Buzzetta

Please save this for his eventual return.

I love it when people tell me that they have thousands of followers on some social media platform. Their ego refuses to allow the possibility that there are plenty of people there to watch a train wreck in motion. I also am known to follow complete train wrecks just to sit back and watch their nonsense.

Was this another challenge to engage in combat in a parking lot in Merced, California?

Well then... good thing that all those comics I sold two months ago passed through. I always thought it was in the gray area.

Getting back to the topic. I do not see that listed on the USPS website itself so the question then becomes if that was an internal memo or a clarification that has not yet been updated on the USPS website.

I actually like the snark that JLD brings to her roles so that must have been the attraction in casting. I smirked so I want to see how it plays out.

Poofed threads are not scored unless they are locked, recorded, and then eventually poofed.

I did this for Halloween one year. I dressed as Tony with the pants, the maroon shirt and the leather jacket and the hair and all. I took the L train dressed like this and put a bose portable speaker in an empty paint can while it blasted Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees. Strutted down the street and everything on my way to work. To the older crowd...they got it and cheered it on. The hipsters? It was a matter of, "Cool costume bro, hold my beer."

STOP ! The love you save will be your own !

It was not locked. It was poofed.

Lego Double Points until 4/20 No pack in incentive BUT... good time to get those sets that never go on sale like the Police Station, the latest modular.

The Friday threads keep growing.

If they are the same or similar sketch then the decision goes to the grade. BUT... Book 1 - McFarlane recreates Spider-man 1 or ASM 300 on your sketch cover and it comes back a 9.4. Book 2 - McFarlane draws a circle with the Spider-man eyes and webbing on your sketch cover like a Spider-signal and it comes back a 9.8. Book 1 all the way, every day, every which way till Sunday. Spider-man 1 recreation in 9.4 > Circle with Spider-man eyes on a 9.8.

Pathetic how you need to tell everyone then at any opportunity. You should sit on a couch and discuss it or perhaps go to the doctor to see if there is a cream for that.

Your butthurt over Last Jedi is borderline pathetic or you are simply trolling.

When it comes to Slo-Mo or any other tool in filmmaking there are two questions. How will it serve the story? Does it distract from the scene or make the scene better? When I think of instances where it succeeds? Quicksilver in the X-Men movies. The walking scene in Reservoir Dogs I think that Justice League Flash slow mo heavily picks up the cues of Quicksilver and that is not a bad thing. That opening scene with the dogs and the car crash demonstrates how Flash sees the world and how easy it is for him to navigate through it. But... not every fight scene has to have that slow motion lunge. Is it overuse? It depends on the character and the frequency.

Fixed that for you courtesy of card collector and our forum's own Adam Lui

at the Bechara premium. I thought that I was out of my mind for paying $800 to Bechara for this years ago, but Clutch and the Vamp was the first GI Joe toy I had so that was a must purchase. I thought it was nuts to pay him $600 for the Zartan page as well but I knew that this was a memorable scene. The Zartan page is one of the three that I have been asked to sell as it features the transformation sequence that they later made an exclusive convention three pack of. Clutch is currently framed and Zartan is not going anywhere either.

I have seen modern books with a bindery tear achieve a 9.8 due to the way the book was manufactured. Amazing Spider-man 365 and 700 immediately come to mind.

The short response: No, and it is a problem that Hasbro has faced since 2012. The long response: Hasbro is trying to market their product to the kids but they are honestly failing at every level. The Snake Eyes movie is a make or break moment for the next several years as they are fortunate to get another chance within the decade. GI Joe Retaliation was released in 2013 but was scheduled for 2012. Upon the eve of the release the stores were already flooded with toys geared toward kids. They offered role play items, included interactive toys with spring loaded mechanisms, and even reduced the articulation to meet a lower price point on certain figures so that parents would find the offerings as attractive as the kids. Then they realized that Retaliation was going to be a BAD movie. So, Paramount and Hasbro pushed it back a year for reshoots and to reformat it in 3D as a hope to be a box office draw. Remember how I said that the comic art is more about the toys and characters than the toys? Yeah... same thing with the movies. Without movie support, the toys were allowed to sell out if they were already on the shelves or they were sent back to the warehouse. Stores like Toys R Us, Walmart, Target and online stores like Amazon and BBTS did not place any further orders until the movie had a firm release date. The best toys of the run were in the second half and third wave assortments which were not ordered as heavily. When the movie did come out there was really not a lot of product to support it. The first wave offerings were long gone or were shipping in limited quantities. By the time the stores ordered and received and put product on shelves the movie already in the theaters and was not the success they had hoped. The line started to die. Hasbro tried to appeal to collectors with the 50th Anniversary collection through TRU. The 50th Anniversary collection lasted through the 52nd anniversary collection as well. The 50th Anniversary line stayed on the shelves and clearance'd out. Hasbro stopped producing figures at retail in 2016. The only place to get GI Joe figures was through the collector's club and those were $40 each. With a four year absence, GI Joe was not available on toy shelves until they increased the size to 6" and that in itself has been a screw up of epic proportions. Walmart and Target did not have a lot of faith in the line and under-ordered figures which disappointed many prospective buyer's. The Target exclusives are of very popular characters such as Baroness and Beachhead and are impossible to find. The reintroduction of the 3.75" line is also hard to find as that is a Walmart exclusive. If you cannot lock in a preorder you are not finding them. This has caused collectors to abandon the line. When you cannot buy the item, eventually you lose interest in trying to buy the item. So here we are in 2021 and Hasbro revealed the upcoming lines. There is a 6" line with 9 points of articulation to be offered as a lower price point for kids. There is also a 6" line geared toward collectors priced at $22.99 each. There is no word on 3.75" figures and vehicles to support the movie. So... we will know if GI Joe get's another chance at life this summer or if it goes away again. If the kids don't embrace the product like they do Transformers then that's another nail in the coffin for the line.

That cover benefitted from the Wolverine Snake Eyes tax. There is another cover out there that the seller wants $8k for a non Snake Eyes cover. He will probably use the sale to increase the price but no one was buying at $8k so.... yeah... So it definitely depends on the character.

It's one of the very reasons that you state that I have picked up a few vintage Mickey pencils rather than the cels. I am nervous about buying a 80 year old cel. Also keep in mind that the original art would be considered the pencils from the actual artists assigned to the films while the completed cels were done by the ink and paint departments composed of the women (who were not allowed to be animators) and animation assistants and trainees.

You and I must have been battling it out early on. If that was you, then once I placed a bid to outdo yours, I was immediately beaten and it started to go back and forth within a minute to $8000... I expected the page to hit around $5000, but like I said above, I know of a couple of collectors that most likely would have done anything to get that page. One of them is in the vintage GI Joe toy collecting group on facebook so I am wondering if he picked it up.

It is their first appearance in the comics. They are not mentioned nor appear on any other pages prior to this one. This page does not predate Duke as a figure as Duke was offered as a mailaway first. However, this page actually predates the release of Roadblock as a figure. GI Joe 22 has a cover date of January 10th, 1984 making it one of the few times early in the run that the character was introduced in the comics before he shipped to toy stores. I was a serious bidder early on in the auction but became a spectator once I saw two guys battling it out as it began its path to over $10k. I have other pages and this started to feel more like a urinating contest than what the page was actually worth to me. There are also three to four very serious GI Joe art collectors that try to buy up as much as possible and have quite the wallet to open so I have been fortunate to get the pages I can and they remain with me. I know I have a couple of pages that they want as I have been approached to sell them. However, I personally do not see the ultra high value that they are paying and have turned down the offers for three specific pages I have not based on the money offered, but because of the sentiment and my liking of the characters. GI Joe characters transcend all contributing artist except for Larry Hama and with the exception of Zeck covers. When it comes to Joe collectors, they really don't care about the artist, (and rightfully so in my eyes) because it's more about the toys and the characters than any artist that contributed toward them other than Larry Hama.

There is a member on the boards who recently had a package go missing in the last week due to an issue with... that's right... Fed Ex. I would state the value of the cards to be at the price you are unwilling to lose should the package go missing.