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Why'd they release this a week after Deadpool and with Infinity War still in theatres? Given that Disney owns the full stake or a partial stake in all three of those movies you'd think they'd space them out more. Isn't late summer pretty wide open? I don't recall seeing any major releases after the new Jurassic World movie.

Are you suggesting Disney will force her out or that she's leaving for some personal reason?

That was about as full as the 12:30 PM showing I went to on Saturday was in one of two IMAX theaters in my area. I was pretty surprised how few people were there. I enjoyed it about as much as Rogue One, but it didn't have any "I GOTTA SEE THAT AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!" moments like Rogue One did with the Darth Vader sequence at the end.

Thanks! With the 2017 GPA average for an FF 48 in 9.6 at $7500, looks like the market for a nosebleed copy of #45 in equivalent condition is still higher due to scarcity. But this sale is down from when this same Twin Cities copy sold in 2016 for $11,950...which was better than when it cratered on that sale from the previous one in 2015 for $26,290. That's the problem with these Silver Age books that don't come up for sale often in super high grade...you're never sure what they're worth. I'm sure that whoever bought it in 2015 was aware that a copy in that shape hadn't come to market in years and just jumped on it, but wow, that 2015 sale was quite the aggressive price.

Anyone see what that sold for? ComicLink not reporting to GPA is one thing, but their nonexistent (or perhaps just awful) interface for finding completed auction items is just

Are we sure they didn't write the screenplay for that with being in the MCU in mind? It looks to me like it's mostly a standalone film that could fit into it if the take proves to be successful. Tom Holland is rumored to make at least a cameo in the film since he was seen on the set of the film, so that implies it does take place in the MCU since the Tom Holland Spider-Man is also a part of that universe.

I read Watchmen long before the film and didn't really like the Black Freighter stuff there, either. I respected the innovative approach but hated the content of those parts. The interdimensional squid was just bizarre. Having Dr. Manhattan fill that same role makes far more sense.

I'm going to be disappointed if it's not Kraven.

"Slightly" better is right. As is the case with so many 4K films at this point this isn't a real 4K version since they upscaled it from a 2K master. I don't think ANY of the DC superhero films are truly 4K other than Nolan's re-release of the Dark Knight films on 4K this past Christmas. Even recent releases like Wonder Woman and Justice League are both fake 4K. My understanding of the Ultimate Cut is that the only difference between it and the older Director's Cut is the Black Freighter comic spliced in as it was in the comic. Zack Snyder has said he prefers the Director's Cut to the Ultimate Cut and doesn't think the Black Freighter scenes flow well with the rest of the film. I LOVE the Director's Cut...some of the added material from the original release is great. I particularly loved the scene showing the death of the original Nite Owl and the accompanying scene where Nite Owl 2 learns of the death and beats the snot out of one of the members of the gang who did it.

No interest in how Maeve has suddenly gone all Neo from the Matrix and is able to control all the other androids around her? That's one of the cooler developments of the season for me. I also enjoyed Dolores giving Teddy the night of his life before she decided to effectively wipe out his entire personality afterwards. COLD! I also enjoyed Shogun World more than I thought I would, and since that was almost the entire episode, I enjoyed the entire episode. I need to re-watch the first scene of the episode again where they discovered there were a bunch of "empty vessel" hosts. You would assume those were meant to contain the personas of real people, but I'm not sure if the scene revealed anything about who exactly was meant to be uploaded to the bodies. Maybe it did and I missed it. I also missed that apparently Teddy was one of the dead bodies on that table, which I suppose isn't a surprise since he appeared dead and floating in the water in the first episode of the season.

48 is my favorite issue in one of my favorite titles, but 45 shooting up made complete sense to me as a high grade collector--they're far rarer. Less than 10 copies in 9.6 or better versus over 100 copies in 9.6 or better isn't a contest, you see a nosebleed #48 for sale several times a year, but #45 only comes up every few years. And as far as I can tell, 45 is still worth more than 48 due to a far lower supply. There's no GPA record of a nosebleed copy selling in six years, so we don't even know the current value unless you guys have seen ComicLink copies sell as a benchmark.

So future Sid went back to recruit the Shadow King to stop David? Lovely.

We've all already had the Bullseye we all want, haven't we? While the Bullseye scar in his forehead was a ludicrously bad decision, I really love this scene. Particularly the House of Pain song that accompanies it. Colin Farrell also has the right amount of nervous intensity for the role. Lotta good stuff in that Daredevil movie mixed in with the "WTF?" stuff.

No problem! They're all in now, and the best figures are definitely Hulk, Cap, and Thor. I didn't think Hulk would be my favorite, but he is because he's so huge compared to the other figures. Spider-Man is the worst, his limbs bend both the right way and the wrong way making it easy to put him into frequent knee-and-elbow-breaking positions. Hulk weighs a LOT, four times as much as Cap, six times as much as Spider-Man, and two or three times as much as Thor. He's as wide as any other three 1:12 scale figures put together, and that really communicates how big a guy he is extremely well. Both of my kids liked him as a figure whereas they saw nothing in the still images of him to cling onto (they haven't seen any of the films yet, no attention span for a 2-hour film, they've only seen short clips of the best action sequences). Hulk is a really substantially heavy hunk of plastic for a 5" action figure--that big barrel chest of his clearly isn't hollow, it's solid straight through and heavy as heck for plastic--and my only fear now is that when one of my twins inevitably chucks Hulk at the other--or at me--it's going to leave a bruise. It was the Playskool Heroes Hulk that convinced me to go with the Toybox line. He's the same size as all the other guys! There's really nothing at all to like in that Hulk, he's just a weird-looking green dude.

If I recall, the story mentions how the first two pigs were lazy and took the easier way out - building their houses out of sticks and straw - as compared to the third pig who built his house out of bricks, which required much more work. So hard work pays off. (Like the grasshopper and the ants) Who's the Big Bad Wolf in that? Nature? Capitalism? All the evil in the world?

And Jurassic World 2. Much busier summer movie schedule for me than usual.

Well above-average centering on that copy, looks nice.

That's too much for a 2-year old, so we just lie and tell him our house is brick. Something more detailed like that should work next year.

I'm unfamiliar with that book, but yes, exactly. Interesting to see how many famous storytellers have been inspired by it. I reverse-engineered the idea from the way that works like the Illiad, Odyssey, or Beowulf are assigned reading in school. The quality of the writing of any of those isn't spectacular, but that's not the point, it's the universality of the archetypes from those stories along with the continuing popularity of the characters that makes them well worth making sure that kids are familiar with them.

It depends, which 2 year old? Your daughter or son? I want to do some gender tailoring ...(just kidding, don't throw anything;) The lesson is to live in a strong brick house of course..;) My son. Please come over and assure him that stucco protects against the Big Bad Wolf just fine. And tell Thanos that we've got at least a few more millennia before we run through Earth's resources before he cuts us by half. It's pretty cute, about a quarter of the time when we drive up to the curb he looks at the house and says with a look of utter concern on his face "Big Bad Wolf no blow house down."

Surprisingly the reviews have gotten BETTER as more have come in and it's up to 87%. I think this is the first time I've EVER seen that happen.

Looks like it's going to be another reminder not to judge a film too harshly before seeing it.

What would ever motivate Ford to devote a huge chunk of his life to creating some limited form of redemption for William?

No, Nolan reveals most things far more slowly than he did with her. But not everything has to be hidden or a complex puzzle, so it's a good thing.

All of those at least had a happy ending or a lesson. Infinity War had a lesson. You may not have liked it, but it was there. Can someone help me out with the lesson of the Three Little Pigs? My 2-year old has been begging us for months now to move into a brick house so that the Big Bad Wolf doesn't blow our house down.