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Fred J Chamberlain
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| Posted: 04 November 2026 at 4:45pm | IP Logged | 1
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There are times that I remember how much I appreciate the
self-described "Grumpy Old Guy".
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Mark Haslett
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| Posted: 04 November 2026 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | 2
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JB: ELSEWHEN stands as irrefutable evidence that it’s never been about the money for me. 32+ issues created and posted FREE!
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This is so irrefutable that I was astonished by how long it stayed relatively undiscovered. I remember many issues being posted before asking you if you'd received comments from other pros about the book --and, at the time, you replied "not a single one!"
Cut to: the New York Times!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 05 November 2026 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | 3
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Keep finding posts asking where/when to start reading ELSEWHEN. Okay, in desperation, this:Take your copy of the hardcover and lay it face up on a firm surface. Open the cover. Turn the interior pages until you come to a multi-panel page with art and lettering. Start reading at upper left and continue until you get to the last page of the volume.
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Steve Gumm
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| Posted: 05 November 2026 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | 4
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I saw Elsewhen Volume 2 was announced by Midtown Comics on instagram.. the word is getting out!
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Jason Ladwig
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LOL!! *Spit take*. Good one JB.
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Vinny Valenti
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Yesterday, I alerted my buddy that missed out on the first printing that volume 2 is now up for pre-order. He told me that he already heard about it and ordered it the night before :)
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John Byrne
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Now we find out, I suppose, the degree to which the success of Vol 1 was affected by speculators.
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Vinny Valenti
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Well, speculators are usually only interested in snagging first printings, no? I would think that anyone buying the second through fifth(!) printings are almost definitely actual readers since future value is not a consideration. I'm curious what the print runs of the subsequent printings are compared to the first.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 07 November 2026 at 4:10pm
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John Byrne
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Well, speculators are usually only interested in snagging first printings, no? ••• Having watched the speculeeches falling all over themselves inventing “variations” of McFarlane’s first SPIDER-MAN, I would say no. Tangent: remembering when a rumor went around that the pre-bagged editions of the Unadjectived SPIDER-MAN actually contained unsold copies of CAMP CANDY. Several frantic fans confronted me with this at MidOhioCon that year. I asked them why it mattered, since the bags were never intended to be opened.
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Darren Taylor
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-Several frantic fans confronted me with this at MidOhioCon that year. I asked them why it mattered, since the bags were never intended to be opened.
Ha! Schrödinger's comic. Is it valuable or is it not? Love it.
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Paul Wills
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JB - just looking at ELSEWHEN ch. 25 p2/3 - the 2-page cutaway into Sentinel Mountain, am fascinated by how you manage to make all of that machinery look like it's there for a purpose. in addition, the amount of detail is something to behold. No shortcuts with you when it comes to the tech stuff!
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James Woodcock
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Well, speculators are usually only interested in snagging
first printings, no?
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you would think, but for the past few years I have been
seeing prices for harder to find later prints of comics
commanding higher prices than the first print - because
there are less of them.
I try and try to point out that they are reprints, but to
no avail.
People would rather pay more for a lower print run
reprint than a first print.
So, yeah, there's that.
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