With the shipping now hopefully back on a regular schedule, the next load will drop on Thursday 20 October. There's something going on down at Redfern, about screaming poets and dancers in a dark storm. Who knows what it'll turn out to be though.

Figuring the first run was good enough to cancel for reasons of low sales and no notice, She-Hulk 2 #1 should be right up the alley. Fun and snappy the first volume was, can there be any reason for the second not to be?

Word is that Spider-Man Family #1 features an appearance by Peter Porker, Spectacular Spider-Ham. Reprint? Rehash? Who cares really. That little tyke really needs some more air time. More!

Ultimate Spider-Man #84 may very well be collecting another up until Parker's birthday in #100. Getting rather lost not knowing what happens from issue to issue. Short term memory loss or something?

Want something out there, sharp of wit and weird? Shaolin Cowboy #4 be the pick.

 

Reeling from the waft of the old age smell of some nasty comics. Marvel Comics' The Incredible Hulk to be precise. Issues 179, 180, 182, 183, 184 and 185 to be just so pedantic about it. That's right, no magical 181 in that lot. Just the famed cameo in 180, then the story picks up just after the full on debut issue of the Canuck.

A customer was kind enough to drop them by for the boys on the weekend. They had a hard time divvying up the goods. Naturally, referring to the guide on which half of the six was best taken to, taken to after the split.

Written by Len Wein, pencils by Herb Trimpe and inks by Jack Abel. The issues are both fairly fragile and rather stocky. Nice heft to them too. The stench like an invisible clouded punch right to the back of the brain. A percentage of the hit you'd be facing if you walk into a certain comic book store in the city.

Maybe this is right, and maybe you shouldn't dig your nose into the spine and crank up the olfactory vacuum for kicks. People do, and those people are the people you best leave alone.

 

Quite a sight to see in the window of the shop. A blow up Spider-Man doll the likes of which have only ever been seen hanging from the ceiling.

For a long time, kids -- or more to the fact, their parents -- would come in and ask about buying the one that dangles from above. No can do, the only one there and it's not for sale. They stopped making them. They did. Then.

Now some company (can't remember the name right now) is putting them out. Hulk, Spidey and Batman get the blow up treatment. Big and small.

The pose in which both the Hulk and Spidey fronts is a little weird. There in a squat position with a posture not unlike that of a sumo wrestler. Think David Barlow of the Sydney Kings and his little logo photo for Barlow's World.

So what's the deal?