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Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Hell on Wheels - pick your poison. Drugs, zombies or American history - It's not a style, it's a standard of quality and a formula for success and AMC has found it. And Marvel has definitely found a formula even if they didn't have a strong one pre 2008. So did DC with Superman #1 back in 1978. So did Led Zeppelin. So does Green Day. Nothing lasts forever but to last even a short time as successful it needs to be successful first. How long it lasts is going to depend on how innovative the creators are moving forward. Marvel kept the Marvel age going for many decades.

Why would you assume that? I went into the show knowing nothing about it. I didn't read any threads about it and I didn't watch any trailers. Nada. So I went into it entirely neutral. In fact, I knew so little about the show I actually thought it had been on the air for quite some time already (because I saw the display in SD in July) so I was quite surprised to find out from the boards that it was premiering Monday night and I caught it and watched it with an open mind. The only thing I could think about while watching was how it didnt' really engage me the way the 1st Walking Dead or the first Hell on Wheels episodes did. It was as simple as that. I wasn't engaged, even though I wanted to be. Well I thought about that, and also how Jada Pinkett stole the show.

Nobody said he was supposed to be a marshmallow. My words were "tough but soft". Marshmallows are not tough and soft. People don't need to appeased. Their feelings aren't hurt. Breaking Bad is not the mold, it's the standard, as in standard of quality for television storytelling. So is Walking Dead (at least the 1st season was). A few people feel that Gotham doesn't have the same level of quality as those AMC shows do and I tend to agree. From the first frame and the first episode, Walking Dead was gripping and engaging. In comparison Gotham felt like a B 'made for TV' movie to me. It's not that I want it to fail. I'd love for it to be awesome and I'll still try to watch it and give it a few episodes before passing judgement but people can't help what they feel. Why do you feel the need to defend the show so much (along with all other Movie and Television shows)?

No they don't. They're using buzzwords. "clunky".... really? It reminds me of the Family Guy episode where Peter Griffin says the meal tastes pedantic." It's a buzzword. It means nothing unless you expand upon it. YOUR explanation is a lot better than saying things that are fairly vague and ambiguous. Edit: peter also says the Godfather "insists upon itself." A ridiculously poor observation that is meaningless. Kind of like what some of the reviews here are like. Buzzwords still have meanings.

Both are self explanatory and I agree with them. The writing doesn't flow naturally. It isn't smooth and seamless. They seem like they are trying too hard to impress people by putting too much content into one show. Amateurish.

Hey, I just wanted to make sure someone has talked to him privately about it and that he had a chance to improve his grading before being burned at the stake. Fair is fair.

He knows. I purchased 11 Early SA World's Finest from him about a month ago. I was not happy with the grading but I took the responsibility since I did not ask for scans. I explained in detail how his grades were off and that he needs to tighten up if he is going to sell here. I received no reply. And THIS is why a community discussion is in order after proper steps have been taken by trying to fix it in private. I agree, he's blatantly overgrading even after being told so and it deserves being discussed.

Yup, just wanted to make sure first.

Well, then that makes this entirely different than thread crapping. Over what period of time was your contact with him? If the dude is ignoring reasonable private discourse after being told he's over grading (and the consensus seems to be that he is) then a community discussion is in order.

What's the minimum safe distance to not be threadkrapping? Outside the thread itself? One forum area over? Two? All the way up to CG? The journal? Let's just rescind the rule altogether and get these weak sauce sellers out of here! I hate this hands-tied BS! Here's me railing about it two years ago... http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5898922#Post5898922 I hate BS like fake grading as much as the next guy but there is a certain order to dealing with things. The best way is private contact first, in case the seller genuinely doesn't know what he's doing wrong. Who knows, he might just correct it (out of court...you're a lawyer, arn't you? ) Depend on how that goes, you may or may not want to discuss it with someone else. If he's a total obnoxious about it, then tar and feather the dude and throw the book at him!

I think a better question is has the seller been notified (privately) about his overgrading?

I don't think people mind that it's straying from the source material. Most people are past that sort of thing. They are questioning the motivation for doing so but that's different than complaining. But why can't it be as good as Breaking Bad? Shows of that caliber are the new benchmark.

I'm leaning towards agreeing with you. Felt forced and immature rather than slow and Gothic like it should have felt. It wasn't horrible but it wasn't great. Also, from the WC:

One of my value fast track subs received on August 21st got received back last Friday. Suck it Bill. No one loves you. Butt kisser.

Always choose the brunette.

I have a thing for green women.

They've been there a while. They're just promoting it now. Competition is good.

The chick with the green name.

...and I'll double your (shrug) on what point you are trying to get across. Feels like to me, but I'll just say, From what I got from her original post was that they are trying social media again after they failed before (imho) and they were ignoring that fact. What's to say they won't blow it off again, due to lack of interest, being too busy or even laziness was my original point. For me, maybe not you (you might go to more conventions than me or actually have personal phone numbers), I really know absolutely nothing about the people that work there being as isolated as I am. I'm not asking for family or wedding pictures or really seriously personal stuff, but something hobby-comic related to associate with them before I would consider sharing my "CGC Happy Moments" with them too. Is that more clearer? I'll admit, I always wanted to say "It's Friday Night" on a Friday again though. It's where I felt this thread was going before my post. I'm just saying Brittany had me fooled into thinking this CGC FB page was a new thing. That's all. That message was most likely approved by management. Go easy on Brit, she's cool. (thumbs u

Brittany!!!!!11 I'm still not drawing a picture or singing a song.

Before movie hype, before AF #15 commanded more than FF #1, heck, before I was even in high school I was left to hang out in a comic shop in downtown Toronto in the early 1980's by my grandparents while they took care of some business downtown. I don't even remember what it was called anymore but I must have been there for a good two hours. I just know that I saw this cover hanging on a wall and I stared at it like it was going to take me back into time. Loved the purple cover, loved the $0.12 price tag (SA was a different world to a young teen) and above all, I loved the "Marvel Pop Art Productions" indicia. I still do to this day. It warms my heart like almost nothing else in a comic book.

Some people prefer to jump first and check for water later.

It's all Chinese to me!

Damn touch screen tablet! Ying and Yang. I thought it might be a new Vegas act with white tigers. It is. Yin's little cousin Ying is filling in while Yin is doing his...thing.

Damn touch screen tablet!