DrWatson

I figure that since they harvested his platelets, which results in being able to stabilize the centipede formula, there will be new super baddies showing up right and left.

It couldn't have been Sunfire as the guy blows up.

I like it better than Arrow.

Right now my biggest complaint with the show is the two british scientists. As has been said before I cannot understand half of what they are saying. Very annoying.

Scottish.

Right now my biggest complaint with the show is the two british scientists. As has been said before I cannot understand half of what they are saying. Very annoying.

 

Even more annoying to me is nothing they say actually matters anyways.

None of the characters actually have grabbed me thus far.

 

Yeah, even the likable Coulson is getting lost in this dribble. Hopefully, they will let the real Whedon start writing this series. His brother is obviously not up to the task.

Actually, the show should go on hiatus considering that the government has shut down.

Name me one other business that can still charge full price for a defective product.

 

The Mafia and other organized crime types.

I dub this post, irony.

I see a post has been removed.

Yep, it was mine. It was removed because it was the truth. Name me one other business that can still charge full price for a defective product.

It was okay, but it was a slow, plodding watch. Project Runway has more drama... and Heidi Klum.

The thing that sticks out the most about this is that the indent is always one the back. Aren't slabs symmetrical and could go either way? Does that mean CGC has enough foresight to put the book in so the indent is on the back? They seem to be knowingly pushing books through without catching and correcting the mistake.

It's a manufacturing defect from the supplier. Plus, I am guessing that the CGC has chosen to put the defect on the back of the inner well as opposed to the front. I don't believe unused inner wells have a specified front or back. That would be like specifying right and left socks.

 

It is my understanding from reading various posts on the boards that the CGC received a bad batch of inner wells from their supplier.

 

Instead of waiting for new inner wells from their suppliers, the CGC chose to continue under a "business as usual" mantra until the supplier of the inner wells rectified the problem. This left the CGC with an unspecified amount of defective (my word, not theirs) product to work their way through.

 

There actually IS a front and back tray member to the inner well. I don't think CGC is choosing to put the defect on the back. There are manufacturing reasons why this occurs. Please see my link.

 

LINK

It depends on which inner well is used. The modern inner well is pretty much a sleeve with both the front and the back being the same:

It doesn't not have the defect.

The inner well for this Bronze Age book is as you described; a tray with the book dropped into it and then the top sheet placed over it:

It does have the defect.

So, the next question would be is the defect only limited to the tray style inner wells or did I just get lucky on one and not the other.

The thing that sticks out the most about this is that the indent is always one the back. Aren't slabs symmetrical and could go either way? Does that mean CGC has enough foresight to put the book in so the indent is on the back? They seem to be knowingly pushing books through without catching and correcting the mistake.

It's a manufacturing defect from the supplier. Plus, I am guessing that the CGC has chosen to put the defect on the back of the inner well as opposed to the front. I don't believe unused inner wells have a specified front or back. That would be like specifying right and left socks.

It is my understanding from reading various posts on the boards that the CGC received a bad batch of inner wells from their supplier.

Instead of waiting for new inner wells from their suppliers, the CGC chose to continue under a "business as usual" mantra until the supplier of the inner wells rectified the problem. This left the CGC with an unspecified amount of defective (my word, not theirs) product to work their way through.

Has it been clarified why the cratering is primarily on the back cover ?

It's a manufacturing defect from the supplier. Plus, I am guessing that the CGC has chosen to put the defect on the back of the inner well as opposed to the front. I don't believe unused inner wells have a specified front or back. That would be like specifying right and left socks.

It is my understanding from reading various posts on the boards that the CGC received a bad batch of inner wells from their supplier.

Instead of waiting for new inner wells from their suppliers, the CGC chose to continue under a "business as usual" mantra until the supplier of the inner wells rectified the problem. This left the CGC with an unspecified amount of defective (my word, not theirs) product to work their way through.

It was decided that the cure was worse than the disease and they are going to use them until they are gone.

Oh, and I'm glad they decided to give the customer the shaft... yet again. Class all the way around. (thumbs u

10 books arrived home today, all have the indentation but they are a much larger diameter than pictures I've seen so far.

 

I wonder if that makes it better or worse?

Regardless of size, it's still a defect.

 

Is CGC really trying to cut costs by using sub-par materials? That can't be the reason this continues....can it?

 

My assumption is that they would have to shut down for a while until they got a shipment of barex inner wells that did not have the defect.. It was decided that the cure was worse than the disease and they are going to use them until they are gone.

I'm of the opinion that they can stick them in their 4th point of whatever it was.

10 books arrived home today, all have the indentation but they are a much larger diameter than pictures I've seen so far.

 

I wonder if that makes it better or worse?

Regardless of size, it's still a defect.

Whether it affects the book or not is immaterial. It's not supposed to be there.

Business days don't even mean to The CGC what they mean to people in the business world. In the business world, a business day means any non-holiday or non-weekend day. To CGC it means those, plus any Friday (and Monday??) of a convention weekend where The CGC attends.

Even Wednesday and Thursday in some instances. They have also been working Saturdays. So, wouldn't that technically put them further behind?

When you think you are having a bad day, it can't be this bad...

It's so bad you requoted them. Attention whore. Or exhibitionist. I can't decide.

Masochist.

 

Happy belated birthday!

No worries. You can catch the next one tomorrow.

(thumbs u

When you think you are having a bad day, it can't be this bad...

It's so bad you requoted them. Attention whore. Or exhibitionist. I can't decide.

Masochist.

There will be no levity.

You should change your board id to Billy Numerous.

It's a Mexican standoff.

That's racist.

Dumb and Dumber would have been more politically correct.

I really hate Bishop and his mullet. Cable sucks balls as well. What's with the guns when they have mutant powers?!

 

I blame most of you old on the board for supporting mess characters like Cable. Someone made him popular and I was a little too young when he burst onto the scene. You guys all bash Liefeld and he had a big part in Cable's early popularity. Man those early 90 X-Books went ape mess with Time Traveling Alternate Time line douchebagery. I think even Doc Watson said that's when the X-Books really mess the bed.

The last one I bought off the stands was 324. I never cared for Cable or Bishop and I hate time travel stories.

Not to pick on Paul, but about the only surefire method of knowing if there isn't micro chamber paper is to crack the slab and I see that as, well, self-defeating when the goal is to have the book slabbed.

 

Wow! I wonder if anyone else thought of that and mentioned it.

 

Not that I've seen.

Not to pick on Paul, but about the only surefire method of knowing if there isn't micro chamber paper is to crack the slab and I see that as, well, self-defeating when the goal is to have the book slabbed.

I may not understand how this is done, but I didn't think they used the encapsulation machine for reholders..... they just snap a new hard plastic holder around the previously encapsulated book.

 

Nah, they put in new labels and micro chamber paper. So it has to be encapsulated again.

 

I think they stopped using microchamber paper.

 

 

We still use micro chamber paper. Every book. If some got through - let us know.

Some got through.