Why a Marvel NFT splash still needs a paper caption

A splash page is theatre. The first time you open a Marvel NFT comic after a drop, the sky might be a particular cobalt and the sound-effect might sit a finger’s width from a chin. Weeks later, a different laptop and a different brightness slider will rewrite that theatre without asking.

We ask collectors to write three sentences while the file is still open: the colour of the largest field, the placement of the loudest lettering, and whether the gutter still exists at the spine of a double-page. Those sentences are dull on purpose. Dull sentences last.

If you only keep the marketplace card, you keep a poster. The caption is the conservation report. Site Work Line did not invent that idea; paper collectors have written condition in the margins of bags for decades. We simply refuse to pretend pixels are exempt.