I’ve paid for my Comic Art Pro and it’s sitting at the local distributor until the wife and I close on and move into our new house. Haven’t had a whole lot of playing time, but the wife and I both like the theme, the buttery flowy goodness of the ramps, and the artwork.

I’ve been reading up on the game some and the rules seem a bit intimidating and complex. I’m a better than average player, but not a tournament player by any stretch. Question then is this, if I just play the damn thing and try to pay attention, how long should it take to get a grasp of the rules and the intricacies of multipliers and the like?

Please don't flame me too hard for suggesting trying to make this difficult game a little bit easier. Please also bear with me as I am not the most proficient person with a set of tools.

Can anyone please help provide steps on adjusting the outlane posts (Pro model)? On the left side I see a Philips screw head that is covered by the ramp. I pulled up part of the ramp and tried turning the screw but all it did was kept turning. Do I need to hold on to the nut on the bottom while turning the screw to get it up? Do I need to remove the entire ramp in order to do this? On the right side I see the post but no screw. Do I just take the nut off from the bottom? Going a step further, is there a particular sized wrench (or other tool I would need) to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance.

Awesome! Did you add a Star destroyer to your playfield? Looks good, got a link to it?

Just got my Comic Art Pro a couple weeks ago now. Loving the machine. Had the pitch a bit above 7 at the start and while I loved the speed, I had too many instances of the ball hitting the glass at really violent speeds, so toned it down to the proper 6.5. It's still a quick game, but feels quite slower now.

Question about multiballs. There are six balls in the game, in what instances are there ever all six balls in play at the same time? So far I've only seen three at a time. And my other game I'm used to (Sopranos) has an add-a-ball where you just hit a shot (fish mouth) and so long as it's lit you get another ball for multi ball. How does add-a-ball work on this game?

I’d guess it will be exactly like the last run.

I’ve had two NIB Sterns in the past year and haven’t had any issues with quality control FWIW. Just hurry up and buy the damn thing, the game is amazing! (And I only have a Pro)

My Hoth ball lock posts aren’t coming up. As in I light Hoth and hit the right loop over and over and it makes no attempt to stop the ball. Is this (hopefully) an easy fix?

Thank you for the advice. I did the test and all switches registered, seems maybe I was just having a glitch last night as I shot through the right loop several times without the post coming up, all seems to be good now!

And that’s what’s most important, the kids being happy!

Gotta get the next generation hooked as well.

The outlane drains annoy me too, but I’m just leaving things as is. I don’t have any kids, so the only one that gets frustrated is me, and the Mrs. sometimes.

Looked through my manual and these are the only mentions of decals I could find.

67D72B51-83A9-4098-8D30-0D2517CC5105 (resized).jpeg

A0686032-8B10-445B-8379-2D506F3C71D6 (resized).jpeg

AEA6654E-882B-48A4-B274-094E18AADA6F (resized).jpeg

I lied, there is this too:
Maybe playfield decals is what you’re after?

37148AE7-F52F-43C4-A4C1-8918F0C28DAF (resized).jpeg

My only SDTM grievance is that on occasion (maybe ¼ of the time) when I hit the left orbit and it activates the hyper loop, it'll go all the way around the top and SDTM. At blinding speeds.

My Led Zeppelin regularly kicks my ass. I’d qualify it as difficult.

Mind does that too. I think it’s from hitting the action button.

My loop area on my Pro is p*ssing me off.

If Hoth or Death Star gets lit the metal post in the back of the loop area keeps popping up, blocking the ability to stop a ball where it should get stopped to start the mission (hope this makes sense). Why is this happening? How do I fix this?

Your brother. Sure…

Pretty sure it multiplies your bonus at the end. You know, when Yoda reminds you how bad you are at pinball.

Yes, it can be very lucrative! I had a game a while back where I had a super high bonus that was held so I selected the bonus at the start of the next ball, ended up with my Bonus Champion score of 1,239,863,680 (just on the bonus!).

Congrats! I love my comic book pro!

Uh... are you referring to Mandalorian???

What is Midnight Madness???

Ordered a shaker motor for my incoming Godzilla. Figured I would try it out on the Star Wars first. Let me just say that I was thoroughly underwhelmed. Thought it could be utilized much, much better. Is it just me?

Actually wasn’t it $7400 for a premium upon release? Or $7600?

I’d guess that’s probably happened to all of us unfortunately.

Seeing that you have a JP in your collection, JP is a much more difficult game than SW. SW is faster because it’s a Richie game, and the outlines are hungry, but if you set the game up right and give it some decent ball save time it should be more forgiving to a casual player than JP (IMHO). I have both games (pros) myself.

For example, my 60 something year old mom who isn’t particularly good at pinball but does enjoy playing seems to play better on SW than any of my other games. I attribute it to the fact that a lot of SW play is just reactionary since the ball is usually flying around at a quick pace.

As someone who has all three, SW, JP and GZ, I agree with what was said before. Godzilla is the ultimate game of the three, that one isn’t going anywhere and is automatically one of the two, so as you say, the choice is between SW and JP. If you’re looking for variety I’d go GZ and SW. Because of the design JP and GZ are just too similar with one another. And honestly, since I got my GZ I hardly ever play JP, and if I was forced this very moment to get rid of anyone of my games it would be JP just because it’s so similar yet so inferior to GZ. Again, my opinion, but it’s shared with at least one other person (person with the Grateful Dead avatar, don’t remember the name).
Or just hop a flight and come over and play mine to decide….

In the pro vs. premium/LE argument... I know it's something super trivial but I don't see it mentioned much.

Besides personally not seeing the value in the extra $2k for the hyper loop and exploding Death Star, one of the minor things that I preferred about the pro was that there were the nice stickers that tied into the playfield artwork on the plastic ramps. I just never see those stickers getting enough love.

So…. is there a code update???
Because I had my game on while playing another game, and all of the sudden it just started doing a code update…

CBA15264-3E53-4AED-BCD6-B9E3CE2E240A (resized).jpeg