Nice return!

a hard time deciphering how the digital version seems to command nearly 15 times its physical counterpart

This is pretty much definitely FOMO, fad, craze, etc... Same is true for most of the NFT space right now. IMO your desire for utility is key to the future of NFTs. NFT haters don't understand utility exists because all they see is stupid generated useless pictures selling for thousands of dollars. Which is ridiculous. But in the long run I really think for NFTs to have value they need utility. That's why games, like Splinterlands, is such a great use case for them.

I had an idea, if I had the time to do it... to build a digital comics platform that allowed people to 'publish' a comic book. It always seemed like there were two reasons digital comics never really took off. 1. Just doesn't have the same feel... which I can't do anything about haha. But 2. No collectability. Which NFTs remedy.

So my thought was to build a digital comics platform, sort of like Comixology, for reading and also build in trading, selling, buying, sharing (sort of like delegating in Splinterlands.) Then also have a self publishing avenue, which is essentially the comic's copyright owner minting/publishing a run of their comic. So if they want to do a release of 3000 copies for issue #1 and sell them for $2.99, they could do that. First editions!

It would make it so much more like collecting physical comics. Also does not seem extremely difficult to do. Really surprised it does not exist yet (if it doesn't, haven't really looked too much.)