Templesmith Choker? Cool Variant. McCool.
It’s been a minute since my last post, and my only excuse is that a lot of behind-the-scenes BSC business has been going down on top of the day-to-day operation. We have a lot of moves going on, and hopefully we are a site closer to Cobra Island development status. On the collection tip, things have been slow, as while I’ve queried a bunch of artists for various commissions, they are either too busy or not answering email (yet are twittering…a lot). I’ve also struck out on some pages artists’ no longer had. Should be picking up here regardless though because my portfolios came in and I figure I’ll snap a pic and tackle them soon. Because they are just being put away in portfolio, it’s a lot of my recent stuff that’s probably been posted in various communities I frequent. Might still be semi-interesting though, because while going through them being reminded of them, I was thinking about the why behind the purchases. A lot of it is rather inexpensive and oddball, but I found that I was still rather aware at why I pulled the trigger on the items at the time. Also nice mini-surprises like seeing on one of my Dave Lapham (from Harbinger-lovely pre-Unity) pages, a sketch included that I hadn’t noticed before–stuff like that. It’s not blow your mind shit, but more exposing odd thought processes that make us pull the trigger on auctions. For this post though, I have an example of one of the aspects I touched on in Variety, Trade, or Death (or No Hooks, Chum).
Variety, Trade, or Death (or No Hooks, Chum)
I was working on another post here that kind of morphed beyond what I wanted it to be and as of now may appear at Throne World instead as a Jan-ken-pon installment in some condensed form (if I can get it to a point that I’m pleased with–it’s some thoughts about Bendis and the Avengers). One of the off-topic asides that cropped up regarded variant covers. Online, “variant cover” is a bit of a taboo term, and a rather predictable one as they are often cast as one of the many elements that accurately describe as what’s wrong with current/modern comics. Personally, I’ve never understood any of the arguments that treat the subject of variants as the bane of all that’s good in comics. In fact, I think people who make such claims are at best rather silly. There are numerous arguments against variants, and I will go over all of them that have true merit.
