VintageComics

Dude, I have ALWAYS posted this way. For nearly 20 years nobody cared. Now all of a sudden 'everyone' cares. Well, everyone except the dozens of people who keep either agreeing or quoting and adding to my points. Would you like me to find 1000 off topic discussions in threads for you that aren't caused by me to ease your pain? Bosco posts 100 memes a minute that have nothing to do with movies and gets a pass? Get off my ***favorite play toy*** and just ignore what you don't like. It's really simple.

I actually liked Kav's postings (outside of the cornfield) when he wasn't just saying KANG!

WE didn't get the thread locked. EDITED to say that my points in that thread were 100% bang on point as to why I thought the Marvels movie and by extension the MCU and DCU was struggling but a bunch of people who didn't even want to have the convo got a thread locked by constantly derailing it on purpose. Threads meander. No thread stays laser focused and nobody is derailing this thread either. I made a point about how disingenuous the entertainment industry can be and some people agreed. Nothing more. If you want 100 posts with the word Kang in them be my guest.

I think most grading is subjective. lol. Probably because they're basically the same "company". They forgot to add sustainability and the ingredients to the comic book. Wow, what a strange idea. I guess they're trying to index them to be able to market them easier, but it's a total conflict of interest for the people selling the book to also index them.

Ever since they put a leash on me nobody wants to post here anymore.

Saw them only once, circa 2013 or so? Just to see them to see what they were all about. It was a pretty incredible show....but yeah, those two Shysters will suck the blood from a lemon. Or something like that.

I saw them in '89 or so on what, the 4th retirement tour? It's all the same with these guys. Someone buys a house and they do a "we got a new mortgage to pay for tour".

I only watched Gotham and Daredevil and I felt Gotham was terrible, but maybe it got better after the 1st season? It felt cheap and amateurish to me when compared to Daredevil, which I think was on the level of Breaking Bad and GOT. If everything Marvel put out was as good as DD, nobody would be complain about anything. Instead, I felt the Jessica Jones, etc stuff was meh.

CGC has been putting all sorts of notes that make no sense on books in my experience and I'm not sure why. I literally would get books back, crack them out, look for the defect in the notes and was unable to find the defects. It was quite ridiculous for a while. The only thing I can think of is they had new graders.

I don't follow this sort of convo on budgets closely, but doesn't a $100 Million budget sound sound cheap for a film with a cast like this?

When you put a chip on the shoulder of someone capable, it's best to step out of their way. Amazing.

I don't watch much TV anymore and I didn't know how popular he was until I saw him in something. I even thought he was a great actor but for some reason I just don't enjoy watching him. This is probably a great choice for the franchise, though.

I remember the first time I saw a Motley Crue video back in 1983. I was smitten and loved the band for decades after. When they announced their "retirement" with signed papers, I just KNEW it was BS and that they were coming back. When they announced their "come back" I vowed never to try to see live them again. No interest, and then stories came out about how they were using backing tracks and that Niki Sixx can't even play bass. Serves them right. As long as the general public opens their mouths for them to shovel in their fodder, they'll keep doing it.

He identifies as Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Pov, are the defects in the notes or are you actually seeing them on the books themselves?

I prefer to think of it as an IQ per post basis.

I was actually thinking of starting a new Journal for myself but have realized that the format has changed. Can someone explain why they changed the format? The new format looks unreadable to me and I can't stand it. I much preferred the older format that just looked like traditional threads. Anyone have any input, or point me to a thread where this discussion happened? I haven't been here a lot over the last year+ so I've lost touch.

I'm in court tomorrow against a Libyan warlord! I was quite literally going to write "Shouldn't you be suing Libya or something" and then thought I'd give you the spotlight instead.

Don't remember the era in which those happened or the society that enacted them, huh? BTW, this is "non-comic talk" coming from the same person who complains when I do it. What I learned from decades of debate in religious circles is that not only is it important to define WHAT is done, but HOW, WHY, WHERE and to WHOM it's done, but that's far beyond the scope of this discussion and probably the attention span of most people here. *Thought better of it and edited the rest out.*

Dude, it was a joke. Lay off whatever they're slipping you over there.

I didn't pop my head in here for years at a time so I missed a lot, but my was just meant as a light hearted joke. I only enjoyed the 1st one. By the time the 2nd one came it was kind of boring for me. I'm actually not a fan of Keanu Reeves as an action hero. I LOVE him as a person. I LOVE him as an actor, especially in Matrix, but as an "action hero" I have real trouble, and the reason is weird. I love symmetry and bodybuilding and his pigeon toed walk makes it really hard to believe he's an action hero because in fighting, footwork is everything and if your posture and skeleton isn't straight you have an immediate weak point that will fold under extreme pressure. I know this is a little 'nitpick' having followed things like bodybuilding since reading Schwarzenegger's biography around 1980 or 81, I hyper focus on these things and it's just not believable enough to me. It's Hollywood fluff using camera angles and trickery to paint an illusion and once I see it, I can't unsee it. I'm a purist that way. They do it a lot with Charlize Theron as well. Beautiful face, but not a fan of her as an action hero because she doesn't cut it for me the same way. You need someone like Sigourney Weaver to make it believable. I've avoided reading up on this one because I'm still back on season 2 but I LOVE the 80s time capsule feel. It's literally my childhood on the big screen. I do think it's cool that everyone dressed as Eddie Munson last year for Hallowe'en. I was in Baltimore last year for Comic Con and went to a costume party with 1000's of people at the local party spot and literally Eddie Munson was EVERYWHERE. When I asked people why they were dressed looking like me, they explained. It was hilarious that 40 years later everyone dressed the way I did as a teenager. That's me on the left in 1985 or so.

Shouldn't you be suing a country or an agency or something?

I don't have skin in the game either, in that I don't have a vested interest in the outcome of the Promise books but I do know some of the buyers of some of the biggest books and I told them quite frankly that they overpaid. Not my money though, so...

They were never going to.

From page 1, you saw this all along! Anybody who sees clearly saw it coming. Nah. The conversation is pretty much over. Everyone has stated their positions and there's not much left to discuss. Just wait until I watch Barbie with my daughters and report back.