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On 6/22/2023 at 10:54 AM, Bronty said:

its an acquired taste.   I remember seeing Clowes books on the stands in the 90s and needing something for nausea at first as well, and eventually coming around to enjoying his style.   I still haven't really read his work but I mean to eventually.     Sometimes work that has an original look is hard to swallow at first but if it manages to grab you the thing you hated about it becomes the thing you love about it.     I hated Kirby as a 12 year old but came to love him later for example. 

Eightball is a great read. As far as the art selling for what it does, whatever. I wouldn't pay much for it. 

On 6/14/2023 at 11:00 AM, Ken Aldred said:

For me, it is getting to a point where the film is so long that I know very well I can’t maintain sufficient attention for that entire run period, coupled with the expense of the ticket itself now, and it makes better common sense and cost-effectiveness to use other options to watch it.

...or read a book instead

On 6/12/2023 at 8:18 AM, RedRaven said:

The development surge was also great for established writers — at least at first, as the new economics of streaming made it easier than ever to cash in fast. Under the old TV model, if a show was a success, its creator stood to get rich on the back-end profits. With all of linear TV’s revenue streams combined (ads plus syndication plus overseas rights), a studio might bring in $3 for every $1 in costs on a hit. The problem for writers was that most shows flopped, so there was no back end to get a piece of. Streamers offered something different. Their model, called “cost plus,” might pay $1.30 to $1.50 up front, making every show a winner — just not a very big one.

To make up for the lost back end, streamers floated performance-based incentives. Schur describes a scenario in which a platform might promise a showrunner a $100,000 bonus for season one, $250,000 for season two, $500,000 for season three, and $1.7 million for season four. “So you’re like, Holy mess. This is great!” he says. There was a catch. Many seemingly successful series began to vanish after just a couple of seasons. “What no one saw coming was they’d just kill the show before they ever had to pay that money out,” Schur says. “They kind of tricked everybody. Now if you get to 20 episodes, it’s a miracle.”

This is not new. IATSE crews have been working for "last year's scale" for first two seasons and are promised on season three pay will go to scale and then guess what? Show changes from "The Brady Bunch" to "The Brady Girls Go To College" of some such sh*t (essentially the same show but now different title s0..) You're only hearing about it now cause it's starting to happen to the "above the line guys"

On 6/1/2023 at 7:26 PM, DC# said:

 

For those that don't mind the play by play - this 4.0 went for a respectable $40,250 on Clink tonight.     

 

I love me some date stamps!

Now how am I gonna know what AF15 sells for......every, single, sale, over, and over and over.....?

On 5/30/2023 at 8:47 AM, F For Fake said:

Also interesting, Rom is getting THREE different cover options, while I think MIcronauts is getting four??? It's getting pretty ridiculous. I was ok with the DM vs "regular" cover variant situation, but when they started adding a third cover, it seemed to be taking it a little far. FOUR covers? Really preying on the completists out there. 

Full disclosure: I bought all of the cover options for the Aliens omnis (2 each per four volumes), but that's because I'm a special boy.

There is a Micronauts Omnibus? Wow, somebody sign some contracts...

On 5/29/2023 at 9:43 AM, fishbone said:

That dude had a real love of comics clearly      sell, and then "Why would I come on here anymore".........  so he had like 2 SA comics only - nothing else ?, sold them, and since he has no books left, he's out? And he will stay "private" with regards to his GA books ?

Weird 

Bye Bye

Could be the ghost of Steve Ditko. 

On 5/29/2023 at 4:08 AM, Brock said:

I was a huge fan of this series when it came out, and thought the stories were awesome. However, I was 13… I will buy one of these to see if they still stand up.

yes, that's always the problem. I liked it when I was 13....  I"ll probably pick one up, too

Coming soon. Issues 1-29. Never read the series. Anybody here ever have. Any good. The omnibus is gonna be about 125$. Worth it?

Batman's#1 is only going thru once and he's going thru in style!

All his posts are gone. Like he was never here. Maybe he wasn't....

Come back, Batman's#1! Ride the Glassman's school bus to AF15 heaven!

On 5/25/2023 at 11:28 PM, Primetime said:

I’ve owned several copies over the years, but here is my copy since 2012.

that's pretty OK!

90k! Sweet! Hookers and Blow!

Super-8 film needs to be graded. 

On 5/21/2023 at 10:47 AM, peewee22 said:

Enjoying the book is the fun of the hobby. Sounds like you’re more tuned to the dollar side. Nothing wrong with that. 

Prices will go up again. It’s all part of the Economics I game.

I dunno. It sits encased in plastic in a safe deposit box. Sometimes I even forget it's there. There isn't really that much "fun" in that I sometimes think to myself. Existential crisis over here. Could pay off my house and never work again (mostly, you know). That sounds like more fun today...

On 5/20/2023 at 10:54 AM, TupennyConan said:

Mila Kunis.

Seka

Isn't that Boardie Batman Forever is for ever #1 and #2's copy of AF15 6.0 on CC or CL? If so good luck with the sale. Wish I had sold my copy two years ago. Prices are tanking.

that is a nice book and a nice looking book

Indiana Jones sucked after the first sequel, Temple of Doom or whatever that POS is called. If 40 years of crappy Indiana Jones movies don't teach you anything, you may be unteachable. 

On 5/19/2023 at 6:07 AM, WolverineX said:

What a fascinating thread topic. Are you writing a book or is this just for your edification?

I have mental problems, among other things

On 5/17/2023 at 1:54 PM, Iceman399 said:

I'm surprised the boardie story hasn't come up yet.

Now’s a good time 

On 5/16/2023 at 5:54 PM, s-man said:

I once met Chuck Woolery at a con...does that count?

Yes

You know what I mean. True “love connection” stories here. I never have, so…. You?

I've never read Moore's Mircleman run. I have it. Saving it for a rainy day. Is that odd?

On 5/11/2023 at 3:04 PM, jsilverjanet said:

I worked in Hollywood and have friends on different productions. Disney is going to reboot this film into the the MCU and there will be an Easter egg at the end of the film, introducing the Felicity character as The Dazzler, book-ending into a Dazzler trilogy.