Doktor

Yeah, I think this one is a pretty open & shut case.

As I've said before and will say again: I think we've gotten to see a couple pretty good Spider-Man portrayals in the movies & a couple of pretty good Peter Parkers. The problem is, we've never got to see both of them in the same movie. The ASM series gave a pretty decent Spidey and the first 2 Raimi movies showed a pretty reasonable Peter Parker. But the Raimi movies did not give us a very good Spidey and the ASM movies gave us a pretty mediocre Peter. I think Marvel can finally give us a good Spidey & a good Peter in the same movie.

I thought so. I didn't think I was that oblivious. That's why I was confused by the mention of pre-screen 9.8 when I was talking about on-site.

I wasn't aware that they offered pre-screen with on-site. I must have missed that. I'll have to remember that for next time.

Don't have pics or scans yet but just got back all of my books subbed yesterday for on-site: Spider-Gwen 1 Phantom Sketch - 9.8 Spider-Gwen 1 Phantom Encore - 9.8 X-Men (1991) 54 Enhanced Variant 9.8 X-men 2 - 5.0 (expected it to top at 4.5) Now to the ones I'm a tiny bit bummed about cause I thought they'd come back higher: X-men 7 - 4.0 (expected 4.5-5.0) Alias 1 - 9.4 (expected 9.6 but I could see 9.4) NYX 3 - 9.6 (it's nicer than my other 9.6) Runaways 1 - 9.2 X-men 94 - 6.5 (I really saw this one as 7.5-8.0) And finally 2 that I'm just completely lost on how they came to the grade: UXM 258 Marvel Legends Reprint - 8.5 UXM 500 Turner Sketch Variant - 9.4

I snagged one out of a dollar bin at Half Price Books the other day.

I liked the swerve of how you thought the meeting was going to go. I didn't see that coming, to be honest. but sad to see

I have a newsstand 2nd print #1. I remember buying it at a Woolworth's when I was younger.

There's a bunch of heroes on the west coast at this point. DD, Punisher, I think most of the Tunderbolts, the X-Men were there for a few years, and a few others that I know I'm blanking on.

They can be had out of dollar bins at this point. Only one I have trouble finding with regularity is the Wildcats one. Or maybe it was Union? I think I remember seeing someone on here post a bunch of them that they had slabbed. Sadly, I think slabbing these though make them less cool because you can't lay them out together anymore afterwards.

One thing all of those movies have in common: They were awful movies. Not just "they didn't do very well & the public didn't pay to see them" awful box office results, but they were just plain bad movies. The stories were bad. The acting was bad. The casting was bad. And all 3 deviated from the source material terribly.

I've knocked out a full run of this (as part of my complete Wildstorm Universe run.) All raw.

make the first letter lowercase. For some reason, eBay is case sensitive for blocked user lists.

The New Universe was pretty much centered around Pittsburgh, but that's because Shooter is from West Mifflin (about 20 minutes outside downtown). I believe that Starboard was from West Mifflin. And I grew up there until I was 8.

Lucas Till. The same guy that played him in First Class & in the army base scene in DoFP. Also, why the hell are the Christopher & Katherine Summers alive?

I'll be starting an over/under on how long the countdown to the obligatory fan rage over Harley wearing stripper heels as a super=human in a fight. I'm going with "whenever Tumblr gets ahold & they start really getting reblogs".

I suspect that much like the books some of these guys/gals aren't going to make it - hence "suicide squad" Considering Will Smith's noted dislike for doing sequels (except for Bad Boys & MiB apparently), I think it's a pretty good bet that Deadshot is one of them.

Sue is, in this movie.

That's one crazy trim job. Looks like just threw it in an industrial paper cutter without even an attempt to make the book rectangular.

One thing to keep in mind about anyone dead: We don't know what happens with Infinity War yet. For all we know, the 1st half of that movie literally ends with Thanos destroying 1/2 the universe like in Infinity Gauntlet & resurrecting it at the beginning of Part 2 but things are a little different. Some dead people come back, some don't, some come back wrong, etc. Marvel already has their resurrection card up their sleeve & can use it whenever necessary & can retcon resurrections into that down the line if needed.

I look at it as the typical pyramid of Fast, Cheap, Good. They're still good, they're still relatively cheap (somewhat, but more expensive than Voldemort) but they're getting slower. Eventually, you reach a point where good & cheap don't really matter if you're talking almost half a year to get your books back. They're bordering on that now with the slower and slower TATs. It's a question of how slow it has to get before you reach the point that you consider sacrificing a little bit of good for fast & cheap. I could see people considering it. Honestly? I retract my pervious statement about considering the competition. It was hasty. I'd probably go to not even slabbing or only doing it when they have on-site grading rather than sacrifice any of the "good" to get back to something even approaching a reasonable turn-around at the current price.

Between this and what I'm hearing about CGC hammering books now for defects that they were more lenient on in the past... Voldemort here I come. Feeling similar. Either hire more people & add more encapsulation machines (just generally expand operations) or really drive down the price because at this point, you're paying more for slower service just for the "prestige" of the name on top of the slab. Their demand is wildly outstripping their capacity & eventually going to drive people to the competition.

You're young. You'll learn. High waisted things can hide & compress bits that I don't want to see when those same high waisted pants are on the floor later. I don't like surprises.

Cars?! You're killing me Joe! No no, I get you... And maybe I was hasty in my "every car of the 80's"-ness of that statement. The 911 is still gorgeous. But it's just a typical Porsche design. I'll grant you that & the Ferrari. The Lambo was a teenage wall poster that ran about as effectively as a wall poster, but it was still a matchbox car wet dream. But the Delorean is ugly. Sorry. It's awesome in its ugliness, but it's ugly. Classic and ridiculous and nostalgic and ugly. But you're really stretching brother! Exotics of almost any era are great. I love them no matter what era they're from. But I'm talking about the other 99.5% of cars on the road in the 80's. Try the production cars. The K-car platform, everything was a box, the trucks were pretty solid, if boring, muscle cars of years past looking like someone wanted to beat every curve they ever had off them into straight lines... the station wagon?!?!? The overall design of cars in the 80's was a snore-fest outside of the exotics. They're ugly, amorphous blobs. But for the record, I'm a tuning guy & even I don't call an EVO or an STI or one of the rally-platform cars "sports cars". Not even close. Compare a Countach to an Aventador? Dear god, I'd take the Avent every day of the week and twice on Sunday. No really, can I have it twice on a Sunday?