice still takes some work and a good design sense. it requires less traditional skill like life drawing, but your gramma can't just watch a few videos and then make something cool using illustrator or procreate. AI changes everything. now she can indeed if she knows the right prompts and references.

big props to @blazingbob for this honest convention report. though never the most warm and fuzzy dealer out there, bob is no-nonsense, a straight shooter, and usually fairly priced at cons. i always buy something from him when i see him at a show. it's incredibly rare on these boards to hear this kind of report from dealers. it's either something useless like "we sold alot of books" or crickets. +1

as you probably know, midjourney and the other AI image making apps create entirely new images based on their visual training data which is everything on the internet. just put in my name or any other known artist in midjourney and give some prompts that include 'in the style of' and you'll get an array of derivative but not stolen images. so, its more than stock imagery that the AI are threatening. its working artists and illustrators, yes, some people are suing but it seems unlikely that some lawsuits can stop the direction of things. paying to use stock imagery or hiring an illustrator will probably become superfluous once the AI is a bit better and easier to use.

thanks for all the great pics! looking forward to more reports about how this show went from collectors, dealers and everyone in-between.

@Robot Man curious if you think that in another 20 or 30 years, we will similarly be amused to see that an action 1 in mid grade was "only" 3 mil in 2023, or if you think this price curve is going to get flatter (for the key GA stuff).

though the show is aimed at teens, roberto aguire-sacasa, the creator and show runner, is head of archie comics, is a former writer of comics, and is a giant fan of comic books of all eras.

there may be less AI than it appears currently in newspaper illustration. however, the use of stock imagery in all major newspapers (these 2 examples are from the NYT and WSJ this week) has been quite common for many years now, and seems likely to soon be replaced by AI generated imagery, as it will save costs. one person who knows how to write prompts can save all stock usage fees and possibly all fees for outside artists. before photoshop, illustrator and other apps made it simple to make small spot illustrations for print and digital media, all magazines and newspapers employed thousands of illustrators for every image that you saw. many of them were my teachers, friends and colleagues. now, most of these places employ one in-house artist/graphic designer, feature a lot of stock imagery from getty and other sources, and occasionally pay a name artist for a major article. the NYT is better than most at continuing to employ illustrators, as is the new yorker. but overall, most papers rarely do so and this number will continue to drop.

AI has already replaced many creative art jobs such as illustratior and graphic designer. how many newspapers now use AI generated images to accompany articles instead of paying someone to make a piece of art? it's sure to replace jobs in the comic art business too unfortunately. right now, it's still fairly obvious and less than exciting when AI imagery is used in a comic like your friends examples above. it's neat that he can make this all himself, but it does not have much personality to a discerning eye. before too long though, i imagine that midjourney and other apps will truly be able to ape in a non-obvious way the best comic artists working in the field now or in the past. do you like j scott campbell and neal adams? a truly sophisticated AI will be able to synthesize those into a fascinating and possibly even good looking drawing style, hard as it is to fathom. you can even decide if you want a more klaus janson inking look or a josef rubenstein, for example. right now that's not an option, thankfully. but it will happen. there's no doubt that as AI continues to improve, it will displace more and more creative jobs in the art biz, movie biz, music biz, comics, etc. it's also replacing jobs in medicine (radiology) law (paralegal) and many other significant high paying fields. it appears we will be facing a major crisis when we get to the point where a huge number of jobs have been eliminated due to AI. it's just a matter of time. how we handle it will be one of the great pressing questions of the next decade or two.

this may be true on CL but i am told on excellent authority that another major auction site allows at least some big sellers to bid on their own books. i have no evidence but a strong suspicion that all 3 major auction sites participate in some kind of shill bidding on the bigger auction books. allegations to that effect have been around for a long time by some people who apparently worked at some of these places. and all three sites appear to be owned by people/businesses with major collections of their own. therefore the auction house winning a book because they shilled it too high simply can mean it goes into the vault for awhile. ultimately no one should be shocked by weirdly strong auction results at any auction site.

nice pickup! just curious if you used overstreet to let him know how you came up with your prices, or some other way. i've only bought one collection before and used a combination of gpa and overstreet...

yes lots of chipping and the cream pages also dont help. imo a well presenting 5.0 with owwp or wp would likely do much better than this right now, despite the economy being in a sort of netherworld.

many of us would like to see tobey play spidey again. but not with raimi, please. was doctor strange and the horror zone of terrible moviemaking not enough proof that he's not a good filmmaker??

just picked up this asm7 from @DST it's way nicer than the grade on the slab. and like @mosconi it's part of my ditko and early romita white page collection.

great report, thanks again for all the pictures! wish i could have made it. what was the consensus on sales saturday? i heard mixed things so far about crowd size and sales. dealers don't usually chime in here when sales are slow but they are quite willing to let us know when books are flying off the walls. the market seems to be stabilizing a bit but i also know some collectors (me?) who are somewhat skittish right now as well. observations?

thank you for the pics! i so wanted to be there but it was not meant to be this year. next year for sure i am coming down.

one of my very favorite dealers!

if you edit the first post in the thread, it allows you to change the title of the thread.

my condolences mike. it's a terrible thing. all the best wishes to you and your family during this time.