Michael Turner Variant Ratio for UXM #500?

Schmiggy_JK23 (7/28/2008)

ckillian (7/26/2008)

I gotta say that this sucks. Marvel pulls this kind of crap and it is us the collectors and the LCS's that have to pay for it. It is just plain ridiculas. I've made no effort to hide my dislike for marvel as of late and I gotta tell you that this just adds to it.

SO STAND UP MY COMIC COLLECTION BRETHEREN AND STOP BUYING MARVEL AND MAKE THEM TAKE US SERIOUSLY. WE PUT THEM WHERE THEY ARE TODAY AND WE CAN BRING THEM BACK DOWN! Hmmmmmm

Okay I don't get the hate. There are 6 other covers of this book, 5 that should be easy to get a hold of. So what if you can't get the sketch? No one forces these on any one, not the fans, not the LCS's, etc. No one is "paying" anything for it except the fans, and resellers that really want it. I being a completist happen to chase them down quite often. But I also know I don't have to.

No one loses except the completists who can't happen to track them all down. It is profitable for Marvel, and the shops, so of course they are going to do it.

There has actually been quite a bit of hate across the board on these 1:200 covers. Even my local Comic Shop who is not big on variant covers commented that it would have made much more sense for them to do a 1:100 variant instead of 1:200. His comment was that there a tons of shops that buy under 100 issues, but would have been close enough to bump up orders slightly to get a 1:100 variant. But with the market in the state that it is, having a 1:200 variant makes no sense since so few retailers actually have the customer base to justify ordering that many issues.

As for my own disdain for this 1:200 variant... 1) Theres 2 of them. Why the hell did we need 2 1:200 variants for the same issue. Thats just ridiculous. 2) Why was a 1:200 variant necessary in the first place. 1:100 variants are more then ridiculous enough to cause shortages, and yet available enough for the trully hardcore completist to find a copy. I am a hardcore completist, and will eventually have a full collection of every known Uncanny X-men, X-men, and Astonishing X-men book, however for the kind of money that a 1:200 book demands, I can fill in several holes in my back issue collection. Essentially all Marvel has done is limit there own profits by producing an unobtainable book on the market, when a 1:100 variant would have guarenteed resulted in more books ordered per shop equaling more money per store and for Marvel itself.