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I really have to disagree with Kojima's analysis of the flashbacks. To me the flashbacks were the only thing that made this series not "ho-hum." There was very little monster action so it needed to have something else - and in my opinion what it had was a great system of seeing three generations of the same family interwoven with the Titans and Monarch. I give it about an 85

Agree - I usually really like Snyder's movies. This was messy montage of origin stories, weak plot, A deus ex machina galactic power screw driver and a big nap in the middle where I fell asleep. What a disappointment.

Drax vs. Jack of Hearts might be an acquired taste . . .

Definitely not the only one - JJ had one for sure as well. But two, three, five - whatever the number, there are not many.

For all you history buffs, this is one of the first blank cover sketches ever graded by CGC. The book dropped in July of 07 and this was done in August. Fallen Son started the whole sketch cover craze. And for a while it was the only game in town. Those were heady times. We were all so young . . .

Poitier played Thanos in the original Avengers credit scene, before the shawarma

This book - Alan Davis had just been asked to sign some Miracleman books that he never got paid for, and he wouldn’t sign them. He ended up telling the whole story and he really had gotten screwed by Eclipse. Straight from that somber tale to my request - Kitty and Lockheed - he had a one character limit posted. So he looks at me and goes -“do you know what 1 character means?” And I was like “oh snap he is still really ticked off.” So I just stammered like porky pig and he looked at me and goes - “I’m just kidding, it will be fun to draw them.” He is such a cool dude.

Hey, what’s going on in here??

Having debated this many times over the years, one of the most compelling theories for why this is the case is that it incentivizes people to get SS books done.

Maybe, but only in minor way. I do not see anyone paying multiples of GPA because of a written remarque - sketches are another animal entirely. But I could see someone seeing that (same book - same grade for $150) and the one with the remarque for $175 and saying "That quote is worth the extra bread." In some cases a sophisticated market will take into account the rarity, expense or difficulty of a remarque into account. For example if the Market knew that Gal Gadot charged $100 to write "Wonder Woman" in addition to her normal signature fee, a sophisticated market would bake that in to the purchase price. Or if GRR Martin typically only signed his name, but added "Song of Fire & Ice" to one book, I could see a premium being paid for that. And in this case, I read too quickly. I thought Hayden Christensen had signed. I see zero premium for the artist adding that remarque.

This site is a great place to sell - no fees and a huge audience of active buyers. They are savvy. They will often try to get you to reduce the price by whatever the fee structure would provide. But the hotter and better the books the more leverage you will have. I had a fair amount of selling success on here, and met good people as an added bonus.

If we meet, you are making me a burger.

This is absolutely excellent detective work. I hope others participate. This could become quite a storehouse of valuable information!!

It can affect personal liability, but to the extent that there is going to be litigation, there will be vigorous attempts to pierce that LLC and attach personal liability, regardless of when the entity was formed, dissolved or re-formed.

It depends on the terms and conditions of your agreement with the credit card company. I would call them immediately.

Spent so much time on that site. Safe journeys to the hereafter Mike.

Caveat Emptor is an imperative statement. You can think of it as a warning. Let the buyer beware. As an imperative statement, it is forward looking - i.e. Beware, lest you run into trouble. Using it after the fact, is actually stating that the buyer failed to beware and is, ipso facto, victim shaming, or in some cases foolish person shaming. You are absolved.

My condolences to his family and his friends.

This makes absolutely no sense. If Chip has turned over a new leaf, that is awesome. Anyone here that is friends with him, that is delightful. I hope nothing but the best for Chip and his cohort of friends, with one caveat - the buying and selling of comic books on the Internet. His name should be associated with his misdeeds so that all of the potential buyers and sellers can beware. We owe that to the comic collecting world at large, else we become silently complicit to future misdeeds. And it is frankly offensive to suggest that an anonymous poster lauding his change of heart can somehow wipe that out.

I have been saying a version of this since about 2008, but the market does not seem to care.

Mine are very mixed as well. I got that book when I was nine or ten for Christmas. I spent the entire rest of the break devouring it, and I was really taken aback and almost scared at how brutal the comics were. And in my memory, I really had a problem with the Golden Age Flash, because it made it seem like he had killed all those bad guys (at least to my 10 year old self - I haven't read it in decades.) I have an impression of a lot of brutality in other stories as well.

Group shot is fine. Several of those deserve a much closer look, though!!

Dang it - it's Crack'aJack Jackson.

If it is then that is Crack'a'Jack Jones

This is a book that only gets done out of pure love for the artform and the SS program. It's absolutely great.