 coming back live again. Test 1, 2, 3. I'm just gonna pop out the chat here. Pop out the chats. A little time to roll back in. Let's check it out. Hopefully the sound is okay now. Just in case we just end up loading this beginning of the stream or to be chewed on YouTube, we probably will. We're doing a little comic book live stream and we had some sound technical difficulties. So we've already chatted up a little bit on Twitch, but what we ended up doing was restarting the stream just because we're having some sound issues. So hopefully sound is sort of itself out. We're just gonna wait until people come back onto the stream. Sound is floating. Sound is floating. Sound is floating. Let's check it out. So sound is all wacko, eh? That is unfortunate. Still bad. Damn. Does it happen when he comes near the mic? No, it's still quiet. Must be the mic. I hope not. Oh, you know what, gang? Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. I had filters set up from before. I'm gonna kill some filters. Remove. This is me playing around with the previous gain. Okay, how's that? Yeah, it's better now. It was just quiet. It's perfect now. It seems to be auto adjusting. It must be setting on the mic. So is this, how's the sound right now, gang? Is it coming out okay? Yeah, it's better. There you go. Okay, awesome, awesome. Okay, Chicho, don't mess around with filters on sound. And if you do, delete them. Right? I hope that's okay. Now it's pretty good. Okay, okay, sweet. Right? This is what happens when I start trying to tweak a lot of things going on, right? Now it sounds pretty good. Okay, awesome. I think it was quieter for a while. Yeah, it's one of the filters right now. Just in case you guys aren't the sound stuff. I forget what I just took out. I think I took out noise suppression. But right now I got a gain plus gain of 10 on here. And I'm running a EQ stand-alone filter that I adjusted manually, trying to get it sounding better. So I think this is sounding better than before. I had to take out the noise suppression. Good job, everyone. We survived the sound crisis. It sounds slightly distorted. It does sound slightly distorted. Don't be a tweaker, Chicho. I can't help it. As soon as I figured out, alright, I was told or, you know, someone helped me find the tweaking aspect. I was like, oh, new options. Let's play around. So is the sound okay now? I could take out the EQ filter as well. Yeah, it does. Should we take out the EQ filter? I don't know about that. Should we do it? Should we leave it at all? Can you just revert to default? I think so. The sound is still okay. I'm killing them. I'm killing them. Defaults. Okay, hold on. I'm gonna kill this. Remove. And I'm taking out the gain as well. Should we take out the gain? Let's not take out the gain. Because I think I might need the gain in there. How's this sound? The problem is when I hook up the... I actually did some recordings and listened to them on headphones and stuff like this. But that setup was different than this setup. So I got a feeling that if I'm gonna start tweaking it, I have to tweak it. Distortion gone, I think. I have to tweak it for every setup. Lesson learned. Lesson learned. Better. The volume is now okay. Distortion was the latest issue. Now it seems good. Distortion is gonna gone, I think. Try saying boops and beeps for sound testing. Boops and beeps. Keep the gain. Sound great now. You sound way better on speakers now. Okay, sweet. So we keep it this way. Cool, cool, cool. Thanks, gang. Appreciate it. Yeah, it's good. Okay, awesome. I've upgraded the system. I've reached a level where I'm trying to squeeze what's it called? Blood out of stone or water out of stone, right? I've maxed out my stuff. Now I'm trying to squeeze as much as I can. Once I reach this level in general in my life, what I've learned is, need an upgrade to the system. So I'll work on it, okay? I'll work on it, gang. The hills come alive with the sound of jungle bells. How are you doing? So, gang, let's do the shoot and I'm gonna show you some of the stuff. And I'll come back to the chat after we've done the shoot, okay? Let me close this guy off and now comics and now comics. Stop messing around with the sound. So, let me turn these guys on. Okay, let me turn this on. Turn this on. Turn this on. Test, test, one, two, three. Test, test, one, two, three. Test, test. Scroll up to the last comment if you wouldn't mind. Scroll. Chico, have you looked at equipment upgrades? Would be happy to donate some funds for you. Oh, thanks, Nicholas. You know what? I looked a little bit but I haven't gone too hardcore into it. I have to talk to a couple of friends that are into, they know their sound stuff and I need to sort of go on our Discord page and just tell people, I gotta, I want to kick up my funds a little bit so I can contribute some as well. Like, I don't want, well, not that I don't want it to be great. Get all the funds raised but I do want to be able to buy the stuff if not enough funds come in. So, I want to reach to at least that level and then I can do the upgrade because I don't want to do an upgrade. Just get a new mic. I need a new, I need a serious system and I've needed that since the hard drive crashed, right? We're functioning on one main hard drive for editing now and that gets me a little antsy. I need some backups usually. So, thank you for the offer, Nicholas. Thank you for the offer. I'll work on it. Okay. For now, take care of your lady. Engagement rings aren't cheap, brother. Okay. Make sure you're comfortable. Okay. I'll, we're still producing. We're still creating. I'm still loving what I'm doing and we'll, we'll upgrade as soon as we can. Okay. Thank you for the offer again. Okay. Aside from that, let's do a little clap. Let's click ourselves in. Okay. Test, test. Better pay now and I will do bro. Just love. Awesome. Thanks, Nicholas. Very much appreciated. Hi, everyone. This is G-Cho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book related video. And just to let you know, we're also live streaming this on Twitch as well. And once I tell you what we're live streaming, you have an appreciation for what's going on right now. But basically, the short version of it is someone that's been supporting our work here that ended up buying some of the comic books that we had listed on eBay, ended up getting the comic books. I packaged them up, ended up getting the comic books. And they mentioned that they were sending the comics to be great. And I was really curious to see what the grays were that they were going to come back as. And the person that bought it, Mark, thank you. The person that bought it mentioned that as soon as they came back, they were going to send one of the comics back to me as a gift. And we're going to take a look at that. I mentioned when the live stream started that I had my fingers crossed it came back as a great, we were, that I graded it at on the eBay auction. Either way, amazing, literally amazing. No pun intended. So we're going to take a look at that. And what I'm going to do also is I'm going to show you a couple of comic books that I bought in the last couple of months. Okay, as you know, I'm sort of flying on low budget. So I've been sort of scavenging, right? There's auctions coming up for local sellers. So I've been trying to bid on stuff and whatnot. I've lost out most of almost all of the business that I put in, but I was able to get my hands on a couple of fantastic buys and very happy. Actually, more than a couple of the other ones sort of were things that I wanted. They were really on the low end. They were on the cheap cheap. And they're just filling in collections. And I'm very happy to have one at some point. I'll show them to you. But I thought I would show you these ones which were leaps and bounds way more expensive than any of the other penny comics that we ended up buying, right? But I'm going to show you these other two as well. Very happy to have these in my collection. Okay, one of them is CGC. So we've added another CGC comic to our comic book collection as well as the gift that has found its way to us. And there's three books that I want to review for you. Okay, and I thought we start off with the reviews. Because, well, two of these books, actually all three of these books you would have heard me talk about. But one of them I mentioned that I was going to read. Basically, I grabbed it. I bought it. I think it was during the spring it came out. Spring of this year, right? And I mentioned that I was going to have a read through it during the summer. And I did end up having a read through it. Okay, so let's do the reviews first. And then we're going to look at the comic book calls. Okay, the first comic book, right, is the one that I ended up getting in the spring. And I've shown this to you guys. And I showed it a couple of times during the live streams. And this book is Monk by Yusef Dakhudi. Okay, this book right here. Now, I don't, you know, I'd never heard of Yusef Dakhudi, right? I tried looking him up and I did look him up and it looks like he's not a fair bit of work. I believe he's releasing the books in French. I'm not absolutely sure on this, right? I didn't dig too deep into who the creator of this book is. Know this name. I'm gonna keep my eyes out for this, this person as well from now on for anything that they're putting out, right? But the reason I bought this book was because of Monk, Thannonius Monk. And I've mentioned Thannonius Monk before, right? And as soon as I saw this, advertising previews, because I look at the catalog that comes, you know, I get the previews catalog every month, when it comes to the comic book store, he basically supplies free previews to anyone that has a subscription box at his comic book store. So I get that every month and I flip through it. And at the beginning of this year, I believe, 2019, I saw this solicited and I ordered it through the comic book store and it arrived in spring, right? Now, this book hands down is brilliant. Really? Let me show you some of the artwork. Right? And the reason that I picked up this book is because of Thannonius. This is the way you pronounce his name, or spell his name. T-h-e-l-o-n-i-o-u-s. Thannonius, hopefully that'll focus. Thannonius Monk, okay. He was a jazz pianist, composer. From the 19, I shouldn't know because I read this, but the dates, you know, escaped me. But from the 1950s, 60s, and I forget when he passed away, right? I believe it was last decade or so, maybe 90s or 2000s. Like, again, I should know because I read this, but I finished this a few months ago. Okay. And if you want to read an amazing biography on an amazing musician, consider it to be one of the greatest musicians ever, really, in some of people's top five greatest American musicians ever, top 10 greatest musicians ever, greatest composers ever, just an artist really. This is it. You need to read this. Okay. Now, for me, I had heard of Monk through a documentary that Dave Chappelle put out called Block Party, right? And Block Party was a sort of documentary Chappelle put out, where he invited a whole bunch of musicians to come and basically have a block party, right? He sent out some invitations and stuff and brought in Jill Scott and dead press and Kanye West and man, I forget the names, right? I feel the person that we cut the Yosef, he changed his name, basically, they put black on both sides, Talib Kowel and Most Def, right? They were also playing and there was a few other people playing, right? And I knew some of them. And some of those people, I sampled their music after watching that documentary. Okay. Now, during the documentary, if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend watching it, right? It's called Dave Chappelle's Block Party. Now, during the documentary, Dave Chappelle mentions Thonolnius Monk. It's just a really, it's like a 30 second little, or even a 15 second little rant that Chappelle does regarding Monk. And then when I watched that documentary, that sort of stuck with me. And I checked into Monk back then, but because I was sampling some of the other music that other musicians that were playing during the Block Party, I really didn't get a chance to go off on Monk, right? When I ordered this, when the book arrived, right, in spring of this year, what I ended up doing was, I already had Miles Davis on my MP3 player, right? So I started listening to a lot of Miles Davis, I started listening, sort of looping that with Scars on Broadway, the person that came up for System of Down, right? So I was listening to Miles Davis and Scars on Broadway, right? As soon as this book arrived, thanks to recommendations from people on Twitch that know their music, they recommended I had listened to John Coltrane as well. So I downloaded a few, oh, sorry, I sampled a few albums from John Coltrane, right? So I started looping Miles Davis and I started looping John Coltrane, right? In preparation to listening to Thonolnius Monk. And what I ended up doing, I sampled some of the albums from Monk. Let me give you the list of the albums that I listened to, right? Genius of modern jazz volume one, and number two, okay, live at five spot. Mysterio, misterioso, okay, Monk's music plays Duke Ellington, straight no chaser, Columbia collection, complete prestige recording, and underground. Okay, those are the albums of Monk that I ended up looping. So basically the way I prepped myself really, and you have to prep yourself for this. Okay, the way I prepped myself, I looped Miles Davis, Scars on Broadway together. And then I kicked into John Coltrane looping about five of his albums, right? A few times. And then I listened to these albums from Monk. Okay, once I had gone through one iteration of this, because I needed to have an appreciation for what Monk's music was about, right? Just just a 15 second little rant that Chappelle had of Thonolnius Monk. It was praise, like leaps and bounds beyond one hour speeches of people praising other musicians, right? It was amazing. It really stuck with me, right? So I knew it was going to be magnificent. So I loop these albums once or listen to them once. Once I had gone through one iteration, I started reading this, and I listened to the albums multiple times, right? I'm not sure how long it took me to read this. I savored it. There's times where I would just read a few pages, right? Really, just read a few pages, and then I will listen to the music, right? And this is basically a biography. There are other musicians that have appearances in this book, right? Some of the stuff, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, right? They talk a little bit about it. There's a little bit of New York history with Rothschilds being in here. That's how it started, which blew me away, right? And this book is created in a way that reflects Monk's music. Like, I can't explain it beyond that. Because, well, let me try, right? This thing is sort of goes into sort of a dreaming to a certain degree. And that's what I found myself happening or what was happening to me when I was listening to Monk's music. Because when I was listening to Monk's music, some of the stuff is offbeat. Some of the stuff is very mellow. Some of the stuff just goes chaotic. So basically, I would go for two hour walks and listen to the music. I was traveling somewhere for an hour trip or hour and a half trip. I was listening to the music. And what I found myself feeling experiencing was basically the same type of experience you would have if you're in a room with a lot of people where all of a sudden the conversation picks up and the volume in the room becomes gross and gross. And sometimes it just becomes overwhelming. And then, boom, just dies down. And there's whispers in the room and quiet where you can just sort of meditate and lose yourself in your own thoughts. And then slowly the music picks up again. And all of a sudden you find yourself sort of carried away in some kind of experience or conversation where it's picking up and it's lots of excitement. And then all of a sudden, boom, right? That's the feel of Monk's music to me. Okay. And that was exactly the feel I got from this book. I know I'm giving it like I'm really I'm losing some of my words, right? Because reading this and looping Monk for, I don't know, it took me a couple of weeks, right? To I took a little break in the middle. And I looped Monk a few more times these albums. And then I went back to this again, right? Because I really didn't want it to end. And it was finding that I was reading parts of this. And then I would have to go back and listen to the albums again and trying to catch some of the description, some of the some of the feel of what the music represents interpretation really of Monk's music represents. And then try to listen to it, hear it on the albums, right? And I would you know, there's they drop a few names of albums and songs in this, right? So I would go back to my playlist to make sure, you know, I had the music that I was, you know, that was being mentioned here in the albums that I was looping. And some of them I did. Some of them I didn't, right? Because Monk is his, his library is enormous. I don't know who's who's a larger Nina Simone or Monks. My guess is Nina Simone produced 38, I believe 38 unique standalone albums. And there's a whole bunch of compilations of the best of and whatnot. I haven't looked into how many albums Monk released his discography. But what I had, what, what, what I've been looping, what I mentioned, the albums that I listed, that's just a fraction of how much work he's produced, right? And a lot of those, well, not a lot of it, but a fair bit of the classic stuff that they're supposed to be, they're considered to be classic, are mentioned in this graphic novel. I highly recommend it. Really, I could sit here for an hour talking about this flipping through this. But I don't want to give too much spoilers if I've given too much already, hopefully I haven't. Okay, highly recommend reading this if you like amazing biographies, comic book, graphic novel biographies. And if you like, if you're a music aficionado, if you want to listen to someone which is unique, unique, unique, it will blow you away if for sure read the graphic novel at the same time, because you'll have an appreciation for what's going on with the music, right? Because that first first few loops that I did, I really didn't appreciate what was happening until I hit certain parts of the graphic novel that was talking about some of the tracks that I was listening to. And then I would go back and listen to those albums, I would go, Oh, my God, that is brilliant. That is amazing. Right. And then you can sort of try to focus in on the piano, because Monk was the pianist and all of these, I believe, right? You can listen to the piano and try to catch the notes that Monk is playing. Right. And then no matter how hard you try, you find yourself sort of lost in the music and the piano drifts away from you. And the other instruments kick up and then once the sound, right, the rhythm hits a certain place where I haven't figured it out yet, but it's most likely when Monk is sort of slowly coming back into the conversation of the music, you see it pick up again, you go, Oh, wow, wow, wow, boom, drop. Right. Absolutely brilliant. Highly recommend it. Highly recommend it. Okay. The next graphic novel, the next graphic novel is volume number four of Monstress. Now I've been collecting and buying the singles of this and I bought, I hopped on this from the get go when the number one came out like in 2016, I believe. Right. This thing is brilliant. Highly recommend it. If you like epic tales and the artwork is very unique. Right. And this is created by Marjorie Lu and Sanata Takita. Okay, the names are up here. Monstress. So this is volume number four. Don't pick up. Don't start reading this from volume number four. That's like jumping in to Lord of Rings in book number two. You can't do it. You need book number one. You have to go through that. Right. This is on the same level. It is absolutely an epic piece. And in this volume, I'm going to give a little spoiler here. In this volume, all a sudden, we see the players that are about to embark on the journey, just like many great fantasy science fiction tales in literature, where there's character buildup, incredible for issue after issue. And then all of a sudden, you find yourself, you know, sometimes lost in the story. But once you move on a few pages or a couple of issues down, you realize what was happening in previous issues, right? Absolutely brilliant. If you want an epic read, one of the greatest comic books, a comic book stories that have been told, at least in the last couple of decades, right? Fantastic read, highly recommended, highly recommended. Okay, great read. The third review, sorry about the quick reveal on these ones, because I don't want to give away any spoilers for monstrous, right? I really don't. Because it's very important, if you like science fiction and fantasy to have a read through that. Okay, here's another book that I picked up. And I picked up this the first issue of this, when it first came out. And this is black hammer. Now, this thing just came out last week or the week before, so a week before, right? And it's a $1 special reprint of Jeff Lemire. Okay, let me show this to you. Jeff Lemire and Dean Ornstone. Okay, Jeff Lemire and Dean Orn... Ornstone are the creators of this book, right? This universe really, black hammer. And black hammer just had a recent crossover with Justice League from DC Comics. So it's pretty much established that black hammer, this universe is going to be around for a very long time to come. And what's happened is Jeff Lemire and Dean have formed a production company. And I believe there is movies and TV series about to be produced based on this universe, right? So if you want to delve into this universe, go to your comic shop, the odds are they will have copies of this. I grabbed a handful of copies of this, right? Because it's three comic books in one reprinting three number one issues of different stories from the same universe, right? The first one is the first black hammer issue that came out. Now I picked up the first this this issue. And I picked up I think it was at least I got both of these call covers like this one was one of the covers for issue number one. And this one was another cover, I believe there's a third cover, I picked up the first few issues of black hammer. And I had to read through a black hammer where it first came out. It is absolutely brilliant. Fantastic storytelling. And if you watched some of the other comic book videos that we put out, we've talked about Jeff Lemire, Jeff Lemire's work, specifically related to Valiant Comics, he stole some classic epic stories for Valiant Comics. And he's put out a lot of independent works as well, right? This one, I just did a little research on them. He considers this to be one of the most important things that he's released, right? He said this is this is dear to his heart. So there's a lot of a lot of depth to this series, black hammer. And what this thing is is the first issue of black hammer that came out. Okay. And then he put out another story arc related to what's it called Sherlock Frankenstein, right? And this was cover number one of the covers for right here. And this is a cover by Mike, mignola, the person who does hell, the names, right? What you would call it? Hellboy, right? And he did the cover for this one. And this story was pretty good as well. It wasn't bad. Okay, the art style was a little different. Or it could have been the same. Is this you know what I didn't really look into who did the artwork for this? But I'm not sure how who did the artwork for this. It felt a little different. The inking might have been different. So the second story is not bad. It's related to the original black hammer story and original black hammer story. I forget how many issues are ran for. Okay, I believe it was a maxi series. And then the Sherlock Frankenstein was a mini series, I believe. And then there's another number one that came out and he called it was this one called it was called the quantum age. Okay, and this is the cover of the first cover a, I believe, and this was covered B. Okay, I didn't pick up this one. I picked up Sherlock, the first issue of the Sherlock Frankenstein one. But I didn't continue buying any of the other ones because I didn't read it. And I didn't pick up this one. But this one wasn't bad either. But the creme de la creme for this is black hammer. In my opinion, pick this up. It should still be available in your comic book store. Go to your comic book store. There should be plenty of these around. Okay, get them to order this. For $1, you get three comic books. And the first appearance of the characters in this universe, Jeff Lemire's story. It's a great introduction. And this is the back cover for great introduction to this universe. And from one understand TV series and possibly movie in the works for this. Okay. That's the comic book reviews I wanted to do. I went off on Monk a little bit hardcore because really, I'm still looping Thinolius Monk. I'm still looping the music. So it's when I want to sort of drift away and just lose myself in my own thoughts and experience something magnificent, right? I'm listening to Thinolius Monk. And I'm not, I mean, I'm going to be looping these albums, how many albums one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 albums. I'm going to be looping these 10 albums for a while before I load on anymore. Right? Because I only have a little four gig MP3 player. So I have a few masters on that thing. And I cycle through things. Okay. Now, aside from the comic book reviews, let me show you comic book calls and the little gift that we ended up getting. Here's one book that I bought and I didn't have this. And it's a golden age comic book. And it's three dimension adventures of Superman and 3d. Okay. Awesome. And this, you know, they released this thing in 1953. It came with 3d glasses. And if you open this up, it's got the 3d here. Let me crack this open so you see it. It's graded at two, right? So it's graded at good. So it's low end, right? So two out of 10, basically. But I ended up getting an amazing price. ended up picking it up for the tape here, ended up picking up picking up for 1950 Canadian, which is basically $15, $1450 US, which is a fantastic price, fantastic price. So you can see it's, you know, it's worn, it's still attached, like the cover is attached. And this is what it looks like. Take a look. I don't actually know who the artist for this is. Does it even say who the artist for this is? I try to find it initially just quickly, but the man who stole the sun, Superman. Take a look at this. Awesome. So the whole comic is like this. I haven't put on 3d glasses, try to track one down to see what it looks like in 3d. I've actually had other 3d comics as well. I got one, I got the, I believe there's only one EC comic book from 1952 that they released in 3d. And I ended up getting that as a steal as well a while ago. And this was a great price. Okay, the EC comic one, I think we got for less than $10, maybe maybe for $12 or something. So that was a great buy. I'm glad to have that in my collection as well. But this one fantastic golden age 3d Superman comic. When I picked it up, the comic shop owner was like, damn, you got that at a great price, great price. Very happy with that. Who doesn't love a 3d Superman comic, right? What was the price on this when it came out 25 cents in 1953? Right? That's seriously on the expensive side from that period. Let me show you this. I tried to get my hands on this. And I can't believe I got it for this price. Right? Again, the comic shop owner was, damn, you got that at a great price. It's a CGC graded, let me take it out of the plastic, right? CGC graded comic from 1952. And it's crime detective comic volume three, number three. Serious reflection here, right? You can see the camera, what I'm looking at, right? And it's a female smoke in a cigarette. This is so like, and it's a brand new case. That's why it's shining so much. He mentioned that this was a brand new case. So here, let me show it to you like this. Right? Fantastic. Fantastic. Maybe this is less reflection. Right? Beautiful artwork. The crime comics from that period have someone was amazing artwork. And there's Bill Ely art in this. It's the last story. I looked this up. It's the last story, right? And the reason that this is graded at two, I believe is because the spine, the cover was detached. And I didn't notice, but it looks like when the cover is detached, it automatically drops down to a two. Someone, you know, if that's false, if I'm on the false or I understood it incorrectly, please let me know. But as far as display wise goes, this thing looks beautiful, right? There's no extra notes on it here. But it only mentions here at the bottom of the CGC thing that the cover is detached. So I'm assuming if the cover is detached, it automatically kicks it down to a two. I'll have to look this up. Okay. I'm not 100% sure how the grading works. I just grade things according to what I think they are. And personally, just because the cover was detached, I wouldn't grade a comic because of two, not if the cover is this intact, right? Oh yeah, how much did I get this for? Check this out. I ended up getting this for $26 Canadian, which is basically $20 US, right? That's less than what it cost to send this comic to be graded, right? When I picked it up, the guy said he was expecting to get a lot more from this. And I think what happened was some of the other books that he had went for insane amounts. So people were tapped out. They couldn't afford to bid on some of the other books. So luckily Chicho ended up getting this guy for $20, basically. The third one, right? Now, this book is the book that was with me a few months ago. It's a book that one of the people on Twitch popped in and you know we're talking about comic books and stuff like this and they knew. I'm not showing you the front of it just because the names and the addresses and stuff are on there, right? So we're going to crack this open. And this thing is basically a comic book that I put up part of a collection and it's if you're following the other videos, you would have seen it being loaded on, we graded it and put it on to eBay. It's Amazing Spider-Man 361, right? And I put this up with the rest of the Amazing Spider-Man, the appearances of the first appearances of Cletus, the cameo appearances of Carnage and Cletus, and the first two full appearances of Carnage. And this is the most expensive one. It's first full appearance of Carnage was Amazing Spider-Man 361. And this thing, Mark is the person that ended up buying it. Thank you, Mark. I've mentioned during the live stream that I appreciate it very much, right? And I, he mentioned that it was going to send it back to him. It was like, no, man, you can't do that. It was because this was, you know, more expensive than I believe most of the other ones put together, right? So it was the, it was a cream, right? So what he ended up doing was when he got the books, he sent the scent to CGC, got it graded, and then send it back up to me as a gift, right? So huge, huge. And if you know the history of Amazing Spider-Man, this is a very, very important book, right? Very important book. And what I ended up grading this as was 9.4, right? Nearmint. Seriously, I'm like nervous on this. I think that's why I've been sort of forgetting names and sort of losing my train of thought because this thing's been sitting on my couch for the last day for us to set up the live stream for me to crack this open, right? So it's packaged like lots of bubbles and wrapping stuff. So this thing is like, look at this. Oh my god, serious bubbles. Look at this. Awesome. So we got to crack this open. Hold on. Let me put this guy here. I'll put this here. Crazy. Let's see what this is. And I don't have this graded. For sure I don't have this graded. All right. I only have, I think with this one, we have a total of, I don't know, probably 10 or 12 CGC graded books or something. And this thing, when I graded it, I mentioned that on the spine, on the lower staple, I should, dangerous. Lower staple was a little bit of crease on the lower staple. So I'm not, my estimate of this thing would be 9.4 because the rest of the book was absolutely beautiful, right? And that was sort of a stress mark or whatever it is on the staple. So I'm not sure how much that kicks down the grade, but let's see what CGC considers that to be. Let's check this out. I don't know yet. Oh my god. No way. Awesome. By the way, Mark is watching on the live stream, right? Wow. So I guess we're lowballing it on the eBay auctions, right? This sucker came back as 9.6. That is sweet. Crazy, crazy. Awesome, awesome. Mark. Fantastic. And this thing, by the way, this thing had, because of the printing, right, the way they print comic books, in the bottom of it, there's the cut things that they do with Marvel. Marvel had a lot of these because this stuff was sort of on newsprint. When they did the cut for the comic books, there's usually a couple of slits. Not usually, but a lot of the comic books have a couple of slits at the bottom where the cutting happens. So they look like holes and they are holes, but that doesn't knock it down on the grading. So I knew about that. So I didn't knock off anything on it. I just assumed just because of the spine thing on here. I was a 9.4. But he came back as a 9.6. Oh, crazy, crazy, dude. Awesome, awesome. So some of the things we must have graded at 9.6, they would have come back as 9.8 and kick it up, kick it up, right? So people that did the buys on the eBay, the auctions, I'm glad they're getting great comics. We have one person commenting, laughing at how low I was grading some of the comics. He was very happy, the person buying. There's a few people that have been buying the comics. They've been very happy with the comics, right? So first, full appearance of carnage, 9.6 slab. And so this thing basically, Mark ended up buying for it was 167.50 Canadian, which came out to, you know, that comes out to $126 US or so, right? So $126 US, right? I don't know how much it costs to send in and for grading. I know a cost from Canada costs too much. It costs like 40 bucks or something or more, right? So 40 bucks Canadian, so it would be 30 bucks US, right? So this thing total costs, not including shipping that Mark sent, Mark seriously, dude, thank you for the love, man. Thank you for the love, right? I'm just doing a price thing just because we're doing a lot of price things on comic books, right? So include the shipping and all this jazz. So 130, not a 30, 160, 170, let's say, 180, let's say, right? 9.6 cgc for 361, I think it's selling for 200 plus, right? So with all this shipping, sending in yourself to be graded, doing a Hail Mary buy on eBay, you find the right buyer, you get great deals, right? Fantastic! And if the right, if the seller is super lucky, has amazing people that are sending them amazing love, they get a grade and send them back to them. So this is great! What else did they say here? Amazing Spider-Man, 361, Marvel Comics, January, February, March, April 1992, 492. David Michelini's story, Mark Bagley and Randy Ember, Lean, Cover and Art, first full appearance of Carnage, Cletus Cassidy, fantastic, like this thing, awesome! This thing's making me crazy happy, like really, just because it's this, you know what it is too? I've never sent a book in to be graded, right? The feeling I'm getting right now, this was in my hands, right? I looked at it, we flipped it just to make sure, right? We graded it, we sold it, right? Went to the United States, marked kind enough, send it in to be graded, comes back, comes back here, right? This is a book that was in my collection that went on a serious track and found its way back. Fantastic, wow, wow, wow, super, super cool, super cool. This thing just became one of my favorite comics in my collection, really, like, cherish, right? Cherish, cherish, cherish, very cool, very mark. Thank you brother, thank you, awesome. It was about time we did more comic book videos. We're going to do more, okay, we're going to get into readings, we're going to start doing a little bit more comic book calls. The odds are I probably won't do any more, we might do more videos where I load comic books on eBay, we'll see how it goes on way behind. I've made some promises to people to load stuff a few weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago and I'm way behind. I'm going to try to get some done this week, but slowly we're going to start rolling back into comic book mode. Mathematics mode will always be there, okay. Julian Assange will be there, but comic books you're going to slowly start seeing more presence, more videos being put out. We took long enough break from comic books, we've got to do some readings, we're going to talk about some history and whatever else comic book involves, which is many, many, many, many amazing things gang, okay. Aside from that, thank you for being here, thank you for watching. Pick up Monk, read it. Pick up Monstrous, read it. Pick up Blackhammer, read it and enjoy your comics. Bye for now. Crazy Mark, what the hell? Dude, you just sent me a 9.6, amazing Spider-Man 361. What? What? Dude. Okay, let me go back to the chat, man. Let me go back to the chat. Let me go. I'm so glad it came back as a 9.6. I was, I knew it was high grade, but then it's been sitting on the couch for like all day yesterday. I'm like, I'm all nervous now. I'm almost like opening up the test, getting a mark from a test or something in school. Let me un-detangle myself, gang. I'm so glad it came back as a 9.6. I was so nervous, brother, so nervous. Cool. Okay, let me detangle this. Let me detangle this. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Oh, I gotta move that. Okay, hold on. Okay gang, I'm not gonna put the mic on mute, just in case we lose the sound again or messes up. I don't think it will, but just in case, I'm gonna be very gentle moving it, so hopefully it's not gonna be, I'm not gonna bang it up. Okay, hopefully I won't bang it up. Let me close this guy too. Let me move these guys. I gotta read the chat. I gotta read the chat. Okay, hold on. Let me do it. Switch. Oh, I taped this down. Okay, hold on. Lots of love. Lots of love, Mark. Thank you. H-E-Chiles going. Luca Baby doing good. That smiling big laugh. I'm glad you like it, man. Oh, dude, like it. Dude, the love is insane. It's not, I love it, but it's more than just the comic, right? It's the love. It's, yeah, you know what it is. You know what it is. You all know what it is, right? Dude, fantastic. Thank you very much, man. Honored. Honored. Really. H-E-Chiles reading was the first vid I came across when I discovered, oh, is it work? Awesome. What? What? That's why, and I can't remember. I don't know if this is, I don't think this is the one we read. I think the one before this that we sold on eBay was the one we read because I think I graded that one as a 9.2, right? I got it, the comic books. Thanks to your vid. Ah, nice Luca. Nice Luca. Cool. Let me catch up to some of the chat. I got a, oh wow, there's a lot of chat going on. Crap, Sinai. How are you doing? Good evening, folks. Since this is vaguely related to comic books, have you switched? Watched them. I did watch the Mandalorian. I've watched the first two episodes. Europeans don't have Disney yet. The Pirate Bay is international. VPN is your friend. I like the Mandalorian. It still has the Disney feel to it, right? Like, I do have criticism of it, right? Sort of critique of it, personally. Like, I'll give you one spoiler when the guy, no, I won't give you any spoilers. You know, there's a Disney feel to it, right? Is it watchable for someone who's not that familiar with the Star Wars lore? Yeah, they do have Easter eggs in there, but it's basically as someone, I was following someone that has, was following comic books and they mentioned basically the Mandalorian is lone wolf and cub, the equivalent of lone wolf and cub from the manga, right? And it has that feel to it, right? Absolutely. I'm very well versed in Star Wars and Mandalorian lore myself, but honestly, yes. It's had friends who never watched any of the movies, watch it and they love it, yeah. Get ready for a couple of needing five different paid subscribers to get decent streaming content. I'm going back to torrenting. I don't think I ever left. I'm at three right now. Netflix, Disney Plus and Crunchyroll don't need anything else. It is getting a bit crowded with those streaming services. That's for sure. Yeah, the streaming wars, right? NBC making another one soon. Hello, brain fog. How are you doing? Love the jazz. Love the miles. Love the Coltrane. So I got to check. Dude, Nikki. Check out Coltrane. Check out Monk. Check out Monk. Check out Monk. Listen to it. Buy this graphic novel. Read it. Loop it. It'll blow you away. There are Bob Ross stickers. Yeah, there are. I've seen him a few times. That's a global email. You can do it too. Nice. Click on the happy face. Scroll down. Cool story, Bob. Oh, what is that? Pixelbub. Kill it before it lays. Evil on toast. How are you doing? Good to see you. Do you stream? Black Hammer. I'll add it to the list. Yeah, Evil on toast. Read Black Hammer. The first series that came out. I read the first two. Unfortunately, I didn't continue reading. I was reading other things, but it's on my must-to-read list. How old is that again? Black Hammer? 2016, I believe, don't it? If that's the one you were talking about. 4x4 grid game. Hey, hey, join the conversation. I thought, Mark, you the man. Haven't seen she's showed this happy. Also, all truth. How are you doing? Seriously, this thing. Man, really. Wow, wow, wow. Yeah, man. This stream was worth it. 100% for that unboxing reaction alone. Nice. The love reaction. That's awesome. Nice. Okay, okay. I'm going to catch up with the stuff in the bottom. How do you feel about the new generation experiencing comic book characters through movies? I'm okay with it. What I hope happens is the ones that really love it, they go to the source material. You need to go to the source material. And I think that's what's going to happen, because people are going to fall in love with these movies. And at some point in the movie, the TV shows, they're going to die down, the quality might drop, or whatnot. But if you fall in love with the character, you appreciate what that character is capable of. If you read some of the Golden Age superhero comic books, they're not very good. The stories are very, a lot of them. The stories are very juvenile, very childish, very cliche. They're not like EC Comics, the horror stories or the more adult oriented stories. However, the characters were brilliant. So what the characters do in regards to comic books, they feed your imagination. So once you read about carnage, you don't necessarily have to just let yourself, your imagination, to stay within the bounds of what's written in the comics. You can start thinking about what could that character be capable of on a more intense level. And that's what we're seeing happen with DC Comics when they're releasing Black Label, right? They're creating more adult, more heavy oriented comic books with the same characters. Marvel did it with the Max series. The Max stuff was some of the best stuff that Marvel has put out, especially Punisher one, right? So what's, I hope anyway, it's a lot of people that are watching a lot of these TV shows and movies and stuff like this, they start going back to the source material and start reading some of these things. Amazing, amazing, amazing. Is Pirate based all around? Nicholas? Yes. And I can't believe, well I can believe it because the tech community, if they really want to keep something up, they can do it, right? And a lot of things that you cannot even find on YouTube, meaning information, you can't find it on Google, you can't find it anywhere, you can find it on the Pirate Bay. That's my take, right? First time here, dig your channel. Awesome brain fog. I'm glad you like. There are proxies. There are proxies, yeah. Like Mininova, the first time I loaded my videos, shared my math videos on YouTube, oh no, as a torrent, math series, one series, two series, three in series, three A3B and three A4, I was loading them on Mininova, I believe, right? And then Mininova got taken out and kick-ass torrents got taken out and a lot of huge torrent sites got taken out. Pirate Bay is still kicking out, right? Maybe a dumb question, but I am wondering about grading comics with a third party. How about Europe? How are my options if I want to grade something here? Yeah, I miss kick-ass torrents as well. At Niki, as far as I know, the grading companies, there's three of them and all three of them are based in the US. I've been trying to find out if there's any place in Canada we could send one. I mean, Canada, there should be one, but there isn't, right? We have to go to our local comic book and our local comic book store, and the way it's set up is if you send it yourself, man, you're going to have to deal with customs, customs coming back. It would be insane, right? So local comic book store takes comic books from people that want to send comic books in, and they send them in as a lot, and then they get it back as a lot. It takes a few months and it costs you whatever it costs you. So maybe find a reputable comic book store in Europe and ask them to see if they send comics to be graded. That might be a way to go. I don't know if there's anything in Europe, and one thing that happens as well, there's basically I would send only to two grading companies. I wouldn't send them to PGX. I would send them to CGC or CBGB, CBBB. There's another one. I can't do the acronym, right? There's two main ones, reputable ones. And from what I understand, they do go to comic book stores, CBCS, thanks Mark, CBCS, right? And I would send it personally to those two, CGC and CBCS are the two I would send it to. If you don't trust anyone else to handle your comics to send them in for you, if you can't send them in yourself, it's too much paperwork, these two companies travel to comic shows, large comic shows, and they do have booths set up where you can take your comics and they'll grade them there for you. I don't think they slap them there for you, so they take them back with them and then they slap it, but they grade it. I've never done it, so I'm assuming they might grade it there, or they just might take your comics and put it in a box and say, this is your comics, and they take it all back to the United States, grade them, and then they ship it back to you. So you would still have to deal with customs coming into to you from wherever you are. Complicated, I know, I know. I got my fingers crossed at some point there'll be branches, satellite branches set up in Canada and hopefully in Europe somewhere as well, right? That's my take, and I think whichever company does it first, they're the winners in this game. Not the winners, but they're going to see a lot more customers. So if they haven't, if CGC or CBCS are watching this, or they can get the word to them, someone in the race of getting comic books graded, man, you guys should be setting up satellite offices in different countries, right? And just set something up where you can grade the comics in those countries and send them to collectors. Really, we need it. Yeah, okay, I'll check with the store if I find one. And yes, the customs suck. I just bought a Twiddle CD album from the US. Price of album was $12, shipping was $15, I had to pay an additional $16 when it got to Sweden. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah. I've been nailed at the border to buy comics coming in from the US. And then everyone's going through eBay's shipping program now too much for shipping. So I'm strictly mainly just buying from Canadian buyers. And once I start buying again, I'm only really going to focus on Canadian buyers right now. And I do surf the American buyers, I still do and I send them messages. Even if they have the eBay shipping program out there, I send them a message to say, listen, can't you just send these comic books up without going through eBay shipping program? Because I've gone through eBay shipping program and comic books have come to me damaged and they double charge and it's too much, right? All this automation is making it harder for collectors to buy comic books, really. Wow. Right? I'm looking, I'm looking at the amazing spot of my 360s. I can't believe it. That's crazy. Mark, brother, thank you very much, man. Thank you very much. I appreciate it greatly. What a great, what a great, I'm super happy. Insane, right? It's one thing with comic book collecting is every now and then comic books enter your collection, no matter how many you have. And it doesn't make a difference on the price, really. It doesn't make a difference on the price. There's comic books that enter your collection that they become some of your favorite comic books in your collection, right? And it has to do how they came to you, how you found them, the state of mind you were when you bought them or when you read them, right? So this just became one of them. So it's fantastic, fantastic. Should we call the stream gang? Let's call the stream. That was crazy fun. That was crazy fun. Yeah, I mainly buy from eBay in Europe, but this album was crazy overpriced on eBay, Amazon. So believe it or not, the total cost for getting the album was still the lowest I could find. I'm happy. It's a lovely album. Check out Tweedle for some chill, jam band music. I've never heard of Tweedle. And Nikki, I think you're on Discord. If you are, link up one of their tracks in our music folder. That way, sometimes personally for me, sometimes I go back to the music folder or different folders that we have, and I scroll to see some of the stuff because I can't check everything at the same time, right? Check out the stuff that's there, right? Good night, Nicholas. And by the way, Nicholas, thank you for the offer. Thank you for the offer. I'm getting closer to that state, okay? Later, everyone. Later. Sure. I'll link something there, bro. Great stream. Thanks a lot. My pleasure. Mark, thank you again. Thank you, everyone, for being here. Thank you for the conversations. Mods, Dante, Spot of Tea. Who's the other person? Who's the other one? Nicholas. Thank you for taking care of business. Thank you for taking care of business. Okay. Aside from that, if you can make it tomorrow, I know a lot of you guys don't like the politics stream, but I'm sorry. It has to be done, right? It really has to be done. There's a lot of bad things happening, and I have to be able to put my head down at night and go to sleep. Politics tomorrow at 2 p.m. Julian Assange on Tuesday at 9 a.m., I believe. And mathematics, I believe at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, okay? Aside from that, comic books are back, baby. Nice. I'll see you guys in the next stream, everyone. I hope you guys have a fantastic, fantastic Saturday. Okay. Bye for now.