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Jason LJimB, no worries...there seldom is! 
JayWolt,
I may have a new fave...that T3 McIntyre is quite fetching...
ChrisCounts, yep, I totally agree...the technical merits like corners and centering are important components of value, but if nobody wants the card, who cares?...the different components of eye appeal (color, pose, artistic value) can be far more interesting!
for instance, I never looked twice at any mentions of Obaks before this thread...now I may be in trouble. Brian is the culprit with that great multi-card post.
Maybe another great thread could be stadium backgrounds...could probably do some neat things with that, like matching up players with stadiums, trace some ballfield chronologies or something like that...but that assumes the artists were trying to be true to real life...