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The Postmaster General, who has not yet been removed, was appointed with the purpose of him dismantling and destroying the USPS so that we ultimately use private shipping services. This is all according to plan.

I am pretty excited that I just got tickets to see one of my favorite Bands ... Clutch ... in Brooklyn and the tickets were "only" $50 + $14.50 service charge. Slightly less thrilled that they are co-headlining with another band (although listening to them my wife might life them more than Clutch). Fu Manchu too (I like them but some of the guitar solos go on too long). With that said, it is general admission and I am not 100% clear whether there are actually any seats, so I hope my achilles is feeling better by next September if I am standing the whole show. The last time I did a standing show was pre-achilles rupture and it was rough for this old man. Now I just need to convince my wife to come with me as I don't know anyone else local who listens to them. Anyway, I saw some big shows in college and then was practically 30 years until I went to another one (getting let in to see Yes and Meatloaf at the Beacon for the manager's free seats doesn't count), I kind of wish I had seen more when I was young (and tickets were $12, although that was when I lived in Houston)

Yup, the cure was a $350 night with a very small dinner and some drinks for 2 of us. But I have to say they put on a good show, although nosebleeds at MSG are really uncomfortable. Green Day this summer will cost like $700 for 4 of us at the end of it all, probably $850-900 with dinner, but it may be worth it as they're one of the few bands I like, my wife likes, and the oldest son likes (he's trying to get his GF to like them, I'd feel kindah dumb spending $175 to take her if she doesn't)

oh lordy, New 52 was 13 years ago, holy canole time flies

I paid $17.99 for a burger and fries combo for my kid in Syracuse back in October at Five Guys, which was MORE than the burger and fries (which was better and bigger too) he got at a really nice restaurant there (The York) the night before. I know Five Guys is a "premium" burger, but fast food is just getting absurd, I am happy I have gone low carb vegan so I am not even tempted by it.

Yes, everything is going to cost $100-300 or whatever. I did get $21 tickets in 2022 for one of the games judge was stuck at 61, but they were nosebleeds and I am pretty sure we spent $30-40 per person for the 6 of us (4 kids) on food/drinks too (which is pretty easy with $16 beers). From a collector's standpoint the money spent on any one of these things can be spent on some really nice book that isn't gone in an hour, so there's that. Comics, especially if you are selective and not hoovering 3 million dollar books, at least don't take up a ton of space, which I guess is why the whole hobby went toward keys, semi-keys and super HG slabs, rather than folks collecting runs like they used to.

Volume 1 issue 1, volume 2 issue 1, etc... each year was a new volume. Look on the first page of the comic, it will tell you. This has gone out of vogue, but there were other comics and magazines that did this in olden times.

I own a lot of these, not because I am a serial killer, or a latent one, but because the covers are so insane, I'm not for banning anything, I just wonder, was this porn for some 14 year old Dahmer type coming of age then. With that said, if you have it in you to do these things I suppose it is going to happen anyway.

I'd like to also, but some of the imagery in these of dismembering and what not, I'm no forensic psychiatrist, but if you're almost there I wonder if stuff like this just puts you over the top to make you want to really do it. For the rest of us it is "ewwww, this comic is crazy!"

40% of the boardies here are 52 this year as far as I can tell based on prior posts in other threads.

This genre really has me wondering how many future serial killers got pushed over the line by reading them?

Well at least with raw GA books you don't have $40 in slabulation costs in them. But yeah, why put this out to bid and get $21? https://www.ebay.com/itm/364773177492?itmmeta=01HWXFCZXKP061R7Z92681W33M&hash=item54ee2cf894:g:YEEAAOSwGq9l2mSN&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0AxCgK7cVH%2F58DLNfsU9CM47XlLyGIGyDdNo0eQLYJyB5rfK6yC3%2FICWc%2Bu9QD7HIHK7CCN29sjG%2FhpIwMegSr2wsYeOJUue1Mimfe2YdTkpNFUiU2Nv8KwVArsEqdxe2eIIRwHLGeIHN7ARBdix71qpAieA%2BOrfqr1TUuNJ3XZsoyTtdc5vEiT8XE4ccVd72Sl4Tbzg888PkqMMXFzY2AQ%2FBbowvhZJ3DvHCInd45rWYk%2F1QYRmo3pfo3yjf04AaXc9Oi2JsZD0zCZKzTeLIrY%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR-7-s6_nYw When a raw coverless copy gets $15? https://www.ebay.com/itm/126391426808?itmmeta=01HWXFH81QNZTW6PDN088KCPJJ&hash=item1d6d841ef8:g:AOwAAOSwEEVlIIif&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwFBpYbt4G6IYkg8SvPLeg%2Bpw7ni0Vh5HySe%2B1DD%2BXZJmGQ6ZDQXkccKmXFXOKGD7LQYmKDGCdNxedxI6RkP6Yv7hMm2BBL5obf7geD3BZ3REMbakIYeyfI3pAJeXXr7wPHTeL0PNow7fMRA48wQ%2FhdNbw6L7ngZ3SA%2Fytmz8sWtXAi8lgxoYT7PyfkZV4WZ4pp2T6JA9ZK6MVD1CDKzr9LJdtjLQ7bKcbE3dqupIvZU7pvSak1g7PYasFxIw4YEdwA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR_SAxa_nYw

I've had multiple first class things take 12-14 days to get from Albany or Dutchess County NY to Manhattan (2-2.5 hour drive away), yet I mailed something up to Syracuse and it took 2 days. Go figure.

Just seems like before someone bids on something like that why wouldn't they see what fixed price listings there are? Someone probably isn't buying that set to break it up and flip, unlike many big lots on ebay.

You don't think if you put that up for $400-50 with a best offer that you wouldn't eventually get a decent price?

Great stuff. Did you ever wind up working in the field? (I know, there's a big difference between being able to create a lovely one off vs cranking out 20-40-60 pages a month)

Right. They may very well have 10 sets of these books, I'd believe it, I have close to three sets of them. I'd use the same picture again and again, but say it, the grades on all the books are basically the same, etc. Although the 5 or so more "expensive" books in the group may warrant a new picture.

Hey, 1991 feels like yesterday to me

I really haven't been buying for a couple of years (a few cheapies at some shops) but I still want a Catwoman 51, I lack interest in a lot of other stuff, although, honestly, I think 56 is a great cover too except the hand holding the spoon just feels slightly off

Zeck has a few iconic covers, but hardly all of them. Never understood why cap 286-287 are not in that "iconic" category except I guess they aren't GGA or Wolverine, yes, there's a little premium attached to them, but 286 in particular is such a great cover.

Yes, a kangaroo gave its life for that hat

Funny, but it does look like he is carrying a giant golf bag like a caddy

Is this going to be very "young adult?" My wife will not watch anything with me if she thinks it is geared toward audiences under 20.

Maybe it is lost in translation, I thought it was ok, I will watch season 2, but some of it felt sort of unsophisticated for a sci fi show that was this hyped. That whole scene with the thread that could cut anything, what was the point of that? Just to have some horrific bloody scene?

I would never wear a hat like that, I have a cool hat (you tricked me into posting a fat pic)