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The only thing I know about collectibles inventory from over a year old is that if you've had it over a year it's considered a long-term investment and subject to a different tax rate. Under a year of ownership is the short-term rate.

One annoyance about all of this is I don't always remember what I paid for any given item I want to sell. I track comic buy/sell prices, but only if I paid more than about $50 to $100 for it. Cheaper stuff I bought raw at cons I mostly won't remember what I paid. I'll be selling statues and action figures I bought at MSRP, but I don't remember MSRP prices for stuff from decades ago.

This is all incenting me to sell off some stuff I've been meaning to sell off for years THIS year.

The only "grounded," i.e. low-power or no-power characters associated with the Avengers who haven't appeared in movies or on television (which rules out Jessica Jones and Iron Fist) that jump to mind are Swordsman, Moon Knight, Rage, and White Tiger.

Yep. It seemed all but assured Galactus would be next when Dwight said during one of their streams about the Sentinel that they had made a prototype of Galactus but decided that going with an army-builder figure would make it easier to hit the funding target. They crushed the target for the Sentinel, so using the prototype they already had for the figure most people would want makes their next project a no-brainer.

It's the BAF and the design for the Falcon figure that's preventing them from revealing the Disney Plus wave. The BAF leaked, and what it is won't show up probably until the final episode of Falcon and Winter Soldier in two weeks.

The owner has a young son who also collects comics so while the dad is definitely beyond retirement age the book may not surface for many decades to come. I used to regularly see the two of them at the Northern Virginia comic-con.

Agreed. what a PIA What "detail" are you guys envisioning related to collectibles (I'm ignoring depreciable items, that's another topic)? All you should have to record is what you paid for an item, what you sold it for, and subtract one from the other. And it's not new, you're supposed to have been doing that your entire life whether you knew it or not. What's new is that now if you're using eBay the IRS will know about it whereas before you could evade taxes more easily. Even if collectibles weren't taxed I would track what I paid and sold items for just so I learn to buy and sell better. As soon as I started buying comics worth more than about $100 I realized I should track sales to hone my buying and selling skills to justify larger purchases.

That's because it's the easiest to find Silver Age Marvel key, by far, because it was present in multiple warehouse finds. If not for the high supply it would easily be worth 4x to 10x what it has historically sold for.

Solid episode, enjoyable throughout. Zemo was just as good here as he was in Civil War. Sharon was using a silver baton that reminded me of Mockingbird's billy club/staff. For a second I couldn't remember if Sharon actually was Mockingbird since they're both blondes, but I guess Mockingbird's real name is Barbara Morse.

Was that thing underground or underwater?

Wonder if Ayer said that before the horrid reviews poured in.

I think I agree, Skull Island was better. I remember being surprised how much I liked it. The only one I think I've missed is Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Was that better or worse than Godzilla vs Kong? I've been on the edge of watching that for most of the last year.

Odd who WB leaves alone and who they micro-manage. Nolan's experience was the same as Gunn's, he said they left him alone entirely.

I remember enjoying 2014 Godzilla and don't disagree, but I never felt compelled to re-watch it. That's the mark on these films for me, which do I want to see again. I enjoyed this film but don't feel compelled to re-watch. I definitely want monster fighting action twice as much as compelling story. I love Cranston and remember thinking he was good in that film, but he wasn't the draw, Godzilla was. I did feel compelled to re-watch Peter Jackson's King Kong another time or two, and I've re-watched some of the best scenes on Youtube multiple times, particularly the ones with the dinosaurs and that scene where they're fighting bugs in that trench. Maybe I'm burnt out on monster movies now.

Godzilla won, so hopefully Gunn can make the next round happen--Godzilla vs Starro.

Hulk no like when big, dumb monster movies have smart stories. Hurts Hulk's head. I've never tried to rank the monster/robot movies...which ones are the best? My memory is telling me they're ALL dumb, but maybe I'm not remembering a few. The one I remember liking the most is the first Transformers film, and that one is dumb, dumb, dumb. But I never would have liked Godzilla or Kong at all if the movies being dumb was a problem.

Sounds almost impossible to believe given Walter Hamada's track record. Trailer looks fantastic though. Gunn wasn't left alone to direct Guardians of the Galaxy...his clashes with Ike Perlmutter's Marvel Creative Committee are well documented. Feige got Iger to get rid of that committee not long after GoTG came out.

Liked it better than any other Godzilla film that has come out over the last two decades or so. None of the giant monster or robot fighting films are great. If they're fun and hold my attention I like them, and this one did both. I wasn't expecting the third monster, so when he popped up I enjoyed it. Question:

Just watched this start to finish for the first time since I saw it in the theater. I've re-watched parts of it when I flipped past it on television, and I've re-watched the fight scenes a ton of times on Youtube, but I had forgotten how much I loved the entire film--particularly the science fiction elements in portraying Krypton and the way they were colonizing the galaxy. In the past 300 has been my favorite Snyder film, but I also re-watched that film a few days ago and now I think I like Man of Steel more. I wouldn't rank it in the top 10 or 20 superhero films of all time objectively, but it's DEFINITELY in my subjective top ten. I like the first two Nolan Batmans better, but Snyder gave me everything I would ever want in a Superman origin story. I would have liked more detail about why the Kryptonian settlements died out. Why were they never able to find a planet where a colony could sustain itself particularly given how good they were at terraforming? That doesn't make complete sense. Snyder's depiction of Krypton almost comes off like a case study for why Thanos was right about the course of civilization using up all natural resources and ultimately killing themselves, but I don't get why they weren't able to successfully colonize planets over the course of the 100,000+ years they were doing it referenced in the film.

He refers to Redwing as Stark-level tech, which implies that it's as technologically advanced as something Stark would make but that it isn't something he actually made.

Yep, I thought the same thing during those fights. But we're talking about Stark here, and that means nearly-infinite tech, so it could be written to explain that he designed some way to absorb force into the armor.

They protect your skin and they keep your bones from breaking, but your tissues and organs still shift inside your body in debilitating ways. The whole NFL brain damage (CTE) controversy won't go away because nobody knows how to design a helmet to prevent your brains from sloshing around inside your skull when you get hit hard enough.

Capitalism is inevitable as long as the resources we need to both live and thrive are scarce. Marx was right that as automation causes the value of human labor to move closer and closer to zero that capitalism will inevitably fail, but he didn't seem willing to wait for it to happen naturally. I expect that it will, but not for centuries or perhaps a millennium or more. We'll need full robotic automation, off-Earth mining, and DRAMATICALLY better power sources--probably even better than fusion reactors--to make it a reality. Until then we're all capitalists, albeit with an amount of government market control that varies by nation. Even China is capitalist no matter how much it likes to pretend it isn't. It's fun to hypothesize what a post-capitalist society would be like where resources are effectively infinite and the value of human labor to meet the basic needs of everyone is very close to zero (i.e. money has no value). Certainly the most popular cultural vision of that is Star Trek, but there are many examples. I'd love to see a work that focuses on it completely. Wall-E did, but it was fairly dystopian. The Jetsons did but it didn't go into any detail about how they got there, it just had fun with what civilization would be like if we ever did get there. Some short stories focus on it, but I'd prefer a novel or film, if not an entire serial fiction.

Some of us are still bitter about having been trolled in Wandavision by Jac Schaeffer.