February 22nd, 2011
Dynamic Forces is one of my secret vices—not because I believe the collectibles they’re hawking are on the fast-track to high-value, but because some of the stuff they sell is really pretty cool. For example, last week they were offering 18 copies of Uncanny X-Force #1. Nothing special there, except that they were “blank” variant covers. And nothing special about that, either, except that Joe Rubinstein did an original X-Men character sketch on each of them.
Rubinstein is a stud Marvel guy. Among other work, he inked Frank Miller’s pencils for the Wolverine limited series, which is one of my favorite books from the ’80s. Having an original drawing from him on the cover of an X book? Awesome.
The only catch was, when you ordered one of these books, you had no idea what sketch you were going to get. Dynamic Forces just shipped the 18 of them out randomly. I was kind of hoping for a Nightcrawler or Colossus, but figured that with my luck I’d get Toad. Instead, this is what arrived in the mail over the weekend:
Nerdtastic.
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I can’t resist — what does that set you back? More than $200?
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Cool drawing…but since I am not a comic book fan, who is it?
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Wolverine.
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Come on, even I knew that. Wolverine is going to look beautiful over our bed, no?
Galley Wife February 23, 2011 at 10:10 am
Our walls are still pretty bare, 18 months after moving. Maybe this is where we start. What do you think — dining room? : )