Balham's Finest

Dammit Harvey.

Not sure. I feel for you as you've ended up with a comic that you don't want (and buying the one that you did want will be very expensive now), but I don't honestly know that I agree you were right to assume you were getting a 9.8 in the absence of Adonis specifically saying so. I'm glad you've been offered a refund, anyway. Although as someone else pointed out, you could always just keep the book and sell it (almost certainly for more than $150) as an alternative.

I don't have a horse either, but I would like to know who added the note that says "...this is for fast Wytches Fast SS 9.8"? Adonis said it was you. If it was in fact him, that changes things.

Tubbs is barely in the ground and you're already for Boss? Shame on you, sir.

8 months between issues? No thanks - feeling vindicated about my trade-waiting decision. Quitely is awesome, but v slow (I am assuming it's him and not Millar that is responsible for the delay).

Was this supposed to be a reference to Rupp's memes? If so, you are even more of a [insert insult of choice here] than I previously thought.

Just to add - I'm a fan of Jock, but I have to say that the writing was a LOT better than the art in my opinion. There's an essay by Snyder at the end of the book which is worth a read too. It's amazing to think that pretty much nobody had heard of him before American Vampire. He's taken over the world since then (well, DC comics anyway)!

I'm not a huge horror fan - films, books or comics - but I have to say I really liked the first issue of Wytches. Will continue to read.

Ah, I was wondering if there was extra content, and Amazon was silent on that. What else is included? Also, do you get the covers? Those haven't been in the TPBs, and I'm not sure if there were in the limited edition NYC hardcover from a couple of years ago as mine are still shrinkwrapped (but I don't believe they are).

It might, depending on what the PM says, and how much thinking is required in order to reply to it! I'm just saying I don't think there's any need to worry after a day and a half.

Depends what the PM said, really (I'm assuming they've read it rather than just not opened it). A day and a half doesn't seem that long. We all* have lives outside the boards. *for which read "most of us"

This back and forth is unbelievably tedious. You both love PMing each other by the sounds of things - perhaps take it back there?

Sadly not, according to the description...

I completely disagree. I think if you have a different suitcase proposition in each episode while slowly introducing some of the Minutemen mythos audiences would be hooked early. Yes, I think that's how you'd have to do it. Let's face it, the overall plot of the books is way too much for TV. I would anchor the TV series to the suitcase proposition too - gives more scope for new mini stories, with the Minutemen in the background, the focus being on their hidden identities and then, once reactivated, their relationships with each other. There'd be a lot of potential for someone with a cameo role in episode X appearing as a Minuteman in episode X+5 for example. Honestly I think you'd probably have to dump the whole Graves and some of the Minutemen rebelling against the Trust arc altogether to make it work. I think you could still have the rebellion and it work. In fact, you need the rebellion; otherwise, what's the point of the story. The rebellion is the story; isn't 100 Bullets about the revenge of the minute men? I imagine it working kind of like Fringe: we get the weird-case-of-the-week shows (in this case, suitcase-proposition-of-the-week shows), with the background being that Graves has an agenda to reunite his minute men to get revenge on the trust. Every once in a while, a minute man gets reactivated. Overtime, we get less of the suitcase-proposition-of-the-week shows and the focus shifts to the revenge as the show ends. I don't think 100 Bullets is about the revenge of the minute men at all. That's not even what Graves is about. His deal is I actually found the ending quite unsatisfying from that point of view. And honestly I found Graves himself to be a bit on the uninteresting side as a character. The minute men were the stars of the show for me.

Not sure exactly what you mean. There's Wikipedia, obviously. There's also THIS SITE, which I used to check out when the series is running. It's pretty good, but unfortunately they stopped updating it before the books finished, so it's not quite complete.

I completely disagree. I think if you have a different suitcase proposition in each episode while slowly introducing some of the Minutemen mythos audiences would be hooked early. Yes, I think that's how you'd have to do it. Let's face it, the overall plot of the books is way too much for TV. I would anchor the TV series to the suitcase proposition too - gives more scope for new mini stories, with the Minutemen in the background, the focus being on their hidden identities and then, once reactivated, their relationships with each other. There'd be a lot of potential for someone with a cameo role in episode X appearing as a Minuteman in episode X+5 for example. Honestly I think you'd probably have to dump the whole Graves and some of the Minutemen rebelling against the Trust arc altogether to make it work.

There's no way a 2 hour movie can be made of a 100 issue comic series, especially one as convoluted as 100 bullets. Not without changing and cutting so much of the lot that it essentially becomes a completely different story. Not that it wouldn't be good - but perhaps too different to mean much of a price bump for the books?

Maybe not so much in this situation. But it's a slippery slope. What if it's a really hard to find book that the buyer's going to find it hard to get hold of again? Or a top census book? Not a fan of allowing sellers to bow out just because they feel like it, unless there's been really heinous buyer behaviour.

There are situations in which I can see myself defending a seller in a transaction like this - i.e. saying that they should not be added to the PL for deciding to pull the plug on a transaction because they were upset with the buyer's antics. But I think that would demand a level of buyer buttholery that I'm not sure we have here.

I'll pick this apart in the morning. I look forward with... uh... great interest to pages and pages of back and forth and quoting and re-quoting.

It honestly wasn't that funny the first time, and it's getting pretty old now.

I'm not sure I agree that the number of people involved should be the determining factor for PL v HoS. From the sounds of things, this is outright theft. Not to mention the fact that it reduces confidence in sketch ops, which is bad for the boards (Castrillo aside, the worst problem people normally face is that it takes ages to get their sketch - that's distinct from buying and selling books where by now most people that participate on the boards know that there are a fair amount of cowboys around aside from established boardies).

Are those 11 x 17 pages?, they look full size next to the comic...

its MOOT point! The pedant already covered this.