Legion of Goom

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I have anecdotally heard of some sellers being able to negotiate getting a portion of the buyer's premium back, but I would presume that's for those with very big ticket items and/or very strong relationships. Not sure if that's something that's still done, and it's never happened with anything I've ever consigned. That exclusion aside, you're right as far as the concept. The "buyer's premium" is really a misnomer; in practice and as it relates to your net payout (the number that really matters), the seller pays it. Example: if you look in their archives and see a book that sold for $12k, the seller's payoff started at $10k. Then, their selling fees are deducted from that $10k. You could take a lower gross price from another selling house and still end up with more net proceeds at the end of the day due to that dynamic. My experience reflects that: for items in the range of the OP's books, anything extra that might shown up as a higher selling result didn't really translate to extra cash in my pocket, but YMMV. Out of HA, Clink, and MCS, MCS has been the best fit for me in terms of net results, customer service, and timely payment, but none of the three have been "bad", per se. I haven't tried CC or Bob Storms yet. Hope this helps!

Beautiful copy- come bid and snag yourself a bargain! https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fauctions_first.asp&id=1708882

He regrets not taking it further. It's a few cargo pockets short of a Liefield, which also happens to be one of the notes on my psych evaluation

Anyone have any experience owning pieces done with copic markers? The medium is outside my wheelhouse, and while I know they're not archival, I saw this and was a bit surprised at just how fast this piece started fading. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanillaarts.com/blog/prevent-copic-fade%3fformat=amp Does anyone have any experience owning a piece done in comics? If so, how do you store/display it, and is the kind of fading above typical?

Sandman 5 just went for $90k.... not sure what the ceiling would be, but 1 or 8 would go for multiples of that IMO

Sweet! Apologies if I missed it, but could you please include a link to your CAF?

Gene's rendition of a suit of armor doing the splits and immediately regretting it, agonizing expression and all, I found to quite classical. I'd have the exact same expression if I tried that.

BONESAW IS REEEAAADDDYYY!

$90k with juice. Looks like that's a record for a public McKean Sandman cover, nearly double the last one I could find. No idea if any have traded privately for more.

Aaaaaand it's gone!

Any word on a potential fudge grading program?

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Good news...Sandman was #1 again last week on Netflix, with more hours than the #2 English TV series and the #1 English film combined

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Good point, too. Ultimately, I think I would've been OK with either Usagi classic or the new adventures scenario had either one been executed better than what we got.

Good point. I added the disclaimer primarily because I don't know how much influence/control Stan had in the Netflix series, or what his constraints were. You're right 100% in that the source material would've made for a better series.

This isn't fair at all to Usagi and the incredible job Sakai has done creating it, and I know it wasn't an either/or proposition, but nonetheless ...all I could think after watching it was which monster at Netflix decided to kill Bone and greenlight this.

One can only imagine the cost of that pre-approval inspection. For those who suspect there's "pay for play" going on, I'd reckon that's your smoking gun. I find it extremely unlikely that cost is zero if CGC is willing to undermine their own brand to the level they have. Just slapping these with a green label at the start would've put out this fire before it started; but then they can't sell the opportunity to upgrade into a blue with unaffected (if not outright inflated) grades. I had my concerns when I saw the Promise Collection grades (with numerous inflated grades and Heritage as the exclusive seller), but this is a whole new level of bold. My two cents? As the old saying goes: "it is worse than a crime; it is a mistake". What we don't know is if this will be anything more than a scratch on the 800 pound gorilla, but either way, I'm done tossing it my bananas.

Just made it through episode 7. I came in to this cautiously optimistic, and can say that it's easily surpassed my expectations. They've done a killer job adapting really tough source material. The acting has been superb overall- my favorite performance so far is David Thewlis, who really nailed it with his chilling John Dee. Now, I'm torn between dragging the series out because I don't want it to end and binging it so the metrics look better, because they need to renew this for another season.

JSC. I like good girl art, but the Rudolph-esque red button noses, missing vertebra, and his women all giving their business to the same plastic surgeon for much of his work just doesn't do it for me.

Speaking of Sandman, I'm really curious to see where this one lands. Been awhile since one of his full collage/mixed media covers hit the open market https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/dave-mckean-sandman-5-mister-miracle-cover-original-art-dc-1989-/p/7279-30002.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

I'm a nobody who happened to luck into a couple good pieces when i was in a position to splurge years ago. If I never add another one and I'm just the caretaker of what I have for a bit longer, I'm more than content with that.

I also think that a series would be the preferable format. I'm unfamiliar with the process in these scenarios, but wouldn't there be progress made over the last couple of years that wouldn't need to be repeated if a new studio/distributor stepped in? I'm thinking the upshot is that if Jeff does take it somewhere else, he wouldn't need to start from zero, but maybe I'm too optimistic...