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Both are lovely. Always wanted a Thrillkiller Babs.

Just wanted to bump this. Not many pages out there. I made some more than fair offers but got crickets.

As posted earlier, I recieved a large order from them about a month ago. It was a mixture of pre-purchase art and commissions from a years ago. I was told all the commissions were done and in hand about six months before the art was shipped to me. I would email them and they'd say "We have your order in hand and will contact you with the shipping info by the end of the month, once we're done this con". Then crickets. So the end of the month would pass and I'd email again. Crickets. I'd send another one and they'd respond saying the exact same thing they said before, only prepping for a different con. After this routine happened five or six times, they did send everything to me and it arrived just fine. I didn't feel that they were trying to rip me off in any way, but my instinct was that they were behind on orders yet still prioritizing conventions. Eventually I had to say several times: "I understand con season is crazy, but con season is essentially all year now and I paid you thousands of dollars years ago. You told me my purchases would be shipped out six months ago, so please ship them to me this month regardless of upcoming conventions."

It took ages, but I finally recieved a relatively large order I placed several years ago. Everything turned out fine and the art is great. There were communication problems though. They were always quick to respond to take my money, but told me it was ready to ship about six months before they actually shipped it (they referenced being busy with "con season" about six times as an excuse). And this was after they would only respond to every fourth email I sent. I think of them as mediocre. They aren't going to rip you off or take your money and run, and they do rep some nice artists. But you will have to wait a while and put up with some annoying service before you get your art For some buyers, that may be worth it, for others not so much. As for me, I won't write them off entirely, but I definately won't use them as much as I did before.

I am wondering if anyone here knows where Bagley's Blackest Night art ended up? There a few pages for sale here and there from Spencer Beck. I missed a nice page on heritage last year. I am specifically looking for pages from JLA's Blackest Night Storyline that feature Zatanna. These were primarily issues 38, 39, and 40. I know Bagley is known for Spiderman, but he was my favorite of the artists to work on Blackest Night and really did a lot of the lesser known DC heroes justice.

Sketch covers (and basic con sketches) are two of the things that some artists cheap out on, right? You can tell who devotes a decent chunk of time, and who fires one out in 3 minutes. I find it to be a good way to measure an artist's "integrity" outside of the publishing world. If an artist does a good sketch cover, you know their other commissions will be great too. But it doesn't always work the other way!

Here is a sketch cover I bought from one of Steve's auctions. The fella does fantastic sketch covers. He doesn't phone them in the way some artists do.

First of all, your "Hot Stuff" piece is I think my favorite ever work of Steve's. Congrats! Secondly, I'm going to add my own art here when I get home from work!

Happy Halloween everyone! I continue to discover fun art, series, and even new artists on this forum! Today, I got this from Richard Pace. I think you can still back his book Coven on Zoop. Apologies for the crummy instascreen.

I have some of his art from Hack/Slash. Very underrated artist.

Bonus points!

Post your Halloween art (bonus points if it's not just horror related, but actually Halloween themed). Here's Batgirl & Nightwing reenacting their first date. By Craig Cermak

I don't take this like this personally. Everyone has their preferences, right.

Thanks folks. Happy to let this thread die.

This stuff I'm okay with (fist, waist) as that has always been a part of Gedeon's style. The neck is the part that usually isn't disproportionate even in his pages.