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Static 1 platinum and issue 45 are worth something but the rest is mostly dollar bin stuff. This was pretty okay deal thou:

Static full run

Also don't believe some youtubers claiming these are low print or hard to find. Only the last issue.

Yeah creating a comic with the same panels with modern artist would be much cooler than those horrible facsimiles.

X-men 1 1990,
Web of spider-man annual 2,
Marvel saga 3

My prediction is that the film will do just fine. The crowd in cinema was really mixed young and old. I think many people will just go to see the new Indiana Jones and don't really care about those reviews. 

On 7/2/2023 at 2:13 AM, gradejunky said:

I'm confused on the Doctor Aphra #33 Marquez Variant with Aayla Secura on the cover.  I was keen to the 4-6X cover price sales before Key Collector listed it on this weeks trending 20 as I always look at books I'm expecting from my FOC preorders.  Not Aayla's 1st app., and it is surely not a 1st cover or anything.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Star+Wars++Doctor+Aphra+33+Variant+Marquez&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338314175&toolid=10050&customid=1000&LH_PrefLoc=2&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1

 

Hot cover equals hot comic book. Nothing new under the sun.

If this lot would have been ASM 150-400 for 700$ then that would be a good deal.

I give 4/5 stars to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Movie had some problems with me. It was little bit too long. I would have just cut the car chasing scene because it was so close to that horse chasing scene which was much better anyways. Antonio Banderas should have had more screen time. The movie had great villains but they could have been little softer.This is not Logan 2 anyways. 

On 6/23/2023 at 3:51 AM, Dark Knight said:

The "small areas of color touch" is very misleading. CGC should really make it a point to distinguish the degree and amount of color touch properly. Some books labeled with small amount of CT have only a couple dots on the spine while others have long black markered areas on the spine and on one of the edges.  Huge difference!

No. If CGC would start distinguish the degree and amount of color touch then all the "Brys Comics" out there would buy even more purple labels trying to make them blue. That would lead to lot of complaints about CGCs degree of color touch because there would be certainly cases where the amount of color touch would be more than "Brys Comics" would have hoped.

Finally saw this from Disney+. Boring and just a bad film. 
Those issues that were talked in reviews like bad cgi, cassie lang, modok and plot holes like the ants etc. For me I did not have any problems with those. Well Modok was just a bad character. Modok should have looked like in the comics and have the same screen time as that rebel robot guy.  The ending thou was a mess.

The real problem with this film for me was that it had no feeling. There was couple scenes with Kang and Janet which were okay but the rest of the movie was like made by a computer. Like that scene were Ant-Man and Cassie meet after Cassie has escaped from Kang there was no feeling. Also even thou they were in a strange place where they might not be able to go back home you did not get a feeling that they were lost or scared or anything.

Just think of Back to the Future where Marty is trapped in 50's. You get a feeling that he is scared of how he will get back to 80's even when he has plan with professor how to get back 80's.

I wonder might this be a rare occasion where the facsimile is more valuable than the original?

Uncanny x-men 94-390 after that just some keys and variants. I should start reading those one day. I have only read like issues 94-166.

On 5/15/2023 at 6:28 AM, fastballspecial said:

My one shop is full of slabs now.  You can tell when they finally learned how to grade too or started using a submitter. Their grades were 7s to 8s for several books that they didn't pre scan moderns. Now they are pre-scanning they are coming back with higher grades. I can't imagine how many submitter fees they lost because many are effectively worthless in 7.0/8.0 for modern books. (At least 150+ I think) Then they have slabs like Adam Blue which they could sell, but they are asking $550+ in 9.4 instead of discounting to a make the sale. 

My other two local shops are much more selective on what they slab which are either very hard to find modern/copper books or Silver Age/Bronze Keys. They do really well there, but its only like 10% of their inventory or less. The other shop has tons of display cases with slabs that just sit there.

Its a lessen in inventory management and greed. 

Sounds horrible. At least shops should stay away slapping comics that are not grails (raw over 1000$) or keys that are 9.8.
Like that Adam Blue Marvel why would someone pay extra for slabbed 9.4 than a raw high grade comic? There is zero change of restoration on those kinda books.
and that comic book is still much better candidate for slapping than 95% of slabbed comics :/

On 5/1/2023 at 4:11 AM, Straw-Man said:

then they can still have alicia as the love interest, and REALLY flip the switches of today's audience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought this also. Yeah, I believe now that Mila Kunis will play the Thing. Also in FF Mila will turn to Thing and back to human through the movie but mostly in wrong places so that will have that comical effect.

On 4/30/2023 at 11:18 PM, Cat said:

Ah, gotcha. My bad, sorry, it was late when I replied. 

No problem. My original post was not really that clear what I was trying to say.

On 4/30/2023 at 4:30 PM, Cat said:

Ben Grimm is Jewish. Always has been. 

Yeah, I know. My point was that if non Jew can play Magneto why actor/actress needs to be a Jew to play The Thing? If Disney is focusing on things like this with FF movie I fear about things like to plot, directing, acting and special fx. 

Why Jew? Marvel has a very famous Jewish character Magneto why they don't cast a Jew to play him?
Thing will probably be a women because then you have 50% women and men in FF. Also Marvel probably wants a male Doctor Doom. Sorry  :/

Soon a good opportunity to dump garbage away? OMG... newsstand 

Yeah, I dunno Disney / Star Wars just crazy. So I watched the Andor show and it was pretty good and grounded series but the episode 11  Rebel character Luthen escapes from Imperial Destroyer because apparently he has ship which can easily destroy four TIE fighters and a Destroyers tractor beam.. 

The Mandalorian episode 22 was like Star Wars Christmas special and episode 23 was okay but the Grogu robot body and the overall feel of the episode was totally different than previous episodes(except 22 which was like What?!?) 

Twilight Princess also came to two consoles (Gamecube, WII). WII was also a huge success. Twilight Princess also later came to WIIU and with all those sales combined it sits under 10 million. I would say Zelda is more popular now than it was 10-15 years ago.

The last new Zelda game Breath of the Wild sold over 30 million copies. It was a huge hit so that is why Nintendo is actually making a sequel to that game. The old games never sold anything like that. Kids are definitely playing Nintendo games and Zelda so just make a good adventure film that is family friendly.

On 4/12/2023 at 4:34 AM, awakeintheashes said:

If Zelda is done how Zelda should be done, and Metroid is handled how a Metroid movie should be handled, meaning they don’t try to copy the format and humor of Mario Bros., I think you could have a compelling “Nintendo Univese”

I’d see an Ocarina of Time movie more than that guy who saw CM1 100 bajillion times. 

Zelda movie is definitely coming. Metroid games have always sold pretty poorly so Nintendo will probably not make a Metroid film.

On 4/11/2023 at 10:30 PM, @therealsilvermane said:

The music is “Intergalactic” by the Beastie Boys! A veritable late 90’s classic that goes without saying.

Dropping some knowledge here huh. You know that Beastie Boys were a huge band back in the days. Also Hello Nasty was a huge record and Intergalatic was a huge hit.

Using that song in a space adventure movie is more lame than being clever. 

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