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Yep, Ill definitely wait until a trailer or the show comes out (if the buzz seems good). I sold a bunch of my Jupiter's Legacy books. Obviously didnt sell as well or high as Umbrella Academy, but definitely decent prices. Made a some on them for sure.

I bought two Yu variant of Nemesis 1 a couple years ago (one was off Amazon for like $60-70). Sent one to C2E2 a couple years ago too and got signed by Millar. Decent grades for a book thats a hard 9.8. Im hoping this gets some buzz and ill offload one or both....

Yeah, I have 5 or 6 of those....I think 2 each of them. I might only have one of the ECCC cover. I also have the Frankie's comics cover I believe....a couple of them.

Damn, I bought a bunch of those convention ones with them on it (ECCC and or C2E2 I think?) and forgot to sell them back then. I think there were some store exclusives too, but cant remember. I love the show and would watch a show with them on it.

IMO, SIKTC still has room to grow if it really is going to make it on a streamer. I do think it will and I think it will be popular. That genre does well and it fits with what Netflix does. Budget wouldn't be that high either so I bet it gets done. Im hanging onto all my SIKTC books for a while longer. I spec'd on Jupiter's Legacy a couple years ago and I think one reason it isn't resonating well is just the saturation of super-hero tv series (and the quality of them). SIKTC will feel original and fresh in comparison. Wider audience. As for the bubble, I think its gonna take a recession or something hitting the economy to significantly slow it down, but we'll see.

He said on twitter the other day that its back in production... https://twitter.com/mrmarkmillar/status/1391671548474535936?s=20

I thought he had posted it on twitter, but I could be wrong. Ill go look in a bit.

Yeah, I heard it was back in production again for Netflix series.

Isn't there a special cover for that one that is more rare? Different color web or something? I dont know much about that book, but always thought it was a cheap one.

Yeah, it is odd, but I figured the NF deal would move the needle if anything. I was in for just cover price on most of his stuff. I LOVED Reborn and bought into that one heavy. Lots of cover price purchases. If done well, it will be great. I got some of those signed by Millar when he was at C2E2.

I plan to watch it this week. Looks decent from previews to me. Plus, lack of Marvel series at the moment. I spec'd on this and a few other Millar series back when NF bought his company. I think Reborn and Nemesis would be hits. I need to list my Jupiter's Legacy books, but I probably wont make much on them. Oh well.

DC has done some dumb move, but it would be terrible to switch Kal-El's race. It would be bound to fail. They need to follow Marvel's model with Miles Morales. Done perfectly. Connects with people across races. I won't see a comic book movie that is made to make a political/racial statement. They need to stick to the comic storylines. Diversity exists there without trying to erase a superheroes history.

Depends on the book, but PGX 9.8 would probably be the pick for me. I buy a lot of raws, slabbed to get signed for signature series so I hunt for good 9.6's to crack and re-grade after sig. Ive had some good luck. I cant recall ever getting a lower grade (Im sure its happened once or twice), but my bump rate is pretty good. Best one was a Batman 608 RRP that had a couple small spine ticks (it was 9.6). Got it signed by Jim Lee and it came back 9.8. I was a bit shocked.

Modern Fast Track (11 books) 3/12 - USPS delivered to CGC 4/5 - Received by CGC 4/28 - Shipped to me by CGC

Why are people complaining about turn around times?!?! Come on, it only took them 3 weeks for my modern fast track. CGC stats.... Received: 4/5/21 Shipped: 4/28/21 Of course, USPS delievered it to them on 3/12. 7-10 business days my a** for "received".

And right now, the online submission is very fast and speedy. Haha.

So their deadline extension basically helps them, but no one else? I dont think getting the books to CGC in the next month was going to be the problem. The issue was getting them submitted on their site. No extension for that, you just have an extra 30 days now to get them to CGC (which helps them out since it will slow the books they receive). Wow.

Im not speculating about your "bullet" analogy. That analogy would not fly with any reputable company.

Most major companies know how much load their servers can take. I have no idea if CGC has an internal team or if they outsource (I assume the latter). If they have a vendor or team they pay to handle the server load, that answer is not a good one. I would be looking for another vendor. In this case, I simply think they knew there would be issues, but it would just be a road bump. I doubt any changes were made, but Im speculating.

You can never predict exactly how much demand there will be, but you DO prepare for an increase. I bet nothing was done (beyond whatever they already have for normal scaling) to prepare the site for spikes based on the price increase. It was definitely painful over the past week to get books submitted.

I got my last couple of submissions in about mid-night PST. Whew. The site was still very sluggish, but got it done. To get 10-15 books into the submission, it probably took 45 minutes give or take a bit? Definitely they need to take some of the funds from the price increase and upgrade their system. Im sure I could hunt in my boxes and find more books to send in, but at this point, I would just be sending spec books that I was not planning to send in soon. Since I just renewed my membership within the past couple months, at least I will get the discount until early next year. Im sure Ill be sending in another big batch before my discount expires.

"...To advance these and other efforts, CGC is updating its membership tiers, services and fees, effective April 28, 2021. But, oh, just an fyi, our site won't be able to handle the heavy traffic so good luck getting your orders in before this short deadline."

Yes, the site has been sluggish with submission forms all week. Its unusable now.

Yes, I agree. When youre a dad, work 8-10 hours a day, plus other things, I only get a couple hours at best to get to this. Since the deadline was announced, I spent the hours that I can, going through comics and picking out books, submitting orders. The site has been sluggish since then. I can tell the database calls have been slow (maybe it was just the times I was using it each night). I did get a lot of orders submitted, but I had a couple more that I wanted to do tonight. Normally, I can get these into their system a lot faster. Overally, the site not being able to handle the traffic is unacceptable when they give a short deadline like this.

Depends. Ive done a bunch of orders over past few days. Had 2 more I wanted to get done. Raising prices is one thing (justifiable in my opinion), but their website should work through that time. They gave a really short deadline to get these in. I just renewed my membership a month or so ago. Seems they should honor what I purchased at that time. But yes, Im glad I didnt wait on my orders until the last minute. I got 80% of my books done that I wanted to send in over past couple days or so.