I don't really like critiquing artists. As someone who works in a creative field and thinks creative thoughts, I've always respected not only painters and drawers but musicians, comics, writers -- of course -- and anyone who creates something and then, probably against their best interests, presents it to the world. These are my people. And they get far too much criticism when compared with other career pursuits. That said, I don't like the Topps' Gallery reboot. It's taken me three years to settle definitively on an opinion of this set. But I'm sure now. Gallery is not appealing. Part of the reason is art sets are much too inconsistent for me to collect. I am always willing to give a baseball card art set a chance -- because I like those creative types -- but as soon as I see likenesses that don't work or images that are vastly different from each other, I'm done. Sometimes I'll even critique the card, point out that the picture doesn...
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