Beige

Ticking a few social justice boxes there eh?

Disappointing that stuff has hit The Boys Universe.

On 7/24/2023 at 10:32 AM, drotto said:

I still actually more or less like the A plot.  The B plot was terrible.  I also did not like parts of the final minutes.  The Monica completely letting Wanda off with regards to her actions, the Quicksilver fake out, and Agatha being the big bad (feels like last minute changes were made here) still do not sit well with me. Still my favorite MCU show with Loki as the second, but I am not sure that is a very high bar. 

I think that a lot of that was because they greenlit Season 2 - Agatha

Be interesting to see where it goes

I enjoyed it - time travel silliness or not.

A very guilty pleasure

We can only dream of new stuff being as entertaining, and for so long.

It's great in binge mode - and interspersing with the movies to get the 'real time' interactions with the MCU

Great show, badly missed.

From Dr Balls (at CGC for a tidy up)

One of the greatest comics ever written.

On 7/12/2023 at 11:43 PM, Average RE said:

New mutants 98 VF NM newsstand 

luke cage 5.0-6.0

marvel special edition cgc 5.0

Marvel spotlight 2 VG 

None of them in that grade.

Buy less, and buy better would be my advice.

If I have to.......save up and buy a 9.4 Hero for Hire - $2500 ish

Be more selective if these are keeper books - I'd have one HG key that 6 or 7 mid to low grade ones.

On 7/13/2023 at 5:23 AM, Bosco685 said:

So glad I don't have the game or books background to have such angst.

I'm enjoying this show. Though knowing Cavill as a huge fan knows there should be a different direction is telling.

You should read them Bosco.

It's Ciri's story, not Geralt.

By taking literal paragraphs from book1 and making them whole episodes, the essential groundwork for the actual story wasn't laid.

Now they go and follow the books - without the history, which is essential.

The books in a nutshell - Ciri is a street houdlum with the Rats,of Royal blood, who becomes an interdimensional time-traveller. She has a power that others want (yes I'm being deliberately vague if case people want to read the books)

Yes, time-traveller, through portals, with Alien Elven races to boot.

Oh, and shes gay as well.

It seems they went one way with the TV show, then decided to do a 180 and go back.

She teams up with a Vampire more than she is with Geralt. The friken bard (Dandelion in the books) is a simpering waste of space, yet he really isn't in literature.

The books were brilliant, but just like The Expanse, this is a mockery.

I dread to think what Hollywood will do with Red Rising.

Yikes

This is a bit of a mess tbh.

Underwhelmed to say the least.

Veered back way too much to the books without doing the groundwork.

Struggling to carry on watching.

On 7/10/2023 at 11:55 PM, Bosco685 said:

Then you may want to cover your eyes now. As this was posted by Ryan Reynolds.

Or is it a reference to a return of Fan Bingbing - remember Blink made 'portals' in DOFP (also a time travelling flick) - and the suit is retro.....

Bingbing did sign a 3 movie deal. Maybe Blink is returning

Very specific word 'Blink'.

She was a great character as well - loved DOFP

Stock up on those #317's!

On 7/11/2023 at 5:58 AM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Great pick-up mate

@Dr. Balls - Mike should get onto this as it looks as if the damage occurred after you sent it in.

On 7/7/2023 at 11:08 PM, Cat said:

Eh? Official Sub Centre in Oz? 

Yup - never heard of them either - 100% certain I haven't seen them advertising attendance at cons etc etc.

All it needs is a couple of staff to collect books for grading and to hire a couple of local witnesses for SS books.

Ensure they have been taught to prepare books properly for Sigs - even by Zoom.

There's enough boardies in Melbourne and Sydney who would be interested I'm sure ( not me in case anyone was wondering!)

Books for grading could be sent back via express freight (direct from site) and SS books as load-on / load-off luggage in secure freight in the hold.

No need for on-site grading (too expensive, and probably not enough demand at this point) but I'm sure CGC could train a couple of locals and send a couple from USA to supervise.

Keep it small, and it's not too expensive. It might take a trip or two to get the word out, but Harley Yee and Heritage travel down every year (Heritage is here next week) so the economics can't be that bad 

The Comic Con organisers had apparently reached out to CGC - but their fee was too high.

It's worth a thought as Cons keep growing and the guest lists get better. Mamoa and Hemsworth are 'locals' for example,and a heap of Marvel movies are filmed in Australia. 

Seems something CGC should at least look at.

The Australian market has heaps of growth left in it - population is now 22 million and rising.

I know it will cost CGC money to travel to Australia, but I'm sure a service could be sorted where they simply collect books to be graded, and have a limited SS presence.

Heritage are here in July - I wonder if CGC even knows that big international cons outside of USA / Canada / UK attract good crowds?

The guest list is pretty good in my opinion.

https://metrocomiccon.com.au/#

Lucifer, Sons of Anarchy, Shadow and Bone, Stranger Things and Walking Dead actors in attendance. I have books to be signed....

@CGC Mike

Maybe bring this to the powers that be for next year?

Yup - managed to watch the 1st episode and gave up.

The show gave me absolutely no reason to carry on watching it.

The last 2 years (Spidey apart) have been tedious at best, awful at worst.

For me,it's at the stage where they need to stop making stuff in quantity, stop making you watch previous movies / shows to have a clue what's happening, and produce 2 or 3 exceptional standalone movies / series per year.

The only thing I'm looking forward to is Agatha - purely as it's a direct follow-on from WandaVision - a series that gets better with a second watch.

In all this Batman stuff, what happened to Robert Pattinson?

On 2/4/2023 at 1:21 PM, Shinwar said:

Mail Call! 😍

That's a great cover - which issue is this?

If anyone has a contact for Tristan Pence @Triston Pence can they get him to check his emails or CGC messages - nothing wrong, just a bit of a mix up regarding books for signing!

I have emailed but I know he's flat out with shows.

Thanks!

She needs to get nekkid. 

Distinct lack of bikini shots and hot nuns in season 2.

For shame.

@Parabellum @F For Fake were prime movers in this - equal kudos to them as well please!

Wonderful thread - thanks for posting up all this cool stuff!

There's a few problems here - not least of which is this being the lead into Secret War.

The cast, led by our own Black Santa lookalike, Sam Jackson, is too old.

The rest of the cast - whelp!

The youngest main actor - Emelia Clarke is 37. The rest , well into late middle age at best.

It's like a James Bond retirement series.

There's nothing outstandingly wrong with it - but there's nothing outstandingly right, either.

I just don't know who the series, with it's older cast, limited SFX and predictable plot is pitched at?

I'll probably watch the rest - but I doubt a late middle age guy is the audience that Marvel are trying to draw into Phase 5 - in fact, I'm certain I'm not.

I'm not suggesting everything is like The Spider-verse, but surely, by now, they must have some sort of plan to deliver something new to younger viewers - the ones that they will need to get onboard for phase 5 onwards.

It was average, and a conglomeration of stuff I've watched 100 times before.

Also - you can throw a Skrull through concrete pylons unscathed, but take them out with a 9mm pistol?

Sloppy writing, and not a great sign of things to come.

Sam - retire dude, just retire.

Deepest sympathy Mike. Take care of yourself buddy.

On 6/23/2023 at 9:21 AM, CAHokie said:

Kraven is not happy about this!

Wondered who finished up with Kraven.

Another of Kavs wacky ideas!

On 6/18/2023 at 10:36 AM, Bosco685 said:

The show has been interesting for me. But I have no books or games to fall back on. Though it has come out the creative team was drifting further and further away from the source material. Which must be why he is parting ways.

I'm sure I posted before that season 1 was literally a series of recollections of Geralt in the first couple of chapters of book 1.

The books are completely different and much, much better. 

It's pretty much 'The Witcher' in name only now.

Damn, now I need to go to the library and get them out again. 

Thank goodness for public libraries. So underused by so many people, it's a shame.