taking a level in nerd
A few weeks ago, I was surprised to find a moderate performance/bonus award in my pay. In addition to paying a couple of the few remaining bills I have, and taking care of a few necessities, i bought myself a present:
Yep, that’s the original art for page 22 of Marvel’s She Hulk #16, signed by penciller Rick Burchett, posed nicely next to the page in the published book.
This is my first piece of original art, the collecting of which has been called (in this NYT piece) “something nerdier than collecting comics” (by somebody who has a serious collection). The comic itself is not a particularly significant or valuable one, though it’s from a book written by Dan Slott, one of my favorite comics writers working today. And yeah, I’m one of the few real, honest-to-goodness She-Hulk fans out there, sue me. I’ll just hire her to file a counter-suit – she’s a lawyer as well as a superhero.
It did, however, earn some minor attention on the internets when it was published because it contained an interesting conversation/joke between Wolverine and the title character, the final panels of which fall on “my” page:
In any case, I think it’s a neat acquisition – I own a one-of-a-kind piece of comic book history, and I got it for a very good price.
Now I need to work on getting the damned thing framed.
