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Right. My suspicion is they want Batman cast in the "Captain America" roll. Seasoned veteran other heroes will turn to for "What do we do now?" leadership. It's that "semi-retired" description that smells of someone who's close to throwing in the towel. So I hoping Batman isn't portrayed as some disillusioned burn-out.

Of everything that's what I have the most trouble with. It automatically makes Batman v Superman an Elseworlds tale since they've been contemporaries for the last 70+ years. Hell, forever actually, since inception. And it makes the whole Dawn of Justice [League] angle really confusing. Batman's close to turning the lights out before the Justice League even gets started? Makes no sense timeline wise. Yet, anyway.

She could play anybody who's not too young. Zatanna, Madame Xanadu, Gypsy, Shayera Hol... Personally I have her pegged for Mercy Graves, Luthor's bodyguard/concubine/assassin. Good choices. "MERCY!! Let's go..." (thumbs u

She could play anybody who's not too young. Zatanna, Madame Xanadu, Gypsy, Shayera Hol... Personally I have her pegged for Mercy Graves, Luthor's bodyguard/concubine/assassin.

Good actress with a strong screen-presence. We'll see how she fares in Edge of Tomorrow soon enough.

Suspension of disbelief is different than suspending logic. Yep. Any good "fantasy" has to establish and adhere to its own internal logic; otherwise, the fact that it's not real can be used to justify any random nonsense, and the whole thing loses its integrity. I'd stop watching Game of Thrones if the Khaleesi rolled up to King's Landing in a Dodge Charger. Even if Ash stepped out of the Charger, arm around Khaleesi? Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my BOOMSTICK!

Back then I was getting about $40 a pop for the Hulk kits, and that was from 'rare kit dealers' who sent out mailing lists.They'd take 6 or 8 kits at a time. Ebay came along and pushed the price down somewhat. Nope, no original Auroras, mainly late seventies Monogram and MPC kits. I vaguely remember some oddball stuff besides the comic book figures. James Bond Moonraker space shuttle, General Lee, junk like that. Hell, I grabbed everything.

True story: Sometime in the mid-nineties I walked into a large craft chain store and they had pallets of old figure kits sitting inside the door. Dollar each. I thought my heart was going to come through my chest. I grabbed several shopping carts and started tossing them in. The manager came over and I told him I'm buying it all, and please call the other locations and see if they have these too. He said the company had had to sell an old Warehouse and these were found in it. Drove all over town that day, filling cart after cart after cart. Then I spent years selling and trading to national kit dealers, and occasionally putting some on eBay.

There really are monsters in my closet.

They don't travel well. True, but mainly the Maquette and Statue industry took off in a huge way.

WOW. All your efforts produced a real show-stopper. Spectacular.

I used to LOVE model kit building. Aurora, vinyl and resin figure kits, smashing kits into something else, all of it. Smashed a cheap Captain America kit into an Action Comics Superman once upon a time...

I dropped in mid-discussion, so I probably should've googled Gal Gadot first. She is..um....thin. But hey, I enjoyed Keira Knightley as a warrior in that King Arthur movie. So, right camera angles, right lighting... But man, yeah...thin. There was a term for it once upon a time, "heroin chic" if I remember right.

Yeah, I was just curious. Googleing some 'New 52' WW images there does seem to be more trending toward "warrior" now. More sword wielding than lasso. More rage, more body armor. Jim Lee designs are all over the map though, gotta say. In some she's a petite young lady, in others a screaming manic on the attack. It's those latter where her 'ripped' biceps come prominent.

Thanks! (thumbs u Have to admit, I haven't paid much attention to New 52 WW art.

Please do. Not trying to argue, just wondering if something changed while I wasn't paying attention. Almost any WW 'style guide' I can think of, up through Bruce Timm animated, depicts WW as exceptionally gorgeous but 'normal' in stature. Some Alex Ross shows her stockier, but only some. Other images by him go right back to her traditional body type. It's all fantasy anyway, right? So it'd be fun to see where the 'big guns' fantasy is coming from. (thumbs u

Has Wonder Woman ever been beefy? I'm not getting some of the comments here. Just curious where all the gym rat, big guns stuff is coming from? I mean, she's never been Big Barda. She's a princess with magical godlike powers, not based on muscle mass or slamming protein shakes. Did she get physically retconned by some artist recently? Where's it all coming from?

I guess it's safe to assume they won't be going with the 'Adam-West-as-badazz' look.

yeah more details would be good but i also think we going to see wonder woman soon also. then it going to get crazy when a production photo of all three in one picture is release. It's going to be a fine line they tread to keep people interested, but not so much that people become bored with it. A steady drip-drip-drip of info-torture could become tiresome over a 2 year stretch. Waiting 2 more years seems insane, with their May 2016 release date.

As a stand-alone service? Sure. But that was all encapsulation era stuff, part of the overall brouhaha. I remember this 2005 thread caused quite a stir: Restoration Expert Susan Cicconi Denounces Pressing But yeah, all that was part of the long road to where we're at now.

I guess I was arguing the end of the Rollout phase. In my mind a backward view looks like... ...CGC/PCS is a combo deal the moment the doors open. A concept imported over from coins. It's just not revealed. (some insiders are privy and play immediately - Hammer points, rants and is ridiculed) ...A roughly decade-long Rollout follows to remould hearts & minds (or books and paydays, however you want to say it). Drops, not a downpour. ...Rough waters midstream. Ewert, NOD, all that. Advanced-stage rollout, yes, but still in the rollout phase. Overstreet marketing partnership pays off, broader acceptance assured. Not there yet. Then it's just a matter of pinpointing when what was desired Opening Day was fully accomplished. The Rollout phase ending, everything in the open, public invited. 2012.

Household word? Personally I still have doubts about "mainstream", beyond the context of this messageboard. I bet if you surveyed Comic Con attendees as they entered, the percentage be fairly tiny still. And that's just a general awareness of pressing, not the broader world of all non-additive restoration techniques in play today.

It's just a difference of interpreting history then. You think "mainstream" occurred 2006-2008. In 2006 NOD formed over PCS, Ewert and a host of non-disclosure issues, there was an uproar over changes to Restoration definitions In New 2006 Overstreet Guide, and the Scoop pressing debates raged. Obviously it wasn't "mainstream" throughout 2006 with maneuverings, shock and debates occurring. So 2012 gets my "mainstream" vote. Or it became "mainstream" enough, for the very 1st time, to bring PCS back inhouse and comfortably put out the Welcome All mat. No way in hell that could've occurred on Day-One. No way. And if it could've occured in 2006-2008, it absolutely would have.

+1, just plan crazy Yeah, "sunlight is the best disinfectant" twisted in to "who dragged it under a grow-light, man!!" If by "a thing" the OP meant "absolutely no going back", I think an argument could be made for the 2012 Schmell sell off event/CCS homecoming. Full public display of a champion with winnings, followed with an "all skate" announcement. Prior to that it was all about managing just how slowly to open the flood gate, to not inadvertently drown themselves in the process. Slooooooowly, cautiously, correcting any missteps, for as many years as necessary.

Those files are both dated 8/29/2005, So I was right close! From the get-go Hammer endlessly wailed about pressings, trims and alterations on the ComicsPriceGuide forums . Wild conspiracy theory nutjob stuff about "what's sitting in Blue holders". In Feb 2004 Hammer zeroed in a trimmed Batman 11 that CGC finally had to admit to, same month the CBG Mystery in Cyberspace made the rounds. Dec 2004 the Forbes Top Drawer article came out, which kind of echoed Hammer's relentless "I've seen this all before in coins!!" conspiracy stuff. Whispers of PCS, confirmation, Ewert just "has a good eye" and all that... Sept 2005 Hammer spotted Ewert's Strange Tales 128, the final coffin nail, stripping away any remaining excuses. Much has been scrubbed from the CGC and CBG boards, impossible to link a solid timeline. Changes to Overstreet definitions, those Scoop debates, NOD, PCS scrapped to Dallas, Manufactured Gold...