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I feel like I added some details that make a big difference. The blanket statement "CGC slabs original art" I feel at best is misleading. Since they only slab very specific types of original art (they have specifically said they will not* at the moment slab published art) and only in very specific circumstances (must pass signature series submission rules). It's not like in comics where you can just send any old book in and they'll process it. So using the statement "CGC slabs original art" carries dramatically less weight in the argument you were trying to make with it when you take these specificities into account But yes, the beginning of that statement you quoted from me is incorrect if you need a gotcha, but I'd hope you'd understand the point I was trying to make when you read the rest of it *edit: before I get gotcha'd on another technicality, there are cases where commissions that have been slabbed by CGC (the one example I just remembered was an Invincible sketch cover commission) have been turned into published covers, so there is an edge case where you can say CGC slabs published art, but it's an edge case. And even then you can't really say they slabbed published art, really they slabbed unpublished art that later became published. But again, its a technicality

Is this even technically off topic? This thread has made Comics General more lively I'd say if we're just looking at posting metrics

I request more Archies, I like the covers

I stop reading for a few hours and I miss an entire story arc in this thread. When do the "Mods are asleep, post X" memes start?

Use this post as a "In before the lock" button

Also I just flat out don't see the relevance of the hosting company to the board in this case, especially when outside of the customer services areas and the one sole moderator nowadays who rarely posts outside of moderating activities, CGC themselves have no presence on the boards and (to my knowledge) does not really dictate what can or cannot be discussed (outside of the obvious banned topics, and when Mike has to step in to break up arguments), I think the actual community that makes up the boards is more relevant when discussing what the board is mainly about. If it turns out that Invision (the actual framework behind the boards) comes out as anti-comics for some reason, does this suddenly turn into an anti-comic forum? (Replace anti-comics with any other subject of your choosing)

That may be one way to view the end result, but I think the intent was to provide a 3rd party service that would guarantee the condition of certain collectibles. As I understand it from people I've talked to who were in the hobby at the time, before CGC came around in 2001 the selling of undisclosed restored comics was rampant, which was remedied by CGC providing 3rd party authentication to guarantee against such dealings. Which is also why to this day many purists buy slabbed comics just to have the guarantee of the condition/restoration status and immediately break it out of the slab once it's in hand. edit: Sorry, CGC opened in 2000. 2001 was when the Signature Series program was introduced which helped protect against forged signatures

Fair

I think this post from a discussion going on in Comics General fits nicely here right now

I hard disagree, the way I see it is that since CGC (was) primarily a service for Comic Books, the CGC forum naturally attracted people with an interest in comics. If you go outside of this section of the boards, there is a vast plurality of users here who post in Comics General and other sections of the board who have never used CGC's services or have not used them in a very long time and just talk about comics. That's not to say that similar investment discussions don't pop up all across the board (not to the visible degree here though where it's basically every other post due to our smaller size), but I don't see it as what the board is entirely about as you put it, I think that's a very narrow-minded point of view to have. Also CGC does not slab original artwork, the best they do is slab sketches/commissions of certain sizes that qualify for a Signature Series Submission (they've witnessed it being drawn, or it's submitted by the artist themselves or their authorized rep).

Sorry, are you saying that if someone is not collecting primarily for "the return" they most likely have a mental disorder?

I feel like there’s some context I’m missing here

Is the crash with us in the room right now?

What you like is your preference, what I like is objective truth that you aren't ready to accept yet

I have the opposite problem, I keep asking my friends to be my dealer

Sure, but he's very picky about where he conducts his business. How big is your bathroom?

Could be, but you'll need a system devised for maximizing comic investment potential. I can hook you up with a guy I know in Long Island Only $997, there might be a black friday deal coming soon too!

I've done a trade-in once with a dealer, it wasn't a piece I was actively selling but something I offered up since the piece I was trying to get from them was by the same artist as the piece I was offering for trade, got trade in value equal to the amount I paid for it (I'd bought it about one year ago), then they listed it for 33% more. So, pleasant experience I'd say. Edit: This was with Glen from PanelPageArt

The one thread that wasn't started by Bosco got shut down Conspiracy?

If your post disappears when you try to submit you can usually hit ctrl-Z inside the text box to bring it back

But weren't you supposed to believe they were biological brothers until the reveal that Odin took Loki from the frost giants as a baby and raised him as his own? It wasn't supposed to be blatantly obvious from the jump that Loki was adopted and of a different race.

Alright I'll add something for real, I posted this a while ago: a Birds of Prey try out DPS by Eddy Barrows from around 2004-2005, I mailed the pencils to Eber Ferreira to get it inked.

Not mine but its the first thing that came to mind

When we say Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, are we saying that Spider-Man is friendly, or the neighborhood

can all agree