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speedcake

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  1. I found one short box of mags and all but the Conan came out of it . Was very pleased !
  2. I forgot I took this. Here is a pic of the contents of the Carbo legacy boxes for $300 a pop
  3. awful. I hope she does come back, and I hope she charges for autos to discourage this crud. Stinks, but the reality is what it is until conventions crack down on it if they can
  4. always cast. Cast rules everything around me. I cast my clout far and wide. I also enjoy bass fishing.
  5. Is this where we are posting trip reports? I had a four day badge, but ended up only going Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. By then I was cooked. I know I probably missed out on some deals and deeper discounts in bargain bins on Sunday, but I felt I had done alright by then and had already spent more money than I planned anyway. Thursday was pretty stress free. The place is never packed on the first day, but for some reason we decided to get to Javitz at 8 am anyway? I don't know, don't ask. It was clear right away that quite a few regular comic book dealers weren't present, but there were enough to separate myself from most of my cash. I found one solid short box of mags at the entire show at a smaller vendor booth and bought all the Skywald and Eerie stuff out of it including two nice keys. Plus a handful of Tales of the Zombie including a very nice #2. They were all priced incredibly well and I got another little discount for cash. the only other dealer I found with some mags was Very Gary and I only found a decent copy of Savage Sword of Conan #5 that he sold me for twenty bucks. Pretty pleased with that. Not pleased with the lack of magazines over all, oh well. Bought a handful of nice Hulks and Tales to Astonish from Harley. Ate nasty cheeseburger. lived to tell the tale. Friday I browsed a few aisles of the usual con junk to start the day and check out some of the changes, the addition of the gaming area and many more food vendors along the back walls. Unless I've missed them in the past? Was nice to see more video games, and other actual collectible things as opposed to endless vendors with mystery boxes and pops, although there were still plenty of those around. On Thursday Dave & Adams guys tried to sell us on their $300 Carbo legacy mystery boxes, and honestly they didn't look terrible, but I don't do mystery boxes so passed. But I also passed on looking at their actual comics, so Friday I noticed the 75% off deal and took a look. Immediately found two or three really nice books that after the discount turned out to be priced really nice. I think people were mostly turned off by seeing the sticker price and not doing the actual math, so the boxes seemed mostly unpicked. Built a huge stack, got an additional break for paying cash, was happy. Also bought a small stack from High Grade Comics, but they weren't cutting quite the same sweet deals yet as it was only day 2. Despite losing out on every single reservation I wanted except for the Cartoon Network Sunday thing, we got in to see Violent Night on Friday evening and that was pretty awesome. Way funnier and more entertaining that it probably has any right to be, but also ultra violent. Don't take the kids. Saturday I got to the con an hour after opening with my wife in tow. She's always super excited about following me around for a full day at Comic Con, but she's also a trooper and a very good bag holder during emergencies. So we mostly browsed and people watched, but I once again hit the Dave & Adams booth, built an even bigger stack than the previous day and got an even bigger break on top via cash, bought more mags out of the single good mag box at the convention, then capped it off by seeing the Halloween Ends panel with Jamie Lee Curtis despite once again not having a ticket for it. I think most of the stand by line got in, so /shrug Wasn't a bad weekend. We even scored actual chairs to sit in for lunch on all three days. I didn't take any pictures. sorry.
  6. More Hulks, Tales to Astonish, the good stuff !
  7. Seems the deer must have won. Do deer eat lizards? if a deer poops in the woods and there are no lizards around to hear it, did it really poop?
  8. Four day pass was $212. Where did you get $300 from? The guest list is deep, there is a ton of content to take in, and I just love the Negative waves, baby! It’s going to be packed, I’m going to buy way too many comics, I can’t wait!