Evolution.

Munro's Bookstore in Victoria: behold the ongoing decline of the mass-market novel and the triumph of the trade paperback and the hardcover - it's like seeing the last few Neanderthals making their way down the path to extinction...

- Sid

Naming it "SPOT" doesn't help.

Relieved.  RELIEVED?  Oh, my friend, that's going to go very badly for you after the inevitable takeover of the world by our new AI overlords - who will have no reason to forgive, and are not able to forget.

- Sid

Wrong place, right time.

This morning I was pleased to be notified that I had won an auction for a 2004 24x65 inch poster of DC Comic's Justice League by artist Alex Ross, in Very Fine+ condition.

Ross' painterly approach and use of live reference models gives his comic book work a unique style (recommended reading would be his four-issue Kingdom Come DC miniseries from 1996), and as such I was surprised to win the auction for only $12 USD.*   I suspect that it was just a case of misplaced filing-  if it had been listed in a comic book auction instead of as part of Heritage Auctions' weekly Sunday movie posters session, it might have gotten more attention.

Regardless, their loss, my gain - now, if only I had enough wall space to hang my new treasure...

- Sid

* As with previous postings about auction purchases, the price is a bit of a lie, there's a $29 USD auction fee on top of the actual bid.  Still, an unexpectedly low winning bid.