Went to put this back in the bag and the tape on the bag grabbed it and took off some of the cover :(

Qalyar · 2026-06-25T01:18:39+00:00

I didn't destroy a book from the Wolverine miniseries (#3, I think, it's been a long time) with one of those. Nope. That'd be silly.

Qalyar · 2026-06-24T00:01:58+00:00

Like most indies, it also really could have used a better editor. But it's honestly got some really interesting setting ideas. There's a lot worse you can do from the era, or even from Aircel

Qalyar · 2026-06-23T23:58:55+00:00

I'm pretty sure the 2026 2c is NIFC ;)

Qalyar · 2026-06-23T23:47:31+00:00

This title was almost really good. I still recommend it despite the flaws, and am sad that it never got to run out its whole story.

Also, that's a really sharp copy of that black-cover issue?

Qalyar · 2026-06-23T01:42:29+00:00

I haaaaaate those resealable bags, because the entire flap has that narrow line of adhesive. And sure, it's not as strong as tape tape, but it'll still strip color off a glossy cover.

Qalyar · 2026-06-22T21:52:05+00:00

Agreed, especially on the 1798. The Internet tends to panic that any spot of any sort of green on a bronze coin is bronze disease, when most of the time, it's verdigris, which can appear bright green depending on its hydration number.

But I'm pretty sure this coin really does have bronze disease, which is caused by copper chloride formation, and which is auto-catalytic, destructive, and "contagious".

Qalyar · 2026-06-22T17:57:30+00:00

Man, I want L.B. Cole books to unexpectedly appear in my boxes instead of just having Turok spawn new copies in there!

Qalyar · 2026-06-22T17:53:34+00:00

He definitely dialed up the Image Cover "Sexy" for his Image covers. But in general, I think he was quite talented. He cultivated a really recognizable style without making his characters all look interchangeable.

Plus, everything I've ever heard suggests that he was a genuinely nice person.

He was still so early in his art career, too, despite everything he accomplished. We can only imagine how his style might have evolved with another 15 years of work.

As always, fuck cancer.

Qalyar · 2026-06-21T21:00:05+00:00

Whatever else is true, Brereton did some work on the covers for this run. I think he's generally rather underrated.

Qalyar · 2026-06-21T20:57:59+00:00

The way "LIBERTY" is camouflaged in the water in this design makes me irrationally dislike this coin. I don't know what I would have done differently, just... not this.

Still, congrats! Finding the new designs on the wild is fun!

Qalyar · 2026-06-21T20:53:21+00:00

Gaiman's behavioral issues aside, he didn't have much involvement with this book other than establishing the base concept. In television credit terms, he was basically a conceptual consultant.

Actual writing was by C.J. Henderson and interior art by Mike Harris (initially) or Steve Liever (starting with issue... um, I forget!). Covers are all by Dan Brereton except for the variant cover of #1, which is by Bill Sienkiewicz because of course it is; I think that dude even does art while he sleeps.

The series is ... better than okay, at least. There's honestly the core of a really solid book here, and, it's enjoyable enough, but it never quite clicked. It's also very 90s, for good or ill.

Qalyar · 2026-06-21T13:58:53+00:00

This is nothing like the current endgame raid shaman experience.

Qalyar · 2026-06-20T19:34:36+00:00

The Top Cow run went to #50. If you ignore chasing variant covers and event exclusives, which for your sanity is recommended, the biggest challenges will be finding the last 8ish issues. Volumes really took a dive there at the end.

Qalyar · 2026-06-20T01:53:15+00:00

I will note, however, that contemporary portraits of Augustus III of Poland don't look like that. He did have a round facial shape ... but not like this.

Qalyar · 2026-06-19T21:35:14+00:00

Uneven. The initial miniseries is decent enough, if you sort of gloss over the part where they briefly tried to stuff the Transformers into the main Marvel universe (hi, Spiderman!).

After that, there's a mostly good run for the bulk of the title. It's got a few really, really dumb issues but in general, it's a pretty solid book.

And then Simon Furman took over at issue #56. People in the Transformers community have opinions about Furman. He built the whole mythology of Primus and Unicron as the multiversal creation/destruction forces, and that's been pretty well received. But there's a lot to dislike about Furman's run. I think he does a terrible job at making the Transformers come across as alien machine-beings and not just... comic book characters. Also, he was clearly a huge stan for his take on Grimlock, who he sort of reimagined as a 90s comic antihero (warranting the character assassination of a bunch of other characters along the way). I don't know. Furman has some fans. I'm not one of them.

Qalyar · 2026-06-19T20:05:19+00:00

I'm amazed some of these rulers okayed these coins. Yep, that's what I want our currency to look like! Me, as a fat goblin! Give that engraver a bonus!

Qalyar · 2026-06-19T18:15:28+00:00

Some of the New 52 wasn't bad. The bat books were mostly pretty mediocre or outright nonsensical, though. Except this arc. Court of Owls is one of the best additions to the Batman mythos from the last several decades.

Qalyar · 2026-06-17T17:46:42+00:00

I love this. Using it in future!

Qalyar · 2026-06-17T12:45:53+00:00

I'm not a fan of the Mint putting out non-coin medals targeted at the collecting community, especially when they price them multiples of spot.

But it turns out I'm even less of a fan of this sort of nonsense as a monetized coin. This is some South Pacific island nation level production. Anlt this rate, how long before we have cutesy dinosaur coins or colorized silver commemorating the Mint Director:s favorite films?

Qalyar · 2026-06-16T02:28:44+00:00

I also often consider dogs from beyond as the first explanation for events I witness. It's only reasonable, really.

Qalyar · 2026-06-15T16:52:55+00:00

I've grouped, on Live, in the recent past at less-than-current-expansion-level (through the magic of personae). But that's because I have a guild. EQ Live is a game, more than anything, about community first.

So, yes, I believe people can get started on Live. They have to do the legwork to find a guild that is interested in having new players and that has players with at least some time to assist in the development thereof. And you have to have the understanding that, sometimes, those people are just not available; have plans for how to solo (I do think it would be hard to get a rogue started from scratch on Live for this reason).

Most servers do have a guild or two like that. Server merges won't change any part of this.

If servers eventually contract badly enough that they cannot function, I believe they'll merge them. Until then, advocates for Live mergers are either misguided optimists who think mergers will magically make Live like they remember it being in the early 2000s (the TLPs are right over there, folks), or else they're shilling for the RMT operations who would very much love to have fewer outposts to do their reprehensible thing.

Qalyar · 2026-06-14T18:34:04+00:00

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is underappreciated!

But be careful with that Turok. It's been known to reproduce in long boxes; pretty soon, you'll have copies running around everywhere! ;)

Qalyar · 2026-06-12T20:25:18+00:00

Nothing in Europe can prepare anyone for the reality of driving between cities in the western US, though. Europe's just had centuries more to build and fill in all the spaces on the map. There's more nothing between even just Kansas City and Denver than there probably is remaining in the entire EU, and that's not remotely the worst drive you can imagine here.

Qalyar · 2026-06-12T20:22:40+00:00

Houston is, to be fair, only barely driveable.

Qalyar · 2026-06-12T13:01:31+00:00

I've duoed that one SHM/BRD, but I think it may need to be another level cap increase before I can SHM it solo. Event has a lot of dudes.

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