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I too, live in Nassau County. I send my books out of state to be pressed by a reputable pressing service. I have a few friends that have attempted to steer books to some of these guys. Not a chance.

The only thing you missed here was that higher grade copes are harder to come by. They had the same binding issues as X-O Manowar. While X-O exists in greater numbers in 9.8's as more people were saving them and the publishing numbers increased they were still susceptible to the same damage where merely opening the book created incredible stress on the spine.

@PeteFromPetesBasement... heh he has a good one if he gets the time.

The rhymes I am spitting in my head right now. Was listening to this lil' gem earlier

Holla back

Welcome to Long Island where that's the reality of everyone I know

Here is a thought... @BlackTerror98 Are you sure they are your books? Sometimes these shops switch the books out. It has happened before.

Choose someone to press your books that actually has a legitimate business pressing books and not these fly by night amateur hour basement pressers that think they know what they are doing because they joined a Facebook pressing support group and bought a t shirt press off eBay or watched a YouTube video.

That's so vintage G1 of them

Those are people looking for attention. Seeing the same movie 140 times is kind of perverse.

I've seen it with Star Wars. It never ends. There is nothing that can be done. "Not my Star Wars" blah blah. It's funny because this morning I was watching an online episode of First We Feast: Hot Ones... which I absolutely love and we should have a thread about that. Anyway... Kumail Nanjiani was on and in the course of the interview it was brought up that he had a X-Files podcast. The question was not about the podcast but about his research. Sean really asks the best questions. Sean basically asks him that while Kumail was reading old internet posts on the X-Files, where did the internet fandom go south? Kumail said he actually could see and trace in his research the instances where everyone goes from being critical and respectful to, "You suck" and emojis being used and from there you see the toxicity of the internet fandom. To a point, I really do not think that anything can be done about it. It is what it is.

That's on you. You pay attention to it. Smile at them ignore them and relish the fact that you are not like them.

So here is where I see the future of comic books. Jim Lee is also a collector from what I hear and knows the desire to actually have something in hand. I mean Liefeld is in the FB comic art group buying pieces from time to time and discussing his collection. These guys know the industry but they also know the fan base. So... I do see print media disappearing in the format that you are all familiar with. Here is what I see. Comics are solely released digitally Digital comics contain digital commercials that release exclusive content from DC media The digital comic is a limited edition NFT so that people can only purchase a 'print run' of say 25,000 (or whatever number.) The comics can be collected and sold or traded to other members through the publisher's own 'exchange' So if I miss the first appearance of John Smith in Batman Issue 1,227 I can offer to buy it from someone on DC's exchange. DC gets a percentage of the transaction fee. Printed media consists of TPB collecting the material. Steps 1-5 are basically already taking place in the sports card market with Topps. Is this concrete? Obviously not. Is this a possibility? More than most realize. Are some of these things going to happen. I firmly believe this.

No progress right now. The sales threads have been dominating that time which is good... because then it frees up even more space to make things easier.

It the Bumblebee included the same as the Walmart exclusive?

And that is it. Some stuff... I just couldn't part with... Some stuff... I just cannot find...

X-O Manowar 1 VF to NM $20

Eternal Warrior 1 - The Awakening VF $1

Archer and Armstrong / Eternal Warrior 8 Flipbook - 1st Ivar VF $2

Eternal Warrior 1, 2, 3, 5 $14 1 NM 2 NM 3 VF 5 NM

Valiant FCBD Set of 3 - $3

X-O Manowar 1 - Nord Variant Revival $1

Bloodshot 7 1st Full Ninjak NM $2

This is the best thing I've seen all day.