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I'm trying to fill out my Gold Key Magnus collection. According to GCD, Magnus Robot Fighter # 34 has a $.20 variant. Anyone ever seen one of these? Anyone (gasp!) actually own one? I'm fairly certain the $.15 variants of # 22 and # 23 are just Canadian versions, but I've not come across a # 34 $.20 but for this photo on GCD.

Agree with you there. I'm *really* not convinced the FF can translate well to film, but if Disney could make a solid film out of Guardians of the Galaxy, I reckon anything's possible. We don't need to see the origin of the team again - we've already seen that three times. And yes - I think they should give Doctor Doom a rest (although I really liked Julian McMahon's portrayal). As much as people love to hate on Tim Story's FF films, they did a lot right, including: Julian McMahon as Doom Michael Chiklis as The Thing The characterization of and acting by Chris Evans as the Human Torch The writing and characterization of the Silver Surfer I honestly think these films get unfairly maligned simply because they were pre-Iron Man and not part of the superhero renaissance or the MCU.

Interesting thought. But again - it discounts that Krasinski has morphed from a character actor funnyman to a legit action star over the last seven years (again, see his roles in 13 Hours, A Quiet Place and Jack Ryan). Other actors who have made such a transition? Bruce Willis - people forget he was known as a comedian and funny guy from his role in Moonlighting before he did Die Hard. Tom Hanks - seriously - the guy from Bosom Buddies and Bachelor Party is now far better known for his dramatic roles in films like Philadelphia, Apollo 13 and Captain Phillips. Bradley Cooper - he got his start as the nerdy friend on Alias. More importantly, I'm not convinced that the "Jim" we saw on The Office was anything close to his true character - I think he was absolutely acting there, where he has far more of a legit drama background. It's just his most famous and longest-running role. Plus, I mentioned his co-scripting of those films (not counting the forthcoming A Quiet Place 2) mostly because a lot of folks don't know he has a playwriting degree from Brown.

This. It's basically ignoring everything Krasinki's done in the last decade, including Promised Land (mediocre anti-fracking movie w/ Matt Damon - but which Krasinski also co-wrote), 13 Hours, A Quiet Place (which he also co-wrote and directed), and Jack Ryan. Discounting him for once playing Jim in The Office is like discounting Woody Harrelson because he once starred as Woody on Cheers.

I think you're correct here - that Avengers took place earlier than 2012, thus not conflicting with the later Infinity War timeline. I'd have to re-watch it to be sure.

Curious - what were the mistakes with Homecoming? I thought it was (easily) the second-best Spidey film (after Spider-Man 2).

You do know that Nuke played a major role in Jessica Jones, right?

Secret Wars. Full-stop. The Wolverine and Punisher miniseries were great and helped cement the popularity of both characters as superstars. But Secret Wars was a seminal all-universe event that's been repeated every 5-10 years since - from (gag!) Secret Wars II to Acts of Vengeance to Infinity Gauntlet to Civil War, etc.

Really? What about when it was used by the governor of Alabama to activate the national guard to enforce school segregation in 1961? Or the fact that the Associated Press published a piece this week explaining that Nevada's activation of the national guard re. COVID-19 response "isn't martial law?" If you've already entered the grey area where governors are literally having to explain how their deployment of troops "isn't martial law," you're closer to it than you'd think.

You doubt the government has the right to impose martial law? It absolutely does, under the Insurrection Act of 1807. While it's largely limited to state governments (thus, up to governors rather than the U.S. president), it's real - and was widely used in the first half of the 20th century.

This isn't fear-mongering. It's basic math. The Surgeon General - speaking officially for the President of the U.S. - made the 9/11 and Pearl Harbor comparisons because the administration believes we'll lose ~3,000 people to the disease this week. Literally as many dead this coming week alone as those who died at Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Reality doesn't care about your feelings. Either way, we'll know by next Sunday if they were right.

Lois and Clark back in the '90s was phenomenal - absolutely amazing. Hopefully this can be better than Krypton, tho.

Here in Virginia, the governor's already placed us under a stay-at-home order through June 10. And today DC's Mayor announced the peak is expected to hit greater DC in late June-early July. Given that each of these announcements are very tough ones to make politically, they must know we're closer to the beginning of this thing than the end.

No worries, man. The film's abject failure is self-evident. It doesn't need my help. But here's a hint: If a scene needs a Reddit thread to explain it, or a film needs a Director's Cut to reach merely mediocre status, Occam's Razor dictates (gasp!) It's probably a bad film.

Day-um. Seeing this thread re-surface just reminds me of how badly this film sucked. Sigh...

I've got Disney+, Netflix and Hulu. I'm on Hulu and Netflix daily. Haven't logged onto Disney+ in literally 2 months. If it wasn't free (through Verizon) I'd cancel and restart it six months from now to binge-watch new content.

Agree that large-scale shows are basically done for the year. On the above, there's *zero* chance that NY/PA/DC/MD/VA open re-open by May 1 and even mid-June is optimistic. I think the true deals will start a month from now, when May rent is due, unemployment's higher and many southern states are further along the COVID curve. The great depression was just 24.5% unemployment. We'll likely hit that within the next 40 days.

New Mutants is now trending nationally on Twitter because it was supposed to open today. And among all of Disney's new shuffling announcements today, it *still* doesn't have a new release date. Personally, I'd embrace its horror aspects and move it to Friday the 13th of November, 2020.

Miniscule amount of people? New York City alone has now lost 6,000 people to this virus. That's more than twice the number of people who died on 9/11. And other states are simply two weeks behind NYC. The government (which literally ordered 100,000 body bags this week for the expected national dead) has every right to impose martial law to tell people to shelter in place.

This. One of my best friends is a doctor. Different specialty, but she'll be drafted into this eventually and has already been trained on the ventilators and (re)-trained in how to intubate a conscious adult (first time since residency). And she wishes she could go back to her home country - where the quarantines are far stricter - to serve because "I don't want to put my life on the line for dumb- who went on spring break in Florida."

Why would a new Rogue appearance move w/ another movie appearance rumor? It's not like she hasn't been featured in what - 5 X-Men films so far?

I'm sure this has been asked already but...isn't Southeby's the wrong venue for this collection? I haven't thought of them as a premiere comics venue since the internet started. It's been literally decades since they made headlines selling the White Mountain copy of AF # 15 for $40,000.

Lots of news about Hobby Lobby. Ohio AG sued Hobby Lobby for staying open against their stay-at-home order - supposedly they're now going to comply and close their stores there as of this AM. And police in Wisconsin have been individually closing Hobby Lobby stores that have similarly defied the order.

Exactly. Two weeks before release, he was saying that it would get a sequel (and potentially kickstart a Valiant Cinematic Universe) if it pulled in just $120 million worldwide.

Hard to see CGC as an "essential" business, given that MyComicShop closed down when Texas gave the equivalent order.