Crimebuster

Hello, gentle people of the CGC community. Today I have for you one of the most iconic romance covers of all time for a mere pittance. But first, some rules: 1. in thread trumps PM conversations. 2. In the case of multiple PMs, or take its, I will go by time stamp. 3. no HoS/probation people please. I'm Crimebuster, not Crimeenabler 4. shipping to the US is included; if you are in Canada, it's an extra $5. Shipping is through the USPS. 5. Paypal only! Thanks. 6. please pay promptly, I have a crimefighting monkey sidekick to feed 7. If there's any kind of issue with the books, let me know within one week of receiving it and we can figure out some kind of return. But I don't anticipate any issues! Just the one book tonight - one of the most iconic romance covers of all time. Young Romance #150 2.0 - $50 shipped This has a spine split at bottom, about 1 1/4". Slight split at same place to first wrap, only maybe 1/4 " Also has writing on bc. Spine is rough from top to bottom. Book is complete, cover is attached, and it presents nicely for the grade, which is important since, let's face it, you're buying it for the cover. I want to call it a 2.5, but the spine and bottom left corner are a little too rough I think. An all-time classic, and must have for any romance collector!

I finally got some tickets for this. It was a struggle. AMC is the main chain in my area, and they have been a total cluster today. Their website was glitching, and then eventually went own completely. I got in a queue on Fandango for tickets (from AMC), and after two hours in the queue, I got a message saying the line is paused, presumably because the AMC website is down. Anyway, I got tickets at a locally owned theater. They didn't have their online sales up earlier, hence resorting to AMC, but once they put the tickets up, I grabbed a pair. Thursday night at 6 pm. Woohoo!

Thanks! It is a lot of work, but so far, it's been worth the effort!

It's a slippery slope! I have a complete run otherwise I would consider this copy. This is the best era for the book too — I know some people like the early stuff with Iron Jaw, but #30-44 is the real sweet spot in my personal opinion.

I've been posting about this for while over in my journal, but I wanted to just share something real quick with everyone. Some of you may remember that five years back, I mentioned I was planning to self publish my own revival of Crimebuster. I worked on a few pages of that, but it just wasn't working out the way I wanted, so I eventually stopped. I didn't give up, though! I've been working on the story, and on my art, and for the last 6 months, I've been toiling away writing and drawing the first issue of a new series starring Crimebuster. I just love the character, and if nobody else is going to do new stories for me to read, I guess I'll have to do them myself! The series is called The Crimebusters, and its a mystery adventure series in the tradition of Scooby Doo, featuring Crimebuster and his new partner, intrepid girl reporter Trixie Trouble. I should have the first issue done in April, and will be going to Kickstarter at the beginning of June, and you can read a sneak preview of the first six pages on the Crimebusters website right now. Here's a look at the splash page, where I tried to keep the Golden Age flavor with the half splash, and also the traditional morality speech at the start of the issue in the Charles Biro style: I'm also incorporating a lot of stuff from the original Boy Comics run. I'm continuing the numbering, of course, so my first issue will be #120. I am also picking up on the continuity from the original series. At the end of #119, Chuck was in the second semester of his sophomore year of college, in the spring of 1956. In my first issue, he's starting his junior year of college in the fall of 1956, and I am bringing back the supporting cast from the Curtiss Tech stories in #107-119, including Stu, Jabbo, Weenie Dinkle, Alex, and others. I am introducing a new partner, Trixie Trouble. As a kid, I was a huge fan of teen detective novels, like the Three Investigators and, of course, Trixie Belden. I wanted to bring in that feel to the stories, which I think fits perfectly with Chuck's college adventures. I also wanted to give him a human partner to have conversations with — and arguments. Chuck got off easy in the first 117 issues because monkeys can't argue back! I haven't forgotten about Squeeks, though, as the first issue will have a four page Squeeks solo backup story showing what Squeeks is up to back in New York while Chuck is off at college. And I will definitely be keeping Boy Comics alive! I don't have it done yet, but this issue — and any future issues I hopefully will do — will have a Boy Comics variant cover featuring a classic Boy Comics logo, and action in the Charles Biro style. (I do think updating the title to The Crimebusters is in keeping with Biro's way of constantly tweaking the series, though; he was already in the process of changing the title from Boy Comics to Chuck Chandler at Curtiss Tech when the book was cancelled, so this is just the next evolution.) Anyway, that's it! I'll probably mention it again when my Kickstarter goes live in June, but otherwise, I hope some of you find this interesting. Thanks!

This is the good stuff here.

I'm excited to announce that you can now read a sneak preview of the first six pages on my website here! I've also created a Facebook page if anyone is interested. I'm going to be creating a mailing list too, but I haven't quite got that figured out yet. But if anyone wants to be put on it, the website has a "Contact Us" button you can hit to send me a message. I'll be streamlining this at some point. Right now I am expecting to have the whole 30 page story completed in about 3 weeks. I have 9 pages done, and 21 left to add inking and shading to. I'm tentatively aiming for the first week of June to launch the Kickstarter, but we'll see — I'll definitely be announcing more about that as soon as it's solidified. I'm going to have two variant covers, but this is what the regular cover will look like (more or less - I may do some minor tweaks as we go):

You don't happen to have a #8 by any chance do you?

This series of books derailed in the most spectacular fashion I have ever seen. It was painfully obvious reading them that Jordan completely lost track of where the story was going partway through and he just wrote in pointless circles for book after book until his untimely end. The first four books are pretty solid, but starting with book 5, it's just a descent into pointless navel gazing until Sanderson takes over. I'd have to think the TV show would be better because they can take the 5000 words in the middle and condense it into like 3 episodes so there's an actual narrative.

Found this hiding in the middle of a low grade ebay lot of romance comics. Had to have it!

That costume design sucks compared to the original. You'd think it would be hard to mess up Skeletor with a Gun.

6.0/6.5 after press I think.

We all agree it's a 4.5, so I'm sure CGC will give it a 3.0 or a 6.0.

I'm a big fan of the current Squirrel Girl run.

I don't mind tape! There, I said it. Phew.

Ah, then I didn't miss anything. My theater must have had previews after all; I was 15 minutes late, but I came in close to the start of that scene. Thanks!

Just came back as well. I was a little late as I thought there would be trailers, so I think I might have missed a little bit. If someone could tell me what the opening sequences ere, that would be great. Overall, for me, this is the best DCEU film. I liked Wonder Woman, but I thought it was a great lead performance in an otherwise mediocre film. Aquaman was dumb as a bag of hammers, and suffered from them throwing every "kewl" thing they could think at at the screen hoping something would stick, but some of it did manage to stick, so it was at least watchable. The rest of the DCEU films range from "flaming bag of poop" to "Satan's grundle." Not this one, though! This one is a goodie. My theater had a mid-credits scene and a post-credits scene. The mid-credits scene for us was fantastic, I think Captain Marvel fans will totally geek out big time. Everyone else in my theater was audibly confused as to what the heck they were seeing. The post-credits scene was just a little joke, okay, probably not worth sticking around for if you have anything else to do. 8/10 for me, definitely recommend. I will echo, though, that parents bringing kids should be aware that there are one or two scenes in particular with Sivana that are may more horror themed and graphically violent than I expected, or that I thought was necessary. Could have toned that down a bit without losing anything. So just be aware if you're bringing kids!

Archie had their characters attend a few conventions, plus they did a couple cover gags featuring convention visits: Spoilers to keep from polluting this pure GA thread:

I have only read part of the series, but in the thing here that jumped out to me is this: "Pääkkönen is believed to be playing Marten, the character Roland is out to kill." I think this explains why Sam Strike is such a young actor for the role of Roland - this isn't following adult Roland, it's from when he's a kid. Marten is a bad guy in flashback sequences to Roland's youth; Walter is the Man in Black Roland is chasing as an adult. Have they said before that this series is going to essentially be a prequel?

The film's tie-in merchandise explicitly refers to this as her Binary form.

You must not have read his posts in the Black Panther thread.

My take: I not only have no problem with the things Brie Larson has said and done, I applaud her. I also appreciated the film's main message, which is a parable about women breaking free of the constrictions and restrictions placed on them by society (and/or the patriarchy if you will) and embracing their full power as people, which can only be achieved when they understand who they really are as opposed to who they are told they have to be. My finacee also liked it much more than Wonder Woman. Having said all that... I thought it was only pretty good. I thought it started very slowly, and I thought the ending lacked drama and stakes because she was so overpowered. I also think the jury is still out on Larson in this role. Here, she was hamstrung by playing a character who is emotionally disconnected. Her performance didn't land with me until after the midpoint - the film for me lacks emotional resonance until she visits the Rambeaus, which is also when Carol herself starts to tap into her emotions. So I am waiting to see how Larson plays a fully realized Carol in future movies - how much of the flatness of her performance was due to what she was being asked to portray is a question mark for me. this movie for me is a 7 out of 10. I wanted to love it, but instead I just admired what it was trying to do, even though it wasn't always successful. I thought in some ways it was the opposite of Wonder Woman, which I also would give a 7 out of 10; WW I thought was a great lead performance in a very mediocre movie, where this I thought was a mediocre performance in what could have been a much better film. I have hopes for the future, though. Thor and Captain America are franchises that both started out just pretty good for me before rising to much greater heights later, once the groundwork had been laid. I'm hoping the same is true here.

Never mind, I figured it out!