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Origins aside I think the main issue with Riri is how she was shoehorned into a story as basically nothing more than a plot device and given essentially no character development in that movie, so the implausibility of it all hits harder/has more of a whiplash than Tony Stark where we saw him first develop as a character in his own movie and then throughout many other movies. Hopefully her show rectifies that

Fair enough, here's hoping.

You have faith that they will? This seems like the same level of VFX that they deemed acceptable for the past few entries

I don't think people are outraged that these characters exist, I think people are outraged at the bad writing of recent MCU content and because of the bad writing, the portrayal of these characters in that content suffer for it

I thought it referred to a purple label slab where the book inside is heavily reconstructed to the point where its a "frankenstein" book. But if where you heard it from recommended sending them back in to be fixed, then yeah they probably meant what everyone else said above.

This seems like the same kind of "forcing yourself to see a pattern" over analysis that made people think the title "Age of Ultron" had to do with a theme revolving around the actual age of Ultron and/or Vision when in an interview it was revealed that it was really just picked from a number of "Of Ultron" name candidates because they thought it sounded cool.

But you said it

It's signed by Stan Lee, so the latest it could be from is 2018

@Get Marwood & I I think you made him paranoid that every book he's going to buy will secretly be a Canadian price variant

I like em probably another topic with a generational divide

It was Don McGregor not Flo, at least according to how Denys tells the story here (timestamped)

What if there's a person who would have been one of the top two bidders but decides to not bid at all because of it. Like hypothetically with the masking tape the top two bidders bid it up to $50K before the runner-up drops out, but if it weren't taped there is someone who would have bid it up to $75k.

Plenty of space on my walls, just let me know

Am I missing something, those appear to be two different pages

For dealers who are also reps I could imagine it's also a benefit to have sold listings stay visible to cut down on "Is this page from this series from this artist available?" inquiries. You can just go to the series/artist's page and see "Ok, everything is marked as sold except for page 12 and 13". Having those sold listings stay visible could also show people there is demand, so there are "psychological merits" to having them around too (for the dealer).

I always imagined they kept the listing to preserve the key words for search engines. Someone looks up "McFarlane Spider-Man Original Art" or whatever they're lookign for, they get a result for a page from X Dealer's site from Google, and even though the person has now been taken to a sold listing they probably will go "Well I'm already here, let's see what else this dealer has" But I've come to believe it's just out of convenience, the software they use for their site probably just has a quick option they can select to mark a page as Sold and it's easier for them to do that than to remove an entire listing

I think it's called a Donnelly special

Yeah for sure, thats why I mentioned what I said was from a perspective of just looking at the art. They don't seem too far off from each other in that perspective to me. Obviously with all the extra not-art related fixins such as the brand name of the artists, the series its from, nostalgia, etc, I'd take this page over the Skottie cover, if just for the resell value if nothing else. And slightly more appropriate for the comiclink thread I guess but I just wanted to add, the Skottie cover is really just a departure of his Marvel/DC cover style. His art for his creator-owned stuff is pretty in-line with that cover (But of course his Marvel/DC stuff would be his more well-known popular style as you put it).

Nostalgia aside, just looking at the art I'd rather take that skottie young cover people were dumping on in the comiclink thread. Nostalgia really is a powerful force

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection Don't be that guy

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