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John Cena tweeted out a picture of X-O Manowar and now the first issue has a good number of sales

I think what we currently consider the Modern Age will be broken down into a few ages. At the very least, the launch of DC's New 52 was close enough to Marvel Now and the relaunch of Valiant that 2011-2012 is a cusp between ages. Also, was going to start a thread on this very topic but someone beat me to it.

Cable is Nathan Summers, but the characteristics that we recognize as Cable were not present in the depiction of the baby that appeared in Uncanny X-Men 201. Therefore Claremont and Leonardi are not credited as creating Cable (and rightly so)

No. Nathan Summers first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #201, which was written and drawn by Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi. But they are not credited with creating Cable.

Okay, but Simonson and Liefeld are credited as Cable's creators, even though they did not create baby Nathan Summers. The fully formed character is what's important as far as credit goes. (This is not meant to be an opinion on this specific Batman issue)

Are we all ready to argue about what's a legit first appearance, if we end up having multiple issues of an issue shipping at the same time once Diamond restarts?

First it heats up. Then it starts coughing, and next comes pneumonia. Then it dies.

The Captain Universe Spideys were really hot for a minute there during Acts of Vengeance.

Not Modern. Not even Copper, but relevant to your comment. (Not "heating up" either.) After sitting there for months, my Treasury-sized copy of Superman and his Incredible Fortress of Solitude sold. Seems appropriate for the times.

If you have Spectacular Spider-man 176, sell it now before you die. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=spectacular+spider-man+176&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=10018-8481&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=100&LH_Complete=1&_fosrp=1

Harry Osborn's corn rows always annoyed me

Some of that has been going on already. Marriage Story was released just wide enough to qualify for Academy Awards before going to Netflix. (That's just one example; I'm sure there are more, but this probably doesn't happen much with action or sci-fi movies that work better on a big screen)

I imagine there will be a number of companies offering up free comics for captive reading. The first I've become aware of is below. Feel free to add other discoveries.

Full list of retailers is out: https://comicbook.com/comics/2020/03/10/bad-idea-comics-full-retailer-list/

but those all are after Hulk 180, no?

Note as well that two of those are newsstands

Get the Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/bloodshot-2020-valiant-books

Vin Diesel is a big enough action star that it *should* draw a good audience. The X factor here is how the coronavirus affects movie-goers in the coming months.

My sister is a London-based film critic. She covers everything but is a big geek so this is something that she would write about, but she has not heard about screenings for critics. It opens there Wednesday.

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/302253-looking-for-assistance-and-info-about-uncanny-x-men-282-2nd-print/

If anyone wants to read any of the potential source material for the Bloodshot movie, Humble Bundle has a really good deal right now. The Lemire run (The Valiant, Bloodshot Reborn and Bloodshot Salvation) is easily worth several times the $15 minimum to get all of those books: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/bloodshot-2020-valiant-books?fbclid=IwAR31yoyACARDd_n3Zvjx6UHrdeK8X_lhHv_5dvi35LdUKMgRgB5y-0ewpKg

Marvel Comics Presents 117 might already be a bit of spek drek because it's tied (released the same week) with Ravage 2099 #1 for the first appearance of Ravage (if anything is ever done with those characters; maybe hold another 79 years and there will be nostalgia), but it's also, as far as I can tell, the first meeting of Wolverine and Venom.

For anyone who hasn't read the source material, there's a Humble Bundle so you can catch up cheap. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/bloodshot-2020-valiant-books?fbclid=IwAR31yoyACARDd_n3Zvjx6UHrdeK8X_lhHv_5dvi35LdUKMgRgB5y-0ewpKg

The Batman ribbon head is definitely more Escher. Not to say that the other motfis are not Dali, but I think an Escher comic would be more interesting than a Dali comic.

I saw this on Facebook and wondered if this might make people speculate on a bump in the Akira series.