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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.

RIP me.

Elric! I really need to get around to picking up the Elric/Moorcock books...somehow, I skipped the "get the comics" stage here and just went from a near-complete set of Moorcock novels to a few pieces of Elric/Corum OA...

How much do these tend to go for? And is there a range of years that they were made, or has it just been continuous (I can only seem to find '75-'82, then '86, then more recent years, doing a quick search online...)? I have the ones for 1976 and 1977, though I can't recall where I picked them up from, but I've thought about trying to make them a set...

Or maybe she tries to get Warlock, but then he goes full-on Magus, and everyone plus Thanos teams up to stop him...

I think Feige has said that Warlock would be introduced, if anywhere, in a Guardians movie, and Gunn has said that he might(?) introduce him in GotG v3, but that it wasn't definite? Just that Warlock did have a place in the cosmic MCU.

Only the greatest Avenger of all... If they're moving away from Thor, I would say Hercules would make for a good replacement there. Though it may seem a bit repetitive from how they handled Thor as a character. I'd love to see Captain Britain and Excalibur, personally. Longshot and Dazzler. Oooh, or a Twilight Zone-esque What If? anthology show...yessssss. At this point, in a world where Cloak and Dagger are getting a TV show, it almost seems harder to come up with characters not getting adapted...

Not sure if this works, timeline-wise. GotG v2 took place in 2014, and Captain Marvel is supposed to take place in the 90s. I could see it as a mid- or post-credits scene, though--Danvers gets the pager message, and at the same time, Warlock breaks out of the cocoon and pulls a "Come with me if you want to live," and the two rush off to Earth for Avengers 4.

Thor's distress call said that about half of the Asgardians managed to escape the ship. It isn't explicitly stated anywhere, but the general assumption seems to be that Korg and Valkyrie were among those who managed to get out before the rest were killed and the ship was destroyed.

Here's what I couldn't figure out after seeing it on Saturday... Thanos pretty clearly phases Banner in the Hulkbuster armor solidly into a cliff face. Like, 85%+ of the way into the wall, so that most of what's not rock is probably just the front paneling of the armor. After that, he doesn't appear in the fight again. Presumably, because he's now doing his best Mount Rushmore impression, while being dead in a cliff. But after everyone vanishes, he's there in the final shot, standing around in the armor again, like he and the armor weren't just merged into a rock wall.

I spent around $400 on an item in one auction, and I received the catalogs for about 2.5-3 years after that (with an occasional fold-out/leaflet flyer in the middle) before I stopped getting the catalogs completely and just started getting the leaflets.

With the second Venom trailer's baffling pronunciation of the word "symbiote" (and I know it's technically acceptable, but it still sounds awful), it got me thinking... What comic-related name/term did you always pronounce one way in your head, only to find out it was pronounced differently later (through an adaptation, or learning the generally accepted way)? For example, as I grew up reading X-Men comics, I always pronounced it "Mag-net-o" (because, you know, magnets and magnetism). Only to find out with X-Men: TAS that it was apparently "Mag-neat-o"