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I'll take that bet. I think they're going to have to go back to the drawing board to rework the Gambit -script to make it more R-Rated, while the two more likely candidates for the unannounced slots are X-Force & Deadpool 2. And then we'll see about Channing Tatum's availability.

I'd buy oil stock.

Correct -- for some reason in my head I keep thinking Lethal Weapon was 1984, not '87. But I do know he was just 22 years old when he sold the Lethal Weapon -script. Agreed on the films you listed. the Nice Guys red band trailer made me laugh out loud.

X-Tinction Agenda was one of my favorite early comic collecting stories, right up there with Batman: Year 3. I thought it fell apart at the very end but the lead-up, including the Wolverine/Cable fight in NM 93-94, was awesome.

Yeah -- just read they removed Gambit from the release schedule. I get that Deadpool was a smash hit & could see them fast-tracking X-Force because of it, but to kill / delay Gambit because of it smacks of weak sauce. That'd be like Marvel killing Ant Man because Guardians did so they well they want to fast track a solo Star Lord movie. Then again, Fox has had a rough year. They're probably deep in the red for the foreseeable future, even as Universal and Disney have been killing it on all fronts.

Interesting -- I knew Shane Black starred as Hawkins in the original Predator; I didn't know that he was also heavily involved in the original's screenplay. Makes sense though -- it was a few years after Lethal Weapon.

Why would anyone shill a book on Comiclink? They don't report their results to GPA, so vastly over-paying for something on Clink won't affect even the short-term price the way that shilling via eBay or Heritage would. Especially when there are multiple (and transparent) other options for buying such a comic book for less, it makes zero sense. As others have pointed out, though -- it in 3 minutes of searching eBay I found a white-paged 9.8 sitting unsold at a $1,600 Buy-It-Now.

Wow - there was a 2nd printing of this book? I did not know that. I remember the initial print run being ginormous. Maybe not by 1993 standards, but it was definitely the # 1 Diamond book of the month & my LCS ordered hundreds since we had Rick Leonardi there for a signing. The Philly-area is still littered with signed (pre-CGC) copies of the first print.

This is news to me. Multiple contemporary sources reported that X-Force # 1 was the second-best-selling comic of all time (with about a 5 million print run) way back in the early 1990s. Is the 7.5 million reported print run for X-Men # 1 also unconfirmed? Other stuff that was reported as gospel back then: Youngblood # 1 was the best-selling independent book of all time, before it was surpassed, in turn, by Spawn 1 & WildCATS 1. I'd also heard from multiple sources back then that Superman 75 had a 4 million or so issue print run for the first print, but why is that considered more confirmed that X-Force 1?

What's next? Folks praising Kirby's Topps Comics' from the early 1990s? Or Neal Adams' art on Continuity?

I'm with Jeffro. The vast majority of Kirby's 70s output was sub-par. Blocky, needlessly stylized, almost art deco . He was past his prime and, for DC, mostly phoning it in with his 4th World stuff, particularly relative to the work the new breed of 70s artists (including Smith, Adams,, Kaluta, Colan, & even latter Ploog & latter Steranko) were producing during the same time period. On the one hand, I get that "Kirby is Kirby" but to seriously compare his 70s DC work (as I've said, some Jimmy Olsen & Our Fighting Forces excepted) to his phenomenal output during the 1960s on titles like FF and Thor is just The worst of Smith's output on Conan or Colan's work on Tomb of Dracula, for example, ran circles around anything Kirby did in Kamandi, New Gods or Mister Miracle.

The Punisher's already on Netflix. Oh wait...that's the 2004 Travolta one. Never mind...

I trust McWeeny & he's definitely a comic book geek. Before founding HitFlix for years he was literally the only reviewer for Ain't It Cool News who could write _at all_ (low bar, but still...) He was "Moriarty."

This. This post x 1000. Everyone I knew who was collecting comics at the time bought New Mutants 93-100. (See RMA's statement that he bought 15x # 93-100. Pretty much everybody bought that run, & we were all pissed that we'd missed out on NM # 86-89.) Sure, most collectors (myself included) only bought _multiples_ of 93-94 (for the Wolverine v. Cable battle), 95-97 (for the X-Tinction Agenda storyline) & 100 (1st appearance of X-Force). But we _all_ bought 98 off the stands. A few of my friends bought a couple doubles of NM 98 when it went to $6-$8 a few months later but that was because it was the first appearance of Domino, a key member of X-Force. The Deadpool first appearance hype came much, much letter. BTW, we all started buying X-Factor in duplicates with the X-Tinction Agenda storyline as well. As with the latter Liefeld issues of New Mutants, this came in handy by accident a few months later when the early Portacio issues took off. 60-75 or so was an amazing run, but it went like this: 60-62 -- X-Tinction Agenda 63-64 -- 1st few Portacio issues (had value) 68 -- brief Wizard-fueled rumor re. Cable/baby X-Men 201 tie-in, so some value 71 -- new team

God I loved the reboot. A decade later, it still stands up too. Recently tried to watch the first few episodes of the original series and couldn't make it past episode 3. Biggest surprise was seeing Jane Seymour.

Hate to say it, but I thought his DC work (from Jimmy Olsen to Kamandi to New Gods to Mr. Miracle, etc.) was garbage, as was his Captain America run in the 200s. The one exception to this was his incongruously _awesome_ work for DC on the Losers in Our Fighting Forces.

Can anyone confirm whether Whitman published variants of Magnus, Robot Fighter # 39, 43 or 46? I haven't been able to find any evidence of them via a Google Image search or in the usual suspects among dealer websites. Just seems odd that Whitman would publish # 35-46 but for those three issues.

First appearance of Drax is a non-factor in value of IM 55... He's completely subsumed by the big Titan. Umm...yeah. You new around here, xomic? My post was clearly sarcastic...

Yeah -- weird to think the first appearance of Drax is a bigger key than the first appearance of Star Lord. Dave Bautista FTW.

Liked seeing Psylocke in action in the Super Bowl commercial (teased in that still above).

I'm actually in the beginning of my journey of collecting the Whitman variants of the 1970s Magnus books. Understanding that they're not part of the later 3-pack only rarities, I'm curious to see how hard they are to find in high-grade (i.e., strict 8.5 or better). There's only one slabbed copy on the census so far.

So...you like Two-Face?

He wasn't left off. Alpha Flight 51's his first Marvel work. Fun fact - Uncanny X-Men 248 was the first issue of the title I ever bought - it was $.20 at a garage sale the month that # 252 was on the stands. I stuck with it monthly from 252 to 304, but JRJR's atrocious cover to # 300 had a lot to do with me dropping the title.

Let's see if I have my Portacio chronology correct: Star Wars 107 -- first work (inking) Strikeforce Morituri # 1 - first work (pencils) Strikeforce Morituri # 10 - first full pencils (one of these was just the art on the interior comic book within the story; maybe issue 1) Punisher -- got some actual notice, particularly w/ Punisher 10 X-Factor 63 -- broke out That sound right? Also, not sure if you're only counting "new artists" but I'd argue Alex Ross as a post-Platt break-out (although yeah - technically The Burning Earth was pre-Platt). Michael Turner books were also sought out - although that's a chicken & the egg situation since many of his covers were to limited incentives. And Jim lee continued his streak at least through Batman:Hush and his first Superman run, which were early to mid-2000s. Both of those runs were collected for the art.

No we aren't . We are paying to support forward payment of benefits that NO OTHER COMPANY in the history of the world has had to pay. This ruling was made by Congress, and the two leaders of the Congressional committee who pushed this through represent Memphis and Louisville, homes of the shipping hubs of Federal Express and UPS. Such a coincidence. When Congress kills the USPS, and rates to ship things quadruple - and they will - I do hope that everyone who about the USPS remembers what they had. Yup. This. 1) The USPS is entirely self-funded. As in, it receives no taxpayer money. 2) In an effort to kill the USPS, Congress passed a law requiring the agency to pre-fund pension obligations, as in -- set aside vast amounts of money for pension obligations that won't come due until decades (literal decades) in the future. As was noted, no other private company (or even, government agency) has ever been forced to do this. Its financial shortfall is entirely an accounting fiction -- an attempt by several in Congress to bankrupt the agency so that FedEx/UPS/Amazon/Uber can then absorb it, jack rates and gain exclusive entree to its logistics network (which, btw, is second to none).