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Currently around 15K. I tell myself I will stop at 20k, but I think I'm lying...

As someone else stated the Blue and Gold refer to the X-men teams of the 90's. After one event, they had just a whole load of characters so they split the team into two Blue and Gold (which were the uniforms of most of the characters of the time. So, the X-men title followed one team and Uncanny X-men followed the other. So, they are just bringing it all back around.

This is a terrible sight to behold. But not too surprising. Diamond can be, lets say, careless with their shipping. Sad they would do so with such an expensive book.

Awesome, just got that Joker a few months ago.

Awesome! Two of my favorite games from Final Fantasy. Personally, I think these two were the best they made. Great statues!

I'm jealous of you all. I recently got into finally getting statues. For about 7-8 months I was buying like mad. Alot of the Transformer stuff. Especially the stuff for the movie. My happy moment was getting the Unicron statue. The one where he is standing over Rodimus Prime and Arcee and Prime is holding up the matrix. I also got the huge Unicron statue in Paradigmcomics picture. was also getting alot of the Marvel villans busts. My favorite is Thanos. Anyway, we are trying to move to bigger house so all my stuff is packed up until we do and I can finally have a man cave. . And Bobset, I don't have the Antman statue, but I do have the Giant-man, Goliath, Yellow Jacket, and Ant-man busts. Also have Wasp (modern) and an Ultron bust to go with them.

Hobgoblin was always my favorite Spidey villian. Just like others I had started reading ASM as a teen in the 80's. I remember having my mom by the Spider-man vs Wolverine comic and she frowned because it was a whopping $2.25. . I read it and loved the story. It really was more about Wolverine and Charlemagne (however her name is spelled) than Spidey. Seeing Ned Leeds dead didn't really resonate with me until a long while later since I only got the odd comic here and there. I think the best story was in Web of Spider-man when the Rose explained how he had been working with Ned Leeds/Hobgoblin to take down Kingpin. I even liked Jake Macendale's storyline. And then came Hobgoblin Lives. Ugh! To make Hobby into a fashion designer... Didn't make sense. I know the writer says that was the plan all along, but I just never saw it. And it seemed to make more sense to have Ned as Hobgoblin. I love all the covers. I wish they had used Hobby in the movies instead of Green Goblin. And now, Greeny just doesn't seem to be scary. Osborn is great as a character but the writers can't seem to write Green Goblin. To me, Hobby will always be the best goblin.

I respect Bob for his business sense. He got it right where so many creators at the time didn't. Definitely a forward thinker there. However, I'm all about giving credit where its due. And that's the sad part of this. Bill died pretty much penniless from what I gather. In the meantime, Bob is getting paid royalties. I wish he had given Bill the credit he deserved. I just wonder why DC hasn't done the same thing they did for Superman's creators. Yeah, I know there were lawsuits for years, but, why not just come out and be honest? Just do the right thing. And I think comic book collectors and maybe pop culture followers may know about Bill but I doubt the average person knows about him. I mean the people that see the movies and cartoons and such.

Someone else posted about the ending of The Killing Joke but while there I found this: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/08/12/he-made-batman-no-one-else-kane-had-nothing-to-do-with-it-bill-did-it-all-carmine-infantino-on-bill-finger/ I have heard of Bill Finger before and had heard alot of the story. It was pretty said. Basically, Bob Kane had education and business sauvy to really roll over Bill. Bill was less educated and really just trying to work. My understanding is that Bob Kane had a contract with DC that basically said that whenever they did Batman they have to say "created by Bob Kane". I really hope this guy is able to help the last of the Finger family and get poor Bill some recognition in the main stream media.

Love the first four Dune books. Those were great. The last two I know he did for the money and to me it kind of shows. The sequels and prequels his son did were okay junkfood reading. Not great by any stretch of the imagination. They started off okay. But fell flat with the reason for the rift between the Harkonnens and the Atreides. That was just stupid.

Reading a few things. Just finished BloodQuest by Terry Brooks. I can never pass up a Shannara book. Just got Emperor of Thorns, the last book in that trilogy. Also, reading Zealot: The life and times of Jesus. Its pretty good. Its actually about the history of the period, not about religion. Also, Hitlerland: Eyewitness accounts of the rise of the Nazi Party. That one is one everyone should read. The book is made of the journals and interviews of Americans that were in Germany in the 1920's-1930's that saw the rise of Hitler. Funny thing is that most sources thought Hitler was a joke and basically a flash in the pan. Again, a history book.

Oh I have #13 somewhere in a box. I was collecting all the Venom appearances back in the day. I liked the couple of issues. Also, isn't there one with a holographix cover. Like a red light shining from the chest emblem? Got that too. Is that #25.

I think it is a very fair question, and look forward to the discussion. I think him having a variant cover on almost ever comic Marvel publishes is ridiculous, and I don't even collect them outside of the Deadpool comic because of it. Exactly how I feel. As I said previously, Venom was a cool and kinda scary character. Then as he became popular he was in more and more mini-series, guess appearances and such. The character got dumber and dumber. He just became overused and watered down. Now seeing Deadpool on all these covers...

I know the masses may kill me later, but I have to ask. Is Deadpool the new Venom? I mean, when Venom came out, he was pretty cool. Then he was way over used. Turning him from a villian into an anit-hero. IMHO it just watered down the character. The new Flash Thompson version seems pretty cool so far. So what about Deadpool? He was suppose to be an assassin. Now it seems he is reaching Venom proportions of overuse. Let the abuse begin. .

About 26-28 long boxes.