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Norrin_Radd

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    1000 books in 2022

    in Comics General

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    My year of reading Cerebus 1 - 300 is complete.

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    Story recap in spoiler tags:
     
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    Cerebus 271 - 300: Latter Days continues with humourous adventures of Cerebus as a captive of religious zealots who view him as a religious icon thanks to the Book of Rick (Jaka's former husband turned writer).  He goes on to lead a holy war to wipe out the Cirinist (who had been his protagonists for the last half of the title).
     
    There is some beautiful art (love hatching).
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    There was a Spawn parody with a character based on Todd McFarlane called Todd FarLane McSpahn and Cerebus masquarades as a demon from hell called Spore.  Cerebus reshapes society with a bunch of religious reforms (one being killing all the lawyers).
     
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    Then, there is storyline about Cerebus interpreting the bible to a character based on Woody Allen.  Frankly, I ended up skimming some of this as it was just wall upon wall of text about theology. :wavingwhiteflag:
     
    Until finally we get to very old Cerebus who has remarried to a woman who bears a striking resemblance to his one true love (Jaka) and having a son whom he is waiting for a visit from.  Some great art of a dream sequence where Cerebus knows his days are numbered and he's getting a premonition of what the afterlife will hold for him.
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    So my year of reading Cerebus concludes and I look ahead to what my comic reading project for next year will be... hm

     
     
     
     

    Cerebus 1 a more valuable key than Hulk 181? Really Overstreet? Poll on Page 87

    in Bronze Age Comic Books

    Cerebus 1 a more valuable key than Hulk 181? Really Overstreet? Poll on Page 87

    in Bronze Age Comic Books

    Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???

    in Comics General

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    On 10/16/2022 at 6:34 AM, Norinn Radd said:

    "Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???"

    Comics I'm selling?  Prices (demand) have cooled (some by quite a bit)

    Comics I'm trying to buy?  Prices (demand) are as strong as ever.

    :facepalm:

    Same as it ever was...

    Case in point.  Batman 73.  Last GPA data point CGC 4.0 in August was $1412.

    Raw VG on Heritage I was bidding on today ended at $2132. 

    https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/batman-73-dc-1952-condition-vg/a/122242-15173.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515

    :facepalm: