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You talking about Regent? He kinda seems like he's going to be Spidey's less-cackling, less-crazy Lex Luthor. Business and government connections. Cover with the public as a humanitarian & businessman. But operates more in the shadows in his superhuman persona. Hope he sticks around because he could be interesting.

I don't think it means Vision will die, just that this team seems to be based on Marvel "new generation" of characters. Cho Hulk, New Ms. Marvel, New Spider-Man, New Vision, new Nova. I don't know who the Cyclops is. I haven't read X-men in a long time. The Cyclops is actually Cyclops. But from the All New X-Men book that is the original team brought forward through time to the present from the Silver Age. So it's a 15-17 year old Scott Summers.

I liked Mosaic more the first time when he was called Bobby Soul in NYX. And as for Maximus & his hand? I'm pretty sure we can just chalk that up to "Secret War fall-out stuff & timeline changes & magicalcomicbooksciencestuff" Dare I say, a HAND WAVE?!?!?!?!!? RIMSHOT! Almost said rimjob... not the same thing.

I liked Mosaic more the first time when he was called Bobby Soul in NYX. And as for Maximus & his hand? I'm pretty sure we can just chalk that up to "Secret War fall-out stuff & timeline changes & magicalcomicbooksciencestuff"

I hope it's not modern CapArmor cap and it's more classic Cap, even if it swaps out the pirate boots for something more practical.

I love Quitely's art. All the way back to The Authority and then X-Men and We3 and Jupiter's Legacy. Nice to see him back with Millar. Always thought that pair worked very well together.

+1. Quit your whining, move on, it's one book. Jesus. You wanna throw your money away? Be my guest. Don't even begin to tell me what to do with mine, son.

I mean, I don't exactly expect 9.8's or anything. But I won't accept 8.0's either. A solid 9.4 is what should be expected as the standard fare for a brand new unread straight-from-the-box-into-a-bag-and-board book.

I really enjoyed Jupiter's Legacy, but haven't bought Jupiter's Circle yet. I don't wanna get spoiled here, but I'll take this thread as a confirmation that Jupiter's Circle is on the same level?

I got a response from their co-owner (I'm guessing my response to their "sorry, can't do anything for you" email got passed up the food chain) and was offered the opportunity to return it for credit this time. While it's still not ideal (I would like to have just had it replaced, but obviously that's not an option), it's definitely satisfactory. So it might have taken a little haranguing & a clear ultimatum to make it right or I'd take my (admittedly meager, by some standards) business elsewhere but I eventually got a satisfactory outcome. (or someone pointed them to this thread, however little it means, and they didn't like the bad press) So good on them. This works for me. I'll have a small hole in my collection for a little while, but eventually I'll find a copy at a store or elsewhere online that doesn't have some gnarly damage on the spine (and these aren't just spine tics, they're straight up bends. And with the cardstock cover, it amplifies how badly they stick out, which sucks.)

Let me re-post their response, since you missed that part the first time: Hi Joe, The remaining copies we have in stock are in the same condition, which tells me that this is how we received all of these books. We apologize, but we will not be able to offer a replacement or credit. Thank you for your business! Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks, XXXXXX They won't replace it & they won't credit it. That's kind of the definition of "not our problem". You're correct that I didn't ask for a credit. I did only ask for a replacement, however their 2nd response about not offering replacement OR credit kind of directly implies "too bad, not our problem". Sure, I could still offer to ship the original back, but seeing as how I was told "no credit", why would I waste my money shipping it back just to not get credit for it anyway? That's just throwing good money after bad, as far as I'm concerned.

How does that happen? Either Diamond borks them up in handling, or the printer borks them (how this is a production flaw with color breaking creases along the middle of the spine, I'll never know) and both are too cheap to eat the cost of the screw up and ships them anyways, hoping nobody complains. Except I don't buy that this flaw was production. Not one bit.

I fail to see see what the point would be. I'm not interested in having more copies of a damaged book & wasting a bunch of money just to find out which store is less of a richard about accepting returns or making a customer whole when there's a problem. I'm simply interested in severing my ties with any company that leaves the customer holding the bag on anything that they order that arrives damaged by refusing to do anything about it. Here's how it works in my book: If I'm happy with the services provided, they keep my business. I'm unhappy, I'll politely complain. If my complaint is treated seriously & something is done to rectify the situation, they'll keep my business. If it isn't, they lose my business & I'm on to the next company.

I'm simply moving my business to another mail order company. And as long as they have reasonable prices, pack & ship well & do right on the rare occasion where I've got a complaint (which, based on my track record, will be maybe 1-2 times every 4-5 years), they'll keep my business until they expect me to say thanks when they ship a damaged product & refuse to do anything about it.

I didn't go nuclear nor did I throw a fit. I was exceptionally polite. Except that I simply won't buy from a company that, when a complaint gets lodged, even if it's a production issue, won't do anything about it & just simply expects me to pay for a book that I wouldn't have bought under any circumstances had it been off the shelf. Because that's their problem to deal with Diamond about. And Diamond's problem to deal with the publisher/printer about. Not the customer's problem to just "deal with it". If they can't replace it, I totally understand. But expecting me to still pay for it & just live with it is unacceptable. I'll send the damn thing back. I simply don't want it. And I don't care if it's production damage, shipping damage, handling damage or an errant employee. Not My Problem.

That's fine, but I don't care. I'm not selling the product. I'm buying it, and if I walked into a shop where every copy was busted, I wouldn't buy any of them and I'd walk out. And if I don't get one that's not got a handful of giant glaring creases, so be it. But I won't pay for it. Cause when you ship a busted product, I don't care if the carrier, the distributor or their own employees damaged it, it's not the customer's problem. They're the seller. It's their job to take it up with the distributor. or the carrier. Or their employees. Whatever. Whole lot of "not my problem". Credit it or accept returns from anyone that complains & take it up with the distributor. But you don't leave the customer holding the bag. Simple as that.

Sometimes, I let my principles get the best of me. For instance, I just cut ties with DCBS over 1 book. So, like many of you, I've gone to mail-order for the majority of my books. Probably been ordering from them for 4 or 5 years now. I've mostly been satisfied with them. Only 1 damaged book in the past few years that was replaced, but otherwise, until now, they've always been pretty good. Until today. I got this month's order the other day and Civil War II #2 was damaged. 2 pretty ghastly creases on that card stock cover was way too noticeable. NCB stuff on other books happens from time to time. But this bugged me. So of course, I sent an email to customer service explaining very politely that it was damaged & inquiring about a replacement. No big thing. They replied back & asked for photos. Sure, no problem. Trying to get pictures of color breaking stuff on a glossy card stock was a nightmare of course, but you can mostly see them in the photos. Maybe not as well as in-hand, but still. Cool. Photos sent & I figured "they'll take care of it in some way"... Today I got this reply: Hi Joe, The remaining copies we have in stock are in the same condition, which tells me that this is how we received all of these books. We apologize, but we will not be able to offer a replacement or credit. Thank you for your business! Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks, XXXXXX This didn't exactly sit well with me. Ok, fine. You can't replace it. No big deal. You ran out of stock that doesn't have that same problem. Whatever. But not even crediting it? I'm sorry... what? Exactly how is that my problem? You shipped a damaged book. You admitted you shipped a damaged book. And you won't even credit it? Unacceptable. So maybe my principles got the best of me, but while I decided to give them the opportunity to clarify, I also made it clear in the most polite manner possible that this is unacceptable. And made it perfectly clear that if they're unwilling to even credit for a damaged product & expect me to understand that, then they'll have to understand that I'm taking my business elsewhere. I know they probably don't care. I'm only about a $120/month customer for them (unless there's a pricey variant that I really want). One of thousands. But if this is how they handle 1 damaged $5 product, I won't stick around to find out how they handle a damaged order or a damaged high-dollar variant or on the occasion that I order something more expensive & it arrives damaged. TL;DR I think I just threw the most polite temper tantrum of my life over a $5 book because apparently it's my problem if I'm shipped a damaged item. So screw them. I'll take my business elsewhere.

Or a dime. No. I got it. I was upping the ante.

Or a dime.

Some of my other recent pickups. All out of dollar or 50 cent bins. Nothing earth-shattering. But a lot of $5-$20 books mixed in there. And I picked up the whole run of Agent X for $12. Nothing special, but it was a 1-stop-shoping to pick up a whole run that was on my shopping list to eventually get. And that X-23 variant seems to be gaining some steam. I already had 1 but for 50 cents, I couldn't say no.

Don't think I will be selling it since it's my only copy now. Couldn't hurt to prod a little. Great book.

if you got another copy you're looking to cash & trade, let me know

I'm probably going to sell most of them. I just don't have the space even in my nerd room for them. And my other spare room is going to be under construction in the not too distant future while I gut it & hang new drywall & turn it into a full spare bedroom

I don't know if this counts... but on Father's Day, while visiting my folks, my gift to my dad was to get my junk out of his basement. I got about 1/3 of it into my VW. This is about 1/3-1/2 of my old GI Joe's. I told him I'd get the balance out of there by next weekend. So call this the "flea market of stuff forgotten in my parents basementf" find. The Defiant space shuttle & the General tank thing were the only big things I took. Don't have the Flagg but have a lot of other big vehicles sitting there to still bring home.

Disregard this post. Found what I was looking for.