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Cyclops

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  1. Yah, I don't think TWD is experiencing any kind of bubble. This phenomenon is beyond any comic bubble.

    I agree.

    I would have to say TWD has brought in more new comic book readers and brought back more old time comic book readers, then any of the big blockbuster superhero movies ever did.

    Proof?

    Even though Iron Man and the Avengers movies did over 2 billion at the box office their comic books can`t even sell 35,000 copies a month,while the Walking Dead has sold over 100,000 copies and dominated the graphic novels chart.

     

    I got out of the hobby in about 2000. In 2006 I was interstate and the thought occurred to me to check out a comic store. I got the urge to read some Batman, a character I had never read before (had been all about the Marvel).

     

    Picked up a swag of the classics. Your 'Year One', 'Long Halloween'... all that stuff. Read them, enjoyed them and that was that. I saw all the super hero movies during my exile (except Spidey 3 of course :sick: ).

     

    Fast forward to 2011 and I get the urge to catalog my comics. One thing leads to another and I buy a few new comics. I get the current Walking Dead on a recommendation and decide I need to read this from the start. Could not put that first compendium down! One of the best books I've ever read.

     

    So the OCD begins to ramp up and now I have to own the first prints. And thus my quest to get every issue for cover price began.

     

    So I have to put my hand up and say that, yep, Walking Dead played a major role in bringing me back into the hobby. Not 100% responsible but a big part. I don't read it anymore but I'll never forget reading that compendium for the first time.

  2. Writer/Editor, pre #54: Hmm gotta meet the deadline. Hey, let's do a team up in issue #54. We'll put these characters together to combat evil and that'll be a great story.

     

    Writer/Editor, pre #60: Hey, we got a great response to issue #54. Let's capitalize on that and have them become a permanent team... the Teen Titans! Huzzah! cheers.gif

  3. TWD TV show is unwatchable but that Sunday night blowout was worse.

     

    Revel in this short-lived victory my friends and feel no shame when you are pretending to chop off zombie heads during your Monday morning coffee break because you beat football dammit.

     

    Next week viewers will probably choose to watch SF vs Denver (*) rather than watching a virtual repeat of the show they watched last week.

     

    :grin:

    * maybe not if it's 20 to nothing before "your" show even starts :baiting:

     

    Is this from an actual human being? He's trolling, right?

     

    The Walking Dead beats Sunday Night football heads up (and beats them even more decisively in the 18-49 y/o male demo, which is where the real money is) in a matchup featuring TWO TOP FIVE MARKETS (the Giants & Eagles), in a game RIDDLED with playoff implications for both teams, and you actually think it's a fluke????

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    Jeremy Piven is awesome.

  4. No wonder they want to have so many episodes. It's a shame because it's detrimental to the story-telling, imo. I stopped watching a while ago because it was just dragging on too much.

     

    The first season, at 6 episodes, was brilliant. Really tight story-telling and it felt more like how the original story felt.

     

    Clearly a lot of people disagree with me haha.

     

    Will have to check out the season 5 premiere at some stage because it's getting a lot of great reviews.

     

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    lol (thumbs u

  5. No wonder they want to have so many episodes. It's a shame because it's detrimental to the story-telling, imo. I stopped watching a while ago because it was just dragging on too much.

     

    The first season, at 6 episodes, was brilliant. Really tight story-telling and it felt more like how the original story felt.

     

    Clearly a lot of people disagree with me haha.

     

    Will have to check out the season 5 premiere at some stage because it's getting alot of great reviews.

  6. Holy pouches!!!

     

    I know this one has shot up in price for 9.8 copies, but look what's now a $550+ book in CGC 9.6...WOW. The latest sale for a 9.6 OWW copy was $388, but then this happened today...

     

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARVEL-SPOTLIGHT-32-CGC-9-6-First-Spider-Woman-/261623654598?nma=true&si=HTiMQyVrKTHLecDFErIpV25BYSs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

     

     

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/231360185075?ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1561.l2649

     

    Just an FYI for those who don't visit the modern section; this might have something to do with the whole Gwen Stacy is Spider-woman thing. I reckon that's going to be a huge shot in the arm for the character.

     

  7. Does a small wall in the entire house count? When we bought this house I made a point that my "stuff" would be coming out of the closets. Just today she said maybe you do the exact same thing on the other wall. At any rate here is my work in progress.

     

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    Looking very good :applause:

     

    Awesome wall!

     

    ...you made a point :eyeroll:

     

    Not off to a good start... :makepoint:

  8. Sorry Larry. I honestly don't remember.

     

    100% agree. There are a ton of these, and this is in no way X-23's first app. I read somwhere that that test tube was just coincidence.
    lol that test tube BS and people putting it in their sale title is a great way to assemble a list of sellers I dont want to buy from.

     

    It's a like a hype/pump detector.

     

    "read somwhere that that test tube was just coincidence"

     

    link or proof please...

     

     

    Really sounds like too much of a coinky-dinky to me . . . :grin:

     

    It is too much of a coincidence.

     

    Whoever created the physical female form of X-23 really knew wolverines backstory and pulled " X-23" directly out of wolverine # 80, I don't see how it could have happened any other way.

     

     

    Just FYI, X-23 was created for the TV show X-Men Evolution. The episode was written by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost. Neither of these guys wrote NYX #3, but they both wrote 'X-23' (2005), her first ongoing series which developed her backstory and origin.

     

    As you say, It's highly unlikely they pulled the number 23 out of thin air. It's hard to think that anyone could remember a single, throwaway panel, but these guys would have done their homework.

     

    It's a cool little retrospective easter egg if you're an X-23 fan.

    I've never read anything with X-23, but perhaps "23" refers to the number of pairs of chromosomes in human DNA, and is therefore not a random number being selected. (Also note that the 23rd pair is what determines sex; a female has two Xs and a male a Y and an X.)

     

    Makes sense. If anyone bumps into X-23's creators at a con, ask them. :grin:

  9. Sorry Larry. I honestly don't remember.

     

    100% agree. There are a ton of these, and this is in no way X-23's first app. I read somwhere that that test tube was just coincidence.
    lol that test tube BS and people putting it in their sale title is a great way to assemble a list of sellers I dont want to buy from.

     

    It's a like a hype/pump detector.

     

    "read somwhere that that test tube was just coincidence"

     

    link or proof please...

     

     

    Really sounds like too much of a coinky-dinky to me . . . :grin:

     

    It is too much of a coincidence.

     

    Whoever created the physical female form of X-23 really knew wolverines backstory and pulled " X-23" directly out of wolverine # 80, I don't see how it could have happened any other way.

     

     

    Just FYI, X-23 was created for the TV show X-Men Evolution. The episode was written by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost. Neither of these guys wrote NYX #3, but they both wrote 'X-23' (2005), her first ongoing series which developed her backstory and origin.

     

    As you say, It's highly unlikely they pulled the number 23 out of thin air. It's hard to think that anyone could remember a single, throwaway panel, but these guys would have done their homework.

     

    It's a cool little retrospective easter egg if you're an X-23 fan.

  10. You know how X-23 appeared on TV before NYX #3? Did the cartoon people get the idea for the name from Wolverine #80?

     

    I thought I saw someone here talking about how they liked how the writers knew about the small details, but didn't take enough notice and can't find the posts now. Just wondering if they were referring to that particular bit of info. Thank you.