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I'd walk away from it. If he responds later this week I'd ignore it. He's already broken a few commitments. Small ones, yes, but a flake is a flake and that dude is a flake. Flakes are the people whose problems become your problems.

I'm not seeing any listing for Planet of the Apes Archive Vol. 1 on Boom Studio's website. Maybe you saw the Planet of the Apes Omnibus? If they really are reprinting Archive Vol. 1 could you throw a link on here? Their website is atrocious, maybe because I use a phone to browse it. I've searched and dug everywhere on their site and I've got zilch.

The ages have historical meaning much deeper than range of numbers, as comic fans know. I'm interested in why superheros went away after the war, ending the golden age. What changed in society? I've never liked superheroes, maybe because I'm a child of the 60s? Why did superheroes come back to begin the silver age? What happened between those two ages and why did it happen. Where do the book burners fit in? Dividing the ages by years that don't really mean anything is uninteresting (to me).

If you want covers with substance my first advice would be to stop looking at super hero comics. I don't think that substance and super heros often go together. I read comics and I have little patience for bad art or bad writing or kid's stuff. I will not forgive a bad cover either. Most of what makes me happy is modern. I love finding good old stuff (EC Comics) but I have not run into a lot of old books that meet my standards. I just ordered a used TPB from a series that is 100% covers with substance. The art inside and the writing are great too: https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/low Here is one of the covers. They are all this good:

I love seeing the transformations you have performed. It is art. I imagine a small art book with good scans of few dozen of your projects in it: before and after on opposing pages. I'd buy it.

Awesome cover. I'm going to have to hunt for that. I like ridiculous tropical covers. Especially fights with sharks, jaguars, crocodiles, anacondas. That is the best crocodile fight I've seen Here are some of my hard to find foreign books. Not valuable but I think they are cool:

There are lots of reasons for items to languish at a border. I abandoned a shipment once when the paperwork became more than I wanted to deal with. Customs would not accept a PayPal invoice. I saw it going downhill and took my loss early so I wouldn't waste my time. I live in 2 different countries so I deal with customs a lot and think that customs is a somewhat random process with some main rules in writing but some rules that are made up on the spot by the dude.

I thought they escaped from CANADA by hiding in the Iranian ambassador's house... with CIA help.

I would not bet on it. When Boom publishes something that I want I jump on it immediately. I love Boom but they are weird. In many ways. Maybe that is why I love them. I have their Planet of the Apes Archive vol 2, 3, and 4. I'll never have vol 1. I missed it. It's essentially unavailable even in the aftermarket, where it is hard to find and priced sky high. They didn't come close to meeting demand on those books.

I saw in the news that it's a new/coming law that all of the payment apps will report to the IRS income over $600 for goods and services for US sellers. I think it starts in January? It should be called The Hobby Tax.

I'd sell out and invest the money. I have a large vintage Star Wars action figure collection that I mostly lost interest in 10 years ago. I'd love to get rid of it but I don't remember some important info about variants and other subtle factors that affect value. I'm also totally out of touch with current values and I am not up to date on where the vintage SW guys are trading these days. In short, sell it now while you know what you have. The worst case scenario is you keep it forever and then your family has to deal with it.

I just watched the documentary "The Velvet Underground" on Apple TV+ and it influenced me to have a little more sympathetic view towards appropriation art than I had previously.

It looks to me like Alex is punishing Golden Pete twice. Refusing to take the money for books that are on hand, forcing a trip to the post office, that is just being vindictive. Golden Pete you started out wrong with the PayPal case but that is water under the bridge, you saw the light. Also you shouldn't have complained about the condition and just considered that part of the cost of your family trouble, which I am sure cost you plenty. You never should have complained... But you saw the light on that issue too. You seem to be a reasonable guy and I do not think Alex needs to be punishing you like this. Good luck.

I was surfing a few weeks ago and chatted with a guy in the lineup who turned out to be a member of our local hippie commune/cult. I could smell him... In the ocean... With plenty of separation between us. 20 feet away and the guy smelled like cat pee and Patchouli. The smell of Patchouli too often accompanies an intense body odor. My brain now processes Patchouli kind of like it processes dookie.

Whoever changed the URL should embark on a project to fix it. You don't just break URLs on established websites and expect users to deal with it. When the URL changes then requests for the old URL should be forwarded to the new URL. If that can't be done then render a page that says "oops we changed our domain name, go to <link>". If that can't be done then changing the URL was a bad idea and too late now somebody up the whole website.

A small lockbox is liable to end up in a burglar's bag. A burglar probably won't pass up a small lockbox that is easy to carry. Also, I'm not sure how difficult it is to crack/open most small lockboxes with common tools... I bet it is easy... Hammer, chisel. My goal for a safe would be: very difficult to crack, too big and heavy for a burglar to walk away with it

I think his cover looks great. I think he could sell those. I'm looking for those but I need them on metal sign material, I need some specific covers, and I need them in a remote location. I'm going to have a local sign painter take a shot at it but if your brother were in my town he'd be the man for this job. That painting is cool.

You must have a massive video game collection.

If the doodles were randomly placed I'd be happy with a book like that as is. However, that kid put a heavy focus on Superman's balls and the end result ain't good.

The moderators have to make sure you aren't a weirdo.

On an episode of Cartoonist Kayfabe they talked about and showed a modern book that had been colored wrong because the guy who colored it used the wrong color scale. I think he may have been used to coloring for another publisher or used an old scale that the publisher no longer used. I can't remember. All of the colors were shifted to crazy random values. The craziest part is that it got published. Maybe the editor just thought the colorist was going for something odd and different. I am in the jungle and don't have my notes. I wrote that one down because the colors are insane and it is a cheap book. I want it. I'll dig up my notes when I come back to the world.

Fire Marshalls' capacity limits are set for the reason of maintaining a speedy evacuation: fire, shooter, gas leak, suicide bomb, etc. I can imagine plenty of horrific scenarios in an overcrowded building. Crowd limits are in place so you can get the out of there when someone walks in with an AK47.

That's what I was thinking. Even if they weren't asking for original material I still think international releases of US comics are boring. Kitschy maybe. Like an Elvis impersonator. I'd rather see some international comics with originality. I don't see the allure of copied pop culture, though I will admit I heard a punk rock song from a Chinese band that wasn't bad.

This. I think the turning point to modern is the point at which a massive number of people wanted to collect them. No matter how many years pass that turning point is fixed in history. I'm fine with it being called modern forever.

They are delicious