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Kudos over to FlamingCarrot for the Morrison New X-Men HC set! Been looking for this for quite awhile now. Bob

Just picked me up some color guides and gorgeous full process color art. The images are pretty big and I wanted to be kind to those on dial-up so click the thumbnails for a larger pic. First up are a few color guides from the original Longshot series containing the very first panel appearances of Spiral and Mojo! Next up is the new pride of my collection: 29 of the 47 original color art pages from Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants by Glynis Wein. The Marvel Graphic Novel series was produced using the relatively new (for the time) full color process. This gave Glynis the freedom to paint these pages using a wide range of colors and her work was directly photographed to print the final book. The painted pages appear much, much more bold and vivid than the published pages. Because these pages were being used directly for printing, word balloons were colored over - you can still see the texture of the paints under the words on the printed pages! Each page is painted over a production sized photostat of the linework on matte photo paper. Here are a few of the pages: See the rest at My CAF Gallery. Thanks a ton to Tom at Fanfare for these pages! Tom informed me that he got the New Mutants pages years ago from Glynis and that these were all the pages she gave him. I would love to put the entire color guides back together so if you have knowledge of the whereabouts of my missing pages, please let me know. Also, if you know of contact information for Glynis Wein (now Oliver), please let me know. Thanks, and enjoy! -Bob

I've never even read Preacher (I know, for shame, for shame!) but that piece kicks some series *spoon*! This is a case where a commission would be much more special than a published piece. Nice pickup! -Bob

Kudos to pirate for a nice copy of Absolute Crisis and for quick payment on a Walking Dead Omnibus DoubleCovaBrotha for a couple really nice sealed Absolutes delivered for an unbeatable price! Thanks again guys! Bob

Yup... just a 24 year-old young'un here The book came out right at that impressionable age and when the market was dying for new Star Wars content (as opposed to being way overflowed as it is now). As a kid, I dug into anything Star Wars I could find. This was the first real look we had at any Jedi outside of the original trilogy and they presented a pretty cool story too. I got such a rush finally seeing Jedi after hearing so much about them in the movies and the books that started coming out at that time. It's really too bad that the prequel trilogy sucked so much. I was hoping for something closer in feel to TotJ but we ended up with awkward trials at comedy and wooden acting. The Dorman covers are really killer. I read on the Comicart-I board that George Lucas himself has all the Dark Empire covers. I wonder how many souls you have to sacrifice to the bearded one in order to get one out of his grasp -Bob

WOW! Beautiful pages there! Anything by those guys is worth a dancing banana or three I really lucked out last night and picked up one of my holy grails on the cheap off of eBay: It's the first page from the first issue of my favorite childhood series: Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi! It features the first appearance of many key characters in the series (first character panels have become the core of my OA so getting the top one from my favorite series is really major)! First page from your favorite series - it doesn't get much better than this ...except for the cover... which has a happy owner not wanting to sell -Bob

MAR070029 CONAN #40 (MR) $2.99 MAR070173 ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER #5 (RES) $2.99 MAR072065 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #109 $2.99 MAR072066 ULTIMATE X-MEN #82 $2.99 OCT062127 ULTIMATES 2 #13 $3.99 MAR072121 UNCANNY X-MEN #486 $2.99 FEB073160 MOUSE GUARD VOL 1 FALL 1152 HC $24.95 Nice busy week! -Bob

Kudos to thanos_oftitan for some nice copies of early Fables issues and the new Lone Ranger series. Books were packaged fantastically and arrived quicker than a racing monkey on the juice. Great transaction Bob

FEB070090 STAR WARS LEGACY #11 $2.99 MAR070279 Y THE LAST MAN #56 (RES) (MR) $2.99 DEC061884 INVINCIBLE #41 $2.99 No Marvel? wuh? -Bob

Kudos to: unmovedmover for a great deal on some hard to find Uncanny X-Men (now only 11 left to go to complete All-New, All-Different!) and various Ultimate Marvels. Bob

I'm way behind on my kudos! Here's to some pre, during, and post VCC purchases: shiverbones for lots of fun books ft88 for beautiful All-New All-Different Uncannys beancurd for an assortment of nice books mikeyriffhard for countless more great sales sd2416 for some nice $1 X-Menses FlyingDonut for some $1 reader Conans Jeranimal for breaking my Wolverine LS cherry for an amazing price and finally Johnny G for some beautiful CONAN Saga issues for an unbeatable price Phew, think I got em all. If I forgot you, it wasn't intentional and I'll owe you a milkshake. -Bob

Whatdayaknow, new comics for me this week. JAN070060 CONAN #38 (MR) $2.99 - I'm late to the Conan party but am really hooked now JAN070313 SPIRIT #4 $2.99 JAN070382 Y THE LAST MAN #55 (MR) $2.99 NOV061885 WALKING DEAD #36 (MR) $2.99 JAN072411 X-MEN #197 $2.99 JAN073688 TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT SOUNDWAVE $3.99 -Bob

Absolutely nothing new for me this week Bob

Overdue kudos to: mikeyriffhard for another great deal on nice modern runs! shiverbones for some nice X-Men and a fun old Scrooge! beancurd for some nicely graded bronze X-Men! All sellers delivered quickly and securely. Thanks again guys. -Bob

NOV060034 STAR WARS LEGACY #8 $2.99 DEC060306 Y THE LAST MAN #54 (MR) $2.99 OCT062179 ASTONISHING X-MEN #20 $2.99 DEC062290 ULTIMATE X-MEN #79 $2.99 -Bob

Overdue kudos to Rich_Henn and pirate for great packaging and fast shipping on some nicely graded but crappy (stories - from the lean years) Uncanny X-Mens. But I needed them for the run, so thanks a ton guys! Now just about 6 more hands of modern drek to hunt down before it's time to pay real money for the good early books -Bob

OCT060267 BOYS #6 (MR) $2.99 SEP062141 ASTONISHING X-MEN #19 $2.99 OCT062167 NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE #11 $2.99 OCT062176 WHAT IF X-MEN AGE OF APOCALYPSE $2.99 OCT062175 WHAT IF X-MEN DEADLY GENESIS $3.99 OCT062191 X-MEN #194 $2.99 -Bob

OCT060298 Y THE LAST MAN #52 (MR) $2.99 OCT062204 CRIMINAL #3 (MR) $2.99 OCT062126 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #103 $2.99 OCT063481 TRANSFORMERS ESCALATION #2 $3.99 OCT063478 TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT SIX SHOT $3.99 -Bob

Big kudos to: MutantkeysFor some very conservatively graded "midgrade" Byrne X-Mens for a great price and shipped quickly & securely! qualitycomixFor a great deal on some SA/BA X-Men books. Spot-on grading and tight packaging. -Bob

Kudos to: Chi Bamm for a great lot of moderns for a good price delivered quickly mikeyrsmith - I wish I could say I was disappointed and my disappointment would detract anyone else from ever purchasing from Mike again (so I could sneak in and get all his great deals) - but won't be that selfish. Don't miss out on Mike's awesome deals on modern lots. The quality of the books is fantastic with equally amazing prices. Tight packaging delivered quickly as well. -Bob

Time for overdue kudos to some and ontime kudos to others! Overdue kudos to: October - for some nice SA X-Men books! plady69 - for a great lot of SA and BA X-Men readers! ft88 - for an awesome deal on way better than NM- X-Men annuals 3 and 4! HUSH - for a great lot of modern X-Men books! All these sellers shipped ultra-quick and were a great pleasure to deal with. Also, overdue kudos to: Anfield Fox - for being sooooo patient waiting for Transformers scans! I'm now down to about 80 books until I have a complete Uncanny X-Men run and about 20 for a complete 2nd series X-Men run. Yay boards! -Bob

Many overdue kudos to hand out: Pirate: For continuing to feed my modern addiction - fast shipping and excellent packaging as always! Erato: For a ton of beautiful X-Men books. Very, very impressed with the condition of these books! If only eBay NMs looked this way... the-comic-trader: For wanting my X-Force and X-Men duplicates and giving me a very eclectic group of Silver Age books in return. sckao: For a killer Secret Wars #8 CGC9.6 at a killer price with killer freebies packaged killer tight and delivered killer fast by a killer maillady! MutantKeys: For a nice Astonishing X-Men #1 Cassaday Variant packed securely and delivered quickly. Also major kudos for digging up old books and adding them to the purchase! I think that's all fer now... hope I didn't miss anybody! -Bob

According to text of new Overstreet grading guide: absolutely NO bindery tears on 9.8 According to examples of new Overstreet grading guide: bindery tears are A-OK on 10.0 - Bob

Kudos to pirate for a nice stack of books for a low stack of cash. Also thanks to pirate for my first ever CGC graded books. So tempting for more now... -Bob

Kudos to OldGuy for some fantastic Silver Age X-Men books. Accurate grading, great pricing, excellent communication, great packaging, and fast shipping! I couldn't have asked for a better first time board purchase! -Bob