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Wow.
The weird thing is how Star Wars doesnāt like to intermingle comic stories with the live action. So this really hurts characters like Aphra where you really canāt introduce her without messing with comic continuity.
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Heck, you can buy the 1:25 for that!
So absurd.
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Nowās the time to buyā¦
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I think the highest this book hit at its peak was around $600. Right now, they are selling for around $125-150 in a 9.8. Such a huge fall from grace. At this point, even if Doctor Aphra shows up in a TV show or even movie, how much will this book even go up to at this point or even a few years down the road? You know Marvel/Disney at this point is too busy trying not to do much of anything with characters that have been in the books. Look at The Acolyte and The High Republic set of books, we are probably now sitting on a crap ton of HR books that will never sell.
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The smartest play with Star Wars comics at this point (if that is something you want to focus on or even care about) is to stick to books that are pertinent to anything Sith related/Dark Side of the Force, etc.
Characters like Darth Revan, Darth Bane, Darth Malak, Darth Talon, Darth Nihilus, and Darth Krayt have a pretty significant following aside from the comics themselves. Iāve always found characters like these who have a big following (not just these Star Wars ones) to be very smart comic book buys. The various horror related characters/comics as another example (although they havenāt bottomed out like Star Wars has).
I get so many buyers who arenāt necessarily comic book collectors per se, but want the books/covers with their favorite characters on them. Given the buy low opportunities right now on Star Wars, I continue to pick these characters books up as much as possible if they are priced accurately and not still at Covid prices.
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Now is probably the best time to buy Darth Vader #3. At some point Disney will get its act together and we will get better Star Wars and Marvel properties. That may take a few years realistically so until then books like this one can be picked up on the cheap. Aphra isnāt going anywhere and at some point will make it to the big/small screenā¦hopefully when things are better at the studio.
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Daaaaaamn.
Such a great cover with the Murder Droids too. This also is not an easy book to get a 9.8ā¦very susceptible to color rubbing off the back spine. So itās not like there will be an influx of 9.9s keeping 9.8s down.
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Donāt do that. Donāt give me hope.
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Huge Aphra and Murder Droid fan here! Iām waiting for the prices on DV3 4th print to come down as I have 1st-3rd prints but need the last one for the run.
Iām not worried about the popularity of comic based Doctor Aphra and murder droids as they are extremely interesting. What I am worried about is, how is how those characters are going to be effed up by Disney on screen. If introduced in something Filoni/Favreau is involved with, thereās a feeling of positivity. Anyone else - negativity. Like, stuck in a trash compactor thatās closing with no R2-D2 to stop it.
Triple Zero, BeeTee1, Doctor Aphra - 4 Life 
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I donāt know Pittsburgh, The top brass at Disney/Luccasfilm keep doing the same thing over and over. It is a formula that isnāt working and costing the studiosā¦and shareholders a lot of money. The fanbase for most properties are largely very unhappy as well. This isnāt for just a few months now but roughly half a decade. I canāt see how this can hold out much longer without a complete riot by investors/shareholders. At some point there will be a fairly large shakeup and when that happens hopefully the heads that role will be Iger and Kenedy; not other scapegoats. We all just have to wait and see. Hopefully not too long.
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