the blob

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)

If it is too big for one room it is time to re-think it. Just get a really big room!

That was after the summer of keto and biking in 2020, I got fat again that winter. You think I'm going to post pictures of me at 300+ pounds in mid heart attack? You're out of your mind! Only the good ones with the hot wife. The ones where I look like I ate a small village are not going on the interwebs.

I was 17 in that picture. And here we are 20 years after the second pic in 2000 (the first one is late 1989 or early 1990) after a summer of me biking 100-120 miles a week and turning a very different color:

The scruffy longhair got cleaned up and married her 14 years later.

I've never had an issue with them and was pretty pleased with some mid-grade type books. My purchases have been very targeted and only about .001% of their listings were priced decently.

What about the political backdrop/history. Is that all fleshed out in the games? I'll admit, I don't play modern games, it is all too complicated to keep track of, and it seems like with many my son is spending as much time watching the cut scenes as playing the game.

The game or the show? My kid has Fallout 4, but it doesn't seem to be one of the games he is obsessed with. He is mad I finished the season without him, but I don't have time to do this on a 12 year old's schedule where he needs to go to bed at 9:30 pm.

I hate to say it, but I agree, maybe they could have released two episodes a week. I'm not sure what they get out of dropping it all at once. I watched it in 4 sittings. I have prime with ads, but the ads are pretty minimal compared to Hulu and Paramount, which feel excessive at times and cause the shows to freeze up and I constantly have to go back into the app. So far Prime still runs ok with the ads.

Wow, what season finale reveal! I know nothing about the game. I assume it isn't this nuanced?