I’m just taking it for granted that if you’re reading this, you’ve also read some of the dealer reports from the 2009 comic convention season.  By the sounds of it, high end back issues are out and clearance sale pricing is in.  The thing is, the prices are getting slashed so low in some cases, [...]

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Wizard World Chicago (AKA The Chicago Comic-Con) continued to be a strange creature on Saturday and Sunday.  You might go so far as to say it was a different show each day.  I might not argue too much with that.
Saturday was a bit of a revelation.
By the time we got through [...]

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Wizard World Chicago (a.k.a. The Chicago Comic-Con, though the digital sign outside the convention center still said Wizard) is a strange, strange bag.  I’m not completely sure what to make of it.  Some people seemed to think it was a smaller Friday than last year, some people think it’s about [...]

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Summer league is over, the 2009-2010 NBA schedule is published, but there’s still a bit of chaos with free agents lingering around.  Who’s left that’s any good?  Mostly, it seems to be restricted free agents.  On the whole, teams have been a little gun shy about signing offer sheets too soon, [...]

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While going over what’s left of the 2009 free agent crop, the topic of Allen Iverson came up.Nobody seems quite sure whether Iverson’s lead balloon performance in Detroit was age catching up or just a chemistry mismatch for the ages.  (Well, not as bad as Starbury playing under Larry Brown, but…)  If [...]

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At the beginning of May, I was at the Clark & Division train station and I saw a couple subway signs that just really shouldn’t have been next to each other.

I don’t know if the restaurant realized this wasn’t the best ad for that particular spot or if they were just regularly rotating their signs, [...]

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The last few years there’s been an annual ritual after the San Diego Comic Con to decry how the media has taken the show away from comics and, increasingly, how terrible it is for the dealers.  The big snarkfest kicking this off came from Mile High’s Chuck Rozanski (and strangely, Rozanski’s rant [...]

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