We all hate store variants but

I like Brooks, he is a solid artist and has a style that is similar to Hughes but for whatever reason he has just never taken off.

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I put the following into Grok which is only slightly worse of a beginning story that Marvel puts out lately. It was pretty darn good short story!

Grok - ā€œMake this a good short story: the quick pink hulk jumped over the lazy brown iron man

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thirdeye really needs better bot protection

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The Captcha sure didn’t help…

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Got the 1 :pray:

I didn’t even try.

I’ll up that… I didn’t even know… :wink:

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I’ll see your ā€œI didn’t even knowā€ā€¦and raise you a ā€œI didn’t even careā€ā€¦ :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I met with Steve from Third Eye today. We sat down and talked, catching up, we have known each other for a while. I can attest that they were all single orders. No duplicates. Bot protection is on, but there are some very sophisticated bots that can get through even the best bot protection. Steve is bald but was pulling his hair out over the heat he gets for these drops selling out so fast. Tons of hate mail. I feel bad for him.

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Only ones hating are the flippers who lost out on a flip.

I totally forgot. Thought it was tomorrow. But don’t really care that I missed out either…

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I can also say ā€œdon’t careā€ as well… I don’t chase store variants, never really have.

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I often see the dozens and dozens (hundreds?) of complaints about Bots related to Felix drops, and yet i see very few mention that thousands and thousands of individuals are trying to purchase roughly 1000 copies all at same time. I guess its just easier to blame a bot :person_shrugging:

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This one (noted above) is available on Mark Brooks’ website now for pre-order. Really beautiful book. I’d love to get a signed copy, as he has available, but for $80, that’s out of my price range.

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$65 for unsigned is kinda outrageous.

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Looks like the same price whether Brooks signs it or not, which is an interesting tactic. I wonder if that will spread.

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Where’s the non-foil version ?

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If you really like the cover art, find the best image available out there of it, get it printed at your local CVS, Walgreens or Shutterfly for probably a few bucks on nice photo paper. Buy your dollar tree frame and put on the wall… You’ll save a ton of money by not chasing ridiculously priced store variants… Or wait long enough and you’ll get it for half the price or less in the coming months or years when nobody cares anymore.

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His NYCC Venom 250 priced me out too, $50 trade, $75 virgin.

Both sold out in less than a minute…