The Less Blob

I understand why people like the idea of owning a tiny piece of a specific book. It just seems to me a fund that invests solely in $25K+ or $50K or whatever slabs might make more sense. There are investment funds like this all over for different items. My friend used to consult for a high end wine investment fund.

this gets around the securities laws by being a piece of a physical asset? i don't want to read this whole thread.

Like Bitcoin? I still think it is a racket despite the fact that $1K in 2010 would be about $200 million or something now. I want my time machine!!!

I think they went overboard with the Inhumans stuff. I still enjoyed it, but it felt like too much. I understand Inhumans was where marvel was going when they didn't own mutants/X-Men, but SHIELD was all about Inhumans all the time for too many seasons. I still have 1 1/2 seasons to go. It is going in a different direction in season 6.

it is still kind of obscure. It also has a role in Runaways, which I have thus only watched 2 minutes of. I have some work to do on these ancillary shows like Legion (I think I didn't finish the first season), Hellstrom (half way through), Cloak & Dagger (5 minutes into first episode). Any others I'm forgetting? It does seem like putting a show on Hulu is a good way to kill it. I feel like if Hellstrom was on Disney+ and tried a little harder to tie into the MCU folks would be talking about it. I did not think it was bad. A little slow. Jack Lemon's grand daughter has a very good sexy / not sexy thing going on.

For the $225 million they spent on making 9 26 minute shows they should have a secret 10 - 25th episode. seriously, Once Upon a Time, which had a big cast and a few faces you could recognize, a town as a set, and some special effects and was an hour show, cost $4.5 million an episode. are they burning 100 bills to feed the electric generator to keep things working?

only for some of them, mainly harbinger 1. I never saw my X-O 1, Magnus 1, Rai 0, or Solar 1 take off.

yeah, but it had been around a while before that. and we only care about TV/movie tie-ins!

Is cerebus getting a netlifx show?

My 9 year old has been singing it for days. My wife wants to kill him.

They were stuck in a hydra cubicle for years watching American TV. This is also my explanation for why the whole universe speaks English. They've been getting tv signals from the 50s and learning English was the only way to understand I love Lucy and gunsmoke. They live in cultures with very little in the way of this sort of trivial entertainment. But they never needed to adopt written English. Also, alien abductions of English speaking sailors in the Bermuda triangle.

It is the most watched show right now. Not quite at mandelorian levels, but very close

Can rocket racer and all the storm hammers please make an appearance?

No. Avoiding the strip club twice a month puts $1000 back in your pocket (assuming you got lap dances or private room dances, not that I know anything about that)

I feel bad for my kid's babysitter. She is a partially disabled single mom with 3 kids who hustled to avoid being on welfare and ran a little childcare business out of her home. She is down to 1 client (toddler of essential health workers) when she used to have 6 or 7 steady ones.

Unemployed waitstaff, strippers, hotel staff, and childcare providers are paying the price for $150 marvel spotlight 28s

Significantly reduced spending on social / leisure activities is a much larger number for your typical collector with $. I just hired someone to supervise my kids remote learning because it was too distracting, but before that I was saving $400-800 a month on childcare / after school. I won't be spending $4k on summer camp regardless.

$1400 checks don't explain it

Darkhold was the focus of one season of SHIELD. I actually think they did a good job with Ghost Rider.

While not giving legal advice it seems like they could just snag the CAF scan and the OP likely doesn't have a claim. But my guess is that the CAF scan is not high quality enough. These are problems I will never have as I don't think I own a coffee table book worthy piece of OA.

no rick, no michone (?), the spin off... i might get back to, i dunno. when's rick back?

you think there was a bubble going on in 1998-2002? really? it was a great time to buy to sell today. it wasn't a great time to sell other than cheap stuff. shipping costs were so low the cheap stuff made economic sense to sell. you could sell terrible $1 books all day and charge $3 shipping + $1 extra per item. But put a mid grade TOS 57 up and get $6. There was no intelligent distinction between junk and decent stuff.

a bunch of guys just made a ton of money on gamestop stock and they are reinvesting in comics. or if you want to be morbid, 500,000 covid deaths means more inheritances. at least 6 or 7 of those people are comic collectors.

why? It is like the 8th appearance of Man Thing. why should it be close in price to Swamp Thing 1, which has the awesome Wrightson art and is the second appearance (and arguably the first appearance of this particular Swampie). i have copies of both, i hope they're both $500 books, I'm just not sure why man thing 1 should be.

Sales of $1.57 - $3.30 and a best offer (not sure how much) on something that was $15?