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3 years later...any update on this film? Especially with Darkseid's appearance in the Snyder cut, you'd think that they'd have capitalized with an update on this project. Oh...wait...

Forget X-Men 1. The next big book? Brave and Bold 28, yo - first appearance of Starro. Gonna' make Iron Man 55 look like Tales of Suspense 97.

This. Y'all are acting like the success of X-Men (2000) didn't lead directly to the first Spider-Man movie (finally) being greenlit (which it did). Honestly - it went Blade -> X-Men -> Spider-Man. After 7 movies - and spin-offs from Wolverine to Deadpool to the The New Mutants - it's not like everyone doesn't already know who the X-Men are. And I don't believe just having *Marvel Studios* produce chapter 8 will magically cause a (true - not speculative) demand surge. That's like saying..."I can't wait until they re-cast Iron Man and announce the trilogy reboot so that my Tales of Suspense 39 will increase."

I'm not sure of that. Specifically *because* comic book money is competing with so many other collectible classes. Collectible sneakers made the cover of BusinessWeek last week Key basketball cards have outperformed key Baseball cards over the last 12 months, and key baseball cards have gone *crazy* NFTs made Saturday Night Live this weekend And I've only dipped my toe in vintage graded video games, but I can say without hesitation that, given $10k in cash to invest, I'd put it in graded video games over comic books. Every single one of these categories has out-performed even key Marvel comic books over the last 12 months.

I think it’s simpler than all this. Collectibles of all stripes have skyrocketed over the past 12 months because middle class / wealthy folks (those who’ve kept their jobs) can’t spend their discretionary money on restaurants or vacations - so they’ve poured it into collectibles. Doesn’t matter if it’s baseball cards, basketball cards, comic book cards, sneakers, vintage video games, stocks, or dogecoin - millions of people are bored and now have money to burn. Add to that the huge rise in YouTube hype channels (another byproduct of folks being stuck at home) and you’ve got a bubble that will likely subside when folks can travel again. Also, I think the comic book card bubble is already subsiding - sealed boxes of Marvel Universe, Marvel Masterpieces I, and 1992 X-men are all down 20-40% from 45 days ago. My theory? Folks have already moved on to NFTs like NBA Top Shot.

Did Walker ever become Nomad in the comics? I’d stopped reading Cap by that time - but Nomad 1 was Bucky, and Nomad 2 (who had the miniseries & ongoing in the early ‘90s) was Jack Monroe.

Folks on Twitter seem to be in two camps: 1) Psyched by the trailer - but wary given how promising the trailers to the first film were, only for the movie itself to turn out to be mess; and 3) Psyched to see John Ostrander (!) show up (a presumptive cameo). Then there’s obligatory “Wait - I thought Peacemaker was gonna’ be in this” 😜

Never mind - I just did some reading up on The Power Broker - I thought that was a code name rather than an actual character. So, per the comics, it’s likely Walker will taste defeat again at the hands of the Flag Smashers, go to the Power Broker for super serum himself, and be driven mad, likely turning into the evil version of US Agent in the process. So the show will likely focus on Walker’s transition to the dark side, as expected.

Ha! I quickly bought 8 copies of Truth: Red, White & Black # 1 back when Captain America # 25 came out because the rumor was Isaiah Bradley would become the new Captain America. so I’m still at a loss re. who the Big Bad might be. Flag-Smasher? Baron von Strucker?

Yeah - but if they do this right, they'll kill off literally half of them. See also: the first Mission Impossible film where the whole first team (minus Cruise) dies in the opening minutes. Between Cena's dialogue and King Shark, this looks amazing!

So it's now more than three years after the originally announced release date. When are we expecting to see Flash 2: Electric Boogaloo? Oh wait...

You're gonna' wreck my budget and plans for the Clink auction.

No - it doesn't. But Marvel's also earned that right. About the only thing Marvel's proven is that nobody really wants to see a Hulk solo film. Meanwhile, they've crafted *amazing* stories out of such characters as Guardians of the Galaxy, Scarlett Witch, Captain Marvel and Jessica Jones (still counts). The difference is, DC hasn't. They can't even produce a decent Flash, Green Lantern, or (theatrical) Justice League film with their A-listers. And the disarray leads to announcements, plot threads and teasers that go nowhere. Man of Steel 2? Deathstroke? Justice League 2? Flash/Flashpoint/The Flash? New Gods? I just don't get it. That said, Aquaman and Shazam were each better than they had any right to be. And the first Wonder Woman film was Nolan Batman caliber. But hell - it's 2021 and I can say I've literally enjoyed more adaptations of Mark Millar comic books than I have DCEU films (Wanted, Kick-, Logan, Civil War, Kingsmen). That's pathetic.

Absolutely not. As a character, Black Widow didn't need a solo film. Especially given her comics history on the D-list. I'd make the same argument against a solo DC Power Girl or Starfire film from DC. Starfire, btw, is a decent analog - about as classically important to DC comics as Black Widow was to Marvel. And re. DC - that they at one point discussing a Cyborg solo film release before a solo Flash film release was bananas.

It's not sexism - it's that Ant-Man/Giant Man and Dr. Strange have *always* been more popular / important comic book characters. Ant-Man/Giant Man not only had a long run in Tales to Astonish years before Natasha graduated to co-starring in Daredevil's book, but was also a core member of the Silver Age Avengers. And let's play a game: how many solo Doctor Strange issues have there been? Now, how many solo Black Widow issues have there been?

I think I'm with Silvermane here. First, Black Widow was always d-list in the comics - yes, Amazing Adventures and co-starring with Daredevil for a bit in the '70s...but in the comics she's not even on the level of Hawkeye, who led the West Coast Avengers for most of that title's 8-year run. And on a movie adaptation - what - so we get another female Bourne clone film, a la...Salt / Atomic Blonde / Red Sparrow? Of those, the best film was Salt by a long shot, and it came out years earlier. Best case scenario - you cast her a la Ilsa Faust (Mission Impossible 6 and 7) but most of what makes that character work is her supporting status, coupled with her double/triple agent ambiguity. And I don't think the world's clamoring for an Ilsa Faust MI-6 operative-gone-rogue solo spin-off film, despite Rebecca Ferguson's amazing portrayal. I honestly think both Atomic Blonde and Red Sparrow put the kibosh on our seeing a Black Widow film earlier...

? What would a SHIELD movie have brought that 130+ episodes of the SHIELD TV show did not? I mean, sure - I don't think ScarJo guest-starred at all, but we saw Nick Fury, Agent Coulson, Sif, Maria Hill, Peggy Carter and Deathlok...

I caught much simpler evidence that this occurred just a few months after the blip - the reason the loan officer gives for denying her loan is she has "no proof of income for the last five years." Her answer implied she had no income during that time only because she'd been blipped: "How can you have income if you don't exist?" Then Sam straight up admits he too has been gone, "like several billion other people." Hence the injustice of it all.

Yeah - I don't get it. Even if they work as mission-based independent contractors, job-to-job, it strikes me that Sam would have decent money. But more than that, in the Avengers comics I read growing up, they were always salaried. This was the primary reason Spidey would try to join every 50 issues or so - government salary and health benefits.

Excalibur (Special) and # 1 prices are still accurate for today (30 years later) as well.

I *loved* the early '90s Ghost Rider issues. At one point I think I had 18 copies of # 2 - all fished out of the dollar boxes. And granted, it was ~11 years ago, but I eventually bought 4x copies of # 1 from Mile High for $4 apiece, plus got $20 in store credit for additional copies they couldn't fill...

Adding that Ghost Rider v2 was incredibly hot. $13 for # 2? $8 for # 2? And this was before 4-6 were even released. # 4 had the lowest distro of the early issues, and # 5 an instant classic with the Jim Lee Punisher cover... I think I paid $8 each for # 1 and # 5 when #7 was still on the stands. Also, if I recall correctly, Mile High Comics reported that Ghost Rider # 1 was their most sold back issue of the *year* in 1991. Makes sense, as it was affordable and not super rare enough that it was impossible to get, even at $12-$20 a copy. Whereas there simply weren't enough copies of New Mutants 87 to go around, even at $50-$75 per.

I sort of agree with you here - there's been no shortage of revenge-fueled killer action films over the last 50 years, including Death Wish, etc. Case in point: A lot of what killed the box office (and prospects for a franchise) of The Punisher film (2004) with Thomas Jane is that just a week later the Man on Fire remake was released (with Denzel Washington). Same basic character, arc, and revenge-fueled mayhem, but Man on Fire was in an entirely different league. Denzel and director Tony Scott basically made a better Punisher movie than the actual Marvel-sanctioned film with Thomas Jane and John Travolta. It was embarrassing.

Good correction - thanks. Looked it up, because Classic X-Men # 39 was the first I bought off the newsstand and Jim Lee penciled the new back-up story in that issue, but yes - Lightle did the bulk of the covers, until Byrne himself.