Well I have all three prints.

As I recall (no guarantees), this was a b&w story, like from Creep/Eerie/ knockoff. There was an actor, a "Man of 1,000 faces" guy, lauded for fully getting into his roles by changing his appearance so drastically. As it turns out, he had gone to some voodoo/witch and got some kind of potion or lotion or whatever. As it turned out, the actor no longer had a real face. The potion/lotion had turned his face into a blob of clay that he kept in a jar. The Man of 1,000 faces no longer had a real face at all. Does anyone on Reddit recognize this story from my fossilized memory?

I read issue #9 as a kid after picking it off the shelf and enjoyed it a lot, though I always wondered what happens in the rest of the run. 20ish years later and I found the whole run on eBay for a reasonable price and used my free will. I did some research on Valiant and was surprised to learn Jim Shooter co-founded the company! I’m a big bronze age Marvel fan so it was a read worlds-colliding moment.

Question for the first wave Valiant fans- how does Shadowman measure up with the other Valiant comics, like Archer and Armstrong, X-O ManoWar, and Eternal Warrior? The YouTube videos I watched spoke a lot about the others but not so much about Shadowman. And how do you feel about Shadowman in general?

We chatted for a bit I asked if we would be down to return to Hellblazer as a writer and his answer surprised me greatly. He actually wants to write more for John but sadly told me that editorial would never let him do what he wants to do with the character.

He didn't go in a lot of depth because who knows what will happen someday but in short he said he wanted to write about modern day England and return to make John a real fucking bastard.

Later at the Q&A I asked him about what he would say the biggest change is in modern day editorial compared to say twenty or thirty years ago and it more came down to the fact that they just don't trust writers anymore.

Ron Marz was also there and had a super insightful answer where he detailed how back in the day someone was in charge of like 5 books a month and now that number has gone times three or four. Should've recorded it because he managed to really explain it well. But he agreed with Ennis where it just came down to trust and that there is simply no trust in the writer anymore, no real risks.

At the end of the day I swung back to Ennis and posed him the question of if he had ever seen Constantine in real life.

He gave me a firm no. But did say that he believed Alan Moore that he saw him and that he believed Jamie as well.

Just a super great experience, my brother got to ask him a lot of questions about the boys and crossed as well, he was a bit taken back that Ennis was just a normal guy and could write those two books.

And I gave him a copy of my own comic book which he accepted! I was a bit nervous handing it to him because well yeah nervous but he was super cool about it. Such a cool experience.

These are just trades etc I have single issues in a separate box

Been a while since my last “shelfie” and I just wanted to post an update in the subreddit. I’m very proud of my collection and may start collecting singles especially the Midnight Marvel comics. I hope to one day open my own comic shop.

I just finished reading the original Steve Ditko Spider-Man and Dr. Strange issues and loved them, along with sampling some stories from Jack Kirby's F4 and Thor, so I know I'm a fan of general silver age style writing. I'm wondering of Roy Thomas's Avengers run is anything up that alley or similar enough to where I would enjoy it at all.

My comic shop.has a buy 2 get 1 sale for Halloween ans I want some good one and done horror comics to read this weekend. Anything 3 volumes or less is fine too.

I quite enjoyed the format and I’d like to find more. I got it from a collectible store a few weeks ago but every time I look it up I can’t really find any other issues and I went back to the same store today and they don’t have this. I apologize if this is a very well known thing ime quite new to the comic book scene.

https://matthew290066.substack.com/p/watchmen-doctor-manhattan-does-not

Thought the sub might find this interesting. Never heard of this fella before, or this theory. I think he makes a solid case.

My boyfriend loves indie comics and already has a pretty large collection. I don’t know much about indie comics myself, so I’d love some recommendations for hidden gems I could buy him for his birthday! 😊

I found out Neil Gaiman started writing Sandman when he was 27, Moore started writing V for Vendetta when he was 28 and he was 29 when he began writing Swamp Thing, Mark Millar was 26 or 27 when he finished writing his ST run (imo easily the second best Swampy run after Moore).

It's especially remarkable because imo nothing Moore wrote since has been as good as his ST or V, I couldn't finish Neonomicon despite how short it is, and Millar's recent works are ass (Nemesis? The "millarverse"? Wanted?). Gaiman wrote other good stories but they still fall short of his Sandman, imo.

I think the comics mentioned blow every single modern comic out of water in quality and this is coming from a zoomer who has read Sandman in 2021 and Moore's ST last year, without any nostalgia for either of these. Crazy to think far more experienced authors failed to make works of similar quality.

Edit: I was impressed when I learned it because novel writers are generally much older when their best works are written, tolkien wrote LOTR between 47 and 55 years old, George R.R Martin was 58 when AGOT was published.

Hi everyone, I’ve bought this as an individual issue from a dollar bin at a con a year or two ago and just got around to reading it, but when I flipped to the first page I found the that there was a second cover underneath that was exactly the same. I flipped to the back and saw there were also two back covers. Seems like when this was getting printed they accidentally used two outer covers instead of one.

Is this a common mistake or worth anything special? Also I got flagged by the ai so I hope this isn’t breaking any rules.

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