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On 7/27/2023 at 11:10 AM, jsilverjanet said:

how quickly everyone forgets the mess of Doctor Strange and Spider-man 3.

how quickly people forget most of these movies suck complete anus

On 7/26/2023 at 8:51 PM, Dark Knight said:

Strong price for the CGC 7.5 copy that ended at Hakes tonight.  Hammer price was a shade under $171k.  Where's Batmanis#1 to comment on this!?

Is that a strong price? I don't even know anymore. Batman#1 is an imbecile.

I'm actually going to go to a movie theater and see this. I just read John Hersy's book "Hiroshima"   This will be the fist time I've been to a movie theater since seeing 2014's "A Girl walks home alone from a bar"

On 7/8/2023 at 5:37 PM, Hawkman said:

Very odd post to make. Definitely no piles anywhere.

I've lived in Hollywood for three and a half decades. It's a dump. It consists only of the homeless, drug addicts, shops selling stripper clothes and clueless tourists looking for something that doesn't exist and never has (with pockets full of money they take out and display with abandon) and vacuously staring at Michael Jackson's star on the sidewalk like it's gonna get up and dance or something.

On 7/7/2023 at 8:27 AM, Bosco685 said:

 

Footage misses the piles of human excrement found all over Hollywood sidewalks....

Just rebadging some old comics and see the selling back issue ads and wondering when first such ad appeared and who placed it.  thanks.

Also, while we're at it: Why does some comic print seem to bleed into the page worse than other?

Every issue should be a Key Issue. 

I'm thinking about getting into pressing and restoration. More time on my hands as the writers are still on strike. Send me your books. I think I'd would do good work. For a while I was into vintage TimeX watches and I had a Timex from the 1960s that was all gunked up and would not keep a wind. I tried everything to fix it until I had the thought one day, "Why not throw it into a pot of boiling water?" So I did, let it boil for about 20 minutes pulled it out and it runs perfectly now. I have a natural talent for restoration work.

So I'm going to start pressing and restoring books. BM me for prices. I guarantee quick turnaround.

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