GeeksAreMyPeeps

If you're only spending a dime a book, is it that much of a problem that you can't transfer them? Anyone, it's on a drive and limited to 500, so you could always sell the drive if you find that you don't like them or don't plan to re-read. There are enough Valiant collectors that you might possibly be able to re-sell at a premium. I imagine these will sell out.

I was thinking "…on crack"

Meh. Detective 1026 should be the important issue, except that the run isn't continuous.

That was one strong HOT TODDY you had on Monday if it's still having an effect on Thursday.

The assumption is that you were truthful when you said: • "My former boss" • "would not hire someone unless they knew someone at the company"

Is his sidekick Cowpoke?

I fully expect HOT TODDY to become a meme on these boards.

You seem to have an awful lot of rage for people that get jobs at a place because they know someone, for someone who has benefitted from that very thing.

*could've

I would love to hear an Esperanto version of Desperado; Desperanto.

Whatever differences you see, any of those things with enough staying power eventually become part of the common language.

Maybe the regional distribution wasn't even, but the overall numbers are equal?

All words were non-words at one point, and then people started using them as words, and they became words. It's not as cringy as "moist" is to some, though.

"Unobtainium" is a term that precedes Avatar, so use of that would be acknowledging the term, rather than coining it.

It would appear so. Just noticed the tally on the front, 591 books comes to slightly over a dime each

If you like to read digitally, this was just announced. Less than $1 per trade: http://www.gitcorp.com/valiantcdcbc.html

Rare Sketch Edition

For any book around the time of Newsstand/Direct parity and after, I'd say Newsstands would get a slight premium. Granted there are far less run collectors than there used to be, but they do exist still. For someone who wants one of everything in a certain condition, high grade Newsstands are going to be tougher. Not a huge premium for non-keys, but supply and demands suggests at least a slight premium

If you have to go looking for it, I'd say the complaint isn't particularly widespread.

Okay, but I was wondering whether they would agree to allow you to include your own archival materials, if you requested. (But I found an old thread suggesting they would remove yours and use their own)

Funny. I read absolutely no suggestions anywhere that the character was whitewashed.

Last time I checked, Rene (Wild Dog) was a guy. I didn't say that "the archetype of a 'rich white male isn't relatable'" I said that Batman is the archetype of a particular type of hero. The inference is that transcends other things. And the characters working in comics is not the same as them working on television

You just wait until an issue that features a 1st appearance has a first cover appearance and/or first appearance in costume on the variant of the 2nd print. It'll be a thousand dollar CGC 9.8 as soon as the first slabs ship

The acting in Arrow is awful. The guy who plays Diggle and perhaps Thea and Rene are okay. the show is certainly no better than Iron Fist. Robert Downey Jr.'s performance is what turned Iron Man from B-list to A-list. And Batman is an archetype. Those tend to have longevity.

For ROI purposes, it probably helps more to consider who the *next* super popular character is likely to be, and focus on that. AF15 and IH181 are blue chips, no doubt, but higher returns could probably be had elsewhere, if you have a high threshold for risk.