The Backlog Of Pickups ( Part 2 )

Okay, this next lot of pick-ups are all comic based, so I'll just let you take a nosy at some of the pages!

A Sparky Book and a Beryl The Peril annual are the first items......

Here's some Sparky pages....

There's lots of odd drawings with these Schmooks characters like the one you can see below..

The cover of Sparky is quite shocking actually, as Thingummy Blob is about to be fed to the lions while a load of Sparky characters look on anxiously....and some of the other audience members look far too happy about this fact!

Here's some pages from the Beryl Book....

Got these Whizzer & Chips, and Nipper comics for 35p each!

I really want oddly flavoured old crisps now because of this old KP Skips ad....(also, there will be more about the KP Skips Clumsy Colin character in a blog post soon! )

Unfortunately, the Nipper cover just ripped when i opened it up, as it was stuck down with something.....still, it was interesting reading it again and remembering characters I had completely forgotten about like Kelpie's Kingdom and Felix The Pussycat....

Next up are more Cheeky comics, which as usual were a pound each from a bookshop in Edinburgh....

I like the fact that most of the Cheekys still have the posters intact.....

And I miss things like this Disney pull-out section..........

Which I'd got all of these supplements....I could use these moves the next time I'm out dancing! 

Despite this next couple not really being my kind of comic, I thought I'd pick them up anyway as they were only 50p each....

Bullet is filled with 70's manliness.....

And Spike has the very 80's Mantracker....

And L Cars, which originally appeared in Sparky, gets a rebranding as Krazy Kops!

And lastly for today, a couple of Whoopee! comics, also 50p each......

My favourite bit is of the first one is of course, the Shiver section, which comes from Shiver and Shake, another comic which joined up with Whoopee....

Love World-Wide Weirdies too, by Faceache artist Ken Reid....

Here's a few pages from the later issue to finish up.......I really want a CGL George! Wonder if I'll find one of those in any charity shops.....

Still loads more pick-ups to come, and loads more comics among them, so I'll be back soon with more! Later Stuffers....

The Backlog Of Pick-ups ( Part 1 )

Happy New Year, Stuffers! Hope you've all had a good festive season! Now that I've munched my way through the chocolate and drunk all the wine, it seems a good time to get back to the blog and get writing again....

The first thing I need to do though is get through a few post showing off my random pick-ups and Christmas gifts and things that I've accumulated since the last pick-ups post! And there are a lot. A big lot......

So let's not waste any more time and get on with showing you guys the things wot I have got!

First up is this weird Super Mario comic I picked up in a charity shop for a pound! 

It's a bit tonally weird, with some nasty guy who thinks all beggars should be shot and delights in killing Mario off in Gameboy Super Mario Land acting as a conduit for the evil baddie Tatanga (again from Super Mario Land) to travel to our dimension and take over the world.....

Luckily two kids manage to summon Mario to our world too, and they help defeat Tatanga and save our dimension! Then there's another story where the same weak-willed numpty from the first story again brings Tatanga back, and a little girl manages to get Mario's help again and once more put a stop to Tatanga's evil plans!

It's definitely all a bit odd, but is quite a cool thing to add to my collection! There's at least another 3 books in the series from Valiant too, so I might see if I can track them down at some point....

Next, I found this Droopy book for 50p.......

It tells of Droopy's unfortunate toothache and an odd ballooning adventure that results after he tries to get rid of the offending tooth....Clearly for tiny kids, I picked it up just because I don't really have many things involving Droopy, who is one of my favourite cartoon characters.....

Some video games now, and here's one for original Xbox and one for the 360! Both cost me about £2 each....

Batman Arkham Origins is the third of the Arkham series on 360, and looks to be a lot of fun, but I'm waiting until I get through Arkham City, the 2nd game, as I still have that to finish....

Blood Wake is a boat combat game and again seems like it'll be pretty groovy, but I have so many other games to finish, it's going straight into the backlog......

Playstation type stuff next, and these four were also charity shop finds for between £2 to 50p each...

Shadow The Hedghog is a game that I would like to like, as I think he's quite a good character and the cutscenes are nice, but the game itself is just far too annoying...I can't seem to get the hang of any of the 3D Sonic games, and constantly just run into things and die...In fact, I've never really been a huge an of any of the Sonic games for similar reasons! I mean they're alright, but I've always been more of a Mario fan! I do like Sonic Spinball and the Arcade Sonic though...Oh, and Mean Bean Machine!!

Project Eden is a game I keep buying, somehow selling and then buying back again.....think I must have had it about 3 or 4 times now! It's actually really good and has a nice character swapping mechanic that allows for a lot of variety in the way you approach puzzle and play through the game! Well worth a look....

Gungriffon Blaze also on PS2 is a big stompy Mech game where you stomp around in big Mechs, but seems to be a bit speedier and action packed than a lot of other stompy big Mech games! haven't played it much yet, but it seems decent and I needed a big stompy Mech game to add to my PS2 collection......

And finally, Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX for PS1 is a game I remember playing the demo of and loving when it was released. It's essentially the same as the Tony Hawks Pro Skater games, but with BMXs instead of skateboards...and it's a load of fun!

Back to comics again, and I picked up these two Commando comics in yet another charity shop purely for the reason that they involved spooks! 75p each!

More book finds, and these two Buster Books were a pound each....here's a few choice pages to read.....

And lastly for this first part of pick-ups, is a weird gnome/wizard/green man head that my brother noticed and I picked up from yet another charity shop for about 50p.....

It has really weird looking eyes and you can stick a candle in the back for even freakier night time shenanigans! Anyway it was so weird, I had to pick it up!

So there you are, the first of probably quite a few posts....I've barely scratched the surface! The next one should be up tomorrow sometime, so I'll see you then-ish! Later Stuffers! :)