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On 9/20/2021 at 9:31 AM, Brock said:

Since @kevhtx hasn't read it, I'll weigh in... I read the first trade of Wynd, and it was fun. The art has an intentionally "simple" feel, though with impressive moments, and the writing has a distinct YA tone. I quite enjoyed it, but I'm not sure I enjoyed it enough to pick up subsequent trades. I'm a fan of more complex storylines, and "slow burn" build ups... That's not really the space that Wynd is in. Maybe an analogy is that I like The Lord of the Rings, and this is The Hobbit. Your mileage may vary...

I actually liked wynd better as it got to the later issues when the vampires came. It would make a good animated show 

On 9/14/2021 at 9:10 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

It's got to be the super walmarts only, so not every Walmart in the USA.....

I havent seen them, but I dont have a super walmart close or whatever they're called

Edit maybe @Namtak you can use Google to see if super Walmart is international 

And not all of the super walmarts have them. I’ve got 5 near me and only two carry them. 🤷‍♂️

On 9/13/2021 at 5:15 PM, Lpgk said:

There's a new wave of Marvel multipacks that came out last week. 7 for $10 packs. Includes two 3 packs and one loose comic between them. Seems to be older 3 packs from what I can tell. 

Front of the packs have Aliens 1, Ultraman 1, and Xmen; among others. 

Bought a couple aliens and one ultraman pack, nothing of any significance in them. YMMV

That’s a pretty good price, I’ll be on the lookout 🙂

On 9/6/2021 at 8:35 AM, Mr. Spider-Woman said:

Probably. But with my luck I would find some, buy them, and end up with nothing to show for it.

Yeah the optimist in me keeps checking, just in case. I wonder if they will restock?

On 9/5/2021 at 2:16 PM, Mr. Spider-Woman said:

I just learned about "VariantGate" (as Bleeding Cool refers to it) and had to force myself not to drive to the closest Walmart in the hopes of finding some of the high-ratio variants.

I find retail exclusives like this fascinating but frustrating because there's almost never any detailed info available, just speculation and rumors.

You likely wouldn’t have found any, once word of them broke out weeks ago they all sold out quickly 😕

I know they’re swamped, but they’re supposed to be experts, the authorities on a comic’s authenticity. If they’re missing something as obvious as this how do we know they’re not missing subtle restoration?

I wonder if in the future slabs from this year will be valued less by collectors?

On 8/26/2021 at 8:12 PM, littledoom said:

Yes, I'd hold onto it. It's going to be worth thousands of dollars…

Don’t tease me man 😆

Did it have a low print run?

On 8/25/2021 at 2:20 PM, fastballspecial said:

Well you could be right I am away from home currently. I thought it was ASM 546?
I sold it for I think $150 back then and you don't see them for sale very much. It was
only a Fine copy. Its been many years ago and I have only seen one copy in person. 
All look tonight when I get home. 

AND BTW we both knew which one of us sold an ASM book cheap and didn't realize
it was a newsstand. 
 

Is this a newsstand?

On 8/23/2021 at 4:34 PM, ygogolak said:

Let's not forget this goes against one of their principals in getting comics in the hands of readers since they were not distributed equally to every store and stores ordered one copy per person when in fact they need two.

That’s a really good point 

On 8/18/2021 at 3:47 PM, Wolverinex said:

How do you find these in your store anyway ? are they just buy the self checkout lines?

yeah they’re on the check out aisle that has pokemon and baseball cards. Usually just one box of them and one or two DC boxes. Not all walmart’s have them though 😕

On 8/16/2021 at 8:41 PM, Wolverinex said:

So I guess there is a graphic novel now?

https://twitter.com/badideahello/status/1427425562117787654?s=20

I thought they were not going to reprint them that way? 🙄 I think I’m done with this whole thing.

Drove around this weekend and all my walmarts have been cleaned out. There’s guys on youtube saying they’re buying $300 of them at a time so I’m not surprised 

On 8/10/2021 at 7:03 PM, LordRahl said:

 I just never saw the appeal in beaters.

well, I like that I can read them without being scared of creasing the spine or bending the corners  🙂

I thought that 2nd print of Nice House on the Lake looked cool too😄

I really wanted that artgerm but didn’t find it 😕

On 8/2/2021 at 5:39 PM, Lazyboy said:

We’ve seen books get popular for stranger reasons than this 🤷‍♂️

I didn’t even know there were 2nd prints. I never see these in shops, or any star books for that matter ☹️

When I was a kid I thought the new universe stuff was neat. I may reread the pitt and see if it holds up

1 hour ago, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

I actually wrote one of these letters! Fun to see this in the podcast.

No way!  Which one? Would you be interested in coming onto the show to talk about it? 🙂

On 7/14/2021 at 2:02 PM, HotKey said:

They contacted him but he couldn't foot the bill.

couldn’t “foot” the bill, I see what you did there 😄

On 2/21/2021 at 1:04 PM, KirbyJack said:

The title is too important not to have its own place to showcase every glorious issue. 
I’m a low grade collector generally speaking, so the bar is starting pretty low! 

 

With prices rising I’m starting to really appreciate low grade copies nowadays.

On 2/21/2021 at 6:03 PM, Jasonmorris1000000 said:

proteus was such an interesting character, they could make some wild stuff if they use him in live action 

17 hours ago, Jesse-Lee said:

I liked 2 - I felt like it did a good job of moving the story, and I like the different styles of telling the story within the book. But I agree, 1 really was well done.

I loved the concept but I can’t keep track of all the characters in my head. 

I’m looking forward to them venturing into the outer world, Tynion is my current favorite.

On 7/11/2021 at 9:21 PM, F For Fake said:

That’s definitely my mental stopping point. As far as my collection is concerned, UXM ended with 281, and I’m fine with that. That’s when I dropped my subscription, and when I generally lost interest in the line. I popped in here and there for different runs, some of the Joe Mad stuff, AOA, but my personal connection ended at 281. And honestly, my teenage emotional investment really ended around the time Jim Lee showed up. I liked his art, but the storylines had gotten so convoluted and dull. Inferno was the last crossover I really cared about. There’s still some nostalgic feeling for the Lee stuff, but I honestly don’t remember much about the stories, if anything, by that point.

How funny, that’s exactly when I dropped off too. I thought Lee’s panel layouts were hard to follow.  I loved the marauders, reavers, sinister, genosha, jubilee hating on psylocke, all that 80’s stuff 🙂

On 7/11/2021 at 11:10 PM, JB123 said:

Has anyone run across one of these?

It's an insert not quite the same size as book pages and it's an order form.

It's thin Cardstock

I haven’t heard of that, what was the order form for?