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I think if there were somehow a feasible way to transport, we can be pretty sure there would be some type of encoded protections on objects in advanced civilizations. I.e. one would need to hack into a system to gain access to transporting objects.

what an outstanding closure (not just TNG but voyager too). Some serious fan service. And that scene with locutus really brought back the memories. Bravo. Next up Captain Kirk meets Spock on SNW. Enterprise looking sweet. Cool.

some recent stuff (IST mmw $15 sale). Thanks to letsgrumble for posting that marvel value stamps book, one of the coolest marvel fan items I've seen in a long time. Something about the coloring and the cardstock really brings back feelings of the comics as a kid. I wish they did masterworks like this. Artist Select editions are close, but this is just wonderful. If only we could have more covers printed in books like this format.

Me personally, I always prefer the original covers not modern variants.

Hulk 181 NM, Daredevil 158, and a handful of others for $35 dollars in trade to a comic dealer, used for a stack of quarter comics that were beat up with smurf stamps on every one. I didn't regret it right away, because I was too young, naive, and poor to know otherwise.

Milton Caniff?

What a sweet stack. Years ago, some guy was walking around with a stack of cgc'd House of Secrets 92 ranging from about 7 to I think 9.6 and they were all for like a few hundred total. I passed... Man, the regrets.

I could swear this collection came from a friend of mine when I was much younger. He literally had a box of those New Teen Titans 2 issues when they came out. Man, I was envious.

So I got into a disagreement with a more 'accounting' oriented friend about this article. And reading the article more carefully, there's no factual evidence to prove they are going to 'dump' the excess inventory in landfill. The article, says something like 'what this means is they will dump it in landfill.' But reading the company remarks, only states they will write off inventory and re-manage inventory. This could mean they are selling at cost to another party, or a number of other alternatives.

Yep, I went crazy on that. Awesome time to catch up.

One of my favorite reviewers said people were walking out of the theater early. And sounds like he would have followed them had he not stayed to create a complete review.

If it helps any, I would go around tables with an Overstreet guide. Things might have changed with CGC slabs and online pricing, but it certainly helped me provide a baseline for negotiating over the years. The grading part is also something to pick up, and usually most dealers will be honest and fair if you make a reasonable argument.

Richie Rich?

My thought if the dealer is a good one, his positive reviews should overwhelm the bad one. And that dealer is showing snark in his answer. Sounds more like the rude type of dealer to me. BTW, I'm not defending the camera kid either, that seems to be typical of this generation. I think a really good dealer shouldn't really dramatically react. Just like kids who try to push around police with their cameras. A better cop just ignores them and lets them blather, IMO.

FWIW, I was actually excited about the Quantamania trailer....

On the one hand I get that the dealer is pissed someone else might make a better offer and use his store as the deal point, on the other hand dealers have an opportunity to pay well. If the dealer doesn't want to accept anything above lowballing, someone else should have an opportunity to make that sellers trip worthwhile. Too many comic collectors went through the years of being ripped off by dealers (my younger self too). I think it's good that dealers have some feedback (good or bad). Years ago, I went to a convention and this guy was going around with a suitcase of titles, and every dealer refused to offer him anything below a low low lowball. Just as the convention was closing, I walked up to him and asked if he still wants to sell any. I opened up my Overstreet (that I would always carry) we looked and I made a fair offer on FF 4 that day. He had like a VF+ to NM FF3, but I just couldn't afford it at the time. So glad I did. We both were happy.

And to think it's just the beginning of the bigger big bad... no turning back now.

I tend to be in the camp that says you can create great comic movies without them being known and top tier properties. I think what makes cinema renditions great is novel and refreshing takes and milieus on top of storylines. Look at the fantastic surprise performers... GOTG. Third, maybe fourth tier characters. Gunn turned into success with novel take and view of what the cosmos looked like outside of earth. Aqauaman, Black Panther. No one would expect any success, but there you have it. Wan took Aquaman and made a great storyline coupled with a novel underwater rendition that turned out to be great. BP showed us Wakanda universe. Joker. Blew it out of the water very unexpectedly, but excellent execution and take on Joker. Practically zero humor necessary. That in itself is unique. Now all that being said, it's hard to deliver more and more novel approaches and milieus and not be stale. BP, GOTG, Sub-Mariner followups lost those first person advantages and to me are looking stale. I'm getting tired of Gunn's over the top stupid humor, it grates on me now, whereas it had me in stitches at the beginning. Flash looks great, but then again the novelty of bringing back old actors and characters has already been used up first by Marvel. Studios try to strike twice by copying the same lightning. I don't think that will last that long. I would love to see DC take the same big characters and build them up to Kingdom Come. Maybe add Red Tornado, Martian Manhunter, etc along the way. Maybe even Kamandi. (I think each one of those has potential to be billion dollar breakout with right ingredients). But please temper the Gunn Beavis and Butthead characters, they are getting boring. I'm not really looking forward to him taking over the reigns, if only because his sameness and over the top humor is getting old, like Waititi. *All that being said, with much of these films landing in top 50 blockbusters of all time, it's hard for me to see them as failures. And doubtful they will letup anytime soon. It's just that they could maybe take the time to make them better.

Always loved the SM 16 cover.

underwhelmed. The High Evolutionary is at least following the comics and counter-earth a bit, though not the humorous side. Racoon's origin looks to be one of his experiments. Would be cool if Hulk showed up in a cameo. Although the Beavis and Butthead comedy approach was refreshing in the beginning, it gets tiresome after a while.

Looks like they swapped the role of Superman with Supergirl, straight out of Flashpoint. When Kal el was a weakling who had powers that were suppressed by the government and Flash and alternate universe/timeline Batman of his childhood timeline restored him back to Superman. One of the best scenes out of the Flash comic series. Also, looks like they are trying to capture the multiverse nostalgia straight from Spiderman, with the two Batmans. Imagine if they brought in Christian Bale and Joker(s)? Woah. Yellow Jacket ... Reverse Flash? I like it and I'm feeling nostalgia for Batman. Hope it is as good as the trailer seems. Trailer seems more interesting than GOTG and AntMan so far.

Just saw on Amazon prime.

Looks like a clockwork orange reboot

Wow on the newton! Never even heard of them, thanks for sharing.

Coming from a comic background, kang is no thanos. Hearing them talk about him as the big, big bad is going to be a lot to deliver (and I watched the loki version) over the comic version. That being said ms. marvel was no phoenix either, until the movie rendition came out.