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Mine were sitting in my mailbox when I came home from work yesterday. I really love that cover. Great condition too.

Same here.

Got my signed red/B&W set of the Champions the other day. Looked great. Surprised I haven't gotten a shipping notification on the Gamora set yet though. That was released a week ago, wasn't it?

I made 2 bid retractions a while back on a seller who I found to be slightly unreasonable so I wonder if those "policy violations" expire eventually?

(Full disclosure: this was a few years ago; I had already won 2 auctions with this seller, communicated with him that he had 2 or 3 more that were closing about 12 hours outside of his payment window that I had bids on and was intending on winning, and asked if he would allow me to wait until they were done to pay or if I paid now, would he could combine the shipping in the event that I won any or all of the others. He refused & said he wouldn't make any exceptions, and that he wouldn't combine the shipping after the fact & hold the first 2 wins, so I retracted the bids, paid what I'd already won & moved on. Never realized they were "policy violations" though)

Lots of tripping hazards & a strong breeze will eliminate the small amount of coverage that's there.

Batman's head looks like it's in the wrong place there.

I generally love "SPLATT"s work, but this one doesn't do it for me.

Some of my favorites (outside of his Moon Knight run) are:

(I really liked this series and was bummed that it died before getting finished)

After missing out on the original mexican offering & not willing to pay eBay prices, I decided to jump on the signed ones, even if I normally prefer unsigned.

Ordered 1 set. Unsigned. I really like it.

totally off topic, but i have just discovered that there is a market for empty liquor bottles. this boggles my mind. my wife was going to throw something out that she had emptied that apparently sells for $20-$25. the booze itself was like $35 when we bought it. it is some sort of limited edition bottle.

 

As the owner of a distillery, I am always watching for antique whisky bottles.

 

this isn't an antique! This was bought at the liquor store last year! i have two bottles of absolute brooklyn limited edition (they still have vodka in them though), apparently, when empty, those sell for good money. people turn stuff into lamps and stuff i guess. i have no idea. my wife just polished off some really good scotch i bought her..small batch, $100 a bottle (Aberlour abunadh), and apparently the empties sell for like $10. it is a pretty bottle, sure.

 

I know, shipping this will be a PITA, but I'll survive

 

Check out the prices for empty Crystal Head Vodka bottles. I used to work at a casino that carried this stuff and I would always check out the trash cans filled with empty liquor bottles to see if any were thrown out, but never found any.

Oh wow! Thanks for the info. I have the big bottle I kept to refill with tequila.

Yeah. I have one of those filled with water & red high-lighter fluid in my basement so that it glows red/pink with a black light.

Now that Karnak is done, and I've given All New Inhumans a chance (which ended up as a serious drop-off in quality from Inhuman) and Uncanny Inhumans has already kinda just walked away from its premise, I've dropped all of my Inhumans books.

 

Karnak has issue #6 otw, and Ulysses is basically Karnak vol.2 (Had Karnak #6 come out on time).

 

I agree the highlight of All-New Inhumans was the Hip Hop variant, and the Crystal covers. otherwise.

 

Uncanny has always had the right tone IMO. Reads very well and McNiven should have stayed on art to give it a more "Major Marvel Title" feel. But they don't realize this and pull teams after launches.

I don't expect to see Karnak #6 at this point. And Ulysses really bores me as a character, so I didn't read beyond issue 1.

Uncanny has just kinda walked away from the premise though. Where did Beast & Human Torch end up? I mean, I chuckled when they wrote in the somewhat meta-joke about Inferno being relegated to the bench because they replaced him with a different fire guy, but does anyone really give a about that flag guy or Blackbolt suddenly turning into Wayne Newton? Or really ANYTHING going on in Uncanny? The whole terrigen mist, mutants-working-with-inhumans, find-a-home-for-1/4-of-the-FF stuff just kinda... *poof-ed* away. But you made a good point; letting McNiven bounce after the first arc also killed my interest.

I grabbed one of the basic $15 ones just because I kinda like the novelty of it & like the idea of being able to put it next to my Hulk 181. Even if it's in the 9.4 range, no big deal because as a store variant, I don't expect it to have any significant value above what I'm paying for it now, since store variants holding value are few & far between.

Lucky *%*#*%

Now that Karnak is done, and I've given All New Inhumans a chance (which ended up as a serious drop-off in quality from Inhuman) and Uncanny Inhumans has already kinda just walked away from its premise, I've dropped all of my Inhumans books.

They can't use Kang. He's tied up in the FF rights.

Really enjoyed it.

I saw it in 2-D but really really REALLY want to go back and see it in IMAX 3D after eating a big bag of mushrooms. I was kinda sitting there slack-jawed at some of the visuals. Really trippy & awesome.

Yeah... I can't believe this is almost at a grand with that damage... wish it was a nice copy, I'd be all over it since I just got back from a lucky Vegas trip...

Rule 1: Never bid against anyone playing with house money.

That hurts me to see a tape pull on a book that rare & that I need for my collection.

I don't know if they're a big deal, but I've kept my eye out for one, cause it's one of the few books I need for my complete uncanny x-men (including variants) collection.

That guy's got scumbag written all over him.

Some people maybe like losing money? I don't know.

FINALLY

 

 

 

AWESOME! Super jealous!

Tell him you don't know what 'ect' means but assume it is short for 'ectoplasm' or something.

ECT is shock therapy while under anesthesia. He wants to shoot electricity into your brain!

Whats SJW?

slack jawed weenie?

Whats SJW?

 

Social Justice Warrior

What's the difference?

"Ask me about my book getting cancelled because nobody was buying this SJW BS"

Subtle was obviously not working. Last ditch effort's are always so clever. And people wonder why comic unit sales are down.

I think he's just upset about how it seems like every 3rd comic to come out has some sort of pro or anti PC lunacy surrounding it anymore. Cause there was some dumb stuff about some Mockingbird cover today that caused the writer to quit Twitter today that was from the anti-PC people in response to the lunacy from the pro-PC crowd about JSC's Riri cover. Like warring factions & comics being stuck in the middle.

Seemed like kind of a "will all of you people just shut up and let comics be fun & not about some sort of agenda?" thing to me. Like he just wants to get away from all of it & just draw some cool variant cover art.