Sitting between a chant of some religious slant and a song from some other country base outside of Australia, there was a slither of a slot for the Comic Shop to pop up on the radio.

Blitz in and out again, covering about a whole half hour, the Comic Shop boys were on Macarthur's C91.3FM just recently. Tonight actually. Back there in 19:10 land gone past. And the talk invariably covered the look of the store and the comics whatnot from the perspective of a radio host who only believes in The Phantom.

Superman's little "It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman!" from the old timey TV show kicking off the segment. Chris, Jason and Tom all there to represent the store.

"Turbines to speed," from the Batman TV show audio grab breaking the half point begs a question. How do you get to an intransitory position which in actuality isn't one at all but instead just a place to get somewhere else. If even.

The show's audio intros almost looked like a skewer toward the DC hand if not for the Lone Ranger getting in a heel there.

Caller Paul didn't help on that front though. He was on about Superman, the Justice League and the Justice Society of America.

Marvel love coming from the shop itself. Nice work on Jason prefixing Stan Lee as a co-creator on the House of Ideas. Just wouldn't seem like the right thing if he'd gone with the "creator" slip. And Tom's aside to caller Paul was deftly put.

Caller Hank sure missed out on prime time to hijack the listener call in segment they had for a flash. Instead, harping on about Kabuki and automatically dismissing manga when thrown at by the host. That Hank needs some more misdirection when on the air on the phone on the radio. Next time you blue furry.

Dash off on the sign off and the plug for the shop's location (in addition to being in Liverpool) slides in before the cut off.

But where is the library people? It's right next to the Comic Shop it is. That's the way it's around, not the other.

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Over the weekend and through the balloons, many turned up on to celebrate the Comic Shop turning both one and 13 at the same time. One for the first year at the new swanky digs. Thirteen for the total of years serving and helping out the readers and collectors in all forms, be it comics, action figures, The Simpsons, statues or busts.

For those early beavers to witness the steps before opening on the Saturday morning, the crew out and decked with safety gear for the celebratory and symbolic smashing of the old to really bring in and hammer the new.



In the battle of Jason and Fox, it was clearly evident that after a knock, Jason is victorious over the smashed head of Mulder.



No more X-Files to deal with here. Only the clean break and we're all new again. Mulder needs a rest it seems.



Everybody pick up a plate, the food is on the table and here's more juice to go with that slice. And the carving up picks up well and truly nicely with all and all having a great time picking up merchandise and back issues to better reach their ceilings with.


Action figures, statues and busts, but don't forget what makes a comic shop a comic shop. The back issues. And here, the search continues with many picking up finds and treasures missed out the first time when on the shelves.



What a weekend.

Thanks for coming to the Comic Shop and celebrating our birthday sale with us.

See you again real soon!

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Rock early and up to the Comic Shop tomorrow and the watch as the fun of the birthday sale party hits on. For those outside the scope of the site and the mailing list, it's time for the 13 candles on a birthday cake made of discounts and slashings on the paper cut kind. 25% to 50% kind of deals that is. Statues, busts, action figures, The Simpsons, head knockers, all of it really*.

Beyond that, and before that, Jason will be taking a sledgehammer to Mulder's head across the front steps (no, there are no back steps) of the Comic Shop.

Prepare for debris as two hapless shield workers stand at the ready to collect some shards. Should be fun, might be dangerous, all sounds good. And that will be the champagne bottle smashing the steps to mark year 13 of the Comic Shop.

See you there bright and early with some sporting video cameras for YouTube ready.

(*Save for the recent stuff, stuff on lay-by and the standing orders.)

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Another one down at the Comic Shop and for those who are on the mailing list, the giveaway to see the film, Black Sheep is done and over.

And when a giveaway wraps up, the shearing of the wool comes along in picking through the clumps at a few of the answers from the winners and shearers.

Who's the black sheep in your family or set of friends?

Self deprecation was a bit on the high ratio here as the answers were a little on variants of "Me" with even a nice little reason why. Of course, if not the self, it's a younger sibling for all their awkwardness and general corner funking up skills in the house.

"Black sheep in the family?"
"Why? Who lives in the shed this week, papa?"

Name one thing that comes from sheep

What's the first thing that comes to mind when dealing with sheep? Abattoirs naturally. Meat and lamb chops on the menu here. Wool clumps dropping all over the place as the shaving continues apace.

What comes next with a film about sheep in Middle Earth? Jokes and riffs on the New Zealanders themselves. Baby Kiwis and hernias on this section of the emergency ward.

Complete your version of this lyric...

So the old nursery rhyme hands out bags of wool to people such as "One for the master, and one for the dame, and one for the ..." and the whole thing from like the gates at the farm are wide open.

People who shall be in abundance of wool and that particular knitting supply includes the likes of crackheads, mutants, idiot drivers and even Stalin's iron rule. What a spectrum.

That's it for this promo and thanks again to Dendy Cinemas and Icon Films for the double passes.

Stay tuned to your inbox for the next time a competition comes along and you're in for the thrill of finding yourself a winner for your genius. Is funny, is good material for the win.

For the win people!

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Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #7 hit the shelves last week. Wrapping up the first of a series the adaptations of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, it's the first of the last of the first few of that which will come later from the works of the one they call King outside of comics*.

Do you guys have any of the DARK TOWER SKETCHBOOK left? Also, are there any one-shots of the series that you've got?

Plum stuck out of stock of that particular piece. None were left shortly after they came out and before the mini-series itself started proper.

However, this week on the shipping list is Dark Tower: Gunslinger's Guidebook a one shot guide on the world of Roland Deschain of the Gilead and his ka-tet.

If reading the solicitation on Marvel's site, it's very hard to do with the grey on light purple scheme. No squint for the make up!

*The one in comics being Jack Kirby for those who only read the indy stuff and shy away from DC and Marvel like the angry vagrant at the end of the stoop who goes where he sleeps.

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About time now that The Simpsons movie was finally out. Which means, now that it has been, it's about been a week now since the site with Burger King in the US has time to settle from the overloading. Sort of.

The site, to make yourself a Simpsons character, doesn't really need a photo to kind of work. Though it might help. Just crank the dial and slider and select parts of Mr Potato Head and be done with it. Results may vary. As below:



For those who aren't on the mailing list, haven't seen the front page of the main site of late or are not keeping up with the Google calendar thing of the Comic Shop, listen up...

Right now and until August 2, everything in The Simpsons corner is knocking at 25% off the current marked prices.

Down in the yellow corner:

• All of the action figures and sets of The Simpsons.
• Board games with their mugs on them.
• Those polystone busts with what appears to be a classically disorientated Abe Simpson.
• Those mini statues that look like you can sort of eat them.
• That Christmas tree with all the townspeople.
• Bendables from NJ Croce. Look somewhat edible, certainly not so when biting into them.
• Wackly wobblers, bobble heads and the bobble banks what give you this jittery look when pressed for questions.

All of that in The Simpsons corner. Until August 2.

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