Axelrod

Where would I be if I had skipped out on that one really bad contest! Or, maybe it was more than one bad one actually. I can't even remember. I usually have (at least) one really bad round, I remember that! Still, these are fun!

Same! One grade off each of the other two, so, 4 pts for me this round.

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I think with Dave Stevens, sadly by virtue of dying young, there's also a limited output issue. By which I mean that it's realistic to actually collect all his covers. And that's appealing to many people.

It's just another one for the "what were they thinking" file. How do you spend so much on something so underwhelming? How is it even possible? You can make Godzilla Minus One for 10 million. Did they really not see? Or is it all just what William Goldman said "Nobody knows anything."

Heh. Old movies. P'shaw. My list for the next 8 looks (very) roughly something like: Civil War The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Challengers The Fall Guy Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes If Furiosa Bad Boys: Ride or Die Possibly some additions or substitutions in there depending on what else might be showing. Do not mock my tastes, or lack thereof!

Are you talking about this? People have definitely been talking about it.

Gonna go out on a limb and say there is no chance an "R" rated TMNT ever hits the screen. Too many execs will complain about how they'd be knee-capping themselves and losing too much of the potential market. About as much chance as an "R" rated Barbie movie, I suspect. And I would totally go see an "R" rated Barbie movie.

Well, I'm rescinding any insinuation that MCS undergrades when buying and then re-lists the same book at a higher grade. I misread Shadroch's above comment to mean that they had undergraded books he previously had bought from them, and then recalled other complaints in this thread of that happening. I just re-skimmed the entire thread of 3 1/2 years and there were only two times people claimed that MCS had now graded a book lower than what the seller had bought it from MCS as. Many more people complaining/remarking about how tight they grade (as compared to what CGC would give a book), but that's really something different altogether.

That is kind of sad, but appears to be the M.O. If you are selling to them, they will always undergrade you and pay you less. Too many stories about people sending them the exact same book back that they previously bought from MCS and yet now it gets a lower grade. And I also have little doubt that when the book subsequently goes up for sale it will magically have become the higher grade again - possibly I'm too cynical there. They assign tight grades on consignments too, I gather, but probably not as much as when they are buying themselves.

Well, I was, in fact, pleasantly surprised that there was an actual story to go along with the giant monster smashing. A silly story, to be sure. And, amusingly, almost too much story, as they have to jump through a lot of hoops to try and make all these silly "Monsterverse" films at least nominally consistent with each other, despite the "mythology" being just about the most ridiculous thing ever. Many exposition dumps. Godzilla really did not need to be in this movie at all. It's much more just a Kong film.

It's the Internet and People Have Opinions.

I also had one fairly recently where my item that was supposed to have already shipped was suddenly returned by the carrier. I got a note like this: Hello Matthew, You ordered the item below, but the package is being returned to us by the carrier. We’ve issued your refund. Refund Confirmation They never said what happened.

I thought it was fine. The main issue might have been trying to serve too many masters, with the all legacy characters and the new characters. They had to dumb it down just to make everything fit, I think. In particular: I liked the frozen monster design and wish there had been more about it, and that there had been cleverer scheme to free it than the extremely far fetched scenario that actually occurred.

I would like to take another shot at this