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I just bought a whole load of really cheap comics at a discount bookshop..

15:18 / 30.11.01

You know, one of those really dodgy places that sell shoddy looking books about there great painters for £2.99.

I was in there looking for christmas presents .. and what did I see in the corner but three entire boxes of quality Graphic Novels reduced to £1.99 or £2.99 each!!

I've bought tons of stuff, and I just want to do some fan-boy bragging really -

the complete Halo Jones, Ghost in the Shell, a couple of volumes of Swamp Thing, Violent Cases, Sin City, a few volumes of Sandman ...

Why, it was something akin to heaven!

The most irritating thing was that they had a load of volumes (Akira book one, Promethea, League of Extrordinary Gentlemen) that I'd recently bought at (extortionate) full price! Why the money I could have saved if I'd only visited this shitty looking bookshop a few months ago!

And I also got the Complete Works of Lewis Carrol, The Golden Bough and Brewers Phrase & Fable for a total of 6 quid.

God bless these discount book shops.

Check out your local ones, UK people, maybe they've got some too..

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

15:52 / 30.11.01

Where? Where?

15:55 / 30.11.01

The shop on the high street - called 'The Works' I think. Downstairs on the right, somewhere around the Sci-Fi books.

16:03 / 30.11.01

By the corner of the market.

I got Books of Magic (the first one) Dark Night Returns and Saga of teh the Swamp Thing for a tenner there once. And some other really cool books are sold there too.

God, I miss Leicester sometimes.

Now there's a nomination for 'things you never thought you'd say.'

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

16:04 / 30.11.01

Ahhhh yes. I will be there as soon as I can, or direct family there as Christmas is coming.....

I can never afford to read graphic novels....

16:08 / 30.11.01

Wow A Leicester Thread!

Um... me too people. Me Too! Hey Not Me Again are you and Rizla on exchange?

[ 30-11-2001: Message edited by: Ian Jawbone ]

16:12 / 30.11.01

could be .. but I don't know if he comes back for christmas..

Pin

16:36 / 30.11.01

*makes some wanker signs and wants you all to die*

But not until after you have experianced the true horror that is the only two places that sell comics on the island, obivously

yawn - thing's buddy

19:06 / 30.11.01

and I just bought cages hard back for 23p!

and it's signed!

and

and

and

22:17 / 30.11.01

heh you don't want to know the amount of cool comics and trades i've picked up for sod all at various places... the lesson kids is to always keep an eye out at second hand and remaindered bookstores you never know what you might find

uncle retrospective

22:29 / 30.11.01

quote:Originally posted by hi - i'm thrax from bad company:
and I just bought cages hard back for 23p!

and it's signed!

and

and

and

Just die.

Fucker, I can't get that book for love nor money.

*walks off in a sulk*

05:14 / 01.12.01

Grrrr, Damm your hide sir, you are a bounder and a cad

*sigh* The point about second hand bookshops is made....*stomps off to poke around dusty old bookshops*

yawn - thing's buddy

17:01 / 02.12.01

seriously - i did score cages hardback. but it was 50 dollars, I got it in boston (i live in glasgow) and it wasn't signed.

and your better off with the single issues coz it's bound very badly.

but it is beautiful.

ha ha.

17:13 / 02.12.01

Originally posted by Ian Jawbone:

Hey Not Me Again are you and Rizla on exchange?

I wish.

He can come and do my job on the paper for a bit if I can go back to Leicester and spend a few days getting very drunk, going to the Phoenix, Charlotte and Rockaboom, ordering TJ's veggie burgers and maybe popping into the Museum on New Walk.

Whadda u think?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

18:01 / 02.12.01

Leicester is that appealing... ?!

Pin

18:10 / 02.12.01

Or even "Wales is that appauling... ?!"

10:36 / 03.12.01

Not Me Again - so you work on a newspaper in North Wales?

Have you seen 'Darklands'?

Not that anything particularly horrific happens in it, but it's such a badly made film, you really wouldn't want to live in it..

And compared to life in rural Wales, Leicester is a heady, cosmopolitan, exotic capitalist wonderland filled with such previously unknown things as ethnic communities, indie discos, Thai resturants and shops that sell nothing but flared trousers and old Star Wars figures..

16:47 / 03.12.01

He's right you know

Have you seen 'Darklands'?

'fraid not. What is it?