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He was not being asked about this case being an inside job, he was asked about swapgate being an inside. To his knowledge that scandal is not an inside job. So he told the truth from a particular point of view. You have to remember everything Matt said was carefully curated by legal, and he did not give any responses that legal did not pre-approve. That interview was only about swapgate, so all responses are only about swapgate. This is a separate matter, and they had not gone public with this one yet.

He did not technically lie, he was telling the truth about the book swapping scandal (as far as is known) that he was addressing in that interview. That would be his stance. This was an omission by choice that they had found this separate problem. He was clearly aware of this court filing, and skirted the issues, making sure his language was only referring to the swapping scandal. Plus the interviewers did not press him on if there were other investigations of separate issues. I do not fault the interviewers at all, I know they had to submit their questions prior to the interview, and needed to more or less stay on script. Distasteful, and ultimately destroyed trust, but from a legal standpoint Matt did not technically lie.

She can also act. She was great in her 5 episodes of House of the Dragon. I preferred her performance to Emma D'Arcy.

In the current generation slabs, the label is not attached to the inner well. It sits in a separate compartment all by itself.

They never touched the inner well. They pulled the books out of the outer hard case, the remained in the inner well. That new book still in the well was then inserted into the partially cracked open hard case. We are not 100% how it was done, but there are a few likely methods that have been demonstrated.

In a nutshell, what is believed to have happened. 1. Scammer had two or more of the same book, one very high grade, one either lower grade, qualified grade like missing MVS, or a more costly varient like Mark Jewlers insert, or newsstand. 2. They open the otter case for the high grade that does either very little damage, no apparent damage, or causes damage that does not look like tampering, and puts the cheaper lower grade or qualified book into the high grade case. At no point does it look like the scammer touched the inner wells. 3. They send that cheaper book, now in the higher graded case into CGC for a reholder and/or custom label. They also ask CGC to note they missed the book was a newsstand or MJI and to change the new label to reflect that when possible. The maintains the grade, and the legitimate certificate number. 4. CGC reholders the book, and the books maintains the higher grade, and any special label changes are added. 5. Scammer sells the now mislabeled book with the incorrect label. That CGC has put in a nice new case. 6. Scammer resubmits the high grade book as a new submission, and gets the legitimate book with a new certificate number and new high grade. 7. Scammer either now sells that legit book, or uses the case again in the manner described. In theory they can just keep cycling that high grade book for limitless legitimate labels to swap.

Also have we identified the genuine books that belong in those cases? I am sure they were resubmitted (possible multiple times), where are they now?

Like the show, do not like what feels like plot armor for the main characters. I can believe he is the best, but they push it a bit far at times.

Being recast only to wrap up the storyline as quick as possible and move on. I believe the original plan was to utilize Kang a bit more, so they had written themselves into a corner, and this was they only way out apparently. Now they are going to defeat him (again), and be done with it. They really screwed up Kang and the multiverse, but likely felt they needed it to incorporate the FOX properties.

Current PE on Netflix is 48. Up from 29.2 at the end of 2022, but below their historical average of 129.5 over the last 10 years.

More ammunition for Peltz vs Disney.

Or they are doing the same thing they have with the last several inexperienced directors that have never shot action. Let the announced person shoot the quiet scenes, then quietly bring in a second director to shoot the action sequences.

We should not let this thread go away completely. I still want updates, and we need to keep applying pressure to change the problems.

But, to me, this begs the question, who allowed you to blow your budget? The spending had to be approved, and the funds secured. The show runner did not take the Disney credit card to the ATM and withdraw $225M. At some point the oversight for these shows completely broke down. The adult in the room saying the ROI is just not there on this show given the quality and the potential profits. This type off issue and sentiment is just a symptom of a broken, inefficient, or incompetent production team and studio.

I would use a bit of a qualifier and say most girls. My wife loves most of this stuff, especially the MCU. The catch is girls, like my wife, love this stuff for what it is, not what they want to change it into. They do not want to see these IP's feminized either.

He refused to say exactly how the 350 list was generated. He did not comment at all on what they are finding on books that have been returned to them, only what the procedure was once they got the books. The only new information given was suspect books were being kept by CGC, and they were not cracking those books out. He implied they have other means they can use to evaluate books till in cases. It was not made clear what those methods were. I also suspect they do not want to crack books, because from a legal stand point it would destroy them as admissible evidence. Legally, there must be a protocol to open those books in the presence of law enforcement that will maintain their credibility as evidence. This was not made clear.

Bait and switch. Hey DD fans he is in it we promise!!! Plus, it is not the She Hulk version of DD, he will go back to being a badass!!

So, DD being a tease more then an appearance, and much of the first episode being recap seemed a bit disingenuous?

Again this is why tamper evident is the key. You need to either mark permanently the inner well which already need to be cut to get the book out, or make it so the outer case can't be opened without it breaking. For people doing CPR the case showing damage is a non issue.

Problem is tape peels over time. It is one of the reasons the gen 2 case was redesigned, because the stick on labels along the top always came off. Remember these cases are potentially highly handled and moved often. Electronics tend to be purchased once then put on a shelf or desk. The tape is not subject to handling in the same fashion. Good in concept, but it would be a headache in the future, because collectors would not want cases with any indication of even a peeling label.

Not to be mean, but it seems like the ability to hear is critical to being a good assassin or hit person. So take away a superpower that more then compensates for that disability (like DD), why would Fisk pick her?/

Fantastic film, deserves all the praise it is getting.

Also the year the new case came out.

This goes along with my gut feeling that the scammer is not inside CGC, but is well known to them and has a relationship with them. I have a few friends that have been very active in comic circles for years that get preferred treatment with CGC. This is not fair to your average collector, but it is the way the world works, because they have spent so much money with CGC. You think all these sig series artist and store exclusive variant covers go through the regular CGC witness process? I will even admit to benefiting from it at one point, get mad at me if you wish. I had bought a sketch cover, the dealer gave it to me to take over to CGC for a signature cover slab, immediately after getting it (admittingly a break in SS protocol). CGC said initially they would not except it, because they did not witness the artist complete the sketch and sign it. Exactly what they should have done, they did not know who I was. I told the artist representative the issue, he went over to the CGC booth with me, got on the phone with a higher up at CGC, and they accepted his word that the sketch cover was authentic. CGC gave me the yellow label, because he was well known to CGC and has a long standing relationship with them. This is but a small example, but I suspect stuff like this happens all the time.

The other old adage in programing is that end users will find ways to break the program or exploit the program that the programmers never imagined.