Loki

It's been a while since I was an active buyer, but I used to use the  scoring system when leaving kudos.  The better the service I received, the more detailed comments I left in my kudos and the seller got a 5 x  ranking.  Buyers I didn't want to deal with again got a brief "Book received . Thanks" comment with a single

Kind of a "read between the lines" rating method, but it definitely made it easy for me to keep track of board sellers I did and did not want to deal with again...

For me it's Doc Ock.

Goblin #2,  J Jonah Jameson in #3 spot, though perhaps not as a villain but definitely as an arch-enemy...  After all,  JJJ was responsible for the Spider-Slayers, Scorpion, the Human Fly and other villains over the years.

14 hours ago, Bill C said:

No idea who Cupid is.

She's a villain from Arrow - woman obsessed with Green Arrow who started killing criminals with a bow in order to impress him.

ASM #248, The Kid Who Collects Spider-man

49 minutes ago, CashMoney said:

Seems like more than a handful of folks on this board don't even know that $100M means $100,000 -- they think is means $100MM (i.e., $100 million). 

That's because a lot of people other than accountants use the metric terminology for thousand / million (k / M) rather than the Roman numeral based M / MM.  It's just a dumb coincidence that both systems happen to use M.

1 hour ago, VintageComics said:

I sold a CGC 6.0 on this chat forum in about 2007 or 2008 for $8K IIRC.

And it was a slow mover.

2008 for 8.5k.  Have I said "Thank you" recently?

Excellent episode.  In my opinion, the best writing in any of the comic inspired TV shows this season has been on SHIELD.  It's too bad that they're probably about to be cancelled.

ASM 129 (1st Punisher, 1st Jackal)

The storyline in this issue is so weak that, even when I was reading this as a kid, I couldn't believe how transparent the plot was. 

14 hours ago, gadzukes said:

Does anyone watch (or care about)  this show anymore?

I've been catching up on it and and have been really liking the LMD story line. 

They are getting into a "matrix" type of storyline now.  It's pretty interesting.  

Of course, if the ratings aren't there then maybe it'll be cancelled before they conclude this story arc.  Too bad.

With the writing this season, SHIELD has become one of my most eagerly anticipated shows.  It's too bad they didn't start out this strongly in the first few seasons.

I can't wait to see how things in the Framework play out.  For those who didn't see this week's episode but want to know the Framework teasers:

After last night's episode, I'm thinking maybe not Jocasta...

But Deltites a la Nick Fury vs SHIELD? That seems a likely plot line.

Also, I felt Jessica could have stopped Kilgrave several times throughout the show.

 

Does anyone else agree?

Stopped Kilgrave? Sure, there were a few chances to do that. Unfortunately, taking one of those chances would have meant that Hope would be spending life behind bars for the murder of her parents. Saving Hope from Kilgrave was Jessica's motivation for most of the series, not stopping Kilgrave. And that meant playing cat-and-mouse with Kilgrave until she could publicly expose just what he and his powers were capable of making people do.

Here's my copy. Snagged it years ago from a Comiclink auction.

Also maybe I missed something but how did Zoom go back to earth 2 and why is Zoom still alive if he killed his younger self.

Until someone closes the breach that Cisco opened, anyone who knows where it is should be able to come and go between Earths 1 and 2 at will.

His other self was referred to as a "time remnant". As I understand it, I think that means he's the version of Zoom from an alternate timeline? Meaning, Zoom went back in time, creating a separate timeline, and then used the version of himself from that timeline as his double. The temporal mechanics and paradoxes involved in some of this writing is "creative" at best...

wow I think I'm seeing a few prices here in the marketplace that are a direct result of the loonie freefall (like 50% over GPA). Makes me think that most of the books north of the border will stay there because there's no way an owner is going to get anything close to what they have in it to make it worth selling...

I doubt that's the case. Most books change hands in US$, so whatever happens to the Looney shouldn't affect selling prices.

As someone working in a resource sector that sells its goods in $US, a weaker $CDN is great for export based profits, particularly since all our expenses are priced in $CDN.

The lower Looney price can benefit the Canadian comic seller now. Example - A book that I bought for $100 when the dollars were at parity a few years back and remains worth $100 US is now worth ~$145 CDN. The exchange rate leads to a 45% profit in $CDN despite the fact the price is unchanged in $US.

As an added bonus, the US buyer should also see shipping prices from Canada to the US dropping (in $US) while remaining unchanged in $CDN.

If anything, we could see Canadian sellers pricing books they bought in better times below GPA and still making a $CDN profit. Of course, the reverse is also true - Canadian buyers are going to be paying a huge premium in $CDN to buy books priced in $US.

Slow night last night so I rented this...

Not as bad as I expected, but it was just... boring. I think that's probably as good a description as any. It was more what I would have expected from a 2-hour made-for-TV movie introducing a new TV series rather than a feature film.

Got around to watching the premiere last night...

I thought it was okay, reasonably good pacing. Biggest standout complaint for me was the fact that the entire cast is incapable of saying "Superman", which I assume is some bizarre licensing issue. It's always "He" or "Him" or some other vague reference... It got old in just an hour, I really hope that's not going to continue for the life of the show.

What was the turn around on House of Cards & OINTB to get DVD/Blu-Ray releases? Wasn't it not until after Season 2 of each of them was already binge-able?

From what I can see on Wikipedia, House of Cards season 1 was on Netflix on Feb 1, 2013 and on Blu-Ray on June 11, 2013. Seasons 2 and 3 followed a similar pattern. So a little over 4 months from Netflix release to home video release for that series.

I can't find any home video release dates for OITNB, so I'm not sure what the typical delay was for that series.

Does anyone know if there's a Blu-Ray release date for season 1 yet?

 

Do Netflix series get released on BluRay?

House of Cards and Orange is the New Black did... After all, us folks with crappy slow ISPs need to be able to watch their shows too.

Does anyone know if there's a Blu-Ray release date for season 1 yet?

Any word if this will be released on Blu-Ray any time soon? My ISP sucks as far as download speeds are concerned, so Netflix isn't really a viable option…

 

With House of Cards, it looks like the season came out in February and they then released the DVD/Bluray set in June.

 

I'd imagine that is the precedent.

Thanks. I guess I'll have to be patient for a few months then...

Any word if this will be released on Blu-Ray any time soon? My ISP sucks as far as download speeds are concerned, so Netflix isn't really a viable option...

From recent movies, it's got to be the final scene of Days of Future Past, where Logan wakes up in the "present" to the same song that was playing when he went back to the 70s. He walks through the halls of the school and all his old friends are alive again, and then the final portion where he speaks to Xavier... Patrick Stewart nails that - the tone of his voice when he says "Welcome Back".

Just a great scene...

Wells and RF in the same picture-

 

Looks like I was wrong about Wells being RF (unless it's the same guy due to time travel)

 

 

Not only is Wells in that photo with RF, but isn't that Eddie to the right of Wells? That kind of blows up the "Eddie is RF" theory as well. A 2-for-1 theory debunker...

This show has gone downhill. Not very interesting anymore.

I'm *really* hoping that they're following last season's trend - a really boring setup phase of 7-8 episodes followed by a stunning second half.

Otherwise, it really seems like you're right and it's slipping a bit.

Definitely a strong resemblance...

 

Personally, I'm leaning to towards Wells being an older, alternate reality version of Barry who came back after the Crisis on Infinite Earths to shape Barry into the hero that he (Wells) hadn't become.

 

Let's not forget this guy slipped a blade into a mans chest and killed him in cold blood. I'm not sure why Barry Allen would do that. It's also puzzling why the same guy that did this supposedly invented the technology that gave Flash his powers. It's very confusing to me, this evidence of both good and evil intentions.

That's why I'm going with the "alternate reality" version of Barry. My thinking is that Wells/Barry didn't become the hero he wanted to (as evidenced by his somewhat "amoral" activities). After arranging to vanish during the Crisis, he began working to change events so that this Barry *would* become a great hero.

And to avoid the whole temporal paradox issue, Wells/Barry would have to come from one of the alternate Earths rather than being a straight up 20-years-from-the-future Barry.

The big flaw in my theory is that it draws on the Crisis / parallel Earths requirement, which may be well beyond the scope of the TV series...