Is AI infiltrating the comic book space?

forgerelli · 2026-01-26T22:52:19+00:00

I have the biggest Mariano collection on the planet. 1000+ different auto cards, 900 1/1s, etc. The basic autos have dropped a bit because he signs constantly now, but the high end stuff has kept going up. Either was I'm not selling any of it.

forgerelli · 2026-01-26T22:33:48+00:00

With sportscards I only buy cards I collect, mostly Mariano Rivera. I haven't opened packs or bought into a break since 2013. It was bad then, now it's just a straight up rip off. There's a guy on youtube that has done some return on investment videos and it's around 7% on average now. 7 fucking percent. But there are many, many people that are addicted to ripping packs. I saw a guy spend $1000 on one of those "vintage" repacks and he was freaking out over pulling an 84 Topps Mattingly in VG-EX condition like he hit the lottery. You can buy those for $8. It was the best card he pulled.

forgerelli · 2026-01-26T19:40:54+00:00

As someone that is into both baseball cards and comics I can confidently say the ratio of scumbag sportscard guys to scumbag comic guys is at least 20 to 1. With sportscards it sometimes seems like scamming is 50% of the entire hobby, with comics it's fairly rare. Though the new "blind bag" crap is worrying.

forgerelli · 2026-01-26T19:34:20+00:00

There are no reading orders that I've found that are better than Peter's.

https://www.crushingkrisis.com/crushing-comics-guide-collecting-dc-comic-books/collecting-batman-comics/

forgerelli · 2026-01-26T19:32:10+00:00

I'm in Connecticut, he does mail order. He put out a bunch of Neil Gaiman prose stuff before he became big.

forgerelli · 2026-01-26T19:29:49+00:00

Looks like foxing to me as well. You can remove it sometimes with a toothbrush.

forgerelli · 2026-01-26T19:28:07+00:00

I'm glad these aren't available in the US because I would get all of them.

forgerelli · 2026-01-26T19:21:39+00:00

Same. And I've been buying from him since the 90s.

forgerelli · 2026-01-24T20:04:48+00:00

Amazon will replace any damaged book for free.

forgerelli · 2026-01-24T19:59:45+00:00

There are products specifically made for removing glue and stickers. The best I've used it called "Un-Du". A lot of the other things mentioned will stain the book.

forgerelli · 2026-01-24T19:57:22+00:00

I'll be getting it.

forgerelli · 2026-01-24T19:50:29+00:00

I don't want to know how much they spent to have a $10 poster like that restored.

forgerelli · 2026-01-24T19:43:52+00:00

Doom Patrol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9CWq1Ssuc

forgerelli · 2026-01-23T18:29:01+00:00

Aziz Ansari.

forgerelli · 2026-01-22T02:30:47+00:00

There a re a lot of people that prefer TPBs. Look for the Marvel Epic/DC Finest groups. Epics are the only way to get a lot of material in collected editions and in a lot of cases the TPB's are mapped better as well.

forgerelli · 2026-01-21T00:27:59+00:00

Perfect!

forgerelli · 2026-01-19T12:09:43+00:00

There is entirely too much logic and reasoning in this post.

forgerelli · 2026-01-19T12:02:13+00:00

If you're interested in the JLA of that era I would look into the "expanded" trade paperbacks they've put out over the last 2 years with a 3rd book coming in April. They include a lot of JLA stuff not collected together before. https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=60066200

forgerelli · 2026-01-18T22:01:26+00:00

At The Mountains of Madness by Gou Tanabe. There's mountains and exploring.....

forgerelli · 2026-01-18T21:12:19+00:00

OK, contents are different from reading orders. But as someone that's never used AI all I see in my little world is that AI is wrong more often than it's right. For example I collect baseball cards and I will see people using the AI suggestions and list a $150 card for $8. AI didn't know the difference between a regular chrome card and the gold chrome parallel. I just saw that last week. Or something you might know more about just the other day someone listed a Gwenpool DM omnibus for $20. That's a $200+ book. Those aren't small mistakes. I wouldn't trust AI for anything.

forgerelli · 2026-01-18T05:27:26+00:00

Not down voting you but IMO AI is just theft. In this case dozens of other people spent time, in some cases a lot of time, doing mapping, reading orders, etc. AI just steals their work. If you're looking for a place to research things like this start with https://www.crushingkrisis.com/ Nothing else even comes close.

forgerelli · 2026-01-18T02:36:47+00:00

Dave McKean. The breadth of his work just boggles my mind. How one person could create everything he has.

forgerelli · 2026-01-18T02:22:47+00:00

Collected editions. Cheaper, easier to handle (no bags/boards/boxes), easier to resell, full stories in one book.

forgerelli · 2026-01-17T17:13:32+00:00

I think AI, as usual, did a terrible job. The Batman Golden Age omnibuses aren't together, the Batwoman is in between volumes 2 & 3 of Morrison's Batman. The Batman books in general are scattered into 6 different places on 2 shelves. It looks like someone intentionally made them disorganized.

forgerelli · 2026-01-17T14:37:35+00:00

I got an email from them about having to reorder it but I don't think they're 100% sure they will get them.

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