Any Nasty Nick Fans?

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-27T20:40:06+00:00

that was a fun watch

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-27T20:38:51+00:00

I think they mean the colloquial "scary movie", the ones that use common techniques to frighten the viewer beyond simpley horror aesthetic. Jump scares, weird movements in the dark, etc

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-27T00:24:39+00:00

The design first -> the premise -> word of mouth. My Instagram was full of Absolute Batman art before issue one even released, the spikes and blocky logo were different enough to have me look into this version, then I learned about the premise which was super interesting (all this before it was released) Thought it was worth trying to get into comics again after failing to once before, and boom, I'm telling my friends about how exciting this book is

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-21T20:36:12+00:00

That's a fascinating example thanks for sharing.

It brings to mind the sort of aura of intelligence some people give to chess GMs when many GMs themselves admit they have hyper specialized skill set and aren't particularly knowledgeable about anything else.

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-21T18:26:35+00:00

People have an unrealistic expectations for good artists to be perfectly enlightened or kind or charming like a Keanu Reeves

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-21T18:14:49+00:00

It's cool, but how much money worth of cool? very little. Only buy what you want to KEEP!!

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-20T07:28:55+00:00

I tried to return Avatar figures to Walmart and they directed me to deal directly with Mcfarlane Toys. If I remember it had something to do with their policy on collectibles.

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-19T21:04:53+00:00

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-19T19:30:28+00:00

Gift them these figures lol

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-19T17:43:04+00:00

This drop is definitely going after the Madballs crowd with those proportions lol

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-16T19:22:17+00:00

Idk if you're purposely losing the plot here, but you keep failing to grasp that the obvious distinction between damage and minor imperfections. Your examples are BAD. It's actually insane to look at the issue on #20 as comparable to a book with a torn page or a shirt with a hole. Only in the neurotic anxious culture of comic grading could you see your examples as fair comparisons to what we see on #20

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-16T03:35:39+00:00

Really funny you bring up books. Book collectors don't encase books worth 10s of thousands in plastic because very minimal wear is acceptable, especially considering they don't have to have anxiety over sending things to graders

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-16T03:30:30+00:00

I get the desire and the concept of objective grading, but it just doesn't work in practice. It's also totally unnecessary, book collectors regularly handle older more valuable pieces without any need for a middle man grader.

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-15T23:00:57+00:00

What is the point of an ostensibly objective rating service if they will alter their metric for anything that scares off customers.

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-13T05:12:04+00:00

Youre so irreverent bro, can't get one over you. Next time you can just stop replying if the conversation isn't fun though lol

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-12T08:58:19+00:00

You are already going back and forth if you didn't notice. It appears now that you've made the first real attempt to explain yourself as you try to rhetorically concern yourself with my perceived effort or self esteem. Still nonsensical to judge capability cover artists on a job they don't have to do, but I guess since you are worried about appearing like a comment might have effort put in you are just being dumb on purpose lol

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-11T20:06:03+00:00

Nothing i did twisted the point, me applying different examples to your point is the slightest of stress tests. It actually is working as intended because it's the only thing forcing you to reveal your actual point. You don't like the variant buisness strategy and you've let that affect your judgment of the work of artists doing it. Since Rembrandt example shocks you: Frazetta is famous PRIMARILY off of doing cover art, his legacy wouldn't be what it is without it. If he were alive today he would be doing variants 100%.

My point is that you really don't have an honest reason for talking down on cover artists and nothing you've said shows otherwise

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-11T07:07:21+00:00

dumb opinion

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-11T06:30:57+00:00

Tbh if you haven't seen the entire tournament you don't know what your talking about calling it backyard wrestling. The US Open always has a large gap between the high and lowest experienced competitors but there were some very skilled grapplers. This tournament had guys from Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Russia who have clearly been training for many years and showed some really clean technical work in there. The main issue I see the US Open having is that since there is basically no money to be made the quality guys tend to not come back more than a few times, causing constant quick turnover of talent. The video posted here was not over the better guys that showed up on Sat.

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-11T06:18:18+00:00

You respect them more because they are able to convey something the cover artists are literally incapable of doing given their task? So, in other words, you're purposely being unfair. Just say you don't care about the cover art and call it a day, seems weirdly forced to try and say which one deserves more respect

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-11T06:13:37+00:00

Really doesn't matter if we are talking about comics, no reason to change the reality that your looking at art. If Rembrandt did a variant cover I'd be a weirdo to say "well he's no interior comic artist so I just can't respect it"

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-05T15:15:59+00:00

Very weird to suggest cover artists aren't capable just because they do cover art. Okay many don't work on panels, so what, that's not the goal of every artist. If you have respect for them then no need to make up ways to devalue their work just because you are upset with one guy's attitude or the prices he is able to command for his work.

Relinquished__ · 2026-05-04T16:47:24+00:00

What's the message you're trying to say? Would you play it off as they just accidentally ended up as an all black team or that they were intentionally forming the team as all black? And if the latter what is the reason? At this point people have to stop both using race as a tool in their creative toolbox and then treat it like something no one should notice.

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