take a stand! new posters previewed at wondercon

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I sent the seller an email, still waiting to hear back.

So if anyone can help me get another Phoenix one, please let me know. :)
 
I am watching each and every one of them listed on EBay. Thanks Moi! :D

Just to update you all on my poster drama .... UPS is picking it back up Monday then will drop it off at one of their facilities so that someone can look at it and decide whether UPS is at fault, or the seller. Then they will decide and either give the seller a refund or not. The seller said he will then give me my money back. But he also has a friend that has one and wants to sell it and he is going to ask him if he would sell it to me. So there is still hope. In the meantime, I am sitting here with the poster rolled back up in its damaged tube.... a depressing reminder :(
 
Good luck on getting the poster, PF. ;)

I have yet to see the posters over here in Australia (dammit), but then again, I don't get out much.
 
Psionic Force said:
I am watching each and every one of them listed on EBay. Thanks Moi! :D

Just to update you all on my poster drama .... UPS is picking it back up Monday then will drop it off at one of their facilities so that someone can look at it and decide whether UPS is at fault, or the seller. Then they will decide and either give the seller a refund or not. The seller said he will then give me my money back. But he also has a friend that has one and wants to sell it and he is going to ask him if he would sell it to me. So there is still hope. In the meantime, I am sitting here with the poster rolled back up in its damaged tube.... a depressing reminder :(
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I hope things work out for you.:)
 
Heres another sighting of the posters....

From Slurk Gazette (L.A.):
Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Time-Travel Surprise!

I spent the first half of this week in Los Angeles, and on Monday I drove around for six hours, exploring. I was looking for a neighborhood that would ring my heart like a bell with the sound of home, the way the East Bay did nine years ago. Or at least a place that I could tolerate. The only place I had any sense of "My people are here!" was Silver Lake, which is really too far from Culver City; I was on this tour because Sony wants Jess to stay, and Jess wants to stay at Sony, and so it appears I will have to go to LA for a time. I truly hate LA. Although there are cool things there, and many terrific people, the aesthetic poverty of its neighborhoods, the banality of its commerce and the hideousness of its boulevards are genuinely violating to me. I can't stop getting upset by the ugliness of the buildings and the shoddiness of the shops, the lack of the "vintage charm" that is my heart's blood. The hectares of grinding sameness hurt my brain. And yet...I want Jess to be happy, and I want to restore my career, and truly only Sony offers the money to have both.
So...I drove around.
L.A. was absolutely plastered with posters for X-Men 3. Everywhere I went were huge billboards, with pictures of X-Men and the words, "Take a Stand". That's all they say- clearly the X-Men have achieved sufficient cultural hegemony that no more information is needed. I was using the Thomas Guide to steer my widening gyre, and suddenly I looked down at it and realized I was oriented- the compass rose had been installed at last.Recently in LA I had been struggling to turn my mental map of the city upside down, having finally grasped that the ocean is on the left, not the right (where it's supposed to be). I made a turn and knew I was facing East; I looked up and saw Logan, my old friend, ten stories tall on the side of a building. Pointing towards home. I felt for a second like heading East and not stopping, like I should have done on September 11th, like I could drive into the past to where my career in comics still lay ahead of me, when Chris put my pet phrases into the X-Men stories and I hung around the Marvel offices in my Betsey Johnson dresses and tennis shoes and I was not yet fat and Rob not yet dead and all you had to do to orient yourself in Manhattan was look for the World Trade Center. But I had to pick Jess up at work, so I turned for Culver City instead.
I want him to be happy, and I want to keep doing my work like I used to. Time is inexorable...
When I got home from L.A., there was a package on the porch. From Staples. I do order stuff online now and then, but it's usually either stuff from the Anthropologie sale section ( my personal crackatorium) or action figures. Puzzled,I took the box inside and opened it; there was a note from my mom saying that she went to Staples to buy Scotch tape and they had a UPS so she sent this box of my old things from thirteen moves ago, which had been in her car since the last time *she* moved. Aaaack! Why does she send me this stuff? Hasn't she ever heard of Goodwill? Sudden involuntary time travel (even for a seasoned time traveller like me, thank you peachinprocess)is hard on the system. In the box was: a stuffed black satin unicorn that hung over my bed in 1977, random toys, a box labelled "Fragile Horses, #2" in my twelve-year-old handwriting, horse books, notes from my class on History of Comics at the School of Visual Arts in 1988, and- The First Wolverine. I know it's hard to imagine, but there was a time when I had no action figures. Between when I packed up my (hundreds) of model horses at twelve and when I bought the First Wolverine in maybe 1985, I had no mini-anythings. I bought the Wolvie as a joke, at the comic store, because it was just so hilarious that they had made a toy of something as quirky and sub-culturey and weird as the X-Men.And of Logan- a berserker killer with giant claws!The book sold maybe fifty thousand copies a month in those days, and it was *ours*. The mass-culture appropriation and reproduction of subculture was slower then- I was still reeling from the fact that Keith Haring was on MOMA tote bags.The box had a grey, greasy film of shame and unsafety on it, the feeling I had in my father's house.I took Logan out, left the rest of it and went to bed.
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Continued here: http://slurketta.livejournal.com/
 
I would have to include my dad as fan of the new posters. We saw all 3 "Indiana Jones" movies at the Ziegfeld Theater in NYC yesterday (it's the best movie theater in NY, I think they had the X2 premiere there), and I pointed out all the new posters whenever I found on them on our freezing cold walk to the theater. He thought they were really cool. :)


PS: Sorry about your poster, PF! I hope they can at least reimburse you. :(
 
Berry poster spotted near Late Show with David Letterman's building.

From destructedstar (taken Feb.27, 2006)

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Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11384509@N00/107520359/
 
Harharhar, David Letterman. :p

Huge poster. :o
 
Mr Lex Luthor said:
Harharhar, David Letterman. :p

Huge poster. :o
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Yup but theres so many in the centre of NY it's hard to stand out from the rest.
 
Yeah, I've seen many pics of that area and wow, it's the breeding ground for advertisement. :eek:

I wish there would be a HUGE Wondercon poster covering on one side of a building. That'd be a heck of an advertisement. Or is there one already?
 
Mr Lex Luthor said:
Oh, I saw those before. I meant them covering the entire side of a building from top to bottom. I heard there's a lot of those type of posters in LV.
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I would like to see those as well.:)
 
Retroman said:
I would like to see those as well.:)
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Yeah, it'll be eye-catching and attention-grabbing for sure. :up:
 
mattc said:
Just a heads up for those who haven't seen, as we want everyone to have the same chance at winning: http://www.thexverse.com/takeastand_giveaway/

The contest begins on Monday and will be running for two weeks, so hold off bidding on eBay for now ;)
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Great - I'm going for all of them :D

Will be happy with anything
 
MoiBijou said:
Are foreigners admitted? :)
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lol Although we don't have piles of cash for shipping (it may take a little longer), yes. The contest is open to X-Fans all across the globe, so anyone can win.
 
mattc said:
lol Although we don't have piles of cash for shipping (it may take a little longer), yes. The contest is open to X-Fans all across the globe, so anyone can win.
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Great! :up: Thanks, Mattc.
 
mattc said:
Just a heads up for those who haven't seen, as we want everyone to have the same chance at winning: http://www.thexverse.com/takeastand_giveaway/

The contest begins on Monday and will be running for two weeks, so hold off bidding on eBay for now ;)
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Well I did see it but I wasn't going to tell anyone because I want one of them damn posters! Thank you SO much for ruining my plan Matt. :o









:D :p
 
Is there any way of cheating to ensure that I win?

eg bribes ....as both of you are here..........



:p
 
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