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Heroes Season 2 (Topps)

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July 08, 2008, 12:00 AM
HIM
Heroes Season 2 (Topps)
KILLER chandler sketch Jeff!

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July 08, 2008, 07:33 AM
tevans333
Well done Jeff, I love Chandlers sketches. His stuff makes up most of my collection these days Big Grin
July 08, 2008, 09:03 AM
Ted Dastick Jr.
Well, I bought one box, got nothing. Frown
July 08, 2008, 01:58 PM
Matje
Still waiting for my case Frown
Hope I get one off the "good" cases. I really want an Ali or Dana autocard. Or both Wink
July 08, 2008, 02:36 PM
Triple-Frog
Well I got the first of my two cases yesterday and am pretty pleased Smile .

Things got off to a good start when the postie delivered them and there was no customs duty to pay Dance .

Every one of the eight boxes had a base set and more importantly an autograph Elephant .

also pulled four costumes and one sketch.

Autos James Kyson Lee x 2
Jimmy Jean-Louis
Adrian Pasdar
Alan Blumenfield
David Anders
Dana Davis Luv You
Christine Rose

Costumes Nathan 3 colour
Claire Dark Blue
Hiro Checkered
West Black

Sketch Katie Cook Thumb Up .

Only minor dissapointment was the lack of sketches but overall excellent.Just hope the second case from a different dealer is as good.
July 08, 2008, 02:52 PM
Chris Byrne
woah!
nice cases! any chance of scans Smile
July 08, 2008, 03:26 PM
Gotham_Knight
I bought 4 boxes from my local store cause im greedy and couldnt wait for my pre-ordered case.



Is it just me or are a large majority of the sketch cards in this series not up to the level of quality the season 1 cards were? I mean i know there are some duffers in season 1 too but the season 2 ones ive seen on here and on ebay didnt seem to be anything decent and those are the ones that seem to be floating about more often than not.

I dont mean any offence to any of the sketch artists here, i just havent seen anything thats jumped out at me and made me go omg thats so pretty or omg thats really cool other than some Jeff Chandler and Brian Kong and John Watkins-Chow sketches.

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July 08, 2008, 05:05 PM
HIM
2 more boxes-
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July 08, 2008, 05:20 PM
Scifi_Collector
quote:
Originally posted by Gotham_Knight:

Is it just me or are a large majority of the sketch cards in this series not up to the level of quality the season 1 cards were? I mean i know there are some duffers in season 1 too but the season 2 ones ive seen on here and on ebay didnt seem to be anything decent and those are the ones that seem to be floating about more often than not.

I dont mean any offence to any of the sketch artists here, i just havent seen anything thats jumped out at me and made me go omg thats so pretty or omg thats really cool other than some Jeff Chandler and Brian Kong and John Watkins-Chow sketches.


I think the problem is the release of volume 2 is too close to the release of the first. If it was a year later instead of a few months I think we would feel the sketch cards are great.
July 08, 2008, 05:24 PM
Gotham_Knight
quote:
Originally posted by Scifi_Collector:

I think the problem is the release of volume 2 is too close to the release of the first. If it was a year later instead of a few months I think we would feel the sketch cards are great.


Ah so you think the sketch artists maybe havent had enough time to make the fantastic sketches we saw in the first release, i understand that it was a bit of a short time between releases.
July 08, 2008, 06:49 PM
Triple-Frog
There are still some pretty good ones out there.I picked up a really nioe Cynthia Cummens of Peter off Ebay and got outbid on several others.

It may still be a bit early to tell as a lot of boxes have yet to be opened.
July 09, 2008, 08:18 PM
Incarnadine
Just cracked my 3 cases, the card gods smiled upon me as these were autograph loaded cases.
24 boxes should yield 9 autos, 9 costumes and 9 sketches, I actually got:

26 autos (but sadly no Ali Larter
9 costumes- 8 regular and 1 dual
11 sketches

Scans coming tomorrow.

Case 1

Box 1
Adair Tishler auto

Box 2
Christine Rose auto
Brian Kong "Monica" sketch

Box 3
Jimmy Jean Louis auto
Monica Dawson costume

Box 4
Alan Blumenfield auto
Hiro/Peter dual costume

Box 5
James Kyson Lee auto
Jeremy Treece sketch, full color of West flying with Claire in his arms

Box 6 (16 foils in this box)
Alan Blumenfield auto
Jason Hughes "Hiro" sketch

Box 7
Nicholas D'Agostino auto

Box 8
Ashley Crow auto


Case 2

Box 1
Jimmy Jean-Louis auto
Claire Costume

Box 2
Adrian Pasdar auto
Jason Hughes "Nathan" sketch"

Box 3
James Kyson Lee auto
Ashley Crow auto

Box 4 (4 Hits!)
Dana Davis auto
James Kyson Lee auto
Sylar Costume
Dan Cooney "Noah" sketch

Box 5
James Kyson Lee auto
Dan Cooney sketch (exact same sketch as above)

Box 6 (16 foils again)
Alan Bumenfield auto
Monica Dawson costume

Box 7
Sendhil Ramamurthy auto
Monica Dawson costume

Box 8
Stephen Tobolowsky auto
Dan Cooney sketch (again, the exact same sketch as the previous 2 in this case)

Case 3

Box 1 (16 foils again)
Stephen Tobolowski auto
Brian Kong "Niki/Jessica" sketch

Box 2
Sendhil Ramamurthy auto

Box 3 (3 Hits!)
Stephen Tobolowsky auto
Jason Hughes "Niki" sketch
Claire Costume

Box 4
Adrian Pasdar auto
Brian Kong "Nana Dawson" sketch

Box 5
Ashley Crow auto

Box 6
Jimmy Jean Louis auto
Howard Shum "Kaito Nakamura" sketch

Box 7
Nicholas D'Agosto auto
Monica Dawson costume

Box 8
James Kyson Lee auto
West Rosen costume


Happy to have such loaded cases but collation still needs some work.

11 total sketches (just 5 of about 40 total artists)

3 Brian Kong
3 Jason Hughes
3 Dan Cooney (and 3 identical ones at that)
1 Jeremy Treece
1 Howard Shum

9 Total Costumes

4 Monica Dawson
2 Claire
1 Sylar
1 West
1 Hiro/Peter dual

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July 09, 2008, 09:33 PM
stiles101
Hello all. I Got the case I ordered off of ebay today. 8 hit's in the case all together, 6 sketch cards, 1 Autograph card, and 1 costume card. Kinda disappointed that I only got one autograph. Which wouldn't have bothered me so much if it was Ali, but I the only auto I pulled was Stephen Tobolwsky.
July 09, 2008, 09:35 PM
JimKyle
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July 09, 2008, 10:45 PM
Dragoncrypt
Wow, great cases Incarnadine and Triple-frog! I'm glad to see some of the Card Talkers here pull some good cases!
July 09, 2008, 11:07 PM
blwilson
Opened two boxes tonight.

Box 1
Base sets x1
Foils x8 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Autograph card Ashley Crow as Sandra Bennet

Box 2
Base sets x1
Foils x8 (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
Autograph card David Anders as Adam Monroe

We're really happy to get two autos out of our boxes. It was also nice to get a full set of foils. The base card collation could have been a little better, but based on some of the other breaks, we should probably be happy with a base set per box.

Blair

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July 09, 2008, 11:34 PM
Incarnadine
Found some time for scanning tonight.




















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"Man muss entweder der Hammer oder der Amboss sein" (you must be the hammer or the anvil)

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Ad pulchritudinem tria requiruntur: integritas, consonantia, claritas.
(Three things are required for beauty: wholeness, harmony, radiance.)


July 10, 2008, 04:05 AM
Triple-Frog
Brian Kong did some really nice work for this set but that Treece is fantastic Thumb Up .

Wish I could find another case but the seller I got my good case from has sold out and it's a bit risky buying from anyone else in case you get the poor distribution cases.
July 11, 2008, 01:26 PM
Jason Wright
My 5 boxes arrived today and I was very pleased with the results:

Box 1
Dana Davis Auto
Claire Bennet/Noah Bennet Dual Costume Dance

Box 2
Stephen Tobolowsky auto
Elle Bishop Costume

Box3
Ashley Crow auto
Elle Bishop costume

Box 4
Christine Rose auto
Howard Shum sketch of Monica

Box 5
Jimmy Jean-Louis auto

I might have to order a case of these and keep fingers crossed that I have the same luck
July 12, 2008, 05:43 AM
justm
I've opened 2 boxes of my 4 now.

The first was a dud box - this didn't make me feel great. Visions of 4 boxes with no hits sprang to mind.

The second box had an auto (Christine Rose) AND a sketch by Eric Wolfe Hansen (Mohinder shooting Noah). This made me feel much better, and it evened out nicely. Luckily I think I may have hit on an 'Hot Box' which saved the day.

I'm in a dilemma about posting the dud box back to Topps, as they did guarantee a hit per box but I feel a bit guilty about doing so having 2 'hits' in the second one.

I'll see how the other 2 go, and I've got a 5th box arriving next week.

Full breakdown with pics when they're all opened.

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