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.)

 

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.

 

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.



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.

 

Tom Cruise ain't looking outside the walls into the world much these days. Not since the birth of Suri with Katie Holmes holed up in some bunker. And yet they still make much on the covers of the women's magazines.



Dip it in red, it's the Lord of Darkness from the film, Legend. The one starring Cruise, Mia Sara and Tim Curry.

 

Make love to the wallpaper featuring Hot Rod from the Autobots. Photoshopped and styled right for the dimensions of a 1024x768 screen resolution.

There are some people out there who have tried the standard Stormtrooper costume and found it not quite blocky. For those looking to make it even more with the hot robot love, one man has done gone and made himself a few fully transformable costumes. There's one for Hot Rod, Jazz and even Starscream. Ratchet-astic!