The Less Blob

Hey they haven't killed of tommy or his wife...yet

I think they only have 2 seasons of video game to work with assuming each season is 1 game. I suppose they could could come up with more content or TLOU #3 might come out

I looked this up in New York, as expected, it ain't cheap to do because you need a certificate of authority at the least and the filing fee is like $300. Of course, they say you need to do this if you make ONE sale a year that would be subject to sales tax! So much for cash pickups via facebook market...

I think they are only looking at 2 seasons anyway, right? Let's face it, it is a bit like Walking Dead except there the characters lasted a bit longer

That is part of the video game, so to that extent they are being faithful to the source materials

My wife has generally high standards and she likes it and I don't think it is just because Pascal is appealing looking (although that helps, she has a type, that I used to sort of fit into 20 years ago...)

could have been a 9.0 or more depending on the back

I guess because it is very rare and it is relatively early sci fi. He had published a sci fi short story in 1892 before this, so it wasn't his only foray. When I was buying his books 10-20 years ago I never saw it for sale. I do not own a copy although I have most of his other books, you can download and read it public domain. He was "famous" (100+ years ago) for books about Georgia mountain folk and other frivolity and the occasional serious issue. I never met him needless to say, he died in 1919. The value has gone up likely because in the last 10 years they've now included mentioning him as an early sci fi writer in classes and such when before that nobody had really given him any thought: https://asu.digication.com/amber_carr_hardeehar/Paper_2_Predictive_Future

.Racist Timely covers are a weird historical reminder of what was deemed ok back then and kind of hard to believe they were printed mainstream (because if you look at DC and Dell stuff you really don't see that sort of thing, although I am sure there are exceptions). I used to collect them (budget willing), but yeah, ultimately I decided to sell them off because I stopped feeling comfortable with them in my collection.

One of our close family friends is an African American woman who collects old time black dolls and doesn't stray away from the really racist ones. For her it is part history. The 60s and 70s horror magazines like Web of Horror are worse, they're a blue print for serial killers who want to keep a well stocked collection of body parts in their basement. Agree that the stuff in the 30s and 40s was more about macho man saving the day. The bondage nazi magazines in the 50s and 60s were weird though, I think ultimately isn't the point that in the end the nazis wind up getting killed by the victims or nazi women wind up being with the people who were victimized or whatever? I've never read them, but did read maybe they were popular in Israel because the nazis wind up getting killed usually?

The Iron Cross predated the Nazis by at least 100 years. I will continue to wear hawaiin shirts despite, apparently, them being all the rage among the right wing bugaloo types.

They're only priced out of the movies that don't do that well. If Thor Love and Thunder can make $761 million then a lot of movies can.

This all began with 1cool talking about paying big stars $20-30 million blowing up the budgets on these movies and why can't we make $40 million movies. These movies wind up costing $100 million + even when they pay the star $300K because of the special effects. Joker cost $60 million or whatever because it didn't really have any. If Chris Evans was only paid $300K he was not a big star, just one of a zillion pretty boys you've seen in stuff.

My great grandfather wrote a somewhat early science fiction book..the Land of the Changing Sun (1894) (I know Jules Verne was much earlier) ...I wanted to read it, I really did, but had to stop after 10 or 15 pages, it was pretty bad, and he was actually a popular writer back then, this was his first and only attempt at sci fi, so much popular fiction back then was just horrible

Bingo. I have had periods where I buy pulps simply because they look cool. I have a few boxes of them. Since I have no idea, for the most part, what I am buying, I keep within a budget. If it is pre 1950ish, has a cool cover, and isn't a wreck I don't mind paying $10 or less.

He was paid $300K for Captain America 1. He got the big paychecks later.

OK, the show isn't perfect except for Pascal's soothing voice...

Yeah, in a world where monsters react to sound, they sure were noisy and oh so confident that there wasn't a single shroomhead anywhere in that huge area. Then again, kids are dumb.

It was more a tale of loss than sex in a world full of loss.

He was a B lister is my point. Generic pretty boy.

Outside of ScarJo the Marvel movies did not have such big names (and was she even that big then?). RDJ was a faded star. Paul Rudd? Hemsworth became a star as Thor. Cumbersnatch? Higgilsten? Ruffalo was an indie film guy. Captain america? I can't even remember his name. They became stars and got expensive.

don't worry, the girls hanging out and kissing part is over, for now at least

I don't think salaries were a huge part of Shazam's $100 million budget. The special effects, the sets, the zillions of people working on a movie like that are just incredibly expensive. Joker had no special effects, Phoenix made $4.5 million, I assume De Niro made a bit less, the rest of the movie cost $50-55 million, and the rest of the cast likely got paid peanuts. A union production winds up having a lot of required costs. And these movies usually do not do well without some known talent, so that's probably a non-starter. According to this the Shazam salaries are not that crazy: https://www.showbizgalore.com/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-starcast-and-their-salary/ Also, Cocaine Bear has grossed $30 million. It cost $30 million to make. While it is going to turn a profit, it hasn't done it yet. And it has Kerri Russel in it! (As well as Ray Liota RIP). Kerri Russel is at least as big a name as Zach Levi was.

Yeah, but that's what drives collectordom right now and new comic sales

Shazam 1 had about a $100 million budget and a $366 million box office, so it made money. Black Adam's problem is that it cost $260 million and had almost the same box office. If they can keep the budget low enough to make money on a $350-400 million box office they're ok. I have read it had a $125 million budget. It looks like Shazam 2 is getting released in China, so that probably helps. Most of these "busts" are only busts because of their budgets. Eternals made $400 million at the box office. If they had not blown it up with a $200 million budget and instead got it done for $125 million they would have been fine.