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Some new books: lim and Bulandi Jeff Purves David Lloyd Travis Charest

Big time sales thread coming. Starting with Yellow and Blue slabs, then raws, then maybe some sports cards.

These are really nice!!

I have this in hand now. John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis

DiceX sig series . . .

The house that you buy in Whiterun is literally right next store to the blacksmith. You can store it all right there and it is a 35 second sprint to go get it.

Welcome to 2008. I love discovering older classics that I missed the first time around. In fact, I just got the 5th anniversary Oblivion steelcase from Futureshop for $4.99 (couldn't resist at that price) and I'm gonna give it a go this weekend, and this is after playing through Skyrim. Oblivion is fun, and worth playing, but the leveling system is fairly broken. All monsters level with you, so if you aren't careful about your choices you will end up getting smoked by bandits wearing glass armor and carrying ebony greatswords by the end of the game. The daedric levels got old pretty quickly as well. Other than that, it's pretty fantastic, but I doubt you will like it nearly as much as Skyrim. Agreed, and I never finished Oblivion for that reason. There should always be higher level monsters of course, but when everything levels with you, you never get that reward of feeling powerful that should come with putting time into your character. I liked how flexible Skyrim is with how you develop your character. Unless you're playing on master difficulty, you don't need to worry about wasting perks or anything like that. Skyrim tweaked the Oblivion system pretty successfully, with some areas leveling gradually and some areas locked at their opening levels. It still isn't as clean as a game like Baldur's 2 though, where the difficulty was constant and transitions to different parts of the game seamless. One complaint with Oblivion/Skyrim that really resonated was that is lacked the experience of going up against very tough boss-like characters early on while exploring areas you shouldn't have been in yet. I always thought that was fun, especially when you overcame long odds and defeated something that you normally would want to face at a much higher level. Like taking on Firkraag or the Demi-Lich early on....if anyone here is dorky enough to know what I am talking about. If you hit a couple certain quests early enough, it happens. I found an area with those centipede bubs at level 3 the first I played it - that was super tough, and also a Draugr boss at 4th level that took me like 30 times to beat, and I had to do a cheesy screen trap on him to do it. Over 150 arrows with a crappy bow to kill it.

Welcome to 2008. I love discovering older classics that I missed the first time around. In fact, I just got the 5th anniversary Oblivion steelcase from Futureshop for $4.99 (couldn't resist at that price) and I'm gonna give it a go this weekend, and this is after playing through Skyrim. Oblivion is fun, and worth playing, but the leveling system is fairly broken. All monsters level with you, so if you aren't careful about your choices you will end up getting smoked by bandits wearing glass armor and carrying ebony greatswords by the end of the game. The daedric levels got old pretty quickly as well. Other than that, it's pretty fantastic, but I doubt you will like it nearly as much as Skyrim. Agreed, and I never finished Oblivion for that reason. There should always be higher level monsters of course, but when everything levels with you, you never get that reward of feeling powerful that should come with putting time into your character. I liked how flexible Skyrim is with how you develop your character. Unless you're playing on master difficulty, you don't need to worry about wasting perks or anything like that. I absolutely love Skyrim, but it is so buggy for the 360 that it drives me crazy.

I just started the trade and have read the first two issues. Good read.

1st spec book I have hit on since Morning Glories.

Absolutely perfect transaction.

Canadian law is one step up from feudalism. Males are legally allowed to marry at 12 and females at 14. (thumbs u Also, Wayne Gretzky gets droit du signeur.

Canadian law is one step up from feudalism.

And asking people to do math on round percentages is difficult as it is, to ask them to do math to calculate percentages with decimal points and partial percentages and then asking them to add .30 cents ON TOP of all that other math is positively sadistic. Word. I'm going to send the seller a dollar out of sympathy. I'll send you a $1.04. This may turn into a sweet Ponzi scheme.

And asking people to do math on round percentages is difficult as it is, to ask them to do math to calculate percentages with decimal points and partial percentages and then asking them to add .30 cents ON TOP of all that other math is positively sadistic. Word.

Why the hate? cause people holding tons are boosting it, and others are talking it down The people talking it down, have they actually read it? The first issue was good enough that I want to read the next few. Although if people are buying them for the sake of flipping, I hope the price stays at cover. Yup good story so far. I've stopped buying them at this point just to make sure the price doesn't get too high for people that want to read it before the TPB comes out. Although the first prints seem to be hitting $8-$9 shipped on eBay now. A week ago it was closer to $6 shipped. didn't know Lamar Hunt was on the boards

It is arduous to keep clicking all those buttons to get your money from Paypal. 1% almost doesn't seem enough.

A couple of Boston Bisleys that are just in, and my new Jim Silke, coutesy of MAyor006!

I couldn't figure out if the 4% was worked in, or whether it was an add on.

When we started worrying about how ups could get off the list before they were even added i started wondering the same thing. Reality is, the probation list is no longer the warning it once was. Its just a strongarm tactic to force someone into completing a transaction. It could serve both purposes, but i guess we as a community have groomed it to operate this way. Your description of the PL as "a strongarm tactic to force someone into completing a transaction" is a good one, and to me that's the virtue of the PL, its supposed to facilitate solutions to problems. Once a solution has been found there is no sense or purpose to it being a warning about anything. If the problems don't get solved a name or names remain on the PL and that stands as a warning to other members. Indeed its a warning in two senses, as its also a deterrent. Well said! Just because it can be used does not mean it always should be used. The knee jerk reaction of someone posted and didn't pay therefore onto the probation list to me is an easy way out for sellers. I offer returns. If a buyer has an issue I would like to know before I spend money to ship the comic. I also do not understand the mentality of now you have to give me your money. In the vast majority of cases the seller appears unharmed. So being on the PL is warning me of what exactly? Jeff, you have made no bones about being willing to let people back out, and also of backing out as a buyer. That is fine. It is a perfectly viable belief. But the idea that backing out leaves the seller unharmed is unprovable, and, most likely wrong. Potential buyers who see the book as sold move on and spend their money on something else, or they get the same item elsewhere. I think that happens a lot. I disagree with your blasé "no harm, no foul" premise.

Great additions!

Yes

Perfect transaction. Now I, too, like pie!

I dumped it right after Fall of the Mutants. I couldn't take it. I tried to pick it back up a couple of times. Then 268-275 or so were very entertaining. Then it really went in the toilet again. Jim Lee's art was always pretty, though.

Jeff wears Underoos.