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#421
Help! / Re: Question regarding ace trucking co
02 May, 2011, 12:01:24 AM
Quote from: Bat King on 01 May, 2011, 11:41:50 PM
Don't FP transfer stock for customers between branches? 

It might be possible except that the store in Newcastle (the nearest to Durham) and the one here in Boro are two different companies.  Newcastle is Forbidden Planet and the one here is Forbidden Planet(International)so I'm not sure if they move stock between themselves.
#422
Help! / Re: Question regarding ace trucking co
01 May, 2011, 11:33:11 PM
Quote from: klute on 13 April, 2011, 06:54:44 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 13 April, 2011, 06:22:51 PM
If it's any help (unlikely) I know FP in Glasgow has this in stock.

I live in County Durham just outside of newcastle :( thanks for the heads up though....if id have been a touch closer

Bit late to the party (as always), but the FP down here in Boro had both volumes in stock the other day.  There a bit of a bugger to find if you do pop down this way, right on the bottom shelves on the end of the aisle.
#423
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 27 April, 2011, 10:31:10 AM
The double bank holiday causes untold woe in hastings, as neither the prog nor the meg appear in the shops today.

Flapcheese.

SBT

Same here in Middlesbrough  :'( and I went into town especially for them
#424
Film & TV / Re: The Walking Dead - TV Series
11 April, 2011, 04:46:39 PM
Watched the first episode last night of Five.  Thought for a minute that they'd screwed up and were playing the second episode first what with the zombie girl and everything before the opening credits.  Once the confusion was sorted though I reckon it was a pretty good show, not too gory but still scary enough (not a huge horror movie/show fan, unless its 1950's B-movie horror).

According to Amazon the DVD of the first series is out on the 16th of next month with a fair bit of extras thrown in
#425
It's somewhere where I can hide from the domestic staff  :).  Actually it's just the former small bedroom, but what else could you call a (10'x7') room with six bookcases and a computer desk (apart from slightly cramped).
#426
Because I've just dropped my almost finished bag of prawn crackers on the floor and now the carpet of the library is covered in a coating of fine crumbs.  I think I'll wait until I need to go make another cuppa before getting the hoover.
#427
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
08 April, 2011, 12:05:21 PM
Quote from: Keef Monkey on 08 April, 2011, 10:46:44 AM
Someone loaned me an Evangelion movie once (think it was called Death And Rebirth). It looked nice and was quite disturbing in places, but I couldn't work out what was going on at all.

That's because you'd missed out 22 episodes and another movie (or two, can't remember).  The two new Rebuild Movies (with a third on its way) start off following the same basic story as the original show but from 2.2 onwards its a totally new show.
#428
Suggestions / Re: worst thrills!
30 March, 2011, 03:23:22 PM
Seems to me like it was a good thing I stopped reading 2000AD for a while in the Mid 80's,early 90's.  There seem to have been some right stinkers.  I'm starting to dread (no pun intended) the next few Case Files after 17.

As for stuff I have read I think some of the worse thrills were the parody/"quick lets cash in on this" strips, Space Girls and BLAIR 1. Single joke concepts spread too thin to make anything more than at best a couple of two parters.  Not to sure about the Balls Brothers either although it did seem a little (just a little mind) better when I re-read it in the floppy.
#429
Welcome to the board / Re: Hello from the new guy
30 March, 2011, 01:44:56 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 30 March, 2011, 12:15:03 PM
Yeah, I haven't heard of Cabs' return. Please elaborate.

Have you by any chance taken your user name from the character in Kiki's Delivery Service? Tombo means Dragonfly in case you didn't know.

Which manga are you into? I've pretty much stopped buying it now after realising that Naruto, One Piece and Bleach will NEVER EVER END and will keep reusing the same basic plot until the end of time.

I love Death Note, Battle Angel Alita, Eden - It's a Perfect World!, Dragonball and Nausicaa.

Sort of, Tombo was my nickname at school over twenty eight years ago when people kept mispronouncing my surname.  I'd pretty much forgot about it until I saw Kiki and decided to make it my own again  :)  Nausicaa is pretty much the best manga ever written but I also like a really broad (some would say weird) mix including Death Note, XXX-holic, Fruits Basket (!?), Battle Royale, Black Lagoon, Yotsuba & !, and Fullmetal Alchemist.  I also love Neon Genesis Evangelion but despair at it ever getting finished.

Got to agree some other titles just seem to repeat the same story lines ad infinitum, I think I've got the first volume of One Piece somewhere but thats all, I refuse to touch Naruto with a ten foot day stick.
#430
Books & Comics / Re: Whats everyone reading?
29 March, 2011, 08:11:12 PM
Lets see,

Words - Into the Out Of, by Alan Dean Foster.  Ancient African spirit/demon/things from another dimension try to destroy the world and its up to an elderly Massai wiseman, an American secret agent (FBI actually), and a tele-saleswoman(!?) to try and stop them.  First read it about twenty years ago and was pleased to discover I could get it print on demand through Waterstones.  The bit where the air hostess gets dragged into the toilet (the bowl, not the room) on a 747 still creeps me out.

After that I think I might give the first Ciaphas Cain trilogy another go, I got distracted twenty or so pages into the first book.

Graphic Novels - Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol.2, Eiji Otsuka and Housua Yamazaki.  Buddhist students track down the recently deceased and help grant their last wishes, for a profit if possible.  Covers everything from student suicides over lost love to WWII veterans wishing to apologise to comrades they killed.  Not afraid to mention Japan's bad behaviour in China in the 1930's and 40's either, which is rare.  The art is pretty gruesome as well, even in black and white - mop handle through zombie heads anyone?

On a trip to York today I saw the Origins trade paperback in the window of Oxfam, £6.99 don't mind if I do.  That made the coach trip home a lot easier.  Now I'm just waiting for Case Books 16 and 17 to show up.

On the Kindle - Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovich.  Newbie copper gets dragged into the murky world of magic in the Met.  Very funny (including a couple of gentle digs at Harry Potter and the Twishite, sorry Twilight books), and featuring some very sexy river goddesses.  Looking forward to the sequel in a month or so.
#431
Welcome to the board / Re: Hello from the new guy
28 March, 2011, 09:08:27 PM
Thanks for the welcome  :)

xxxxx? is that some imported Australian beer I've never heard of before?
#432
Welcome to the board / Hello from the new guy
28 March, 2011, 08:50:34 PM
Just thought I'd say hello, you all seem like a nice bunch.

What's to say about me.  Let's see, I started reading 2000AD back in '77, aged 6!!! (Prog 9 was my first I think, but I got all the back issues from a mate within a month), stopped reading during the late '80s after the chaos of moving house five times in two years (amongst other reasons) before picking back up with Prog 968 (two progs before The Pit started, good timing on my part I reckon).  Started reading the Megazine during Doomsday and haven't looked back.

I'm a big reader of manga (about 500 volumes, various titles) as well as assorted other sci-fi and fantasy books, and I reckon Studio Ghibli make the best anime in the world.

What else, I'm creeping towards 40 years old, I've worked in retail for the last 12 years (RIP Woolies, I miss you), and I've had my photo taken with Steve (Interesting) Davis when I was about twelve.

Oh and sorry about the puddle, I got a bit excited when I saw Cab. Inc. is coming back.