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@Sweet Lou 14 still completely overwhelmed with which 3 books in the hoard to choose?  

On 12/20/2023 at 8:10 AM, drotto said:

The narcissistic attitude he shows in the audio clip where he calls himself a great man that is doing great things for his community, is nauseating. This is almost more damaging than the actual verdict.

All of them parrot the Hollywood diatribe these days.    

I've not heard a word out of any of them that I felt was their own for years now.    

On 12/20/2023 at 7:22 AM, Silver Surfer said:

Fantastic copy.

I was very surprised I was able to secure it for reasonable money.    You just never see this book in top grade.

On 12/20/2023 at 1:07 AM, Mephisto said:

Why Disney decided to spend so much on a property that no comic collectors I have ever known gave two 💩 about is beyond me.

No one at Disney reads the comics.

They turn up to SanDiego each year as complete outsiders, pretending to be one with the fans.

On 12/16/2023 at 5:31 AM, Bosco685 said:

So a bunch of people who have never picked up a single comic book in their lives came up with theses 

Disney is turning me into a jaded old fart ahead of my time!!!

On 12/16/2023 at 5:45 AM, joeypost said:

Betty Brosmer became Mrs. Joe Weider. 

She shaped 70's bodybuilding.   Her 50's micro waist was one of the mantra's Joe passed onto Arnold.

On 12/14/2023 at 6:42 AM, Bosco685 said:

 

Another swing and a miss from the panderverse studio's 

On 12/12/2023 at 7:11 AM, Bosco685 said:

The costume designer is a big Black Adder fan.

On 12/6/2023 at 7:57 AM, icp004 said:

It’s a shame that while a production defect like an extra insert or an extra cover would be like striking gold, a missing insert gets you the GLOD!!!  

Get a beater copy of FF #252, or Star Wars #69 for their tattoos 

Ok, reading through, you an attempt a home bit of rest work, you wouldn't be the first. 

On 12/4/2023 at 4:10 PM, buttock said:

I bought an ASM 1 in late 19/early 20.  When the value tripled a few months later I immediately sent it to Bob Storms along with a JIM 83.  They sold within 24 hours and haven't fetched the same prices since.  

I remember when that sole 9.8 FF#49 went for $44k in 2016.   The lunacy was unbelievable!   The stupidity of the buyer, just incredible, and staggering to my understanding at the time.

Now... it looks like the bargain of the century.

On 11/30/2023 at 10:01 AM, Bosco685 said:

‘The Sandman’ Has Swept Back into Production for New Episodes

 

Hopefully they don't stuff it up like season 2 of Good Omens, by diving into the panderverse pool of regurgitated propaganda.

Lets see if the season is actually about the characters in the stories 

A 9.8 copy is coming up in the HA January auction.   Predictions for final hammer price?? 

https://comics.ha.com/itm/modern-age-1980-present-/science-fiction/aliens-1-dark-horse-1988-cgc-nm-mt-98-white-pages/p/7358-97008.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

  @davidpg

On 11/29/2023 at 8:47 AM, Silver Surfer said:

Sounds like high school breakup drama after he is getting trash for the last Thor movie (and rightfully so).  Don’t go away mad Takia, just go away. I’m pretty sure Marvel will never call on you again to do another one of their movies. 

Who knows what the actual politics within the studio's actually is.   Taika might be tight with a few exec's, and loathed by others.  

As a director he has to navigate the entire Disney power dynamic's as a solo player.     There will be layers to this we're not privy to. 

A mate plays touch rugby with him back in NZ..  I would ask if I thought it was a quick conversation that wouldn't annoy the hell out of him 

On 11/28/2023 at 11:09 AM, Bosco685 said:

Way to win friends and influence people

This is the category of he may of thought this, but no way he actually said it.    Unless, he's happy to burn down some mighty bridges.   He's a clumsy director (sometimes), but he isn't a fool.

On 11/28/2023 at 12:02 PM, MattTheDuck said:

I am quite sure, were we to able to travel there and understand the language, we would find numerous fantastical tales told around the campfires of antiquity that we would easily recognize as "science fiction."  Ancient alien researchers and theorists find much evidence in ancient writings such as the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Sanxingdui documents.

Ancient sci-fi, or past civilisations long since gone, and reduced to oral histories past along?

There is something of an order to sci-fi that we recognise as "genuine" when we see it, or read it.  

The plausibility of something fantastical quite quickly feels 'right' more often than not.  We don't all the have the bewilderment of a pigmy tribe living on the banks of the Amazon.    Things in sci-fi resonate with us, again and again.  Why is that?

On 11/28/2023 at 10:23 AM, Hulksdaddy1 said:

While Frankenstein has scifi elements to it, it just doesn't "feel" like SciFi. I actually think that a lot about much of what is considered SciFi these days.

For my money, Asimov, and Frank Herbert are more aligned to what we understand as science Fiction.   Mary came at it with a strong horror element firstly.   The sci-fi component was almost just the setting in which the story unfolded.   But the sci-fi setting was entirely integral to her story, and it's success with audiences.

On 11/28/2023 at 10:09 AM, VintageComics said:

You so smart. 

Smart friends.

A friend sent the link's on the lectures from Hillside College as great way to consume 30 hours of my life in fulfilling self improvement.  

I got through the first hour, then bailed on it 

On 11/28/2023 at 8:46 AM, Bosco685 said:

On 11/27/2023 at 2:45 PM, comicstock said:

Once in awhile, they'll slip a few in there...

I think they even reserve that for exceptional books.  

It must be owners saying "no slab thank you".  Comiclink take raw books all the time, to be slabbed, and listed.  

On 11/25/2023 at 4:52 AM, Cornelius The First said:

Purchased recently from @DR.X Love the crossover covers. Beautiful colors on this beauty. 

Grade??

On 11/22/2023 at 8:58 AM, sterlingcomics said:

I miss these emoticons. I feel like such a noob here, again. Still liked the old forum better.

Welcome back 

Well, the names have all changed
Since you hung around
But those dreams have remained
And they've turned around

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