Saturday 31 July 2010

Return

Been away for a week, hence the lack of updates. Managed to squeeze in some reading while I was on my hols - the latest Walking Dead trade + the first two volumes of 52.

All good baby!

I'm hitting the mart tomorrow - report will follow. Yeah!

In the meantime here are some pics that have been clogging up my phone...

A sad sight/site to begin with...

The empty premises of what up until recently was the excellent Playing Games, a board and roleplaying game specialist just round the corner from Gosh in Museum Street. No idea what has happened to them, I just decided to pop in for a shufty on my last visit up west and they were gone. A real loss. I bought a couple of boardgames from this shop. The downstairs section was a real treasure trove of obscure stuff.

A happier sight...

Spidey Skates! Spotted at a car boot. I didn't buy them, but they are things of beauty and as such I felt it was my duty to take a photo.

Also, from a junk shop in Green Lanes, a fab old box of VHS cassettes. Don't have a video, so no point buying anything but, as with the skates, I felt bound to take a pic of the fantastic Caine cover...

Err, that's it.

3 comments:

pulpsfromthebothy said...

Keep these second hand tat/ephemera posts coming, love the Spidey skates!

Jared said...

I'm also gutted about Playing Games. It just... disappeared overnight.

How'd you like Walking Dead 12? (Hint: I lurved it.)

Dom said...

Loved it. I devour those trades when they come out. Not the greatest comic ever, but the greatest "page-turner" of a comic EVER (in my opinion).

There is talk that Playing Games might reopen in Covent Garden.