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I preordered the Dynamic Forces cover. $8.33, thought it was a good deal.
"X-men comics, You know I collect'em!" - Weird Al, White and Nerdy
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I walked into the store (Midtown Comics) fixin' to buy at least one of the regular covers. It's an historic issue of a comic I used to dig. Up at all the cash registers they had nothing but the various covers featured. Behind the counter they had the two "regular variants" for $35 each and the non-Turner sketch one for lord knows how much. Over in the X-Men section of the wall (there's so many X-Men/Wolverine comics, they pretty much have their own nook), the various covers were again all over the place. It wound up annoying me, such a blatant money grab; I mean, seven freaking covers??? So I didn't get any. My own baby boycott.
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Personally, its not the seven covers that bother me. Its the fact that 2 of them require a blood sacrifice to get a copy.
There have been comics in the past with a multitude of covers ( X-men vol2 #1 for example), but I don't recall any with a 1 in 200 ratio, let alone 2 with that ratio for a single book.
Why couldn't they just lower the ratio? Tons of people will want to buy one, a lower ratio would just allow more folks to get one. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but 1 in 75 would have been so much more obtainable for the average comic shop and collector( I know, I know, I just supported a 1 in 75 ratio /sigh )
If the ratio were lower, it would all more retails to reap the rewards. It is called the RRP, Retailer Rewards Program after all. But as it is, only mega shops, or shops willing to risk buying a severe excess of the standard cover will get one. Does this feel like the Civil War variants to anyone else? Seriously 1 in 200 is beyond ridiculous.
Dear Marvel,
How am I supposed to afford this crap?
Reply --- "Magic"
Pausing....deep breath.... Sorry, didn't mean to get all ranty and preachy.
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szelim (5/10/2008)
Here's an alternate Alex Ross cover: 
Still better than Land... and I'm not getting either..
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I agree with you StarWarsEd. I am huge turner fan, and my issues certainly aren't going for sale. The one extra copy I had, the reg turner variant, I bought online to make sure I could get it. I already sold it for the $30 I paid for it.
I am not out to turn a profit on this, they just go into my Uncanny run, which I am trying to build up (those 1-50 issues are a pain in the rear). So I really wanted that Turner sketch, and was pretty appalled at the 1-200. One store online sold them for $80, that was cheapest I saw. I had to buy mine online for the $90. They are well over 2-250 on ebay already. =/ Your average person cant get a hold of these.
And then I get raving about Wizard. $500 for one of those? Go to hell. They even upped their prices on all of the turner covers a day after he passed away. I had them bookmarked and couldn't believe it.
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Yeah I wish I got the sketch cover but it was just the color copy. I think in the near future im going to try and see if I can grab a copy of the sketch cover, but thats it. All these variants are getting very rediculas. you have to got to your LCS with close to $100 if you want to get your pulls and any other variants/back issues. And Im sick of all these Skrull Variants, its just the same as all of the Zombie variants. Did anybody else hate those as well. Im surprised they didnt have a superpro zombie variant. lol, superpro..... whew....
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