MadGenius

Scheduled for Grading 11/13

Modern Pre-screen: Received 09/25 Verified 11/05

Here is the regular first print for contrast. The 2nd print is red and it says "2nd print." Yep, #2 2nd print has a red cover (vs. black for the 1st print). In general, I've found the reprints of #1 and #2 a bit harder to find than the 1st prints.

Son of a Well played, sir.

Uh-oh! Look what Daddy did... Big thanks to Ryan and Doug for getting these done at Heroes. They look awesome!

#2 2nd print? I need that one! You are going to need to get some Sig Series books before too long. Oh, they are coming. Stay tuned.

#2 2nd print? I need that one!

MP also has half the print run of Saga.

MP has always been better than Saga in my opinion. I think most people overrate Saga and underrate MP.

Fixed that for you.

Kids today will have no idea why that's so funny.

FT submission received 5/6, so we're at the 20 business day mark. Verified, still.

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Prepare to wait for Fast Tracks. C2E2 has created a bottle neck, so it looks like those TATs will be getting longer.

IMO, there's a big problem from a customer service perspective if Fast Track submissions are now taking 20 days to turnaround, which seems the be the case. Setting aside the backlog of standard submissions, if people are paying extra for FT and getting their books in 20 business day, the advertised turnaround time for non-FT submissions, that doesn't seem right.

Yeah, no chance that happens. My 3/28 submission hasn't shipped yet. It moved to scheduled for grading fairly quickly, but the hold up appears to be with encapsulation as it's been stuck in QC limbo for days.

Yep, I saw that report on Bleeding Cool. It's a bit deceiving though. Image does a very slight overprint on their books. When there's a rush of reorders after the FOC, say when a bunch of speculators place preorders with the likes of Midtown, etc. after the FOC, then the book will be sold out at Diamond. I think this happens with most Image #1s and it's mostly due to speculators coming late to the party.

Holy cow, is this for real? The only person who has said that is Mashed Potatoes. I'm not sure if anybody can back that up I listened to the same interview and Hickman definitely said the print run is 3x anything he's ever done with Image. Not a surprise given the cover of previews and those who are speculating heavily on the title.

My thoughts exactly. I plan to put that money toward OA instead of the manufactured collectibles the publishers are producing.

I think it's the RRP that's ruffling people's feathers. The FP variant is available to anyone who wants to preorder it, but the RRP won't be readily available to collectors. Also, the RRP does nothing to help the creators since it's a freebie from the retailer summit and has no impact on actual orders.

So you're pretty much saying that no matter how great a story is (Nowhere Men) you'll stop reading if there are multiple covers? Read comics because you enjoy them. If you enjoy them, it shouldn't matter about covers and variants unless you're only in for flipping. I have to say, I agree with GodofThunder. I was going to add this series to my monthly pull list until the variants popped up. I've pretty much decided not to support monthly titles with variants. That's me voting with my wallet. I may check out the eventual TPB, but I won't be collecting the floppies.

It would've been issue 900 in the old numbering. What is TEC? Detective Comics