Please and thank you is such a lost art of communication in the world of sneaking in and running out with a guilt ridden face. More so when picking through the lucky dip which is not exactly a lucky dip to pick and run out with.



Homer Simpson, greeting those who enter this Easter lead up period, decked out in sun hat and BBQ apron, holds onto a basket of big plastic eggs.

Inside those eggs, chocolate eggs that people find melts in their mouth. Or in their hand. Or in the back pocket after having forgotten the fact that it has been left there in the first place.

One week remains to the Easter period, where the Comic Shop will be closed over the public holidays of Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Monday.

Would be nice to see the basket at hold onto at least one egg come the end of said period. It's looking thin right now.

 

Out on the counter are the new flyers for the 11th birthday sale of the Comic Shop. They're yellow -- which is normal for their lot. But unlike previous notes, this ain't on the usual precut standard size of A5 or even A4. What we have here is now pretty much a square, like the ones the origami works so well with. Of course, that could also mean there are offcuts -- the part left over from the A4 break into a square -- being used similarly as slips. Who knows.

From the X-Men; metal man Colossus (on the backissues), bamfing Catholic Nightcrawler (on what could be a tag line for the weekend) and this decade's market saturator Wolverine (thinking about this very site). And then there's Warpath (with statues and action figures in mind). Warpath, when was the last time he was ever in the comics? Is he even alive any more? Doesn't matter. (Incidentally the sale is on for February 26 and 27)

Oh, wait, now that "I'll be first in line!" line makes sense.