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The prequels? The Force Awakens? If I recall, George Lucas killed many fanboys childhood and JJ Abrams did the same with The Force Awakens. Honestly, all this controversy seems par for the course, but maybe I am imagining all the fanboy rage every time a new Star Wars movie has been released since the Internet age.

It might be the biggest comedy of all time TBH. I don't remember any past comedy pulling in numbers like this movie did.

This movie will easily place into the top 10 movies of the year on it's first weekend alone: https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonthompson/2017/12/07/ahead-of-the-last-jedi-the-opening-weekend-box-office-of-every-star-wars-movie-ranked/#5651c4db3559 By week 2 it will be a top 5 movie. And by week 3 it should be sitting at #2. Then it will be just a matter of time before it sits at #1 for the year. I can't wait to see it! Early reactions are extremely positive for this movie.

It isn't entirely true none of these are sought after. The Star Wars b&w/sketch variants are easy sells at the right price. And it is interesting seeing the Star Wars #1 GameStop exclusive in the mix.

I saw this movie recently. I liked Man of Steel and Batman vs. Superman. I really loved Wonder Woman. I didn't love Justice League. I would say Justice League was more like Avenger: Age of Ultron that Avengers. Both were a squandered opportunity at something that should have been great. My biggest beef with Justice League (and most of these superhero movies) is there is no emotional attachment to these characters. The only recent superhero movie that I was emotionally attached to the characters was Guardians of the Galaxy. Peter Quill and Gamora had chemistry and their characters were terrific. You cared about Rocket and Groot. This movie had heart. The first 2 Spider-Man movies also have that attachment. We cared about what happened to Peter Parker and Mary Jane. Again, heart. The first Captain America had it with Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter. That movie's ending hit you like a ton of bricks. More heart. I don't get it. This movie bring back Superman from the dead and this should have been a huge emotional scene. It fell flat like when Pa Kent died in MoS. Instead of spending all this money on special effects, these studios should be spending money on writers who are able to get audiences to become emotionally attached to these characters. Having most of the battles take place in the middle of nowhere resulted in no gravity to what was happening. Much like the recent Thor movie. Great eye candy, but missing the all important heart. Most of the screen version of these characters are parodies of what we get in the comics. Jokes. If the studios are not going to take these character's seriously, why should we?

The last Thor movie completely butchered the character of Thor. Thor in the comic doesn't run from battle (the opening scene had Thor doing this) and sure wouldn't have whined about getting a hair cut. He definitely is not cracking jokes either. Marvel's formula works, but at the expense of the characters I grew up reading. I've mentioned before all the Marvel movie heroes have the same voice. I get it, the wise cracking characters they put up on the screen sells. But let's not pretend these characters are the same characters in the comics. Outside of the powers, the resemblance is superficial at best. And even the powers, as is the case with the recent Spider-Man movie, went out the door so we could get Iron-Boy.

If Marvel were able to take Moon Knight to Batman levels, it would have happened already. And a rise in Moon Knight won't necessarily (and probably won't) have any impact on the value of Batman. The last time I looked Batman was earning DC just under $500 million a year in licensing and merchandise sales. That is a lot of ground for Moon Knight to make up, even if a movie starring the character was a box office success.

Iron Man doesn't really have any strong villains, nor Black Panther. I don't see why that should stop Disney from putting Moon Knight into movies.

If the Justice Department is blocking AT&T and Warner merging and that isn't even a vertical merge which eliminates competition, I have a hard time believing they would allow Disney and Fox to merge because that does eliminate competition.

Thanos' color is wrong in the trailer. Thanos has a square jaw and high cheek bones, not a round jaw and low cheek bones. We've never seen Thanos drawn with eye's that look human, they are always set back and glowing menacingly. The trailer makes Thanos look like an overweight football player in the face, not a chiseled, menacing alien like he appears in the comic. As for the voice, this is Thanos, arguably one of the most powerful beings in the universe. I always imagined him with a deep, menacing voice, not just an average voice you'd hear everyday. When Thanos spoke in the trailer, did it stand out to you? Again, I know this is nitpicky to some and I already said I have no doubt the movie will do well. But like Ultron, I just feel Marvel is losing some of the distinguishing visuals that makes Thanos unique. For Ultron, it was the mouth that crackles with energy in the comic and with Thanos it is his face. Look at the picture of Thanos with the glove versus what was in the trailer. This Sideshow maquette does a very good job of portraying what a movie Thanos should look like:

I agree. This trailer was ho-hum for me. I have no doubt the movie will deliver, but this wasn't a very good trailer. If that was Thanos' voice, it was very underwhelming and not at all what I would expect. And hopefully the CGI is still being worked on, because Thanos didn't look very good either. Fix the voice, fix the CGI and it might have been a better trailer.

Wonder Woman was more profitable than Spider-Man: Homecoming. Interesting list and not at all close to what I've seen talked about here on these boards.

I'm happy the characters in the comics all have a different voice. If every character sounded like Spider-Man from the comics (which is basically how all the movie characters sound - pretty much all the same) then Marvel Comics wouldn't have made it out of the 1960s. It might not make for an entertaining movie, but it definitely made for interesting comic books.

There are legitimate bootleg foreign comics. Several countries have released unlicensed comics based on U.S. properties. There are bootlegs that basically print the U.S. material (maybe in the language of the country it is being printed for) and bootlegs that print new material entirely. The key being the books are unlicensed. These are all very good definitions. The first printing of the comic in a foreign country (based on the same material in a U.S. comic for example) is not considered a variant or reprint if it is licensed, it is considered a foreign edition. Obviously, if it is unlicensed, it would be a bootleg.

I had the same issue yesterday. Interesting.

Don't forget the person working the register was human and human's make mistakes.

This is funny. Thor in this movie has a personality that is nothing like Thor in the comics (wise-cracking, running from battle, afraid of a haircut, etc.) and people love it.

That is a really nice copy of a Nation Book Store (Philippines) comic. Definitely hard to find.

I would agree with this. Not only is there no purpose, but you also lose a certain segment of collectors who prefer their books unblemished without stamps, pencil dates, etc.

I don't have first hand knowledge of it, but it looks like you could have a star without an insert on older books as other have said. And based on why and how the books were stamped, I have to believe there are books with inserts that don't have the star. The person at the register is human and makes mistakes, not to mention theft. And we don't know that every overseas base followed the same process.

As for the color of the stamp, I don't have any books in my collection with anything other than a black stamp. I was in Germany for 4 years and collected comics all 4 years.

At Kaiserslautern (the housing location for Ramstein AFB in Germany), the AAFES bookstore was separate from the commissary and had its own counter near the front of the store when I was there in the 1970s. The comics were stamped by the person behind the register in the bookstore when you bought them. The stamp was used as proof that the book was purchased. Stamps could be found on the back or front of books. (I have examples of both.) Unfortunately, I would only be speculating on anything beyond that. Without an insert, the books could have been insert books that had the inside removed (which was a common practice with my circle of friends growing up), they could have come without the insert, or they could have received the stamps another way unrelated to overseas military bases entirely.

There are tons of foreign Conan books that are not just foreign editions of the stories printed in the U.S. This is a character that seems to resonate around the world.

Amazon's CloudFront appears to be having issues. Lots of broken images on the last few pages.

There have been 1,284 rick and morty comic sales on eBay in the past few months. And every single auction has been shilled. Even those that only sold for a few bucks? https://www.ebay.com/sch/Comics/63/i.html?_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_nkw=rick+and+morty+comic Just how many people are in on this conspiracy exactly? And when did you have the time to check each and every one of these auctions?