• When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

Axelrod

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    979

  • Joined

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Axelrod

  1. Axelrod
    Yeah, yeah, I'm do'in it. Not well, but I'm do'in it.
  2. Axelrod
    Seems like a security issue. Have they not heard of chain of custody? How do they track who had hands on a missing book if they just get placed on open access shelves? Yeah, yeah, probably brought up a million times before.
  3. Axelrod
    Also, wtf is suing these people supposed to accomplish? Are they not being criminally prosecuted? Does CGC think this move "protects" their good name? 'Cause I don't think it does....
  4. Axelrod
    Well there's your problem....
  5. Axelrod
    Here's the long term trend: Most comics: Some comics:
  6. Axelrod
    Ditto
  7. Axelrod
    Well, nothing I've seen since the initial previews has changed my opinion that this movie is going to bomb quite hard. If you thought Morbius and Birds of Prey did poorly, just hold onto your hats. And I will be there for it! (possibly I'm a bit starved for movies at the present time....)
  8. Axelrod
    I mean, we all know what the terms are getting at. "Cameo" meaning a very brief appearance where, yes, the character "appears" but doesn't do much, vs. a more "meaningful" extended appearance. Which one is/should be more valuable is kind of a matter of opinion. In comics the "market" decides. Stupidly, in some instances, but what can you do? The market can't really be logically reasoned with. The above is a "cameo" in the standard comic book use of the term, I think.
  9. Axelrod
  10. Axelrod
    On the other hand, he did get a couple of snarky replies to an extremely reasonable question. Even if the answer to the question is "practice more." There's probably something in addition. I get that professionals may not wish to share their bread and butter secret techniques with internet strangers, but, the replies here could have been more gracious as well.
  11. Axelrod
    To be clear, I'm not one of those "same two people" you are referring to, right? I would agree there are some people who seem overly happy to point out how poorly Aquaman 2 is doing (along with lots of other recent comic book movies). I would disagree about that not being "normal" behavior though. I think it's fairly normal. People gloat. They are also happy to be proved "right." People can be pleased and also feel vindicated when a movie they don't like does badly. Possible to do it to an extreme, of course.
  12. Axelrod
    I said exactly what he was representing regarding the respective "holds" between Aquaman 1 and 2. How do you not understand that? It was right there in the post? I then offered a personal opinion that this kind of statistic is somewhat misleading, in as much as it suggests that Aquaman 2 is doing better than Aquaman 1 in any meaningful way. You can't really disagree with that. I mean, you can disagree that it is misleading in any way since it's just reporting numbers and numbers are what they are. But, you know, numbers and statistics get used to spin results all the time. Seems like you are just being kind of ornery and defensive with regards to Aquaman 2 box office for some reason.
  13. Axelrod
    Genuinely not sure what point you are trying to make. You think that I have unfairly maligned the integrity of the Box Office Mojo guy?
  14. Axelrod
    Uh, no I didn't? This seems a silly argument.
  15. Axelrod
    Uh, pretty sure that's exactly what I noted. Aquaman 2 is "holding" better than the original Aquaman. Technically. It is, of course, easier to "hold" better when you are starting from a significantly lower box office start. But it's something!
  16. Axelrod
    I mean, it's all relative. All he's saying there is that the week-to-week "hold" for Aquaman 2 on this, the 5th weekend of its wide release, is actually better than the "hold" for the original Aquaman from 2018 (26.3% drop vs. 37% drop.) It is kind of misleading, of course, in as much as it would suggest that this Aquaman is somehow doing better than the first one in any significant way. Which it is most definitely not.
  17. Axelrod
  18. Axelrod
    I give this thread a Having a pile of unopened boxes sitting in one's closet for years is very much in my wheelhouse.
  19. Axelrod
    What is even being argued about here? This movie is not underperforming because of lack of advertising. I'd wager everyone who might possibly have been interested in an Aquaman follow-up was/is well aware. It's just that a lot less people are interested this time around (for reasons...) Also, man, it wasn't great. It wasn't terrible mind you, but, not great. And it needed to be great to overcome lack of interest.
  20. Axelrod
    The earliest versions of these characters aren't all that close to the "modern" versions, in their origins/powers/costumes. So, any use of these characters is going to be limited at first. But ultimately, this will be a good thing, though. I think. Characters should fall into the public domain. The more the better, I say. Right now we've got companies constantly making Robin Hood and King Arthur movies since those characters are "free" to use, but some fresh blood would be nice. People worried about their comic collections plummeting in value as the younger audience moves away from comics might get pleasantly surprised when copyright expiration means there's suddenly a lot more interest in these characters from all over than there was before.
  21. Axelrod
    I do not see Shazam making the 10 year plan cut. Unless Gunn is, like, a super fan of that character.
  22. Axelrod
    Talked about here, I think.
  23. Axelrod
    He is not honestly mixing stuff up. That is 100% going to be his defense when/if he gets criminally charged for this - but - that ain't what's been happening. There is simply no way he has been getting his own personal books "mixed up" with his customer's books and been accidentally selling them. It's actually a ludicrous defense. But, it might be all he's got, and he might think it at least sounds plausible.
  24. Axelrod
    Finally got to open my box! Huge shoutout to @Poekaymon for all the cool books! So much fun opening this.
  25. Axelrod
    I mean, not a dinosaur, as in outdated for a very long time. But maybe a Passenger Pigeon? Or a dodo bird? Streaming has come and physical media is going. It may take some number of years to complete the takeover, but it is happening. Even though it is absolutely true that a physical disc still gives a better picture quality today, for those who care and notice such things and/or have the equipment to discern the differences. But streaming is going to get better as well. Those discs might be a collectable one day though!