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If I owned slabs I'd buy nice reader copies for each and keep them in Mylar next to the slab. Stare at the slab, open the Mylar, read, fondle.

I will check that out. Thanks for the recommendation!

I mostly read TPBs and graphic novels. This is the stack on the night stand. Akira and the Mouse Guard books. I need to pick up an Akira 6 soon so I can take a few days off and sit and read the whole thing.

Nobody kept a couple hundred bucks. That pin is garbage. There is lots of junk on eBay looking for suckers to buy it. If all you care about is the money you could have gotten from some sucker on eBay I definitely don't feel as sorry for you as I did when I first saw you losing your mess over a piece of garbage.

I think it would be fun to make your own pin. Make it out of cardboard and cover it with gold foil from a chocolate bar. Then wear it to a comic con. Imo, those pins are pieces of junk and not worth the angst they are causing. I looked for them on fleaBay, saw some vastly overpriced pieces from Bad Idea. In addition to those I found real pins that I thought were much cooler:

EBay is good for finding action figure accessories, though accessory lots are usually overpriced. With a quick search I see an overpriced crown that would work, it's the one on the loki figure someone pointed out earlier. I also see a relatively inexpensive loki figure that is missing a cape but has a crown.

Imagine yourself being a seller and being threatened by someone who had bought the wrong thing from you. His initial response, to refuse to fix it for you, was probably not the coolest approach but I see their point. I also do not like it when someone has a problem and then it somehow becomes my problem. On a good day I'll help them but on a bad day I'll send them packing. This seller had enough on that day. Selling on eBay is hard. It sucks balls. You tried to quickly address your mistake and that is good but still too late. That kind of mistake can't be undone without some effort from the seller. If they fix it in a few minutes then that is still time out of their life. They don't want to be spending their time on customer service for a few bucks and I don't blame them.

The Comedian from The Watchmen. He was a would-be rapist, thief, all-around scumbag super hero, right?

Agreed. It's a very well written book. One of my favorites on my comic book history shelf.

The short cuts involve luck or crime. Both of those are high risk gambles that will most likely end up wasting your time and money. The most reliable way is to get a good job and then work at it for about 10 years, saving a good sized chunk of your salary for a significant down payment. Then buy the house and work hard for another 20 years to pay it off.

Right on!!!

The Manhattan Projects is up there. Modern. Image Comics. By Hickman and Pitarra. I wish they didn't stop working on that one so quickly.

PGN - Prayzefest Gospel Network

Congratulations! Cool job. I tried pretty hard to get a job in a comic book store a few years ago. No dice.

Cool. Thanks for the heads up. Still available directly from AC Comics at their website for $5 (plus $8 shipping). Maybe cheaper on eBay or wherever but I don't spend more than 30 seconds trying to save a few bucks and I don't mind rewarding AC Comics directly.

You must show us the finished work. It's awesome so far. Lucky kid.

Nah. One of the things I like least about the boards is the over population of infinite threads. Booooring. I think more short lived threads on more varied topics makes for a more interesting forum. A 5 year old thread with a thousand posts about owning some single specific book? No spank you.

Me too. I accidentally click that huge CGC logo/link all the time. It drives me crazy too.

Looks good!

Jesus wept.

Mental illness can be devastating to those who love the one who is ill. I hope you are taking care of yourself, I feel your pain.

Amen

LOL. NOPE. I'm a Jesse Jacobs fan. I discovered him through his graphic novel Safari Honeymoon. I now have everything he has published and that's a challenge with some of his low print runs. If you like fractal design, cool geometries, clean lines, and masterful execution combined with awe inspiring writing then he is your man. You don't find artists as good a Jesse Jacobs who also write as well as Jesse Jacobs. It's very rare. Plus he's a skater.

Jesse Jacobs