I spend the day away from here, tearing my hair out (what’s left) trying to get my 6 year old to stay still in front of an ipad so he can attend his first grade class on zoom (I can’t imagine what the teacher is thinking when he goes off screen and then reappears from above as I drop him into his chair)…and I come back Here to find I’m being volunteered to head an organization destined to fail…
Yeah, it’s been one of those days…
If Covid doesn’t kill me, having 2 elementary kids distance learning certainly will.
If we are going to argue the semantics of this, then all readers who buy a comic is a speculator because eventually they sell their comics ( that by ur own definition makes them a speculator) but not all collectors are speculAtors as some collectors will never part with their collection
Readers/collectors/speculators have been known to donate to hospitals. Last year we donated all our funko avengers pops and other toys that we receieved from Diamond to Childrens hospital here in boston. My wife is a reader while i am “other” … was her idea cause she hates clutter but loves wonder woman.
As i wrote my last response it dawned on me that she is the perfect example.
She is a true reader at heart and dosnt care about the condition of the comics she reads, BUT she does have a collection of comics AND she has speculated on comics.
My point being you cant group people into any one category just to suit your arguement.
That is an absurd remark full of logical fallacies. One can not assume that just because one bought a comic book, that one has the intention of reselling it. And reselling something doesn’t make you a speculator. You’re assuming way too much, and jumping to illogical conclusions.
Well, the debate was about store variant print runs before you came in and changed the subject to the semantics of definitions of people who buy comics. Do you fail to see the irony in you saying that people can’t be grouped into one category, and then you use an example of a person who you lumped into one category. Because according to you, anyone who buys anything is a speculator. Ironic. So, I didn’t change anything to suit anything. You simply started with a non point, which is now going in circles. You can’t argue semantics, bub.
That is another false statement. Everyone agrees that cover B of any given book is known as a variant. That is one of many, many examples I could give of where the comic community 100% agrees on something. A NM comic book must have it’s original cover attached in order to receive a NM designation. We can all agree on that too, right? Marvel is a big publisher. We can all agree on that, right?
Again, Mike, you are jumping to conclusions and making assumptions.
Same. And since I found out it was originally only going to be 6 issues and was changed to ongoing I get nervous that a new issue will disappoint me, but so far that hasn’t come close to happening.
I don’t know… if it comes to just comic publishing yes, they’re probably the biggest but out of all publishers (for all types of books) across all the aisles… I bet they’re pretty small in comparison to some.
Just finished reading all 10 issues and man what a great story so far. My wife wants to make the Octopus plush. She saw that some writer’s wife made him one on social media so now she wants to try lol.
