Making more money and buying a huge house without a steady source of income, then not being able to afford the house is such a common story.
I do feel bad for Stephen, but the last few years he really went hard with the salesman schtick and drove away a lot of viewers. Seeing more and more people who drank the what not Kool aid starting to regret not doing new things or evolving when they were at a spike in popularity.
Yeah, don’t be like MC Hammer… make 50 million from record sales and think you can go buy a 30 million dollar mansion…
so they think people will buy the valiants
The Valiant ones Id buy…
the TMNT ones…NO 
Bleeding Cool stumping for store variants? Wonder what their cut is…
Not that Bleeding Cool was ever top notch; but an eon ago I did occasionally read their articles.
What they have become today; even compared to a couple years ago, is an absolute disgrace.
They make CGC look like NVidia
I don’t ever remember BleedingStool being good 
…I mean a couple of years ago they put out an article that Tosin was the next Miles. Any one with a human brain cell would realize that article was complete BS.
I still wonder what their motivation was behind putting out that article. It can’t simply be just for clicks, articles like that can really damage your reputation. Not that they were the gold standard for journalism but this takes it to a whole new level of incompetence. They saw a first appearance of a new character who happens to be black and concluded that this would be the new Miles, having none of the history or fanfare.
Why would they thought that it would be suitable to be put into print?
They were good in 1978 when they hadn’t published anything yet. 
I remember a few articles that were decent on Bleeding Cool. Ones I wrote. That’s about it, and a few I wrote I didn’t get credit for…
And later when I called Rich Johnston out for ripping articles on CHU off, he claimed he had never heard of me.
True story… we kept seeing him at NYCC 2016 and he acted like he didn’t even know who you were…
Bleeding Cool is like the tabloids at a supermarket. Fun to skim briefly but you don’t take anything you see seriously.
I was reading Bleedingstool quite extensively during the pandemic. Was stuck at home and I was seeking coverage about what would happen to the comic book industry. There were a lot of confusion at that time (most likely being sensationalized by bleedingstool) and there were real fears that the industry could collapse. Comic book shops could go under and there was no end in sight.
Steve Gespi from Diamond was on every comicbook youtube channel, i think it was at this time that led to the rise of the comic influencers. I went down this rabbit hole and found channels like ComicTom and KCC 
Somehow found CHU out of all this lol.
I can dig out that photo of he and I together where he told me he reads the site. I was like I know you do if I posted about a spec book you would post about it later.
Truth be told in the early days I was advising KCC on some stuff and even provided weekly picks to them. Help get them started. I was there at the beginning of CBSI as well helping out. It was fun in the early days. Things got very cut throat later.
I had a story ran on Bleeding Cool about the TV show Black Sails that was reposted on a variety of different sites because I broke the story on it.
Yet here I am still sitting here doing my own thing.
We are glad you are here too.
Doing your own thing is best! I’m happy I do my own my blog and it bums me out some stuff I wrote for other sites doesn’t exist anymore due to those sites folding years ago.
Whatnot exclusive X-Men trading cards…
It’s not trading cards. It’s mystery comic packs. They’re trying to insert gambling into the comic hobby like sports cards. Rare variants and autographed books randomly inserted into packs like sports cards.
Wow, you reallly have to dig into the verbage to get there. They even make the picture look as if they are trading cards. Do they think they will sell more if they try and attach it to trading card pack gambling. Almost guaranteed you will be better off just buying the ones you like off ebay at a later date. I’m a big X-men 97 fan and this type of marketing just turns me right off.
I’ve seen these being pumped on some comic book “influencers” shows touting it as the next big thing 
and trying to sell it on their claim sale.
TRASH! Don’t pay hard earned money for another man’s junk.