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I like Thorne's, um, fulsome rendition of Sonja, but I can't justify that price point. That's more than IDW's Gil Kane and Walt Simonson Artist Editions and while Frank Thorne's good, he's not quite there. But I'll be keeping an eye out for future discounts.

Print runs man. There's like half a million copies of X-Force #2 compared to 50K or so of GOTG #1, and it's the 1st appearance of the current team. You know, the one the movie is based on But even with a 50,000 print run there is still a huge supply of them in high grade. There aren't 50,000 buyers out there clamoring for a copy. There are a couple of hundred speculators/hoarders trying to flip it. I'll buy the print run argument for a book like Walking Dead 1 where the demand might really exceed the total run. For most other books, the supply is still pretty big. GOTG 1 isn't a 1st or close to a 1st for any of those characters (is it a 2nd Groot? I admit I don't know). I guess you could try to argue this is the modern equivalent of Defenders 1, but I don't think it's anything more than temporary movie hype. That GOTG book had its fans, but was and is a near nonentity in the Marvel Universe.

What part of "chainmail bikini" is confusing?

Yeah, the whole issue is fantastic and I've always thought these two panels were one of the highlights of the entire run.

Smells like someone bet heavily on Ninjak once upon a time. No, but I do have a whole bunch of copies of Married with Children books with Kelly Bundy covers. Gonna be big some day, big I tell ya.

The dumb money seems a whole lot dumber this time than in the mid-'90s, but I guess that's just because we have the Internet to quantify the stupidity.

Who knows, I really don't care what their reasoning is. People are gaga over anything being optioned these days. There is a cut off point. Even during it's popular days, Danger Mouse was pretty crappy and didn't have a large following and just doesn't have what it takes to get the speculating sheep too excited. This is like speculating on Black Belt Hamsters #1 or some similar junk. I just read Hamsters #1 last night after plucking it out of the 50 cent bin a couple years ago. It was far worse than I expected.

Not necessarily, I wouldn't pay $95 for that with all those spine creases on the back, would you? The pictures are burly and terrible with 2 small lines of text as the description, terrible ad. how is that cold at a raw $95? isn't that a ton of money for that book? of course, it's just an ask, it hasn't sold. This book goes for more than cover price? holy cow, based on recent sales, $95, if the book actually was NM, would not be a crazy price. that's NUTS. so, lemme see, the 200th or so appearance of guardians of the galaxy and star lord and like the 100th appearance of rocket racoon is a $100 book? raw??? and this is the SECOND GOTG solo series, not to mention the run in Marvel prsents in the 70s. and it is selling for about as much as a nice copy of the GOTG first appeance from 40 years ago sells for?? i would have figured $25 tops. i understand the print-run was lowish, so it should be more expensive than the 1990s GOTG 1, which didn't have the Racoon in it, but $100+++?!?!?! Rocket only appeared in a few dozen comics prior to GOTG 1 ( 2008 ) my apologies, the 25TH APPEARANCE of Rocket Racoon??? Does it really matter?? Yes I think it matters. Prior to Conquest Marvel hardly used Rocket. His appearances are becoming increasingly difficulty to find and are in some odd places like She-Hulk and Quasar. Early Deadpool appearances hold value, why should Rocket be any different? Look if Disney can make a buck off Figment who knows how high the ceiling is for Rocket. It's different because it's freaking Rocket Raccoon, not an actual character of any relevance. And it's just going to be a blob of pixels on a screen made to vaguely resemble a raccoon.This isn't like Robert Downey Jr. bringing Tony Stark to life for a whole new audience.

Not necessarily, I wouldn't pay $95 for that with all those spine creases on the back, would you? The pictures are burly and terrible with 2 small lines of text as the description, terrible ad. how is that cold at a raw $95? isn't that a ton of money for that book? of course, it's just an ask, it hasn't sold. This book goes for more than cover price?

Poor Aquaman just can't catch a break.

My Terminator: Burning Earths wish this was true.

You mean that awful Venom/MJ cover? I can't stand it… You're not the only one. Neat idea, awful awful art.

Yeah, there are definitely a lot more now, and no doubt many more still out there. I think when I bought my #3 in 9.8 there were only four on the census. Fortunately I didn't pay the top price or even the top price of the past five years, but recent CL results show the book goes for less than half of what I paid. That's OK, this isn't one I ever have any intention of selling. And it's really the only high ticket book I ever took a bath on (so far) so it might as well be for one of my favorite books of all-time.

I wouldn't say the Dark Horse stuff is better than Marvel's Conan, certainly not the earliest CtB issues or the best Savage Sword issues, but they are pretty much the only new titles I get that I look forward to reading each month. I could drop every current superhero title and just read these if only they'd put out more. I'd love a Conan, Conan the King, Kull, and Solomon Kane title every month, as long as they maintained the current quality.

This, sir, is dedication and for the sake of the finest run of books ever. And I'm pleased to own a few books in your photo collection.

Does some rich kid get $657 K a week in allowance? http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=867852&gt1=28102 An electric guitar played by George Harrison on British television before the Beatles' U.S. "invasion" fetched $657,000 at auction on Saturday in New York, topping pre-sale estimates, Julien's Auctions said.

Geez, I've been to four LCSes that have decent back stock overall and none of them had an issue of Superman Adventures. Any issue at all. Talked to two of the owners and they said they used to order a couple of copies a month and nobody ever bought them, never had anyone ask about the title since. So maybe it's not so easy to find.

Everyone's just being cagey and trying to scoop up all the first appearances of The Griffin they can find, right? As for Ward, there's no way they killed off Hand like that, so there's certainly something more going on than him being an agent of Hydra.

Funniest part of cap 2 - Garry Shandling whispering to Agent Sitwell "Heil Hydra" That was just so funny on so many levels Garry's pretty big now. I think he was saying "Hail Hydrox!"

I liked the movie a lot, but geez what's a woman got to do to get some respect? This is a Marvel Team Up movie not a Cap solo adventure - Black Widow gets almost as much screen time as Steve Rogers and is just as crucial to the story, but she can't get a mention in the title? That ain't right - she needs to go kick some behind until she gets proper billing. Winter Soldier really doesn't have much to do with the movie. He's basically just an expensive weapon used by the real villains. Everything would happen pretty much the same with or without him. I don't see that as a major flaw, just a little odd considering the title/marketing. I think Chris Evans is great in this role, and Anthony Mackie was fantastic. I feel like there's a scene missing where they actually get the Falcon suit, but that's what DVDs are made for. I loved the first hour of the first Cap movie but thought it trailed off after that - still good, but just a little disappointing at the end. This one didn't have any weak stretches. Lots of fun.

I thought I heard that but it also might have been stringer I think they were saying Dr. Streiten, the character played by Ron Glass.

I like the show a lot. I hope they don't give in to pressure to go "dark and gritty" because that's what every other show does. What makes the show work for me is the sense of hope and Coulson's willingness to give people a chance to show their best. It's OK to have just one show on TV that doesn't wallow in cynicism though I guess that also gets it labeled "corny" or "cheesy." Cynicism's easy. Staying optimistic in Coulson's line of work is hard.

Maybe Lorelei's first appearance will be worth more than Beta Ray Bill's now...

They look like embryos. Is Fox really going for the Twilight crowd? The best chance is for Jordan to really carry the movie. He's capable of it.

Wait, what? No way that final bid is anywhere close to legit? Why would this be going for more than $30?