the authority

2/2/19 Comics shipped. Modern Prescreen x 100

2/8/19 Comics received

4/219 graded

Congratulations 👍

This book just took off on Taskmaster movie news. Should be cheap if you can find it. 

On 3/18/2019 at 12:45 PM, Jimmy Linguini said:

Last month a group of people started purchasing all of the Untamed #1 1:25 variants from ebay.
The next day they started buying Niobe #1s and regular Untamed #1s.

Today "news" broke that there is some kind of HBO deal and Niobe #1 has shot up to $20 and the Untamed #1 regular and the Untamed #1 variant are doing stupid things.

I remember these hearing up for a little while and when they cooled, I bought all of the #1s including the Blank variant for cheap. The Untamed prices are crazy...in a good way. 😝 

This has been brewing for a while and HBO is a lottery win for comics. Glad I kept mine. Thanks for the update 👍

On 3/10/2019 at 1:57 PM, Aweandlorder said:

Action Comics #775... first time i even heard of this book.. supposedly Manchester Black appeared on the Supergirl show

My favorite Superman story ever. It’s a DC “ What if Supes fought The Authority”...sort of... 😆 

I thought the title to this thread was the beginning of a joke. 😝 

Instead, I’m getting an education. Very cool. Congratulations 👍

These covers stand out. These colors truly reflect the chaos and crazy that is Harley Quinn. 

40 minutes ago, ygogolak said:

 

One man’s trash, another man’s treasure.

No idea. There are no completed sales for it on eBay. Someone has it advertised for sale as “rare” but provides no details as to what would make it so. 

I do like the costume and it’s a no brained as to how Peter might have taken this path in another life. This why Spider-man vs the Punisher is the perfect matchup. Similar, though far apart at the same time,  reasons for becoming a hero...or villain but very different outcomes. 

23 minutes ago, ygogolak said:

This is getting a lot of hype. I really don't think it's that great and don't understand the context of the image. But once one of the groups post it, others latch on.

Also, Chew has been starting to get noticed a little more. His last Flash cover was nice. Expect a load of store variants from him in the future.

My thinking is that it reflects how nuts Harley Quinn is quite well. The bat 🦇 being smashed on the headlight works. It is super corny and over the top but the vibrant colors and chaos seem to truly capture the mess that is Harley’s brain. I ordered a few the second I saw it. 

Completely agree about Chew. 👍

So I just posted this pic on the great covers thread but thought it might belong here too. This book comes out 2/6/19. It is selling quickly, albeit at discounted prices, on eBay. Love the colors. DC is killing it with their B covers...Harley Quinn #58

With all of the attention on Harley Quinn #57, I had to take a look to see what the fuss was all about. I ran across #58. I’m a sucker for loud colors and Jokercycles. 

On 1/4/2019 at 12:00 AM, followtheleader said:

Magic Order is a good recommendation. 

It's a different type of Millar.  Real sick and twisted.

Patrick

Just finished Magic Order. Mark Millar is a pretty remarkable guy. I’m rarely disappointed with his books and this one is no different than the others. Top notch story . 👍

4 hours ago, Lazyboy said:

But the problem for quite some time now is that one big dummy publishes something that's blatantly wrong, then all the other dummies repeat that garbage. That makes it much more difficult to find proper information when researching.

That is occasionally true. Unfortunately, we can’t protect everyone from everything. Bad experiences usually result in wisdom gained but there are almost always growing pains in the learning. 

I’ve worked in the car business for around 30 years. One bad salesman can damage a dealership’s reputation for a considerable amount of time but the vast majority in the business are decent people. Still, the bulk of people I come in contact have reservations about  salespeople. In order to be successful and get repeat business, you have to be honest, courteous, and build your own good reputation. We earn people’s trust.

These sites are the same. A guy might get you once but with the amount of people here and elsewhere willing to call them out, the spotlight shines brightly on  the scoundrels. Thanks to social media, we aren’t stuck in a loop.

We can and will survive them. We’ll also meet many great people along the way. All we can do is offer our opinions and point out the facts to try to help people along the way. 👍

While this would be a wonderful show in the mold of Walking Tall and Justified, the book is great. Starting with Saga, Nowhere Men, East of West, Rat Queens, God Country, and others. This is one of the higher end books that well  represents the surge of the Image storyteller period and what a brilliant run of stories it was. The DC Vertigo had a run of great stories like this too.

While 1st appearances and art have always driven the secondary market, there are times where the story rules. 

Thanks for the update. 👍

Okay. One more to read 👍

1 minute ago, ygogolak said:

 based on the frequency it has been put out, I would have to say Nailbiter was better. Really liking The Weatherman now too.

I have a big stack of Nailbiter #1s too. Haven’t read Weatherman. Is this the Weatherman from Stormwatch or something else ?

Southern Bastards is a really great story. To me, it is about as well written as a non-superhero comic can be written. It feels like the guys making the book truly “get” the south. If you read the Southern Bastards thread, you’ll find that many of us loved it. The problem is, it comes out on a very irregular basis and people have very short attention spans. Lose them for a month, you might lose a good portion of your readers. Lose them for 6 months ? You’ll have only the hardcore readers. Almost all of the speculators are gone. 

With all that said, your post probably would have for better in the pre speculation thread...and you aren’t alone. I’ve purchased over 20 each of the A cover and the DCBS cover in the last year. TV show or not, this book is special. 👍

Only 1 did here to the best of my knowledge. Our metro area is only around 350,000 people and there aren’t a ton of comic shops. That said, only the biggest had a display box/rack here. I’m guessing that whole they aren’t rare, they probably are t all that common. 

I’m sure the demand would be significantly higher if these were attached to more popular books. 

At our largest LCS, you could buy as many Wytches #2 regular cover as you wanted. The Wytches #2 was limited to 2 per person. So anecdotally, these were tough to buy 😝