El Pollo Guerrera
Grimlock
His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
Status: Runner
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jul 25, 2022 1:41:00 GMT -5
Ok, so I've been avoiding asking this until the sale closed, I didn't want to be accused of trying to use FAN to promote my stuff. Some of you might remember I started a thread a couple months back asking for advice on selling my old comic books and trades on eBay. I've been doing it for awhile now with mixed results. I start the auctions at $5 a book and I'm lucky if I get that. This past week I decided to put my copy of Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash up for sale. As usual I started it at $5. Within two hours I had a bid, which is incredibly rare to get one so quick. Within 24 hours it was up to more then $40, within another 24 hours more then $50. It pretty much stabilized after that, but then today in the last few minutes of the auction a bidding war started and the sale wound up closing for $200. And after checking around the internet, that seems on par with what other people are selling it for. I'm wondering if anybody on here might happen to know why? I always thought the re-sale price of a comic book was determined by scarcity. So how could a comic book trade published in 2008 be so rare to be worth that much? Well, maybe it is scarce. If the first printing of a book sells out to the point they reprint, that means they underestimated the demand. There was also three variant covers offered, so that may have caused some collectors to buy up one of each, and that also cuts into the stock of an initial run. Congratulations!
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Post by Duke Cameron on Jul 26, 2022 21:34:27 GMT -5
Seems Peter has moved on in Amazing Spider-Man #900. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} The isssue ends with Peter and Black Cat making out.
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Post by thechase on Jul 27, 2022 2:52:23 GMT -5
And the mastermind behind the Super Adaptoid is... {Spoiler}Ultimate Universe Living Brain
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Legion
Fry's dog Seymour
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Hail Hydra!
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Post by Legion on Jul 27, 2022 4:08:01 GMT -5
Well, both those spoilers sound like something I have no interest in.
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Post by thechase on Jul 27, 2022 8:28:13 GMT -5
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 27, 2022 12:58:55 GMT -5
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 27, 2022 15:38:59 GMT -5
Seriously, I seem to say this when he’s doing big projects like this, how is Jurgens still good with this stuff?
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Post by thechase on Jul 27, 2022 15:42:27 GMT -5
Any time you can get Roger Stern back is a victory for good.
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Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 28, 2022 1:28:30 GMT -5
Months ago helped a buddy sort his comics. He is planning on selling them. Soo I was putting them in stacks. Like this stack is dollar comics. This stack is 3 buck comics.
For helping him he told me to grab some comics. All of them were reader copies so I grabbed 5. One of which is Secret Wars #11,the original series.
It sat on top my to read pile until about 20 minutes ago. Was reading it and saw the ad where you could sub by mail to Marvel's Star comics. Looked closer and whoever filled out the ad has the same first and last name as me.
For a second I thought wow did I just refind a comic I had as a kid? Nope looked closer the person lived in a different town,same state.
Still thought it was neat.
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Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Aug 1, 2022 6:08:21 GMT -5
Found recently a two volume Deadpool manga collection. COuldn't sleep so figured I would read a bit of the first volume until I got sleepy. Finished it up and now it is a bit after 6am and I really want to read vol 2. But know if I start reading it I won't stop till I am finished and I need to crash out.
Liked how Deadpool was pointing out all the normal manga tropes. Like how characters have the same face with just their hair being different.
It is odd never really been much of a Deadpool fan,find him to be a watered down combo of Megaton Man and Flaming Carrot,but this manga had me laughing more than once.
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Post by thechase on Aug 1, 2022 14:35:41 GMT -5
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Post by darbus alan on Aug 1, 2022 16:50:49 GMT -5
Tired: Peter flip-flopping between MJ and Felicia in a decades old love triangle that always returns to the status quo even when character development and growth happen.
Inspired: Peter, MJ, and Felicia become a polycule.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Aug 1, 2022 18:23:54 GMT -5
Seriously, I seem to say this when he’s doing big projects like this, how is Jurgens still good with this stuff? I had to zoom in on the middle section because it looks almost exactly as same as what he drew 30 years ago. That’s insane consistency.
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Post by thechase on Aug 3, 2022 13:55:29 GMT -5
Edge of Spider-Verse#1 {Spoiler}Anya's original powers are reawakening due to the re-emergence of the Sisterhood of Wasps, a result of Shathra regaining power and presence, Julia gives Anya a new costume designed by the Web Weaver, who will be introduced in issue five of the series. Anya battles Deliah, one of the new Wasp totem champions, and then follows Julia through a portal. She ends up helping Julia recruit Spider-Laird and observes Spider-Rex in action.
In Spider-Man Noir's story, he forms a close bond with an amnesia stricken club singer called Sharon and cheats on Mary Jane with her, MJ walks in on them and it drives him to despair. The story is written from the perspective of a letter he is writing to MJ asking for forgiveness. Sharon is revealed to be Shathra and she was influencing Noir against his will and essentially raped him
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Legion
Fry's dog Seymour
Amy Pond's #1 fan
Hail Hydra!
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Post by Legion on Aug 3, 2022 14:20:15 GMT -5
Edge of Spider-Verse#1 {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Anya's original powers are reawakening due to the re-emergence of the Sisterhood of Wasps, a result of Shathra regaining power and presence, Julia gives Anya a new costume designed by the Web Weaver, who will be introduced in issue five of the series. Anya battles Deliah, one of the new Wasp totem champions, and then follows Julia through a portal. She ends up helping Julia recruit Spider-Laird and observes Spider-Rex in action.
In Spider-Man Noir's story, he forms a close bond with an amnesia stricken club singer called Sharon and cheats on Mary Jane with her, MJ walks in on them and it drives him to despair. The story is written from the perspective of a letter he is writing to MJ asking for forgiveness. Sharon is revealed to be Shathra and she was influencing Noir against his will and essentially raped him {Spoiler} Not sure where you're getting the last bit from? She is lying to him for sure, but there is no influencing until after he runs in to the room where she's a giant wasp and stings him. He cheats of his own volition, potentially manipulated in the fact she's lying to him, but there is no indication he loses his agency until after he is stung, and they sleep together before that.
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Post by thechase on Aug 4, 2022 10:23:06 GMT -5
Edge of Spider-Verse#1 {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Anya's original powers are reawakening due to the re-emergence of the Sisterhood of Wasps, a result of Shathra regaining power and presence, Julia gives Anya a new costume designed by the Web Weaver, who will be introduced in issue five of the series. Anya battles Deliah, one of the new Wasp totem champions, and then follows Julia through a portal. She ends up helping Julia recruit Spider-Laird and observes Spider-Rex in action.
In Spider-Man Noir's story, he forms a close bond with an amnesia stricken club singer called Sharon and cheats on Mary Jane with her, MJ walks in on them and it drives him to despair. The story is written from the perspective of a letter he is writing to MJ asking for forgiveness. Sharon is revealed to be Shathra and she was influencing Noir against his will and essentially raped him {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler} Not sure where you're getting the last bit from? She is lying to him for sure, but there is no influencing until after he runs in to the room where she's a giant wasp and stings him. He cheats of his own volition, potentially manipulated in the fact she's lying to him, but there is no indication he loses his agency until after he is stung, and they sleep together before that. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}It was at least one take of it I read over on CBR, I thought they understood the stuff better than I did. Also, Shathra tried to mate with 616 Peter before while he was sorting out his marriage with MJ during the JMS era. Guess she finally got a pay off to that.
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Legion
Fry's dog Seymour
Amy Pond's #1 fan
Hail Hydra!
Posts: 23,394
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Post by Legion on Aug 4, 2022 18:47:52 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler} Not sure where you're getting the last bit from? She is lying to him for sure, but there is no influencing until after he runs in to the room where she's a giant wasp and stings him. He cheats of his own volition, potentially manipulated in the fact she's lying to him, but there is no indication he loses his agency until after he is stung, and they sleep together before that. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}It was at least one take of it I read over on CBR, I thought they understood the stuff better than I did. Also, Shathra tried to mate with 616 Peter before while he was sorting out his marriage with MJ during the JMS era. Guess she finally got a pay off to that. Oh, well, CBR in a nutshell there. Find the faux outrage and run with it.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 5, 2022 8:02:35 GMT -5
Months ago helped a buddy sort his comics. He is planning on selling them. Soo I was putting them in stacks. Like this stack is dollar comics. This stack is 3 buck comics. For helping him he told me to grab some comics. All of them were reader copies so I grabbed 5. One of which is Secret Wars #11,the original series. It sat on top my to read pile until about 20 minutes ago. Was reading it and saw the ad where you could sub by mail to Marvel's Star comics. Looked closer and whoever filled out the ad has the same first and last name as me. For a second I thought wow did I just refind a comic I had as a kid? Nope looked closer the person lived in a different town,same state. Still thought it was neat. So do you have to fight now?
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Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Aug 5, 2022 10:50:28 GMT -5
I was tempted to look and see if the person was on FB. Not that common of a first and last name combonation so shouldn't be hard to find.
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El Pollo Guerrera
Grimlock
His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
Status: Runner
Posts: 14,889
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Aug 5, 2022 11:58:10 GMT -5
Edge of Spider-Verse#1 {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Anya's original powers are reawakening due to the re-emergence of the Sisterhood of Wasps, a result of Shathra regaining power and presence, Julia gives Anya a new costume designed by the Web Weaver, who will be introduced in issue five of the series. Anya battles Deliah, one of the new Wasp totem champions, and then follows Julia through a portal. She ends up helping Julia recruit Spider-Laird and observes Spider-Rex in action. {Spoiler}What is the Sisterhood of Wasps and is there some sort of connection to Janet Van Dyne?
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