FoggyNelson Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 On 2/19/2021 at 2:39 PM, Ken Aldred said: Sadly, I'm considering leaving. I’ve just finished having the heating and water system in the house completely modernised, which proved extremely stressful, more so because of my autism and OCD. It turned out to be necessary and lucky though, as the antiquated back boiler was dangerously rusted and a carbon monoxide risk. The engineers said it was in the worst condition they’d ever seen, and I believe them. And so, talking about condition… As far as comics are concerned I have quite a large physical collection, and if I’d only damaged a few drek items while moving boxes around I’d be able to accept that easily. Unfortunately, stressed, tired and not thinking sensibly, I stacked up some of my key slabs, the pile went over and a Tomb of Dracula 10 9.6, bought for $400, now irreplaceable at $3,000, got severely damaged. Blowie’s purely coincidentally-timed thread on a TOD 10 9.9 provided additional psychological salt in the wound on top. I’ve not checked the other keys yet, but that’s one of my all-time most important books. I just came to the conclusion that someone with my condition shouldn’t really be doing this; ordinarily hyper-careful and obsessive-compulsive, or, completely the opposite, spaced-out, clumsy, no common sense whatsoever when I’m depressed, hyper-anxious and burned out. The worst is that up until the point at which I started messing about with my key books I’d been extremely cautious. I burned out at exactly the right time to do maximum damage. Given the ridiculous and often unaffordable prices keys are going for now, I already find the money talk and boiler room attitude here very depressing, and time for me to stop being involved with a physical product that I can’t safely curate or replace in the long term. I’ll still obtain cheap reading material by buying digitally, huge bundles available there, but for someone with my meagre resources a lot of what goes on here isn’t relevant anymore. This is one of the few threads that I believe has a larger gathering of people that actually do care about the stories, artwork, creators, etc, and I appreciate your interest and concern. I wonder though, if it's enough to continue on here. I hope a press can fix your TOD 10 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beige Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 This is probably why nobody takes the 'Winsome Wasp' seriously The 80's dialogue was terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s-man Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 On 2/11/2021 at 11:40 PM, Beige said: So what does she say to that? I'd make something up, but I don't want to get banned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 onlyweaknesskryptonite 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidTheDavid Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 On 1/16/2021 at 9:51 AM, Robot Man said: I know some hard ways to earn a hundred dollars And I know some easy ways to lose a hundred dollars If I could only find a way to use a hundred dollars To soothe my troubled soul --Dan Reeder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iggy Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Careful there, Mr. Letterer (Letterist?)... onlyweaknesskryptonite, kav, D84 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 That could have gone wrong with just a FLICK of the wrist. gadzukes, iggy and Dave2739 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 What the devil?? Plus they misspelled 'scheme'! Larryw7 and Hypersphere 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 WHAT THE HELL??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 11 minutes ago, kav said: What the devil?? Plus they misspelled 'scheme'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 6 minutes ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said: He can say it how he wants I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 5 minutes ago, kav said: He can say it how he wants I guess. Well could be writer was German/ English speaking and just wrote it that way or maybe there was a cross dressing nati he blasted and destroyed and was off to his next conquest. guess unless we know who the original writer was and their intentions we will never know. kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggy Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 12 minutes ago, kav said: He can say it how he wants I guess. That's what she said. kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 6 minutes ago, greggy said: That's what she said. FoggyNelson, kav and Hypersphere 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bounty_coder Posted April 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 3, 2021 I've always found this one absurdly hilarious. - bounty Ken Aldred, Murphman13, Badger and 5 others 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, kav said: What the devil?? Plus they misspelled 'scheme'! Has there ever been an explanation as to why the artists smooshed and widened Subby's head in the late 40s. Was it Everett who did it? He looks like he should be a DickTracey villain. Edited April 3, 2021 by gadzukes kav and Larryw7 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 9 hours ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said: That Burger King guy is creepy☹️😷🥴 onlyweaknesskryptonite and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JazzMan Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Bill Everett started with this: I think it was a combination of Alex Schaumburg and later artists like Allen Simon who took liberties to make him look less human and more hydrodynamic for his environment. Larryw7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 5 hours ago, gadzukes said: Has there ever been an explanation as to why the artists smooshed and widened Subby's head in the late 40s. Was it Everett who did it? He looks like he should be a DickTracey villain. I could of drawn for Timely look! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 51 minutes ago, kav said: I could of drawn for Timely look! Subby's Pizza.. Larryw7, kav and gadzukes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
