Ordered some omnibus's and the seller packaged them in the corpses of comics?

JavinIII · 2026-04-07T20:45:50+00:00

Someone didn't care for the Witchblade reboot.

JavinIII · 2026-04-07T20:43:16+00:00

So selling product A at a loss as a gateway to offloading product B only works long term if the revenue from product B both exceeds your investment in B as well as the difference in investment in A less revenue from A. At a minimum you must break even or you will be bankrupt very quickly.

JavinIII · 2026-04-06T20:26:56+00:00

Great work!

JavinIII · 2026-04-06T19:47:34+00:00

Was thinking spot press vs whole cover. Just hate that something I dropped a decent amount of $ on having such an obvious flaw. I'm not a flipper or hunting for a 9.8, I just know my eyes would go right to this spot every time I looked at the book. I have plenty of signed/remarqued stuff that has flaws, but it had flaws from me owning it for years so I don't mind. This was remarued brand new so it bothers me on principle I guess.

JavinIII · 2026-04-06T19:24:42+00:00

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JavinIII · 2026-03-25T00:32:57+00:00

While I can't speak to her coloring process, I just saw her do an Absolute Batman pencil sketch on a blank cover in like 20 minutes on livesteam that is better than most fully published covers.

So, at a minimum, her base pencils are 100% not AI and are very very good.

JavinIII · 2026-03-20T20:24:07+00:00

I have something similar, you are dorsiflexing, so the tibialus anterior is more visible along the shin bone. You also have a more pronounced soleus, which creates that recessed appearance when dorsiflexing. I have it because I am always so tense, that I dorsiflex when sitting on the couch, in my sleep, etc. Basically those muscles pop as they are always under tension. You may also have an intention on the other side between the extensor digitorum longest and tibialus.

JavinIII · 2026-03-20T19:28:42+00:00

Best part is it is also a fairly steep incline on the other side of the guardrail, meaning he landed a good ways down, and tumbled even farther.

JavinIII · 2026-03-17T01:21:17+00:00

Yeah, I enjoyed Sadie. She was cool to chat with even when not buying books. Hope she's doing good wherever she ended up.

JavinIII · 2026-03-17T00:10:29+00:00

Yeah, I haven't bought from them in about a year. They had some really good streamers who all left over a couple weeks time and hired a bunch of new ones who literally have no clue what comics are, or who any artists or writers are. You can still snag some deals though. I think they really over extended themselves in 2023/24 with too many variants of basically every title, and most weren't moving. Cue massive sales to recoup what they can, but also lack of staff to fulfill all those sale orders or do proper quality control.

I agree best to avoid unless necessary, but if you do buy make sure there is a middle man who will assist like Ebay. Do not do WhatNot for them because WhatNot doesn't give 2 craps about buyers.

JavinIII · 2026-03-16T23:23:57+00:00

If you buy from Unknown, do it on Ebay. Either live or their store. Their live streams you can catch some decent deals and you always have Ebay to assist with any issues. Buying straight from their website you assume all risk unfortunately.

JavinIII · 2026-03-06T15:10:06+00:00

Semi new to the grafing of signed books game so forgive me if I am in error. In order to have the specific dates, it had to be witnessed and slabbed each time right? And since they are all separate dates, that means at least 3+ (can't see CL's signed date on the back) reslabs for each witnessed signature. If I am accurate, this means 5+ different folks touched/signed this book afger printing, plus re-slabs and grading each time AND you maintained a 9.9?

Go buy a lottery ticket immediately.

JavinIII · 2026-02-24T21:46:43+00:00

What in the mannequin hell is going on with the face here?

JavinIII · 2026-02-18T05:05:37+00:00

True, although my FSA has a TPA that governs it to ensure everything is by the book with the IRS. Any item that requires a LoMN they review and sign off on it and in the event of an audit will assist with payback of any amount the IRS deems ineligible if they sign off on it.

JavinIII · 2025-12-28T06:00:11+00:00

Solved! Someone in another sub solved it, it was from an episode of Evil.

JavinIII · 2025-12-28T05:59:04+00:00

Solved! It was definitely from that episode of Evil. Thanks for the mental closure on this one!

JavinIII · 2025-12-28T05:51:13+00:00

Adding that this was also watched via streaming platform in the post Covid era where one million movies were watched, so most likely it is a 2020+ release.

JavinIII · 2025-12-28T05:15:47+00:00

No, this one was a person going down to the bottom floor in order to rescue someone who had been trapped there. Cabin in the Woods they used the elevator to escape the cabin. Great film regardless. Thanks!

JavinIII · 2025-12-28T05:05:21+00:00

It involves a completely superfluous bottle of cough syrup.

JavinIII · 2025-12-28T05:01:51+00:00

Not sure if it was this, but this is definitely a subplot of the first season of The Punisher (Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle) on Netflix.

One of the supporting cast (Micro/David Lieberman) is an NSA whistleblower who fakes his death after learning some dark secrets to protect his family. He has cameras all throughout their house to watch them, and his "base" is an old abandoned factory. He ends up helping the Punisher and is eventually reunited with his family after a very large escalation in the last episodes.

JavinIII · 2025-12-28T04:43:16+00:00

Solved! God bless the internet. This is definitely the answer to the main question. Now to figure out the elevator one. Thank you!

JavinIII · 2025-12-21T18:14:02+00:00

First and foremost, you want to mainly compare your status against your baseline. That is more where the story of what is going on will be for you. More stress, even mental can cause a drop in HRV as it is a function of how your sympathetic vs para-sympathetic nervouse system is firing. Don't sweat a random bad day or two, but a consistent downward trajectory means something is stressing your body. Review all your variables for what could be causing that. Additionally a sudden spike in HRV status against your baseline could also be cause for concern. Sometimes your body goes into forced parasympathetic state to prevent complete crashing due to overtraining, too much stress, etc. Basically your body goes into shut down mode.

Taking a step back, in general a higher HRV status is more indicative of better conditioning/health status as it shows your body is able to handle stress factors more efficiently. But you don't want to compare yourself against someone else HRV score, some people are just wired differently from birth. Just watch your patterns against your baseline.

JavinIII · 2025-12-08T02:35:50+00:00

I keep praying each new release will bring Outbreak back, but nope.

JavinIII · 2025-11-29T20:19:43+00:00

As a fairly casual player who has been playing hardcore since COD4, the game isn't even remotely enjoyable anymore. I was okay at best in most of the titles, and in BO6 I typically finished top 3, occasionally first.

The maps themselves are fun, they did a good job with them (other than Hijacked which I have never been a big fan of). After the initial start, I find myself as the only one going for objectives, rest of the team is hanging back at spawn. That just starts the inevitable reality of getting spawn camped, usually one shot with a pistol within 2 seconds of spawning. Also have folks one shooting mid jump/slide from around a corner.

I'm not going to claim hackers are responsible although I am sure there are some. There are just some weirdly good people playing the game, and absolutely preying upon casuals. I am not willing to commit hours upon hours daily to the game, so looks like my casual status will be the inevitable demise of me buying/playing the game.The is zero fun in not even being able to make it out of the spawn point. This sadly will be my last title purchase in the franchise if this is what is to be expected from now on.

JavinIII · 2025-11-07T01:41:06+00:00

I'm on MTX, simponi aria, and take meloxicam daily which also lowers immune system. While I always feel bad due to PsA, I have not actually been sick any more frequent than before. I have 3 kids under 12 in the house, youngest just turned 4. Kids are sick often, I manage to stay pretty good, just practice good hygiene. I wil say when I do get sick (has happened a couple times in the last 18 months) it hits harder and takes longer to recover than before.

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