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!

 

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.

 

Thank you for the music, the songs we're singing, what would life be... and with that, well, hours ago really, the end of the event known as the February sale.

Last ever, as in no more, and it's done. To death, with no sunshine further in the end of the month that is St Valentine's own four week stretch of marketing moola. Hence the cut and slicing of a limb mentioned on flyers and the like.

Farewell and bye-bye where the mascot chosen, Wolverine from the Age of Apocalypse universe, is much easier to render than the blinding initial vision in the mist of rain.

Apparently, the image of one of the many zombies littering the fields of corpses, with limbs adroppin' leper like, not the clearest of a bright and future meaning. Oh, but the things you'll see when you walk the night across town with the brains and guts dragging behind, tagging along a little dog that just won't stop yapping.



Next up and to clear the calendar to make an appearance at, the very much anticipated August birthday sale. Wherein the Comic Shop will have notched a full year at the new location next to the Liverpool library.

Be there. Or be there the next day.

 

Non-stop action as the crowds of people paid a visit on the very first day at the new larger location. Legs were on all day and the crew busy with keeping the flow moving like dollops of ice cream into tubs of yogurt and back again.

Fun?

Hopefully so, the atmosphere was sure ripe for it. A swelling to extremes of smiles and working that carpet burn like a house set on a partial fire blaze. One sale to pull them in like a phoenix reborn.



On stand-by, a few of the super hero happy friends. Batman & Robin and Iron Man out front late in the day keeping the peace and making sure things were right and proper with the world.



Superman and even that kooky Space Ghost back inside helping out with the party.

 

Setting up in the new location of the Comic Shop edges ever closer as the days move on. It's only a matter of weeks even, a couple of months in the future. In the current situation, it'll leave a bit of space overlap between the current address and the new.

One thought is that it might be a good place for a little yo-yo meet up hang out. Or even as a huddle area for those just wanting to break out the tabletop board games. (Few as they seem to be every passing season.) CCG players wouldn't be out of sorts either.

Maybe even as a little reading area. Though that's a pretty far fetched idea when the move happens. What with nothing in the shop front and all.

Definitely not as an area for the junkies and shooters to claim as their new gallery. That's what they have Georges Serviceway around the back for. Glorious smells come from that dank and nasty section of the map.

 

And so it ends for another year.



Not more than one hour into the Comic Shop's 11th annual sale and with everything released that month not on sale, space was at a premium.

Thanks to all who came along and snapped up so much stuff on discount.

 

August 25 is just a couple of days before the 11th annual store sale. Back issues will be at 50% of the sticker price. Toys and action figures will be at 25-50%, sets going from 10%. State of wakefulness going bye bye at 47% and dropping. Or rising.

Still, that only applies to the old comics, and Battle Pope Color #2 isn't old. It's cracking out at new. And the funny. Should read the first before actually walking in and picking up the second. Or, just like forever, pick up the second and read the first when the fourth appears on the shelf.

 

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.