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I'm in! Shooting for last, aw yeah!

I don't know about dropping down that low, but didn't ASM 14 shoot up really high when the first movie came out, and then dropped down a ton afterward? (I may be mis-remembering...)

I made a spreadsheet for my UXM run. I bring a printout with me to reference/mark off when I go to cons, but I can also access it by phone if needed (I keep it in my Dropbox account). This is how mine looks. Left side/rows are 10s, top side/columns are single digits (so 58 would be 5 on the left, 8 on the top).

Is it? Didn't know that. I just figured X-Men given the X, and the fact that it was following a Punisher ring (so my mind stayed Marvel). And yeah, it would definitely be a sight to see. Something along the lines of Xavier in his Fatal Attractions exosuit...or that combined with his first "I'm walking again" costume...

That X-Men ring is great! Xavier needed some way to make sure all his girls knew who was boss...

I haven't seen much from the show that's actually from the comics, as far as the story goes, just his character's mental history and relation to Xavier. I just try to enjoy what I see, and assume that eventually, Jon Hamm will tell me what's going on.

Ahh, thanks. I knew Alfred looked different in his older appearances, but didn't know he wasn't originally around until Bruce was already Batman.

I feel like this thread probably could have just started and ended with this...

Also, what's with the random issue of Swank?

Nice! I've been looking for one of these to go with my Marvel one. Is the timeline still in it also?

How is the pilot?

But...wasn't Alfred already at Wayne Manor when Bruce was born? He may not have been full guardian at the time, but I'd've figured him for doing at least some of the work looking after Baby Bruce...

Wow, never knew about this, and I work literally two blocks away. Seems I need to make a visit, once this rainy weather passes...

I read some DC growing up (late 80s/early 90s), but was definitely solidly in the Marvel camp. I was started by my dad on Spider-Man and X-Men, and just enjoyed them much more. I knew DC was post-Crisis reboot so the decades of continuity before then didn't matter as much, but I think I just found it harder to find entry points to the DC titles. And having so many cross-title storylines (when they were doing that diamond numbering thing) didn't really help. Granted, the X-titles were doing that as well, but I was already getting and reading those, so it didn't bother me there, heh.

Welcome!

Yeah, that's what I figured. If there was a way to find out, there would be eBay sales listing books as the most resubmitted XYZ, because somehow, some people would consider it a positive thing...

Wow. Nice to know they take off reported deslabbed books. Which makes me wonder--is there any way to find out what the most re-graded individual book is? (Not title or issue...specific physical book that's been resubmitted the most.)

Yeah. Going into IW, my friend and I (who I was seeing it with) were trying to figure out which MCU movies actually had to have been seen in order to fully understand IW ("had to have" in this case meaning that either a character or a concept was introduced in the previous movie that was used in IW). Before seeing it, all we could think of was Iron Man 2 (we almost included IM3 as well, but it sort of shows how Stark is suffering from something like PTSD post-Avengers, which is still influencing his character through IW). Every other one either introduced a character or one of the stones. After seeing it, I would add Ant-Man to the list and maybe GotG v2 (it introduces Groot as a teen and why Nebula was caught by Thanos, but those were more set-ups that could just be taken as granted in IW, sooo I leave that one as a maybe). Otherwise, every other movie either led directly to the situation of IW or introduced a character or concept in it.

Nice looking book! Crazy story, but glad it managed to end up getting to you.

I was traveling this past Saturday, so wasn't able to go. Only book I wanted was the Transformers: Unicron #0, though. Oh well

I know far too many people for whom those are probably the same thing...

I took the "insurance" to be the ward he put on the amulet that Maw couldn't break (and why he took Strange into space instead of just grabbing the gem). That was my interpretation, at least.

Hmm...good to know. Thanks!

I watched the Celine Dion video when it started spreading online earlier today...hilarious. The marketing on this movie/franchise is just top notch.

Oh, I agree, Magus would be a mistake. But then again, I think audiences would accept another purple guy as long as he came with that glorious 'fro! They definitely left the door open for Loki to come back whether or not it's directly from undoing the end-of-movie deaths. They kept hedging his death--yeah, this time feels more permanent, but then again, he has done this before and come back from "dead"... This BuzzFeed interview with Markus and McFeely from yesterday made some interesting points, aside from them saying that "the deaths are real" and that Avengers 4 wasn't going to go the way fans expect (which, I assume, is an expectation that the heroes will undo all the deaths...). One of which was that when they wrote and filmed AIW, Black Panther hadn't opened yet. So they had no idea at the time that BP was going to be as big a success as it was, or that killing him off would be as shocking/effective as it would be.