One more week before the madness of the con sets in and the chill of silence rolls in the shop for every one surely must be at Supanova right? October 19, mark that down in the diary as following October 18 and coming in before October 20. Unless those calendars are the new fangled ones with numbers and days on them. La-di-da mister, you're on fire donchaknow?

It's an odd feeling reading it, but then why should reading a comic be something safe and warm? Like what reading Casanova #5 most certainly will charge down the line. It's not like swimming in a vat of hot chocolate is all the rage. Well, if it is, where's the pool?

After the earlier hit this week of what can kill any thing in the Absolute format, Sandman #1 Special Edition seems rather, well, who knows? Not like DVDs are the only ones that can get away with calling each new reissue a "special edition"

And where it all kicks that guvyer looking superhero spider butt is Amazing Spider-Girl #1. Relaunching after that last long and impressive run. Not that there was really much reason to reboot it in the first place outside of it being far from the #1 it started and this one gets the jump on.

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Forget it. It's done, it's all over. There's no hope now for the lost voucher. Down in the back of some crack, and it's October, even more biting. So any way, lets look one day before Friday the 13th, when it would have been a good week for the new release of the Freddy comic. If it didn't come out two weeks ago.

Well, when it's half way through a miniseries, it doesn't look right to jump off. And so with Escapists #4, the best part is that it isn't hard to hang onto the railings at all.

Of course, one shots are short on attention span leaving Stan Lee Meets Dr Strange a curious wonder of arkham indeed. If the wit in the first pages of The Man's meet up with Spider-Man are of any indication on the tone of the new chunk in the comic, it's a safe read.

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Well look at that, it's already October 5 and that means Oktoberfest has already come and gone. Not everyone drinks, so that leaves the massive kranskies on offer. Whoppers of delight they are. Cheese in some and it's all going down to the colon.

The thing about cutting off a comic is knowing when to severe it. Most of the time it's a round number, 25, 20 or 50. Do it in the middle of a three parter and it's a case of having to come back one more time to finish it clean. Such is the way with Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #13.

A slot which then opens up on the reminder from Amazing Spider-Girl #0, that the new relaunch, who knew there was a need, is about to hit again.

Let's see if the re-order of Casanova #2 stays long enough on the shelf this time. Always gone like a shot in the nether regions.

Purely for gothic reasons, not of the architectural kind, Bleeding Edge Goths Comics #1 is a pick up. Can't remember the concept behind it, maybe it was related to dolls. Hard to find any online previews on the comic though.

Feels like it was only yesterday and now reading up on Futurama Comics #27, is this bimonthly coming out more often than other bimonthlies? Or is it a trip down the space-time vortex hanging off a sock?

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Weeks like these make walking away from the counter a little bit on the heavy side. August 28, where the end of the lost gift voucher is coming to a burning close. Damn that sucker.

Well, damn it, it's already that time of year again and that means Halloween reading with Bart Simpson's Treehouse Of Horror #12. Not that Halloween favours anything a situation in Australia. Odd and freaky funny stories from a variety of creators, never fails to entertain.

Double dose of the web slinger this week. First, there's making The Man working for another buck to huck with Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man. Featuring a bit written by Joss Whedon and drawn by Michael Gaydos. It could be like watching that final episode of the animated series with Christopher Daniel Barnes. Great show, release that one on DVD!

And then, Ultimate Spider-Man #100. Clones, clones, clones. Ever enough with them?

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Flying back from Melbourne on a few hours of total sleep makes for a head full of jazz and not really that much hurt. It's an amazing feeling ride that crest into sanity. Watching out for the break is where the marshmallows come in and you can never melt enough marshmallows on a slice of bread.

Comics hitting the store on September looks likely to be a light affair. Only reason to pick up Strangers In Paradise #84 is to run it down into the end of the series. Where Terry Moore takes Katchoo and Francine and the rest of the SiP crew out of the ongoing.

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Much to do, so little frying time to do it. It's a walkabout issue with August 14 presenting a couple of hits into the pocket, a nifty thing now with the cheaper prices in effect.

Freezing the body core on reading a couple of comics in the morning, Ex Machina #23 and Casanova #4 are looking hot to warm the spine. Tight and super fine, their respective showings issues earlier today making them easy choices to pick up. The latter being pretty much the only one comic to rise in price. Give it as it takes.

The ten page preview of Sam Noir Samurai Detective #1 at Newsarama is a bit of a hard read. Opera makes light work of it though. And the preview isn't making it an easy sell, the style at this stage isn't enough to warrant picking it up.

Could be in like Wasteland #3. Where having already picked up the first two in this three part story makes walking away that less of a reason in sanity. On pause after this.

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