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Axelrod

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  1. Axelrod
    Sold for $535 in last night's MyComicShop Auction?
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    Why u tease us like this.
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    He can! Apparently that's what makes him a "mutant." The other stuff (strength/water-breathing) is just being Atlantean.
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    Is everyone still having the issue where you get randomly logged out of the forums after some number of days, and then you have to sign in again? (and in my case there’s an extra step where, even though it appears I’m already signed out, I have to “sign out” again before I can actually log back in) Was there a fix announced for this which I missed, or is everyone just living with it like me?
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    Well, two things here. First, when something is a "variant" cover, that is not, in fact, something that is readily apparent from looking at the cover. How would one know, unless one were looking at both books at the same time, that one cover was the "regular" version of the cover and one completely different looking cover was a special "variant" cover of the same book? Second, you may have missed the larger point I was trying to make, which was not that there is completely zero value in identifying "newstand" editions, but that this information on the label seems rather less important to me than the information which was previously placed on CGC labels regarding material defects of the book which might NOT be readily apparent from looking at the cover. Information which CGC is removing from their labels and apparently relegating to the grader's notes.
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    I am hardly one to give advice on this subject, but in as much as you are looking for "investment" opportunities, it seems to me that the older books - the Batman 171 and Lois Lane books (already the most expensive) - will probably hold their value better than the other books, which seem more modern/subject to hype. Feel like the Spiderman book already "peaked" with the movies and, while it might still go up gradually, it will never be a "hot" book again. The others might get some kind of a "hype" bump over and above what they have already got if some new project gets announced with that character, but that will only be a temporary hype bump. If you were prepared to flip that book immediately should it spike even more (though you said it was also for your PC), then maybe one of those would be okay, but long term, seems like the older ones would be more reliable.
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    Of these, I think the ones that have the best chance of actually happening are the Jon Snow continuation story (people would at least tune in for that, I think, and give it a chance. It would obviously have to rise and fall on it's own merits afterwards). And the Dunk and Egg one, which currently has three stories as it's foundation. Martin says he's roughed out ideas for at least 6 more, but can't work on them while he's finishing the current book - i.e. they are never happening. But of the current three, each could potentially last a season (there's one great story, one middling one, and one pretty good one). I would eat a shoe if a show about the "Sea Snake" ever got off the ground, and I'm very dubious about that 10,000 ships thing considering they scrapped the other prequel show set X thousand years beforehand, and I think they even shot a pilot for that one. I have no idea about the other stuff.
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    I might have to watch at least part of that last episode again, because I am completely confused by something
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    Because notating something that is readily apparent from looking at the cover (in the vast majority of cases, at least) is much more important than identifying defects which are hidden inside the sealed holder and completely unable to be detected.
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    I will say that the multiple time jumps they've already done do tend to take me a little out of the show. I like it, but it makes it feel more like the cliff notes version of the story. I hope that with this next time jump the cast gets stabilized and the story mores forward more evenly from here on out (though maybe that's not the case. I don't know how long this civil war that's coming lasted in Martin's history. Maybe we'll be jumping forward multiple years all the time)
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    Good old 80s. That's my decade!
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    Hey! I have quite fond memories of the Bakshi Lord of the Rings. Don't go ruining my childhood here! (Was it bad and I'm not remembering....?)
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    KInda same question. If the single season is contained enough within itself, I'd still watch it, but if it ends on a cliffhanger or something, I probably wouldn't.
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    The only thing that annoyed me (which probably won't annoy most) was: Also, These are the things I think about.
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    Nice. I started buying comic around 1980. I figure if I ever decided to sell them, I'd probably be lucky to get 5k for the lot.
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    You can hate the show. Just please don't hate it because they cast some black people or because you think they are pushing some ludicrous "girl power" agenda. If you are doing that, then it really is your problem, not theirs.
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    You say it has nothing to do with race, but then what agenda exactly do you think they are pushing?
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    I guess I just don't understand how fans of the comic series could be disappointed by this. I mean - obviously some are - but, man, what more could they have done? It's incredibly difficult material to adapt, given the episodic nature of the book. But they managed it, staying remarkably faithful to the source material, both in "tone" and in "look." Just goes to show, you can never make everyone happy.
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    Hey, I did this three years ago! Everything is all together. I didn't pull out the "best" books and put them somewhere else (I just put those ones in higher quality mylar bags as opposed to the poly bags for most of it). Now that I have a (very few) graded books, those are on a wall. But no special "key" box for me.
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    Guessed 5 and 4. Don't think that's gonna be making any moves.
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    /in please!
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    I mean, they could change their minds down the road, even after using it as a tax write off. They'd just have to pay back whatever amount they wrote it off for. I think that's legal? Not that it's likely.
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    Credit where credit is due, this at least recognizes and addresses 1/2 the issues raised. Radio silence as to how the books got the numerical grades they got in the first place continues, but that was pretty much always going to be the case.
  25. Axelrod
    Enjoyed it. Was suitably "Games of Thrones-ish." Real question for me is if the series will be capable of surprising us along the way. I think that was what made Game of Thrones what it was. The way it managed to subvert audience expectations on a regular basis. This show is - currently - setting up a fairly straightforward conflict. So, will they just, do that, or will it become something else?