New Pickups and Birthday Stuff (part 2)

Oh yeah! I totally forgot to post the 2nd lot of recent pick-ups! Here they are then, starting with the Pocky I got with some Birthday Cash!I like the Strawberry ones best..

And then there's this lot of PS2 games from various game and charity shops! 

ESPN International Track & Field is pretty much what you'd expect... a collection of various sporting events where you have to bash the correct buttons to participate...oh, and some ribbon twirling rhythm action...

Virtua Cop Elite Edition is both original Virtua Cop games with slightly enhanced graphics for the PS2. I'm a bit annoyed though, as I bought it thinking it would work with my original PS1 Guncom lightgun, like evry other PS2 lightgun game...but this requires the Guncom 2! Bah! Still, they're classic games..

Reign Of Fire is based on the movie of the same name, that I still haven't seen! Basically dragons have destroyed most of the world and you have to defend one of the last remaining human settlements against hordes of the flame spitting buggers as they try to toast you like marshmallows....It's pretty good fun, actually!

Guncom 2 does work with my gun, and is pretty standard shooty stuff...with loads of noise and screaming civilians to rescue from weird monsters! Feels very arcade-like! 

Evolution GT is a decent-ish racer, but a bit boring.....

And SSX On Tour is a groovy snowboarding game that probably needs no introduction....but i actually spent more time listening to the Jukebox mode than playing the game when I stuck it on to make sure it works! :)

Next up are these Cheeky comics I got from a bookshop in Edinburgh....

There's a couple of cool adverts in these too, like the Weetabix tent and the Quaver Protectors strips below...

Then there's this Minecraft annual, which is the first one I believe....it's got a few nice ideas for inspiration that I might use....

And here's some more comics that I picked up from charity shops....Cracker was a good find as it has a few characters in it that I'm unfamiliar with...and some I have very vague recollections of....

The Mighty World Of Marvel comic I was carrying around while the next Avengers movie was being filmed in Edinburgh, and I noticed a helicopter buzzing around overhead with what looked like a camera sticking out..So I had a little chuckle to myself that if there's any aerial shots of Edinburgh in the movie, I could potentially be a tiny dot with an Avengers-typecomic in that scene, and no-one will know but me...and now you lot..

And the Planet Of The Apes comic is pretty cool too, and has a nice feature on Roddy McDowall's make up!  

Another nice find was this Fortean Times Book Of Close Shaves And Amazing Luck, which tells about all sorts of narrow escapes and bizarre luckiness..

Another PS2 game I picked up was Freestyle Metal X, a MotoX game that's pretty decent....inside the box though, I also discovered a very scratched copy of  Smackdown - Shut Your Mouth, which I'm about to go check to see if it works....two for the price of one though, eh!

These cool Mario toys and keyring I picked up for £2.50 each in The Works...

And lastly, there's this Starblazer comic library-syle book, that has a rather odd story about a chap possessed by a benevolent alien entity that shares his head space, and some bizarre drawings of dolphin aliens.... 

So yeah, not a bad haul.....I should have enough for another pick-up post in, ooh...say...a month or so?

Star Wars - The Assassination Of Darth Vader (Dark Horse 2013)

Back on Free Comic Book Day 2013, Dark Horse gave away this comic book with a story set shortly before Episode IV. I missed it at the time, due to all the free comics being gone from my local comic shop about 5 minutes after opening every Free Comic Book day, but I managed to find it in a charity shop recently with a load of others.

So I thought with it being May the Fourth and everything, I'd upload the story on to the blog for every one else who missed it...Enjoy!

(As always, click to go big!)

Oh, and remember that this year's Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday, the 6th of May! Dark Horse have some Buffy and Avatar comics for grabs this year, so if you're quicker getting to a comic book store than me, you might be able to pick those up! :)

Already Know You, That Which You Need....(Star Wars Merch Ads)

May The Fourth be with you! All these ads are taken from various comics, mainly old Eagles from around the time Return Of The Jedi came out, but there are a couple of older ones! There's a few of videos too for added nostalgia blasts...

As always, click the pictures to make them go big!

( I remember really wanting this Chewbacca Bandolier!)

Hmmm...nope...that's not quite enough Star Wars...better check out my next post for more May 4th madness! ;-)

New Pick-Ups & Birthday Stuff....(part 1)

Okay, so it's been a while since I properly posted and as such, I've amassed a whole load of other stuff from charity shops, and also reached the rather-scary age of 40, so have a few things to show off from my birthday presents and birthday money spending too!

First up is the Madballs Head Poppers Dust Brain figure, and an awesome Madballs mug for my Birthday! Got these from my Mum who is doing well finding random madball stuff for me lately! :)

I got some cool stuff from my niece and her family too...like this Goonies T-shirt and two tubes of bubbles! 

They also got me some fudge, but the Sega Superstars Eye-toy game I bought myself for £1 in a charity shop...

These cool Marvel Pocket Books were £1.50 each from a charity shop! The Chiller books have Dracula and Man-Thing stories in them, and Conan Obviously stars the barbarian himself, but also has a Kull The Conqueror strip...there's some good ads in a couple of these that I might upload at some point too! :)

From the same shop I got this Beano Comic Library which was a bit pricey at £1.50 (they usually go for about 50p each), but the subject matter made it worth it. The Sugar and Spike book was only £1, which was odd because it was the biggest of the comics at 100 pages! Might upload a strip from it at a later date so you lot can have a read! 

Another couple of strategy guides for a couple of quid each...the original Pokemon guide for Gameboy, and Carmageddon 2 : Carpocalypse Now on PC!

From the same shop as the above guides, I found this Game Genie codebook for £1. I'll probably just chuck this up on Ebay as I don't have a Game Genie, but I thought it was too good a find to leave there!

This next item cost me a £1, and I've yet to get it to work on my PC....it's a CD of loads of Freeware titles. I got my brother to test it on his PC, and have worked out how to get it to run on mine now, so after I write this I'm off to try some of the games out. I'll let you know if I find any gems...or real stinkers! 

I also found these 360 games for £2 each....Call Of Duty: Black Ops and Armored Core 4! Both seem okay from the little I've played...although Black Ops doesn't feel as good to play as Ghosts, which I'm currently playing through. It seems to have more screen clutter...if you know what I mean? Too much going on for my poor old eyes...

Right, that's probably enough to be getting on with for now....I'll post the rest of the pick-ups in my next post, and then get back to posting a bit more regularly again! See you in a bit, stuffers! :)

More posts soon....now the lurgy has gone!

Blargh! I was hit by a 4 week flu-bug that then became a double ear infection with added sinusitus! This was a whole load of fun as I'm sure you can imagine, and I didn't really feel like posting much...

The meds have done their trick though and everything seems to be reverting back to my normal allergy-type usual lurgy, so I'll get back on the case with posting more stuff soon...probably early next week, so keep an eye out for that! Just thought I'd let you know I'm still alive...anyhoo, catch you soon, stuffers!