🚀 The Tech for Comics Ramble: 2023.11.04
You could win a rare CGC 9.8 slabbed variant! Celebrating 100 posts at T4C.
The Tech for Comics Ramble is a weekly digest of news from the intersection of technology and comics.
You could win! Celebrating 100 posts with a giveaway contest.
Substack is telling me that this is the 100th post at Tech for Comics! Thank you for accompanying me on the ride!
To celebrate, I am launching a contest, and if you are reading this, you have already entered! The prize is a CGC 9.8 slabbed Jeffrey Veregge variant cover of The Lump Sum Saga #1 courtesy of my web store (tlsscomics.com).
To be eligible, you need to be a subscriber who has opened at least one e-mail/post from Tech for Comics. That’s it!
I will also be awarding bonus entries to readers for each meaningful reply posted to the contest question I will be adding to posts. Only paid or comp subscribers have the ability to reply with comments. Fortunately, if you’ve shown a pattern of opening your e-mail (3+), it is very likely that you’ve already been “comp-ed.” If not, open those e-mails.
The contest will run until 9:00 a.m. PST, December 15th, 2023. More details closer to that date.
NFTs
nft.dcuniverse.com
Nov. 2 All-American Comics (1939–1948) #16 featuring the origin of Green Lantern. Price: $19.99 (Max purchase: 1 per account) Total Editions: 5,000
Celebrate the Golden Age of DC Comics ← More important drops are coming soon!
Veve.me
Oct. 30 Ghost Rider (1990) #1 Price: $6.99 (Sold out) Total Editions: 6,000
Nov. 3 Wizards of Mickey - The Grand Tournament (2006) Price: $6.99 Total Editions: 6,000
Cryptoys
New Masters of the Universe™ Digital Comic Book Launch
From the Cryptoys newsletter: “We are so excited to share the *official* story of how He-Man, Battle Cat and the MOTU crew landed in the Cryptoyverse. It's a Cryptoys original, created in partnership with Mattel, available exclusively to our community in video and digital reader formats. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!”
I don’t think that I have mentioned Cryptoys to date, as the site tends to release 3D digital “toys” based on IP (e.g. Mickey & Friends, Star Wars, Masters of the Universe) rather than comics. However, the use of a comic to add to the lore of the toys is an interesting development. Product tie-ins for digital collectibles - its a thing.
Disney's Mickey and Friends Cryptoys minting analysis
The numbers here are very impressive!
AI
How to use (and not use) AI: Lessons from Harvard Business School
2 effective ChatGPT workflows compared: Are you Team Centaur or Team Cyborg?
Just Charts and a paper
I know many of you are no longer on Twitter, so I thought I’d post this there. Educator Ethan Mollick posted the link to the study here.
Contest Question: Have you ever anthropomorphized a machine?
I’ll confess to having names for almost every car I’ve ever owned. Ha! Gertrude, Rocket, Tessie… hmmm… I’m not sure how “The Sprite” ended up just “The Sprite.” That car had character. :)
Leave your answer in the comments for an extra entry in the 100th post contest.
Writer Accountability
Other than writing blog posts, this week was relatively writing-free and largely a quest for inbox zero and comfort for my knee. I am nowhere near finished cleaning out my e-clutter, but I am at least having fun catching up on cool information I “starred” for future reading.
Stupid knee. An appointment with the doctor is scheduled for Tuesday.
As such, it should be healed before then. Ha!
What I am reading
I’m almost finishing all of the episodes of Spy x Family on the Shonen Jump app. What a fun read! Well mostly fun… Chapters 62.1-62.3 were a tad painful to read in light of current events.
What I am watching
I'm late to the party, but I’m now two episodes into Alice in Borderland on Netflix. I’ve enjoyed it enough to continue watching, so no spoilers, friends!
🚀 Can’t spell my last name from memory? Seriously, who can?! 😂
Fortunately, you can now reach this substack via two easier-to-remember domain redirects: techforcomics.com and tech4comics.com.
Just for Fun 😂
If you know, you know. Sound on.
Congratulations on 100 posts! I really want to start my Substack, but so afraid I’ll lose steam. Here’s to my getting started and making it to 100 posts myself!
And to answer your question, I owned a small Isuzu pickup years ago that I loved so much, I took advantage of a writer friend who would create ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ type stories on the spot at his convention tables, and had him create a story where I woke up to find I was that truck who happened to be an Autobot. In a way, that was my anthropomorphising my vehicle. :)