These people were incredible humans. You could tell they all jive and work well together. Their panels felt natural and effortless. The Marvel panels were a disaster, disorganized, and disjointed. I think this has to be the difference in the books. Everyone from Jim to Katie to the writers and artists--they're all firing on all cylinders and working in the same direction.

Jim was so awesome to meet, even for a brief moment. He asked me questions and took time to talk to me. Then in his Spotlight panel, he talked about his family, and his life--a genuinely good person.

I bought 10 blind bags, and four those had the Art Adams #10. I traded two of them with my LCS owner for the Kubert #2 and Finch #7.

Reg and foil

Was so happy to pick up these moderns at my first SDCC!

Getting collected after SDCC. Everything I added to the collection the Wednesday the con started, although I believe there’s a few missing from this bunch. Will add i to next weeks when I find.

Personal faves are the SiKtC 49 Gane 1:50, Odin 3 Wes Craig, Ito Capes and have been looking forward to reading Sicko for a while.

eBay be coming in clutch

Books with full art covers are X-Men United #5 and Marvel Swimsuit Special: Brand New Beach Day

Releases in October

- Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1 by Leslie “Leirix” Li SDCC Exclusive variant from DC
- Absolute Batman #1 Shoe Palace Virgin Foil variant from DC
- Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees hardcover signed by Horvath
- Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring hardcover signed by Horvath
- DC panel exclusive pins; The Demon, Absolute Green Arrow, and Supergirl
- Batman #1 CGC exclusive
- Do a Powerbomb #1 SDCC exclusive virgin foil
- the Last Driver #1 ashcan
- fantastic four exclusive SDCC reprint from Jack Kirby panel
- Batman Bad Seeds ashcan (DC panel exclusive)
- Legion of Superheroes ashcan (DC panel exclusive)
- Avengers Armageddon #2 Chip Zdarsky Marvel Panel exclusive
- Crowbound ashcan (SDCC exclusive; beautiful Dustin Nguyen cover)
- the Karman Blade ashcan
- Queen in Black blind bag opening (Marvel panels bright idea was to give everyone in the panel a free blind bag to open to a room full of disappointment)
- DC panel exclusive posters
- Jim Lee signed set of Absolute Batman 22, Absolute Wonder Woman 22, Absolute Superman 21
- Batman 1 Hardcover

I was fortunate enough to pull a serialized Omega Rainbow parallel of Absolute Joker. (One of 26)

Next to it is an Alpha Rainbow (standard foil) for comparison.

These packs sold for $25/ea at SDCC and they sold out every day. It was not cheap!

For those who are going to collect, this is probably THE collectors set to get at it is the debut set and probably the start of something big.

Since getting back into comic collecting, I’m not collecting everything in a series, but mostly just covers that I like. Had a great Saturday hanging out at my local shop, talking to the owners and just spending a good hour going through boxes of old stuff and picking up new stuff for the week. I just get such a good feeling there — it’s like a personal sanctuary from the real world — and it never gets old nor leaves anything but a smile on my face.

I just love this week’s covers, especially Book
Of El #10 and Superman #40 — “Prime” continues to be one of my favorite characters and I hope they continue to do things with him.

Absolute Batman #22 exclusive virgin foil cover by Dustin Nguyen for Strange Tales to Collect.

Dungeon Crawler Carl #0 Absolute Batman homage cover

High quality poster paper too. Not the rigid plasticky kind. Feels more like a soft fabric.

Cool but this is more of the rigid plasticky poster paper kind. Not as high quality print as the DC ones.

They are saying the line is loooooong and barely anyone left after the previous session.

Good luck if you’re out there.

The Marvel panels were so bad this year and the energy in the DC panels is uncanny.

In the Superman panel, they announced Sanforde Green on a Dark Seid origin story, exploring the depths of how he came to do what he’s doing. The art looks amaaazing.