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On 4/4/2024 at 2:36 PM, namisgr said:

Eh, a private deal made by Comiclink.  Who knows if there was trade involved and what it really changed hands for?

 

let me have my Schadenfreude, dadgummit

the first time i was exposed to him was at Camp Sloane in Lakeville, Connecticut as a ten- or eleven-year old nascent comic collector. I still remember telling one of my friends that I didn't like him and i can literally hear him asking incredulously, "You don't like John Byrne?"  My somewhat sheepish reply was "I don't like how he draws Mr. Fantastic."

Yeah, pretty stupid.

A couple of years later in Commons in Ithaca, NY, at a comic shop whose name is lost to the vagaries of time, I picked up a signed copy The Art of John Byrne, as by that time I had completely seen the light.  Better late than never, I guess

On 2/29/2024 at 8:02 AM, Straw-Man said:

not a jim/thor collector as a rule, but do love me some destroyer.

boy thank goodness Destroyer remembered to put on his boxer briefs before going out to battle.

On 2/27/2024 at 1:59 PM, lostboys said:

Is it just yellow ink?

correct

well i just checked my copy, and it has the marking there and it's not a tear. your mileage may vary, though

Are you talking about the white line just above the "O" in Marvel Comics Group?  That's part of the artwork; it's a white line that you can see continuing through the logo and finishes pointing at her disco ball necklace charm thing

is nobody going to post Moon Knight 28? You know, the one with the pencil sketch of what is supposed to be a wolf, but is clearly a fox?  I mean, Sienkiewicz is a genius but that has bothered me for a while now. Honestly, as far as wolf drawings go, it's the best fox you're likely to ever come across

On 2/1/2024 at 8:23 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Looks like someone trying out the  AI sketch service.

I wonder what the query would have been. That's a lot of different inputs to parse

On 1/14/2024 at 5:08 PM, Ken Aldred said:

It’s Mike McMahon, cover and interior art.

He needs to give Kevin royalties then. Lol.

On 1/12/2024 at 7:19 PM, Chip Cataldo said:

What the actual eff is this garbage?

To paraphrase a Happy Gilmore quote, "I can't BELIEVE you're a professional comic book artist...I think you should be working in the snack bar."

It's Kevin O'Neill. He's not trying for realism, like many, many artists before him. Loved Marshal Law but if it's not your thing that's fine.  But don't say he shouldn't be a pro since he's been getting paid to work since at least the late seventies and is well regarded

i think i might have read something somewhere about how publishers used to not like having "issue 1" on the cover, since it was thought harder to get people to buy into a 'new book' and that they were more likely to buy a book which had been going on for a while.

or, i am making it up, which is entirely possible and in many cases the more likely circumstance but i slog on anyway

some new books. nothing special, just picking them up when i can;

In late aught-six I decided that I needed to start a run to collect. I've always been a fan of things which were not super popular, so that left off most Marvel books. Started trying to gather books from DCs Silver Age series and somewhere along the line, settled with DP.  Started out with raw books but quickly got tired of trying to figure out if the eBay seller could grade or not, and so moved to slabs.

Currently from the original run of MGA 80 thru DP 121, i have slabs for each issue except MGA 82 & 85, and DP 86, 87, 98 & 115 (which, surprisingly, is exceedingly rare in HG slabs for sale. I think I've seen four or five copies at 9.4 or above in fifteen years of looking). Most of these are missing because I am cheap as a general rule and because this title is so underappreciated that slabs aren't exactly flooding the market.

MGA 80 is 8.0 white, MGA 81 is the Mound City copy and is a 9.2. MGA 83 & 84 are both 9.2 as well, the 83 is the Savannah copy and 84 is Twin Cities. 90 is the Brad Squared copy and is 9.0 as well, and 121 is also a 9.2 because, as i said before, I am cheap. The rest are 9.4 or 9.6, including five Pacific Coasts, three David Toths, another Savannah, another Twin Cities, a Bethehem and a Boston copy. The 99 is a 9.6 that I was able to wrest from october back when he still had "_fire" as part of his username and before whichever animated series that made Changeling interesting debuted. Thanks again, brother!

86 has enjoyed a rather striking increase in demand/price in the last five years, which i attribute to it being a pretty book along with, I guess, people thinking a title change is a big deal or something. I have a nice raw I got from Motor City way back in the first Obama administration.

I suppose the real takeaway I have after fifteen years of intermittent purchasing is that all of you people collecting this title need to have your head examined, since it is clearly destined to remain a lower end of  the second-tier scale, trailing such hot titles as the Atom, Hawkman, or Aquaman, and you don't see anyone starting threads about those turkeys

On 1/18/2018 at 10:15 AM, Turtle said:

Let me start off by saying that I'm a fan of Steranko.  I'm a fan of his art.  I'm a fan of the man himself.  He's terrific.

That said, Captain America 110 is the only cover of his I've seen that I haven't liked, mostly because of the Hulk.

Why is Hulk 25+ feet tall?  Why are each of his eyes looking in different directions?  Why is his right arm coming from his chest?  Is Hulk a hunchback?

This cover drives me nuts.  So many better examples of this artist's work. 

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i've been complaining about this cover for as long as i've been here. Hulk's shoulder and arm aren't remotely connected, and Bucky looks like a paste-up added in production to explain what the Hulk is supposed to be looking at/reaching for.

the whole thing seems like a pastiche to me, where they just stuck a bunch of things to a half-done drawing. the fence on the right looks for all the world as though it was done by someone else

On 8/3/2023 at 6:26 PM, gunsmokin said:

The first 100+ mph pitcher

Noooo...I don't think he was one even of the first five  Hubbell and The Big Train both beat him and Ryan (who was ahead of Richard, as well)

One of the great baseball tragedies, though. Him and Lyman Bostock, albeit for different and equally tragic reasons.

Ryan, Richard, Scott, Niekro. The 'Stros had some great pitching back then but couldnt hit for mess

On 7/31/2023 at 11:58 PM, tth2 said:

It's always heartwarming to hear about children getting their parent's prized possessions and immediately selling them for cash.

Regardless of the actual truth of the matter one has to admit that this is truly some quality snark from an undisputed master of the trade

pshaw...it's not like donut has an MBA from Wake Forest or anything.

apologies if my memory is as rickety as i suspect it may be; i know the school is right though

Thanks! I was pleasantly surprised...considering it was cupped lengthwise in my mailbox (double sigh)