Also, when i knew i was getting Animal Crackers, I bursted with the need to buy comics, since I had cut back so much.

I wanted to go with my guy Alpha, but he didn't have the next item on my wish list.

Bamf! comics did. In fact, they had the next 2.



And,




Also got some other filler from him: some Marvel G.I. Joes, Moon Knight Vol.1, 'Mazing Man, Finished Aquaman('86), Hercules: Prince of Power and Nathaniel Dusk P.I. vol.1 minis, Groo, New teen Titans, the first Marvel Two-In One to join my collection, New Mutants--including a Secret wars II crossover, Grimjack, Hulk, Iron Man, Robotech Macross Saga etc. etc.


Probably the neatest thing was this giveaway comic from the 70's:



Let me tell you about Bamf!! ( a CCL store BTW).
Prices are excellent. I mean, about as low as you can go. And he throws together good lots too.
Shipping is ludicrously fast. I placed an order Friday late morning and had it Monday. I mean. it's like they live next door to me or something.
Their packing is TOO tight. Do you know what I mean? On the one hand, there is no way that the comics were gonna be damaged during shipping. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I damaged them a little struggling to unpack them.
The grading.....well, it was a little overgenerous. I, of course, am a tighter grader than most, but his VF and NM, to me are more like F+ and VF-. But, that can be kinda objective.
His communication is absolutely topnotch. Something he shares with my two favorite comic sources----ALPHACOMICS here on CCL and one of my LCS's Vortex Comics.

So....BAMF!! is still on probation, but nearing my preferred seller list.

I enjoy your reviews and banter on comics in general. And you pick some really random comics too!

The high shipping is to entice you to buy more! :D

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Big signatures are REALLY annoying.

Finally saw The Dark Knight Rises


I will keep this brief. Horribly dissapointed. Horribly.

I don't want to go in depth for fear of spoiling anything. But, Batman begins I consider an excellent movie. Dark Knight is one of my all time favorite movies period. So, needless to say, I was expecting great things from this one too.
Bad.

And then,a few hours later, I had to listen to a co-worker tell me I didn't like it because I didn't understand it. So I asked him if he had been sitting next to me to explain it to me in his great wisdom, would I have loved it? He of course, answered no, because if i didnt want to like it then it wouldn't have mattered.

So....I didn't like it, first because i am too stupid to understand it apparently, then second, because I simply didn't want to like it. That's right. He actually is convinced that I have some narcissistic desire to hate this particular movie.

Geez.

Anyways. bad. In My Humble Opinion of course.

I liked it because it was NOT in 3D.

And it really was a great story. DEEP!

You definately had to pay attention, and had to have seen the two movies before it.

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I agree with YourPlace. The story was very deep and enjoyable. I dont see how people who liked the first 2 did not like the 3rd. Maybe some people were going in with very high expectations. I thought it was very good and a great ending to the trilogy.

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My Pull List

Marvel: All New X-Men, Avengers, New Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, Superior Spiderman, Indestructible Hulk, Thor: God of Thunder, Guardians of the Galaxy.

DC: Aquaman, Batman, Batman: The Dark Knight, Detective Comics, Earth 2, Green Lantern, Justice League, Justice League of America, Savage Hawkman, Superman.

Dark Horse: Star Wars

I haven't seen it yet, either (and somehow have managed to avoid spoilers thus far), but it's interesting the extreme mixed reactions it's been getting. But (again, without seeing it) I think Ghost hit it on the head. Tremendous hype really caused a big let down in a lot of people. And the hype didn't even come from people seeing the movie and saying how great it was (as in the second film). The huge expectations began before anyone even saw the film. Fact is, I don't think it could ever have been as good as TDK.

I'm anticipating enjoying the movie, simply because my expectations have not been the same as everyone else's.

Ok, been a fun week. Dark knigth rises with the boy. Had a blast at Wisconsin State Fair and went to a wedding last night.

Also, nailed down the next four things on my wishlist.
1) Animal Crackers #31--Metropolis. (not arrived yet, but in the mail)
2) Aquaman ('86) #1 (from Bamf here on CCL)
3) Vigilante #28 (also from Bamf)
4) U.S. 1 #3 (from an ebay sale).

Next up are these five:

1)

Archie Giant Series #543


2)

X-Men King Sized #2


3)

Archie At Riverdale high #109

4)

Uncanny X-Men #192


5)


Arion Lord of Atlantis #27

Recently had two Ebay successes in the past month.

I didn't think this was possible, but bought

Moon Knight (vol.1) #1-14

and

U.S. 1 # 1-10 and #12


And, in both purchases managed to haggle the seller down on price, and they weren't "make an offer" auctions.

Catching up:


Bought a lot of Moon Knight's on ebay from ebay id kidlongshot.

It was a mid-high grade lot from #1-#14. This is the 1980 series.

He listed them as a couple on Vg/F but most at VF.

I could tell from the scans that most were in the Fine range and at the low end of that range.
I asked if he would lower his asking price because of this and he did!


At the price I got, it was a good deal, even though they weren't high grade, so I pulled the trigger. They shipped quickly and securely and the items came as appeared on the auction (but not at the grade quoted.)


I was happy and kidlongshot has joined my "small sample size, but positivie experience" list.

It was ok, I mean I wasn't crazy about it, by far the worst part for me was watching with my 4 year old son and having to get up and take him to the bathroom 3 times...lol

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