the blob

Yes, a kangaroo gave its life for that hat

Funny, but it does look like he is carrying a giant golf bag like a caddy

Is this going to be very "young adult?" My wife will not watch anything with me if she thinks it is geared toward audiences under 20.

Maybe it is lost in translation, I thought it was ok, I will watch season 2, but some of it felt sort of unsophisticated for a sci fi show that was this hyped. That whole scene with the thread that could cut anything, what was the point of that? Just to have some horrific bloody scene?

I would never wear a hat like that, I have a cool hat (you tricked me into posting a fat pic)

If it is too big for one room it is time to re-think it. Just get a really big room!

That was after the summer of keto and biking in 2020, I got fat again that winter. You think I'm going to post pictures of me at 300+ pounds in mid heart attack? You're out of your mind! Only the good ones with the hot wife. The ones where I look like I ate a small village are not going on the interwebs.

I was 17 in that picture. And here we are 20 years after the second pic in 2000 (the first one is late 1989 or early 1990) after a summer of me biking 100-120 miles a week and turning a very different color:

The scruffy longhair got cleaned up and married her 14 years later.

I've never had an issue with them and was pretty pleased with some mid-grade type books. My purchases have been very targeted and only about .001% of their listings were priced decently.

What about the political backdrop/history. Is that all fleshed out in the games? I'll admit, I don't play modern games, it is all too complicated to keep track of, and it seems like with many my son is spending as much time watching the cut scenes as playing the game.

The game or the show? My kid has Fallout 4, but it doesn't seem to be one of the games he is obsessed with. He is mad I finished the season without him, but I don't have time to do this on a 12 year old's schedule where he needs to go to bed at 9:30 pm.

I hate to say it, but I agree, maybe they could have released two episodes a week. I'm not sure what they get out of dropping it all at once. I watched it in 4 sittings. I have prime with ads, but the ads are pretty minimal compared to Hulu and Paramount, which feel excessive at times and cause the shows to freeze up and I constantly have to go back into the app. So far Prime still runs ok with the ads.

Wow, what season finale reveal! I know nothing about the game. I assume it isn't this nuanced?

Was he the father/lead hunter? I thought it might be him, but he doesn't quite look like himself anymore.

from your grainy picture from a mile overhead we can't really tell, they could be really rough, who knows? Or maybe they have stains on the back/water damage but would otherwise be ok? but yeah "FA" usually means fair, 1.0. A CGC 1.0 is usually a pretty rough looking book or missing something in the interior, MCS clearly doesn't want returns on this sort of book. From your grainy photo those FA may be CGC 2.0s. But I don't need to tell you that, I assume you know.

Spawn 1. The newsstand version "only" had a print run of like 200K. With that said, maybe they're a challenge in 9.8?

It's cool to run into them unless maybe you were near a military base and see tons of them. I have like 10,000+ bronze age books (ok, that's just a guess) and I don't think I have more than 20 of these. I know they're not that rare, but I dunno, it's cool, like finding a silver quarter or dime in your change.

He needs to take the OSHA certification class to work on any union site in NY, which he should do anyway, it makes him look more serious. He isn't picky, he'd be fine working as a laborer hauling around. He is sinewy strong. Although the local union has an apprenticeship program you can join at 18 with a GED, so they may have their fill of young guys.

My son is majoring in construction management, but other than being semi handy and putting together furniture for us has no real experience, he worked maintenance at a beach club last summer so he did haul around and wear work gloves though. We're hoping he can find a moderately relevant job in construction as a general laborer this summer when he comes home in 3 weeks or as an intern for some company in the field, but it isn't so easy to do this in advance and without connections I'm not so sure how doable that is. It doesn't help that his math/science grades were not great and the first year they don't really teach you anything relevant about the industry, you're getting prerequisites out of the way. They have a great consruction/carpentry lab but you don't have access until you're taking upper level classes. The people I knew are long dead or retired and the people I know have no use for an 18 year old for a few months. He could stand by the Duncan Donuts with all the undocumented guys for whom the going rate is apparently $150-200 a day and stand out as someone who speaks English for sure, but I'm afraid they might not like him trying to take the work, he'd be the only legal there.

Yup, they were very popular and pretty common and the guys who bought them kept them. My friend who had a shop always had them cheap because he said a muscle head who wasn't really a comic collector to start with would come in every month or two with a few boxes of them. True, this was 25 years ago.

I also wouldn't do it because it is too easy to get complacent about the monthly charges, which add up and really add to the cost of your purchases, especially if you are on auto pay. If you're running a business maybe you can deduct it, but after I had paid for a storage unit for 2 or 3 years I realized I had spent well over $3000 on this darn thing that I'm never going to be able to deduct, basically turning a lot of those dollar box books I was storing there into $2 box books. If your collection is too big for where you live then maybe it is time to trim the collection or get a bigger home. I got a bigger home

He has some expensive stuff that is pretty grabbable on those shelves (and damageable), no concerns or is it an optical illusion?

The cost of shipping books they're paying $1 for (with the risk they become 50 or 16 cents) seems prohibitive. I suppose a long box media mail isn't THAT much, but still, you need to get it through the media mail censors.

Hah, I guess none of them remember ASM 129s for $25 in the late 90s/early 2000 or being able to pick up a [vg] Marvel Spotlight 5 for $2 at a show like I did in about 1997/98 when the bloom had come off a lot of BA and other books. Things go up, things go down, things go sideways.