It’s absolutely short term. His initial/limited release works will always maintain value, but look at any artist still pumping out work…every blue moon there’s a hit, but once they start pumping out stuff that pretty much looks like all the other stuff they’ve done, spec is over.
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He needs to start using different colors. I get it’s his thing right now, but I’m getting bored already…at least when he uses it on other books.
More of the Apex 1 stuff…that’s was different enough to make it special on its own in how he used many of the Amy “markers.”
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I want this dude to start doing covers. The watercolor technique is fantastic, but the compositions/ideas are what makes it. I’m buying a few prints of these for my office.
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It happens with artists that takes off for sure… it’ll be no surprise that demand will start to drop while people start looking at other interests. ArtGerm was huge for a while. Momoko was all the rage at one point, Middleton was all the rage… Jock etc… it’s the ongoing and never ending cycle of artists and comics…
The trick is, as I mentioned before, to know when that time is to step out of the frenzy. Lest we be stuck with the bag. That is often a difficult timing thing.
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I did call the Rose Besch popularity. When I saw she was doing more and more covers I knew she was bout to blow up.
I’m still a big Jock fan. Good stuff.
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Yup, just demand is not the same as it use to command… I think all these types of artists create new lifelong fans.
What do the call fans of Jock?
Jock sniffers? Jock straps?
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@Anthony CBSI also had a spot on it under their True Firsts thing as well… yesterday I think… recently at any rate.
Bought two copies in NM (supposedly) along with two other monthly comics I wanted for $34 after shipping and tax. Tracking shows they have been shipped. I had this comic on my radar a few months back. I didn’t pull the trigger until your reminder the other day! Hopefully the hype for this one continues.
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I did it in October. So I think most of the Mycomicshop copies were wiped out before they did it.
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A Jock of all trades 
His Headless Horseman cover solid for $85 today. Can’t find one anywhere. No more on eBay. Kicking myself because I almost bought one on two separate occasions.
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Agreed…the headless horseman book is the one I’ve never come across and I also never pulled the trigger on an online purchase as I thought I would be able to.
Rats!!! Double rats!!!
I had a chance to when Headless Horseman first came out and many times when it sat on the shelf. I am pretty sure my lcs had it in back stock but need to ask.
Snagged the 5 dollar ebay copy in Sept they are referring to on the same day you posted. Thanks for the heads up!
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I predict the Spawn '77 books will be the slowdown in the Mark Spears buying frenzy.
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You might be right. I think we’ll see a hint of the slowdown with Monsters #3. Don’t see those covers going for much above cover for quite sometime.
However, as much as everyone seems to be waiting for the collapse of the Mark Spears market, I get the sense there are still many people out there not as attuned to the market that are going to be discovering him for the next year, so I’m bullish he’s still going to have some big hits here and there.
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