Phish&Comics

4.0 to 4.5

Grade is in:

Great article. I've been interested in video game collecting for a while and have a small library of Sega Genesis games. I constantly fight the urge to expand the collection to other consoles. People have been collecting video games for a long time and it seems like it really started to take off into the mainstream over the last few years. The parallels between comics, toys and video game collecting are definitely there. If you had a rare sealed Star Wars action figure would you open it? Would you crack out a high grade X-Men #1 to read? No, you wouldn't. Same thing with video games. If you wanted to play the game you'd find a cheap loose cart to play (a "reader" copy, if you will). Haters gonna hate.

The article doesn't really mention how the cards were altered/re-touched. Only a mention of the Stan Musial card that had a black print mark, then didn't. But they go onto to say types of cleaning are allowed on cards. Were they trimmed? Chemically cleaned?

That was my impression of the first issue. It's also using the latest trend of a medieval/GoT style setting. Maybe it will switch things up in future issues.

Story was fun but certainly wasn't groundbreaking, by any means. Group of unlikely heroes/anti-heroes, each with a different skill set are forced to go on a suicide mission. I'll check out the rest in trade.

7.0/7.5

5.5

I'm guessing a 3.0.

I believe that was me in the TAT thread! It's a pretty egregious error IMO and hopefully doesn't happen that often. As long as they open the book I bet you'll be fine

Thanks, dude! They only graded the outside cover initially. So it came back a 9.0 with no mention of a double cover. No clue how or when it was actually missed on their end. I emailed them about it and they regraded/shipped at no charge.

Finally got my submission back, along with the Goon Color Special 'mechanical error' that they missed the double cover on . Did about as expected; HoS 92 I was expecting at 3.0 at most, so I'm happy with the 4.0. Batman 232 I thought for sure was at least a 5.5, so that one stung a little. Can't win them all!

Grade is in!

Economy: Delivered to CGC: 4/17 SFG: 4/25 Grading / Quality Control: 7/8 Finalized/Shipped: 7/11

Economy: Delivered to CGC: 4/17 SFG: 4/25 Grading / Quality Control: 7/8

Kicking myself for not upgrading to fast track economy. At the time in April, normal economy had a 30-something day TAT and was only about 7 days longer than fast track. Thought I'd save a few bucks and wait the extra week or two to get my books. Big mistake as the normal economy TAT has almost doubled since then!

I thought the latest 3 issues have been really fun. The art is even better then ever. I think I read in an interview that Powell said he's trying to add more background detail which I think is really coming through as Lonely Street feels more alive and diverse as ever. Rachael Cohen on colors has been killing it, as well; adds a bit more vibrancy to this volume that we haven't seen before for The Goon. The cover for issue 4 coming up is unbelievable! Can't wait to pick that one up.

Yeah, no mention of a double cover. Received the books today and sure enough it wasn't mentioned. I've emailed CGC and I'm awaiting a response.

Economy: Delivered to CGC: 4/17 SFG: 4/25 Still waiting Reholder: Delivered to CGC: 4/17 SFG: 4/25 Shipped:5/15 Modern Fast Track: SFG: 6/5/19 Shipped 6/17/19 They missed a double cover in my modern fast track so now I have to send one back. Did they not even open the book??

Insanely good news! Can't wait for this!

Economy: Delivered to CGC: 4/17 SFG: 4/25 Reholder: Delivered to CGC: 4/17 SFG: 4/25

Nice pickup! Loved this game as a kid. Axel and Thumper were my go to characters.

Anyone have a Goon interior page by Eric Powell they want to unload?

I assume you're talking about the labels? Last gen labels are definitely more washed out than current gen. I don't believe it's a light exposure fading issue since all the labels of that era seem to be this way.