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On 5/3/2024 at 11:36 AM, blazingbob said:
And while I'm all about the "live" experience I am becoming more and more concerned with backing tracks and are they really singing?
If you can't sing anymore don't play live..
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)
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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)
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On 4/15/2024 at 4:29 AM, BuraddoRun said:
More HPB finds for half of cover price. The Aquaman is a little older but it's a cool book and a semi...minor...former key, I guess?
oh lordy, New 52 was 13 years ago, holy canole time flies
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On 5/2/2024 at 8:57 PM, MAR1979 said:
I've had 2 Big Mac's in my life. Yakked/Ralph-ed/Hurled both times within 2 minutes of eating them, similar to the super-size me film. That's the anthropological reaction the body has when it believes it's ingested is poison. Which in the case of that type of a "burger" is pretty much on point..
BTW:
- it wasn't 18 (that's a modern lie) it was $15
- it wasn't CA it was CT...
- The $15 it was for what they allegedly call a meal. I say allegedly as french fries and soda pop only constituent a meal to those lacking a 3 digit IQ.
- Average Big Mac price in CA is currently $5.11 - which IMHO is $5.105 more than it's worth
- Average Big Mac price is higherBob's Long Guy-lind than in CAhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/18-big-mac-meals-see-150028269.html
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.
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On 5/2/2024 at 5:10 PM, blazingbob said:
Hmmm.
Music Concerts aren't exactly cheap anymore. Unless I'm watching a street musician I'm into the stratosphere for a concert.
Sporting Events, Try a NY Knick, Ranger or Yankee game to feel fleeced
Restaurants? Man if you want some inflation try eating out. Better yet head out to California for some $18 Big Macs.
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.
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On 5/2/2024 at 6:08 AM, The Lions Den said:
I think what fascinates me most about these mags is the numbering system. Did you know there are some books with the exact same title and issue number, but they're completely different books? It's almost as if the folks at Eerie Publications couldn't keep track either...
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.
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On 5/2/2024 at 7:31 PM, Qalyar said:
Nice try, Ghost of Fredric Wertham, but we're onto you!
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.
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On 5/2/2024 at 4:56 PM, The Lions Den said:
I'd like to think that this is just harmless fun for young adults...
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!"
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On 5/2/2024 at 5:12 AM, The Lions Den said:
That's some messed up stuff right there...
This genre really has me wondering how many future serial killers got pushed over the line by reading them?
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On 5/2/2024 at 10:58 AM, Robot Man said:
I wonder the same thing when I see low grade common average cheap GA books.
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?
When a raw coverless copy gets $15?
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On 5/2/2024 at 9:56 AM, Jesse-Lee said:
I have multiple packages, both that I've shipped and that I'm waiting on, that are beyond the expected delivery date and seem to be stuck. Not all in the same region either - well, the ones shipped to me are, but the ones I shipped aren't. Anyone else experiencing this? Is this a heavy mail volume time for some reason? It just seems weird, I haven't had an issue like this before across so many incoming/outgoing packages at the same time...
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.
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On 4/30/2024 at 7:40 PM, 1Cool said:
It would take awhile to get over $300 considering all the not even close to key books in the set but I guess $3 a book is possible. I don’t get even close to the eyeballs he gets so the set could sit for years at that price.
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.
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On 4/30/2024 at 11:31 AM, 1Cool said:
He is correct. The couple other sets were cut off and shown next. I'm envious they get so many people paying hundreds of dollars for sets.
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?
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On 11/14/2023 at 9:46 PM, Grottu said:
The things our mothers save. Was visiting mine recently, and she pulled out a sketch pad full of drawings and full-page comic panels I did as a teenager in the late 70s. I barely remember them, but I see that I was partial to Conan, DC war comics and, oh yeah, Jim Morrison...
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)
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On 4/29/2024 at 4:25 PM, Lightning55 said:
Close to impossible to repeat the same alignment exactly, twice, never mind multiple times. It's the same photos.
And that's ok, if you say the photos are just to identify the comics for sale, not the exact copies you will be getting.
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.
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On 4/24/2024 at 8:28 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:
Hey, 1991 feels like yesterday to me
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On 4/19/2024 at 7:43 PM, Brock said:
Stevens IS better than Zeck.
Seriously, though, I think the question is not if Dave Stevens is a popular artist in the vein of Art Adams or even Neal Adams. In my mind, it's more like whether Stevens will command premiums the way that, say, Matt Baker does.
People like Adams, but they obsessively track every obscure Baker cover, and drive the prices through the roof on all of them.
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.
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On 4/20/2024 at 10:52 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:
Funny, but it does look like he is carrying a giant golf bag like a caddy
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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.
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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?
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