1 - Posted on 7/17/2021

Wow, what a nice story!  Bravo, RS88!  Really happy you could add this very cool piece to your collection, Duke!

1 - Posted on 7/17/2021

What a great story and RS88 is truly a prince in the wilderness. And, this is a fantastic piece to boot. Very striking. 

Posted on 7/17/2021

I have this statue somwhere...

Anyway, very cool piece! You don’t see a lot of Allred acrylics.

1 - Posted on 7/17/2021

One of the most iconic images of Madman you can have as his comic appearances showed more action and offbeat angled poses.  Allred showed off such mastery of art and the artform!

2 - Posted on 7/17/2021

You know a Star Wars droid? RS88? Cmon... C3PO, R2D2 and RS88 walk ( or is that slide walk or roll ) into a bar, with the ugliest, talentless band ever, playing in the background and before you know it a light sabred limb is dropping to the floor. You have been warned. Lol. What a nice gift!

1 - Posted on 7/17/2021

Loved the story, loved the art! Congrats!

1 - Posted on 7/17/2021

Dayammmmm that's very Cool!!

2 - Posted on 7/17/2021

I never read any Madman material, but I always loved the character design and this is a beautiful looking piece, far nicer than the statue itself! Canadians really ARE some of the world's nicest people are they? I wish I was Canadian!

1 - Posted on 7/17/2021

Regarding Canadians are some of the nicest people in the world??? Maybe the few you met are nice but they have the most paranoid customs and postal officials in the world. Anything I ever bought from there was opened by them. Maybe they have very little to do or are just incredibly nosy.

1 - Posted on 7/17/2021

Actually I've met hundreds, not just a few, and I can attest to what I said. Customs agents DO open packages, but that's not because they're nosy, it's because they're smarter than collectors give them credit for. When 99% of collectors are importing packages from other countries and all of them are declaring that those collectibles are worth only twenty dollars, they don't need degrees in rocket science to know that all the people sending those packages from other countries are all full of shite! Hah ha ha ha!

1 - Posted on 7/17/2021

I have bought stuff from all over the world and Canadians are the only ones who ever opened up stuff. They are not smarter, merely more paranoid. Weird mentality.

1 - Posted on 7/17/2021

What exactly do you think they're paranoid about? Canada is a highly taxed country. It depends on taxation to fund a lot of the things it gives for for free, like healthcare. Collectors outside of the country think they're smarter than the Customs agents and think that just because they declare a token amount for the value of the contents and check off the "GIFT" box as the reason for sending it, that Customs agents are stupid enough to believe the false declaration. So that's why they open packages, because they know the sender is making a false declaration and they want to see if the contents might be FAR MORE valuable than the declared amount. In that case, it would be worth taking the time and effort to pursure having the sender or recipient prove the declared value.

But there's also a ton of narcotics trafficking that is sent in normal looking packages with low declared values, especially from specific countries such as Ireland, so that's also what they're looking for!  ⁠😄⁠

1 - Posted on 7/18/2021

You do have some great stuff.  I wouldn't be surprised if your name is flagged for "cool stuff" and they just wanna take a peek.  If they drip sauce on it, that's super bad etiquette though, hopefully it has just resulted in extra tape and nothing bad has happened!

1 - Posted on 7/18/2021

Perfect! Awesome move, RS88.

2 - Posted on 7/18/2021

Well deserved pal - sometimes it takes a madman to gift a madman to let a man know he's made a mad impact on a man.  Or something,

Really glad to call you a friend.

2 - Posted on 7/18/2021

That is a great story - and I agree completely on Madman, Allred is something special for sure. This was one of Bowen's very early statues, so cool in not only Madman and Allred lore but Randy Bowen lore too! 

1 - Posted on 7/18/2021

I was thinking to myself, what kind of guy gives away artwork like this?  Then I realized how much money Ryan spent on his Lobo cover.  Must be nice to be so rich you can just give art away.  Hey Ry, if you've got anything else lying around that you want to give away, let me send you my address.  Anyway, congrats on this great painting Duke.  I guess I should also thank Ryan, since you were probably motivated by his generosity to pay it forward with my free Spidey shirt.  LOL

1 - Posted on 7/26/2021

I'm actually getting a huge painting commission of. Duke in a Spidey shirt wearing Lizard cowboy boots!
that is the pinnacle of gift giving.

and also Dan saved my life,

1 - Posted on 7/18/2021

Great face front shot of Madman.  Awesome colors and love how things get darker as you move up the page.  Courtesy of one OA madman in RS88 to another :)  Congrats, duke!

1 - Posted on 7/18/2021

Such a brilliant piece! The color pops so much. I love the early Madman work by Allred. This really captures the joy and fun of the character. Huge congrats!

1 - Posted on 7/22/2021

This is a fantastic Madman piece, love it, congrats!

1 - Posted on 7/23/2021

Beautiful art but an even better story. Congrats!

1 - Posted on 9/12/2021

Absolutely stunning piece, Duke!  Yowza, what a piece; cover-worthy in its own right and the perfect source material to base a statue on (although some of those goofy "offbeat angled poses" Marcus mentioned could have been pretty cool, too... :) ).  Very special to see Mike's paints on this, too, as he doesn't do a lot of color work because of his color-blindness.  Laura adds so much life to his work with her amazing color choices, but it's fun to see what Mike did with this.  Really, really lovely.

Please forgive any "afterschool special" tone here, but I think we're all in agreement that the real treasure is to have a friend like RS88 who would do something so kind and generous as to make a gift of a beautiful piece like this (that was terrifically cool of you, RS!).  Congrats, Duke!  That's twice-blessed, right there! :)

1 - Posted on 7/1/2025

Iconic piece!!! Wonderful