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Making a pass on Ghost Rider

Shop talk

Eagle eye and casual glance observers walking into the place to be over the last round of weeks will have noted the Ghost Rider poster on their way in.

Ghost Rider locks on the eye

With the landing of the box from Sony promotions, the tale unfolds a little more. One side of the giveaway involves the passes, good for two and the entire run of the film in the cinemas.

On the passing lane with Ghost Rider

And the other half are all about the posters that can be seen underneath in the photo above. Strange thing on the back about an online magazine, Don't Panic.

Sniff the poster if you get the chance. Really smells something smashing fantastic. Nostril approach may vary.

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Posted by Soon on Saturday, January 20, 2007

Tagged: film ghost-rider promotions sony-pictures smells

 

Scratching out for Scarface

Shop talk

Twenty and more years on and Tony Montana still generates quite the fan base. Squatting action figures, foul-mouthed action figures and bobble heads with a dinky tommy gun in hand.

Wouldn't it just be remiss to not have a comic of such? Yes, it partly would.

I am interested in the ordering the scarface comics, can you let me know if or when they will be available and the price. thank you


Scarface: Scarred for Life #1 from IDW Publishing, came out on the first week of January and is on the shelf.

Monthly for the six issue miniseries, its US cover price is $3.99 which is $7.45 converted in Australian.

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Posted by Soon on Sunday, January 14, 2007

Tagged: faq idw scarface al-pacino

 

Twilight Zone and Tales From The Crypt

Shop talk

For your creepy consideration:

Just wondering if you have any original Gold Key series Twilight Zone comics in stock. Also chasing original or re-issue Tales From The Crypt and Crime Suspense Stories.


No go on the Twilight Zone comics from Gold Key. Thems be nowhere to be seen in the store shelves or in the back issue bins. A truly hard-to-find find, so keep that in mind.

Bit of an upper on the latter titles, Tales From The Crypt and Crime SuspenStories.

At least, from first glance racking. Release of those collected editions are in stock. No idea what the paper smells like, though they're bound to be fresh given their reprint status.

Who doesn't like the smell of comics?

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Posted by Soon on Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Tagged: faq twilight-zone tales-from-the-crypt ec-comics

 

Beware the bright lights of the year ahead

The Multiverse

Your life may depend on it! You will not be able to see his eyes because of tea-shades... no. That's the wrong lead-in.

Silver Surfing into 2007

And so the first week of the year has come and pretty much gone. Now all that awaits is the greasy slide into the rest of the year.

Where in the next couple more left over days, people will vow to buy things for next Christmas only to crack them open for themselves to slip them up for the next season.

Where resolutions made on January 1 will wobble so intensely they'll buckle like fat knees trying to keep up the weight of a few tires hovering over the air as they jump the puddle for the poodle sitting on the side won't allow a side step.

Where from here on in it's like nothing can stop you from doing what you want. Unless it happens to snap outside the bounds of decency, legality and all things ethically.

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Posted by Soon on Sunday, January 7, 2007

Tagged: photos silver-surfer busts alex-ross xmas

 

3 Geeks: Jim's Jerky - 3 Finger Prints

Reviews

Jim's Jerky Nice and dinky, the comic comes saddled with a piece of jerky that claims to be good until the month of May in the year 2007.

The comic itself is the kind you can read with one hand, should the palm be large enough to accommodate something of that blocky size not unlike a coaster or a rent receipt book.

Not overly an entertaining read straight up, that German deli owner really has a hard accent to punch through. There's this air of not giving a damn as Jim goes about hooking up the German with the small goods goods in terms of jerky.

Now, if that particular Jim's Jerky that features in the comic is that which is in the plastic bag on the cover, who knows. Most likely not. Disconnect.

Tough, oh, it's tough to break into at first. Definitely a saliva cranking work out needed to juice it up good. Spicy to the tongue, the beat of it really does hewn a good time flavour country ride as it washes out the blah feeling from the comic.

Lasts a good while too. And it even sticks around when the rest of it has gone to shop and done over the rest of the taste and fibre of the flavour. More often than not, this piece of lingering jerky doesn't go down well, hence not actually going down at all as it tries to double badly back as a piece of floss.

Jerky may vary slightly on this part.

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Posted by Soon on Sunday, December 31, 2006

Tagged: food jerky 3-geeks german saliva

 

A Scanner Darkly

Reviews

Theatrical playing season was relatively short, and finding a cinema that was playing A Scanner Darkly as hard as chewing a bit of jerky that could last well over a decade from a nuclear fall out.

Taking the rotoscopic action out of the equation is to ignore one of the main reasons for walking up to the box office they some times use when they're not using the Candy Bar as the place to flog the tickets. A marvellous looking film, trippy in a most passive way, the scramble suit and the effects of drug use definitely working the bean right down to the bone.

Both Robert Downey, Jr. and Woody Harrelson's characters find themselves rambling at various times with the strict sense of paranoia as a sheer motivator of their thoughts. Kind of like watching that which makes the spoken word all the more enjoyable. Like a poetry slam without the need to have a shot of knock out juice in the hands of the judges.

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Posted by Soon on Sunday, December 31, 2006

Tagged: film scifi philip-k-dick link-later keanu-reeves

 

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