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I wonder if there was an audible sound from the amount of eyes that rolled in unison when reading this comment.

The X-force and X-Factor are about 80-90% black and the Uncanny is only black in the center. Can just make out the rocks on the boarders.

Also, weren't those books HUGE successes as far as specs go? If you sold back then, you killed it. If you held, well, you still did ok.

Not as rad as @fastballspecial's newsstand but they all came out of the same box at an estate sale.

Oh you're just bragging, now

A sweet, sweet FB Marketplace find that just came back.

All 3 came from the same box at an estate sale

All 3 were fished out of an estate sale box on day 3. Newsstand Maybe the nicest 8.0 ever.

I thought they were just adding FedEx insured as an option?

Yeah - Even with prices dropping, they're still well above 2021.

His "I love Jesus but I'm not a weirdo about it" thing seems like an odd bit to put out there. It's like, dig it, man. But also, did anyone ask?

Standard, right? Not Slow Economy?

Nevermind, I'm dumb.

You've never met an honest comic dealer in 40 years?

I'm sure there are as long as it's not happening to them. "It's just business, bro."

Great change. No complaints at all.

I'm right there with you about the nitpicking (even my own) usually but this movie felt like a death-by-a-thousand-cuts situation where the small things add up and make me like it less and less. It's like a choose your own adventure of complaints that all lead to this not being a very good movie. I REALLY wanted it to be, though.

Maybe I missed where this was discussed but a big part of the Aaron God of Thunder run was how foolish, dumb, and arrogant young Thor was. Then there was present Thor that still had those traits but was trying to be a better man. The librarian of the gods was aware of Thor and insulted him often for being an insufficiently_thoughtful_person. I know that's a relatively modern take on him but is refreshing, IMO. I did not grow up with serious, verbose, and noble Thor and thought that version of the character was always super lame.

At one point I thought the wigs were meant to look obvious as some sort of nod to how stupid comic movies are supposed to be? Clea looked like mediocre cosplay at a regional one-day con of an anime character I've never heard of.

Finally saw it the other night and was bummed because I had high-ish hopes and had avoided spoilers. It has a lot of fun Raimi stuff but the writing was so lazy. The exposition couldn't have been more hand-holding and the stakes seemed to constantly change. Also, what is going on with Marvel's hair and make-up? Lots of obvious wigs and Strange's hair was honestly distracting. Clea looked so ridiculous.

That's what I was thinking.

You having a bad day? Need to talk about it? Just because the word "kid" was in the sentence doesn't make it mean what you think it means. If a kid buys an X-Men comic today at $3.99 (I was 7 when I read my first X-Men comic...a kid), he's basically paying the same price as he would have in 1993.

That's some good goalpost moving. I don't even know what comics are being made for kids now but the one I did find is Batman & Scooby Doo Mysteries. Cover of $2.99. That'd be $1.67 in 1993 money or $1.48 if use 2022 (which you should). The other ones I'm finding are like, $9.99 but have about 150-200 pages. That's a hell of a deal. It's meant to be a jab at people with rose colored glasses about their childhood and what is acceptable now vs then. There's plenty of ways to check the math on this. Comics have basically stayed the same price since the early 90s, accounting for inflation - whether you use 2020 or 2022. But it's very strange to not use the year and reality we're living in when making those calculations.