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Comicopolis

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    'PLANET COMICS' (is deserving of its own thread)

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted

    59 minutes ago, Spyder! said:

    Issue 15, how is this not considered a classic cover by CGC?  How are several of these not considered classic covers (shrug)?

    I personally feel that 14 is slightly harder to find, although I think part of that may be my own experience in trying to collect all the rivet issues. I found a 15 before I found a 14, so my simple brain decided 14 was harder to find! In all seriousness, both are hard to find books.  It does seem like 15 is harder to find with nice page quality. 

    I’m happy with mine, and doubt I could ever afford to upgrade!

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    It's a classic cover to me.

    Most ridiculous comic panels of all time?

    in Comics General

    Posted

    On 2/19/2021 at 7:39 PM, Ken Aldred said:

     

    Sadly, I'm considering leaving.

    I’ve just finished having the heating and water system in the house completely modernised, which proved extremely stressful, more so because of my autism and OCD.  It turned out to be necessary and lucky though, as the antiquated back boiler was dangerously rusted and a carbon monoxide risk.  The engineers said it was in the worst condition they’d ever seen, and I believe them.

    And so, talking about condition…

    As far as comics are concerned I have quite a large physical collection, and if I’d only damaged a few drek items while moving boxes around I’d be able to accept that easily.  Unfortunately, stressed, tired and not thinking sensibly, I stacked up some of my key slabs, the pile went over and a Tomb of Dracula 10 9.6, bought for $400, now irreplaceable at $3,000, got severely damaged.   Blowie’s purely coincidentally-timed thread on a TOD 10 9.9 provided additional psychological salt in the wound on top.

    I’ve not checked the other keys yet, but that’s one of my all-time most important books.  I just came to the conclusion that someone with my condition shouldn’t really be doing this; ordinarily hyper-careful and obsessive-compulsive, or, completely the opposite, spaced-out, clumsy, no common sense whatsoever when I’m depressed, hyper-anxious and burned out.  The worst is that up until the point at which I started messing about with my key books I’d been extremely cautious. I burned out at exactly the right time to do maximum damage.

    Given the ridiculous and often unaffordable prices keys are going for now,  I already find the money talk and boiler room attitude here very depressing, and time for me to stop being involved with a physical product that I can’t safely curate or replace in the long term.  I’ll still obtain cheap reading material by buying digitally, huge bundles available there, but for someone with my meagre resources a lot of what goes on here isn’t relevant anymore.

    This is one of the few threads that I believe has a larger gathering of people that actually do care about the stories, artwork, creators, etc, and I appreciate your interest and concern.  I wonder though, if it's enough to continue on here.

     

    I'm sorry to hear this, Paul. Perhaps take a break, read through a few old comics, and then see how you feel.

    The Dr Who Thread

    in The Movie Forum

    Posted

    2 hours ago, 1Cool said:

    I so want to complete the last season to say I've done it but I just watch an episode and it takes me a month to get back to it.  The last one I saw was basically an environmental wake up all about how the we will become monsters if we don't clean up our act.  I can't wait for the next episode where they teach me about the evils of sugar and cigarettes. 

    :roflmao:

    Disney+'s WandaVision (2020)

    in The Movie Forum

    Posted

    19 minutes ago, @therealsilvermane said:

    Wanda is still a hero at heart. When she stole Vision, apparently it was to save him. I just refuse to believe that Wanda would enslave thousands of innocent people for her own selfish reasons. I think something bigger and darker is going on and Wanda will have to be "part of the solution" like Monica says.

    I'm not saying there isn't a behind the scenes villain involved but I'd guess it's someone we've already seen. So, for example, if it's Mephisto and they've been hiding behind the identity of Dottie or Pietro, or someone else, there needs to be a logical explanation to the general audience regarding who the character is and how they fit into the bigger picture of the MCU.

    I'm more inclined to believe, and I hope it's true, that the villain is Mastermind - which I think you were the first to mention in this thread - and that his role is similar to when he tried to control Jean Grey in the classic X-Men story from the bronze age.