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"comics book"

to be fair, there are literally thousands of examples of works by great artists in which the feet are either obscured or otherwise not shown. this is not something limited to Sir Robert, although his reputation in this arena is well-deserved and honestly given

promises, promises. i can only wonder what the mindset of any professional inker is when they are handed a piece of work like this. on the one hand, it's probably tougher than a normal job by someone with tight pencils, who has actually done live figure drawing and/or who owns a copy of Gray's Anatomy (the book, not the tv show). but on the other hand, the pressure is probably lower since the only thing that can be done is improvement, with the scale of said improvement being the only variable

it's not fixed. it's an error that started occurring for me when i updated Chrome to the newest stable version. i think it's probably something ubbboards is causing, instead of something locally for people. i had to dust off Firefox and come in via that way

the logical end to this particular path is the death of the hobby as a going concern for all but a few people. it's nearly apocalyptic if not dealt with at some point

thievery, like almost all crime, has a complicated origin. it's not any one thing; it's a whole host of factors, none of which are easy or inexpensive to solve. you can argue the facts until the cows come home but if there was a way to stop crime that actually worked and was palatable to society and the economy, it would be in place already. i think it's probably best that we just concentrate on the one aspect of this with which we all agree; this is a crappy thing to happen to anyone and all we can really do individually is be vigilant and responsible

it's a variant in the sense that's using a non-standard font for the price, i suppose

the creature itself looks like it was nearly lightboxed from Kane, along with the dude in the sweet black vest in the middle upper right

people make mistakes. when you have high volume, then there are more opportunities for error. .5% error rate for 50,000 books - just to pull numbers out of my * - is still 250 errors. i agree that it sucks though, in the sense of being rather inconvenient. this is the kind of mistake that just seems hard to understand, although i don't know all the details about their process...which you would hope involves actually looking at the book but that is still just an assumption on my part there

for me it's probably back in my early teens in the middle 80s. hopping on the train with my good pal Paul in Ossining, NY and riding down to Grand Central to go to one of the shows downtown. wandering around the whole afternoon, looking for deals on books we didn't have - Byrne X-Men, Perez Teen Titans, Miller DDs, etc - buying a nice stack, getting a sausage and peppers sub from this place in Grand Central and then riding the hour or so back, reading the stuff we bought and talking about comics the whole way. did this for two or three years in a row, just two kids spending a comic-centered day. the only specific memory i have of those shows is waiting in line to have Simonson sign two copies of Thor 337 on the bottom margin of the front page. still have one of them i think

are you keeping the book? if you sell it, you could consider passing some of the windfall back to the guy, either in additional sales, or as a "make-good." you can always contact the guy and tell him that you discovered that the book was in fact complete and that you feel that you want to make it up to him. see what kind of response you get. i would think that a dealer with whom i would want to do more business with would say to just forget about it and enjoy the book. i know that's what i would tell you if i had sold it to you but i'm not a dealer and plus ymmv

which show was this?

sorry. i guess you have to start posting some mid-grade stuff, brother

should have put something like "higher grade raw" in the thread title, 'rex

still stupid.

yeah i'd like to have a talk with the guy who thought doing a "limited edition" of 32k floppies was a good idea. i mean, artificial scarcity - you ain't doin it rite dood

yeah these errors have nothing to do with which browser you're using, but everyone should be using Edge* anyway *by Edge i mean literally anything but

if i was him, i'd just blame the inker. or the non-credited studio assistants. or anything, really

well, thank the good lord above you don't have anything i want. nice thread, _fire

honestly that staple pull is fascinating. i bet you couldn't do that if you tried

geez, i was thinking y'all are pretty generous. that spine is...well, at any rate i'd be at a solid Good, maybe good plus. Sorry.

fine/very fine. Mr. Adams actually made an appearance on these very boards some eight or ten years ago. scout's honor. he talked a little bit about the fact that they had intended Batman's legs to be flesh-colored on the cover of Batman 244 but that the Editorial staff overruled them. Oh, and he also went into detail on his Expanding Earth theory. which honestly, i remember little about other than i thought it seemed sort of silly

yeah, fine to fine-plus for me, too.

i don't mean to brag, i don't mean to boast, but i'm intercontinental when i - wait, that's something else. i had nineteen of the first 100, which was roughly double my expected total