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Yay! Lawyer speak! All lawyer speak I see on these boards translates to "this is my point. I don't see yours. Let's cloud the issue! If you want to argue that the creators have more knowledge, fine. Whether that is a good thing at this point is debatable. With Ultimate, Secret Wars, etc... there are so many retcons that I'm happier with the MCU direction than I am with the print direction. Uhh, wasn't mark millar a creative consultant on the newest FF? You seriously think there was no comic person input on this movie? Regardless of the shenanigans that were pulled throughout production, everything was way off base, with the help of people with comic backgrounds. As for Ghost Rider, pointless to argue. I'm seeing Fiege as a comic person, you're not. So yes, nobody comic was super involved, deviated too far from comic, Nic Cage... it sucked. Uhh, no. Man of Steel reportedly had a $225 million production budget, plus another $150 million for marketing and distribution Amazing Spider-Man 2 reportedly had a production budget of $255 million and a marketing budget of at least $180 million. MOS - 375 mil vers 668 mil world wide take. about 1.78 x budget. AS2 - 435 mil vers 708 mil world wide take. about 1.62 x budget. MOS also did about 90 million more domestically, which I think at this point we all know they make a way bigger cut from domestic box office than foreign. MOS was also a marked box office improvement over the previous Superman movie. AS2 was not. Anyway. I think it's a good thing Fiege has more control without imput. You don't. It is what it is.

Why do you keep assuming Fiege has no knowledge of these characters? Or less than the people working on the books? From everything I've read over the years, Fiege practically has encyclopedic knowledge of the Marvel universe. I don't see what him being a Hollywood guy has to do with undermining that fact. Fantastic Four was always going to be a mess. The Ghost Rider films were always going to be a mess with Nic Cage. Man of Steel not working for you is totally your opinion. Box office says different, and a lot of us like it. None of us truly know what exactly has been going on behind the scenes at the MCU over the last decade, and who had the most say in the direction. But I've yet to see anything that says Fiege doesn't have the best interest of making films that respect source material yet still connect with modern movie audiences. So until Marvel starts completely changing everything about the characters (Fox) or starts having bombs (Fox, Sony, Universal...) I'm going to assume him having more control is a good thing.

Feige is a comic guy. Just because he wasn't in the publishing side doesn't mean he doesn't know about the characters. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/business/media/marvel-with-a-fan-at-the-helm-steers-its-heroes-to-the-screen.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 And judging by how some of the Fox stuff has turned out, with comic writers guiding, I'd much rather have a fan steering the ship.

I know first appearances have gone up lately, but am I missing something on the Solar? http://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/doctor-solar-1-gold-key-1962-cgc-nm-94-off-white-to-white-pages/a/7147-93252.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515 Seems like quite an increase.

It was a resub, so maybe they just kept it?

I never get tired of seeing painted covers

I always like the charts

That's the only one I'm not keeping.

Some better than expected, some not. All in all pleased.

Yeah, I'm surprised this is even up for debate. The seller is intentionally trying to be deceptive in that listing. File a return/item not as described with eBay. They'll make the seller pay return shipping. And at the very least leave a neutral saying item was a reproduction, otherwise less experienced buyers are going to get fleeced in the future.

Yeah, those posters were all over the place online leading up to the movie coming out. I never read print, and I still saw them.

American Ultra was surprisingly entertaining. First thing I ever liked Kstew in

As opposed to the other option? On a serious note. Saw this yesterday. It was a smart little movie. You either like Guy Ritchie or you don't (not counting the Madonna years). I like him, and was entertained.

like when you ended the giving tree thread? Good to see you're done with your General Discussion apology tour and back to classic Swick form. (thumbs u

Yes, because the thread has really been thrilling the last few months. Not that I need to explain it to you, but Kraven was always going to come back to me when the thread died. Sorry that I wasn't being a good community member. The board members here are truly lucky to have you willing (always willing actually) to point things like that out to them. It seemed pretty much dead but if you guys want to continue it I will do a post showing his progress in the book so far, and restart the list with anyone already on it able to keep their spot only if they want to. You're not a bad community member at all. I think he was kidding around. I hope he was kidding around. It's a shame that not everyone could keep Kraven moving along like he was supposed to but, at this point I agree the best thing to do is to get him home. Maybe he can renew his travels at a later date when the funk of his incarceration is off of him. I don't think he was kidding

Why do all the positive reviews in this thread sound more like Stockholm syndrome?

No way any kind of lawsuit can go through, but I was wondering how bad this will hurt Marvel Studios films. Does the general public differentiate between Marvel studios and other Marvel based films from Sony and Fox, etc.? I sincerely doubt it. I think once people hear it sucks, they'll just ignore it and see Pixels instead. The Marvel logo is only attached to it very briefly and loosely. The people who care about the MCU understand the difference at this point. And "The people who care about the MCU" are not the majority. Like I said, does the general public know the difference between Marvel Studios films and Fox's Marvel films? Why wouldn't the general public know? Marvel/Disney has obviously made a lot of success interconnecting most of the movies. From that aspect alone, most would know. They also do a lot of 'from the studio that brought you' in trailers. I'd think the percentage of people who know the studios is greater than not.

You need to stop buying your drugs from the guy behind the Dairy Queen... I can respect that. We all have our preferences. I put Winter Soldier way above both Avengers and just in front of the first Iron Man and Guardians of the G. And I'm not a Cap fan. At all. You, sir, are clearly buying higher quality stuff. (thumbs u WS and GotG I think are two of the best so far. Even if I end up being entertained by this new FF, in no alternate dimension can I see it being better than Avengers

You need to stop buying your drugs from the guy behind the Dairy Queen...

Damn. That didn't take long. Opening night and Trank is already talking smack... https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/fantastic-four-director-swears-hes-021200954.html

Why the hell is this argument still going on? Just jerk each other off in PM or be done with it.

Hahaha. Real or not, that was f'n hysterical.