Lord Gemini

On 2/2/2022 at 10:30 AM, paqart said:

Not when they are functioning as agents for the government. Also, for the same reason a business is not allowed to turn away customers of a certain race or gender, business should not be allowed to utilize similarly discriminatory tests based on political ideology for platform access. For those who think that some perspectives are so awful that they must be squelched, remember that others likely feel the same way about you. 

Fans of misinformation aren’t a protected class. Sorry.

On 2/2/2022 at 10:23 AM, JJ-4 said:

You stop being ridiculous (see what I did there?)  Again, who decides who removes "that nonsense"?

The platform, as is their right.

On 2/2/2022 at 9:50 AM, JJ-4 said:

First, where did you pull the millions of lives number come from?  I would argue that suppressing info is much more dangerous.

Second, who do you propose (and trust) gets the right to silence opinions?  "Fact checkers", that's a joke.  An AI program?  Humans right the code, and we can see how social media has widened the divide between people not made us come together, mainly due to the way the ad model incentivizes ratcheting up the rhetoric on both sides.  You want to give the government the right to censor and delete?  Possibly the worst idea of them all, as history will prove.  If you want to "remove that nonsense" please explain how.     

The government has done nothing of the sort. Stop being ridiculous.

On 2/2/2022 at 10:03 AM, Joshua33 said:

Proven false, scientifically. Next.

Seeing as I didn’t post anything to be proven or disproven, I’ll just dismiss your response.

On 2/1/2022 at 11:03 PM, paqart said:

When Facebook and Twitter follow orders from government officials, as has been demonstrated, the companies become agents of the government and are bound to honor free speech protections. If they had wanted to remain free of those protections, they should not have made private arrangements whereby government officials could conveniently and covertly give them binding requests.

Yup. Someone's been buying into the lies. Sorry, but when misinformation is being spread on a platform that costs millions of lives, the platform should seriously consider removing that nonsense.

On 2/1/2022 at 10:59 PM, paqart said:

Deplatforming is among the most cowardly and sinister tactics I've seen employed in recent years to silence opposition. It is at every level dishonorable. Any person who supports it contributes to the ruination of society. 

Right. 

On 2/1/2022 at 2:15 PM, JJ-4 said:

Sorry, I'm always going to side with free speech regardless of platform (Facebook, Comic book message board, the local bar you drink at).  The cure for bad ideas are good ideas discussed openly and honestly, not acting like a dictator and wanting someone shut down / silenced / de-platformed.

 

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Except good ideas are not being discussed openly and honestly. The low IQ types are absorbing bad information and defending it with their lives...and ours. Misinformation like this should be removed.

On 2/1/2022 at 1:36 PM, Crops068 said:

For anyone that paid for the Final Five sticker to be "returned".  I would like to point out "one of a lucky few to receive something a little extra something something" at the end there.

I'm so glad I never got caught up in their sticker/pin/etc. nonsense. I may pay a little more snagging a wayward issue off eBay now and then, but I'll take that any day over jumping through Bad Idea's hoops.

On 2/1/2022 at 11:52 AM, awakeintheashes said:

That whole variant is weird. He has nothing to do with what's happening in the book at all. He is on the cover of HRA #3 and a big part of the story, so a variant like this for that book would have made a lot more sense. Still plenty available on Mayhew's site, so doesn't look like demand is that great. 

This one's a disappointment. I grabbed a copy, but it's not going anywhere right now it seems. Oh well. I really dig the cover anyway.

On 2/1/2022 at 10:13 PM, kimik said:

Looks like ASM 88 with the Goblin Queen, a book that has been telegraphed for well over a month, is the winner this week.  

That's what I hear. Grabbed the 1:10 and 1:25 online, but we'll see if I can snag the regular A cover in the shop this morning...without the owner jacking up the price due to popularity.

On 2/2/2022 at 6:44 AM, awakeintheashes said:

We really didn’t need a video for that. Yawn 

Ha ha. Yeah, I don't have the issue in hand, but I heard. I love me some Cates, but stop, Donny.

On 1/29/2022 at 10:29 AM, Mr. Zipper said:

Which begs the question, what would you do if this was your slab that you received back from CGC? You send something in anticipating an 8.0 or 8.5… And it comes back in a 9.8 label. I couldn’t do nothing. I’m afraid I’d have to contact CGC to  inform them there’s been a mistake. I could never sell a 9.8 like this in good conscience. 

I couldn't have something in my collection like this even without an intent to sell. It would bother me too much.

On 1/30/2022 at 9:48 AM, William-James88 said:

9.8s never have notes

Not quite true. I've had a couple with notes (about a non-color breaking spine tick or two), but I will agree that this is most likely rare.

On 1/29/2022 at 6:52 AM, RickSp said:

Yeah you’re probably right, time to flog #1 - #20 for a quick buck. 
Seems a rinse and repeat scenario for any donny cates series that gets going. It happened with Venom and now Hulk too, just buy the first few issues and you know there’s going to be a new bad guy in there somewhere.

*shrug* I'm enjoying the arc, but then again I really enjoyed the Venom run as well.

Big happenings to come, or manufactured hype? We'll see I guess.

https://klcpress.substack.com/p/an-important-message-from-donny-cates

And the results are in...

More in general, but it depends what I'm trying to do. I still work on completing some runs with many lower grade reader copies, but books I really value, I try to buy with as few defects as possible. That being said, if a book is pretty rare, I'll be a little more lenient.

And yet, unfortunately, no great alternative to eBay exists, so I will continue to sell there.

Ah, the irony of banning a book about the Holocaust.

I'd love to have this one that came out just yesterday, but she's a tad pricey. A 1:100 variant I believe.

On 1/26/2022 at 6:14 PM, LudaToke said:

Did they come pre-bagged and boarded?

Not individually. I picked mine up at a shop and all five issues came in a sealed bag together.

On 1/26/2022 at 6:00 PM, LudaToke said:

Anyone pick up or see the Slaughter Pack bundle of issues #1-#5 with the new covers?  They look quite nice

 

Looks like they will be doing do additional bundles for issues #6 to #10 and #11 to #15 as well.

I love me some David Mack, so I picked it up. I haven't taken the books out of the bag yet though, so thanks for posting the covers here. Gorgeous.

I haven't perused it fully, but what I saw was fantastic.

I've sent in a handful of books over the last few months to get signed, all including pressing and I believe all a week or so before the cutoff date given. I'd say on average I've been getting them back around three months after they've received them.

On 1/24/2022 at 6:57 PM, Beyonder123 said:

Only they aren't taking their company seriously because if suspicions are confirmed, a company has the ability to contact CGC and literally purchase grades. It's not "fun and games, or a prank, or a stunt. It was a bad business decision they refuse to explain themselves for. They advertise themselves as impartial. They should stick to that.

If you say so. It's obviously a joke to me and many others. Ten pages of this outrage.