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AMC is selling towards end of November but no exact date. ABC announced a special look at Star Wars Rogue One on Thanksgiving Day. Star Wars News Net speculates ticket sales that same day. This is from Fansided: The most likely scenario is that Disney will show Rogue One footage during the Thanksgiving night Christmas special on ABC, and then reveal that tickets will officially go on sale the following Monday. Why Monday and not right away? For starters, Thanksgiving night isn’t necessarily the best time to put tickets on sale, even if tons of people end up watching The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration special (hosted by the Hough siblings) on ABC. The other reason is also in that Furious Fanboys post. Reportedly, some European theater chains have announced the date, even though there’s been no confirmation yet from Disney/Lucasflm. While the official word could still come at any time, we think this is one of the most solid theories we’ve heard to date. Enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend and be ready to hop online the following Monday to get your Rogue One tickets just in case it turns out to be correct. Monday's also Cyber Monday -- the biggest online sales day of the year. So...would make sense.

Steve's a great seller. Good communication, bulletproof shipping. Condition on point. Recommended without reservation.

So...why would Shadowman 16 be the key when the show's not the same character? Isn't that sort of like speculating in All-American 16s in the run-up to the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie? Or - maybe a closer analogy -- the Kirby Sandman # 1 in the run-up to a proposed Sandman (Vertigo) movie? And didn't Shadowman 16 have a print run of about 250k? (I'm not trolling - I have a few copies of Shadowman 16 from back in the day, but...hard to believe in this book when the title character's a female)

I just wish all the articles comparing this to The Matrix would just stop. You'd think that any film critic over the age of 20 would know that Ghost in the Shell came first, and its cyberpunk ethos influenced the Wachowskis, not vice versa.

This could work. Don't get me wrong -- it could also be really really bad -- like NIght Man-bad. But it could also work... Pity - I don't think I ever bought more than two copies of Shadowman 16. And my signed Gold Dr. Mirage 1 pre-dates CGC...

Saw it last night in IMAX 3D. Thought it was entertaining -- good, not great. Definitely better than Thor & Thor 2 -- just shy of Captain America: The First Avenger. Granted, I've not read a Dr. Strange comic in more than 20 years -- since Tim Vigil was on the run. But the original Ditko stories were some of the first comics I ever read. The effects were great, loved the humorous bits (and the climax), but was mostly excited to be living in a world where we actually have a big-budget live-action Dr. Strange film. Also, I loved the casting of Tilda Swinton, even acknowledging the gender and race switch. Whitewashing, but it worked for me. 3 stars.

1) Dane DeHaan looks eerily like River Phoenix in this trailer. 2) This is giving off too much of a John Carter vibe -- could end up bombing with audiences despite it's level of quality.

Huh. The TV show wasn't bad, but it definitely wasn't a must-watch either, despite having Kristanna Loken in her prime...

There's also the weird "unintended consequences" of the Gerber scale, which meant that books earmarked as 7 or higher back in 1990-1991 are actually more-readily cared for (and thus seen today) than some books considered more "common" by Gerber. Examples of this from Exciting Comics: # 28 was an 8 (Gerber No Show). It's actually a bit easier to find than 27, 29 or 30. This is born out by the census, too, with twice as many slabbed copies of 28 as those other issues. My guess is because it was a Gerber No-Show, so dealers were more likely to pay attention to it as a collectible than the surrounding issues. I'm sure this held true for other titles as well.

And, of course. I'm a sucker for Magnus # 1. None of these is really rare, but I'd reckon having them all in one place is:

I reckon my rarest is Tick # 2 (uncut), signed by Edlund, CGC Sig Series 9.0. Not the highest sig series of that issue out there but dang tough. Second rarest? Probably Spawn # 1 in Japanese, still sealed in the polybag 20 years later.

Sadly, the best one isn't on that list. + 1.

Why can't they just do this small-scale, like Constantine was? Black Mirror has demonstrated how this could be done. The point is, there are enough stand-alone stories in the Sandman run that they can just pick a few to tell in an anthology format. Like # 8, 10, 13, 18, 38, or any from 51 - 55. # 19 would likely be to challenging / not the best choice cinematically and # 50's probably too expensive, due to the special effects required. But # 51-55 even has a framing device that could be used to launch the stories that's weirdly similar to the Black Mirror episode White Christmas (3 interconnected stories told while caught in a blizzard). Point is, I think people are putting too much weight on paying homage to the whole Sandman mythos or the need to adapt Season of the Mists. Tell a few separate but interconnected tales from the above - which are among the run's strongest stories anyway, and you're good.

Exactly what 500 books do you think that Chuck would have remaining that would devastate the entire comic book collecting market if he decides to sell them? Especially after he took the last 150 items from his original Church find and auctioned them off through Heritage back in 2011. Let's just say that the Red Raven, Spirit books, Feature books, etc. had a rather underwhelming and negligible impact on the collecting marketplace. My favorite part of that story is when Chuck asked $500k for his Mile High copy of Red Raven # 1, only to see it sell months later at auction for less than $75k (granted - I reckon his advertising strategy worked as that's still a _stupid_ high price for that book, IMHO). Then the Billy Wright 9.0 copy appears and sells a few months later for less than $45k.

So...a friend of mine asked me to appraise an old box of about 50 comics that belonged to her brother. Imagine my surprise when looking through last night and finding one of them is a coverless copy of ASM 129. I have no idea how to value it. $30? As high as $40? Much less?

And then there's this, in which Scott Mendelson argues DC doesn't need to make a solo Flash film. http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/11/02/the-flash-warner-bros-does-not-have-to-give-the-scarlet-speedster-his-own-movie/#325aa9516cda His points are basically: - We've already got a near-perfect live-action Flash in the TV show already. - DC doesn't lose anything with having him simply guest-star in other DCEU films (a la Mark Ruffalo's Hulk). - With two directors leaving within six months, something's probably wrong with the current iteration of the project, and better to wait and have no solo Flash film in the immediate future than needlessly rush it and give us a bad one. On a different note, I don't get what's so hard about making a Flash movie -- one could do a lot worse than just adapt the 1987 Flash # 1 -- have a framing story of him racing cross-country in a blizzard, intercut with flashbacks to his origin, clashes with 1-2 of his rogue's gallery & love story with Iris. Then add in a post-credits sequence introducing Gorilla Grodd for the sequel.

Satan was Peter Stromare. She was Gabriel I stand corrected. Thank you. I really liked Constantine and thought it more than did the comic justice. "Dangerous Habits" was the first Hellblazer storyline I ever read (think it was Garth Ennis's first as well) and the movie adapted it amazingly well -- except for the fact that Keanu's neither, you know, British, nor blonde...

She also played satan in Constantine, and the film was better for it...

Predators was off-planet.

I like Ezra Miller - had no idea who he was until he I saw his performance in Perks of Being a Wallflower. The man deserves a few more high-profile roles. But this film losing two directors in six months, and one of them this late in the process? Not good. Still not as troubled as Gambit, but not good.

a) Sucks to be Ezra Miller. He's probably on some ridiculous workout routine that he's now got to keep up for another 2-3 months or so, to say nothing of delaying his ability to start another project. b) Man the DCEU needs help...

Thanks for posting this. I had exactly the same thoughts when I received his email and nearly posted an identical version to what you did. To reiterate, if the remains of the Mile High 2 collection are say...80-100 copies of ASM # 102 in Good condition (p.s., short of water damage, how would that even happen?), the chances that he's sitting on a short box of books like GS X-Men 1, Conan 1, or even Dr. Strange 1 seem vanishingly slim...

I can see it now: "Dr. Strange" -- HUGE in Denver!

Let's shift gears for a moment. As I've stated, the primary reason I'm not concerned about Chuck's stash is I'm convinced that 10.98 million of his 11 million books are garbage (commodities as dictated by non-keys and/or common low grades). The far bigger issue is what will happen a generation from now when the baby boomers finish retiring and then start dying. I'm far far more concerned about 30 more major Golden/Silver Age collections of the Twin Cities / Savannah / Billy Wright variety coming to light over the next 5-10 years and crashing the values of pre-1966 books than I am of Chuck's passing on. What happens when/if Vinnie, Verzyl, The Dentist, Geppi, etc. all decide to exit in the same 5-year span? Multiply that by 20 for their best customers -- most of whom are probably in their late 50s right now? With Millennials and below not growing up reading comics like their predecessors did, who will support the values of the even mainstream Golden Age runs 20 years hence? Seriously - who will care about things like Batman # 10-30 when we've got AR goggles that give us instant entree to virtual reality integrated with the world around us 24/7? Chuck can destroy all 20 million of his books in a fire. I'll be the one sweating the 200 anonymous collectors -- retired plastic surgeons, investment bankers and the like -- who are each holding 500 prime GA & SA books. That's how the market will crash. Not by Chuck's 20 million-book pile, but by the 100,000 quality books quietly amassed by a discerning handful of baby boomers (Twin Cities-style).

It would be bit of retro cool if they can make it an ensemble like the first one or Aliens. Not sure if they can pull off a final showdown with just two adversaries going "toe-to-toe" anymore. The mid-80's were thirty years ago after all. Even in the new Fast & Furious movies, it's a team effort. I'm not sure I follow. Predators followed the set-up of the first movie almost exactly - except they were random strangers put together rather than a specific military squadron. The added twists were: But If the first had an "ensemble" feel than so did it. If anything, I'd say that among the Predator films, Predator 2 was the closest thing to an actual ensemble feel, as most of the protagonists (Gary Busey and Bill Paxton included) were still alive and involved in the primary battle on the subway.