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Will do! On an unrelated-to-comics note, if anyone has any suggestions on places to eat or things to do, feel free to PM me

Woo, got some nice traction and suggestions going! Thanks all. I had Mega City pinned, but not Gosh! so added that, along with Chaos City and Notting Hill. I added Piranha in case I happen to be in those neighborhoods (doubtful), but added notes that they were fine to miss, heh. Sadly, going to miss out on the chance to hit up the Comic Mart, since it's once a month and happening this weekend. Sucks; would've loved to attend that...but oh well. Kind of surprised given the size of the city that there's only...4? stores within the main city and a couple more on the outskirts, but I guess in a post-Covid world, it makes some sense that a few would close and switch to online. I remember a local store doing that in 2003 to ditch the overhead; some things never change! Yeah, I'm not expecting a ton from Forbidden Planet. From what I remember when I was last in London (which was...sheesh, almost 17 years ago?), it was mostly modern stuff and collectibles then. Basically no different from the NYC location. I'll pop into it, but I don't have great hopes of finding anything worthwhile. Back issue-wise, I'm basically just hoping for maybe some pence variant X-Mens, and if I can find them, Captain Britains cheaper than they tend to be when I come across them here in the US (with bonuses for 1 and 8). Nothing huge. With the X-Mens, when I travel internationally, I like to try to find a local language version of something X-related if I can, but anything else if I can't. For the UK...that means a pence variant, hehe. Or failing the pence X, I'd call some Captain Britains a win.

Hey all, tried searching to see if there was an old, existing thread but couldn't find any... Going to be in London for about a week and a half soon while the wife runs the London Marathon, and was looking for any recommendations on comic and retro/vintage toy stores to hit up. I already have Forbidden Planet on the list (though if one location is better than the others for back issues and goodies, let me know!), but otherwise, Google Maps wasn't being super helpful on finding vintage toy stores (if there even are any), and most of the other comic shops I was finding seemed to be mainly modern stock stores...so any advice would be great! Thanks in advance!

Argh, I'm going to be out of the country when this one starts, and will probably have trouble getting the first couple rounds in...gonna have to sit this one out. Until next time, and good luck to all those participating!

After sleeping on it when it was first getting released (and given it's long delays between arcs, no regrets on that), I finally read Sex Criminals over the past week. Absolutely hilarious.

Congrats @grendelbo and thanks to @Point Five for running the contest! Personally, I'm just glad I didn't do nearly as poorly as I expected...

Grades in!

I'm in!

Sweet! Love those two X-Men ones, and the Macross one looks awesome.

I didn't know this subgenre existed...and now, I feel like I need to have all of these.

This disappoints me...isn't this only like, a third of the total Amalgam one-shots?

More wrong grades in!

Horribly wrong grades submitted!

This feels appropriate here.

Received my raffle yesterday from @JazzMan! Gonna fit in great on my shelf of weird 70s-ish comics-related books!

So, as an experiment, I thought I'd start with X-Men 141, being one of the more iconic and heavily homaged covers. Here are the main sources I searched through-- https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?dsp=issuegallery&IVGroupID=22688003 https://comicvine.gamespot.com/homage-covers/4015-43734/images/?tag=The X-Men %23141 https://sidekickcomicgear.com/homage-covers/uncanny-x-men-141-homage-covers/ https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/profile/galko/lists/8803/cover-homage-the-uncanny-x-men-141 Anything else I found past that was generally just a subset of those (and usually only a handful of covers). Counting virgin/sketch/B&W covers separately (but not counting direct/newsstand distinctions), I came up with 78 books on CLZ. I also found 2 that don't appear on CLZ...a Mr. Easta variant and an Archie Halloween Spectacular 2022 variant. Along the way, I found a few images that I can't seem to find information on their books, and the images don't have any identifying info, but I think they're just fan art/commissioned pieces.

Ooh, an X-Men double, nice! You ever want to get rid of that, let me know

I second CLZ. I also use Excel--I was using it before I started with CLZ, and I still keep it up as a backup--but CLZ is just a lot easier to track, add, show missing issues of a title, etc., though it does cost money. It also now has a built-in connection with...something I can't remember that costs extra but adds estimated values to everything (I don't use it, so can't remember what the name is).

Yeah, like that. I think to start, would probably focus on UXM 141 homages (as that's the most iconic, and probably also plentiful). After that, probably #1 and GSXM #1, but likely 141 first. Any publisher/series, I think...the idea would be to have a collection so that once I put up some display shelves at some nebulous future point, I can cycle in a wall of homages periodically.

Thanks! That's going to mean...a lot of sifting through, haha.

I'm in!

Hey all, does anyone know of any website(s) that has a solid listing or database of homage covers, or a way to search for them without just sifting through multiple random lists from Google? Or at least, lists of the covers that tend to be referenced the most? As I'm approaching the end of completing my Uncanny X-Men v1 full run (37 books left and counting...!), I'm looking towards the next goal to keep me engaged. Completing v2-v6 won't be too difficult, and while I want to start branching into all of the other X-related titles, I'm overflowing in my current storage space setup as it is, and all the related titles are...a lot, haha. So instead, I was thinking more about future display possibilities, where I eventually hope to have a few shelves to show some books behind me on work calls (since my future collecting space will likely also be my work-from-home space). I always had this in the back of my head as a nice idea, anyway, so I thought it might make a good next goal to work towards. And luckily (or unluckily?) for me, since my eye would be for X-Men homages, I'd focus on 141 and GSX 1 homages first, which I know have quite a lot. But since there are a lot...was hoping there might already be some somewhat-complete lists out there to get started with, so I don't have to reinvent the wheel completely.

What is this? Where did you get it? I need one for my collection. For...science.

Form submitted! Went down to 35, hopefully even being #46 something from that list will still be available.

Sigh, wish I had the space for it...I've wanted a spinner rack for a long while, but just don't currently have anywhere to put it