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warshawlawI never really expected a monthly; Dennis Purdy announced in one issue (close to the end) that he was trying to go monthly, but that never really materialized.
I do have one little nit to pick, on the issue of muckraking. Now, speaking as a muckraker of sorts, I have to be up front with my personal prejudice. I like it. Academic analyses of card sets are all fine and well, but they are (a) repetitive of earlier works, especially for popular sets, (b) quickly exhausted as to subject matter, and (c) do not address some of the most pressing issues in the hobby. The muckraking done by VCBC in the past has played important parts in counteracting the cheery goodfeel pablum in ad rags like SCD. People need to know about the idiot ripoff artists preying on collectors as much as they need to know about the cards themselves. One bad deal, after all, can send a new collector running for the exits. Also, judging from the content of this board, it is the scammers who capture our attention and demand an inordinate amount of our time. That information needs to get out there. I credit VCBC with essentially driving Alan Hager underground by putting together the pieces on his activities and laying it out there for the public to see. You simply do not get that kind of journalism anywhere else and I hope it stays as a part of VCBC. Speaking of which, still no issue #31 here in L.A.