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And I'm about half way through "Transition" by Iain Banks. A return to form after the rather, in my opinion, lacklustre "Steep Approach...". I can see why it's being sold as an Iain M Banks in the States.

A pox on you Banksy! Looks like another purchase for Stevie...

Tordelback - hands off the harem  8)

Ooo-er Stevie's never heard it called that before 

There was a surreal underwater scene as well.
Anyway it was very sexy and weird...

Alien Resurrection?

Yellow Submarine?

[I say 'raised' as opposed to 'tumesced' as Moore just dangles them in front of his audience and then doesn't bring them to any sort of climax.]

There are some interesting themes raised throughout. I say 'raised' as opposed to 'tumesced' as Moore just dangles them in front of his audience and then doesn't bring them to any sort of climax.

Here, I fixed that for you, Your Lordship

Ahh, that explain why Flesh was the only unsullied trade from my order.

& there was Stevie thinking that his copy of Defoe was a veritable Shroud of Turin for Jack Ruby's arse.

Guess that also means that Claw Carver's made off with my copy of XTNCT. Bah.

Sniff! I doubt it. Rufus told me he's left the board...  

'Tis a sad, sad day  

Sorry your having trouble lads, I feel bad for giving the recomendation.  

Rightyo bucko, it's straight to the Eastern Front for you... actually, no hard feelings there David. Stevie's grateful for all replies on this thread.

The cardboard for your trades / jiffy for us is curious point that I shall raise with them. For my hardcovers & Ace Trucking Vol.2 arrived in immaculate condition.

Just waiting on one final book now – even if it's not here in the morning I'll contact them anyway.

Any one know if email or the online contact works best?

No need for that, I'm grateful for all comments

ISRC Tank Girl in the Meg was commissioned as a black & white strip. Rufus has added the duo tones out of the goodness of his own punk rock heart.

Titan on the other hand licensed the US market reprint as a coloured comic,

New improved swears, however, is news to Stevie.

No doubt Rufus will pop up soon to put us right

There was Stevie thinking:

"Okaaay, maybe these guys were running short on the cardboard or they use it for stock over a certain price point. In which I'll chalk this one up to Experience & only order phonebooks & hardcovers from them in the future..."

But now I've read Grant's experience & it's, "Awwwwwwww man..."

When my remaining books arrive I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the forewarning.

With free postage I guess they will send as economically as possible.

That did cross my mind, but Bleep.com don't charge postage either & they've always used cardboard for me. I've had the one cracked jewel case between London & Australia so far (touch wood*), but considering that the Bleep sends out vinyl all the time perhaps their opted to employe staff with opposable digits.

I've actually several years experience in customer service for the mail order department of a major retail chain here in Australia. So Stevie has this not terribly unwarranted expectation that when I pay for something as new that it will be packed accordingly to arrive in a reasonable facsimile of as new.

Damage in transit is a statistical given, in which we would supply the customer  with a reply paid address to return the damaged stock. Unless it's broken glassware or crockery 'cos that would be a waste of postage on the store's part. In which case replacements would be sent out free of charge or credited outright.

I realise that reply paid may not be feasible for international orders, but as Grant has already mentioned:

you know, you let *Amazon* know that your book was damaged, they send you a new one, gratis. 

Items which incur damage in sufficient quantities (eg cakestands, loose crockery) despite the packers' efforts are no longer offered for mail order. Sure, there's the occasional customer who is unhappy that certain items won't be supplied, but this saves both money & a lot of pain for all parties involved, believe me.

Well I'm not 100% decided on this but being the first time I've used Bookdepository, looking like half my order is damaged, which could have been avoided by putting multiple trades in one or two extra cardboard packages ...

Charlies Chapters – would that be their UK site then Grant?

Major bummer on Memphis


*Oooo-er matron!

I buy all my GNs from the Bookdepository, (occassionally play.com if they are cheaper).They usually are cheaper that amazon but their descriptions are crap, if your not sure get  the details from amazon and order from the bookdepository. Never had any problem.

David

Hey David,

Stevie went on a bit a spree at Bookdepository filling gaps & has just received 5 trades with bent & broken spines.

Would you are any other boarders know what they like with customer service issues?

The hardcovers & Ace Trucking vol.2 that were each packed in cardboard & are fine, but all my trades came individually packaged in padded Mail Lites which didn't survive the journey too well.

I'm going to give another day for the rest of my order to arrive before politely filling out their online contact form, so if anyone would like to share their experiences in the meantime that would be appreciated.

Stevie

Orange?

"Transition", the latest Iain Banks novel turned up today,

Nice one! Let me know how you go. Stevie was eyeing that particular minx in Dymocks but the latest Egan anthology Oceanic in trade as well as Ian McDonald's River of gods & Strossy's Saturns children both in paperback were enough for one visit

Yeah, I groaned when Dredd delivered that sub-Terminator line too.  Yawn. 

Ahhhh well, I guess that saves Stevie from having to see any of those Terminator fillums then.

[BIG JOBS!]

"I already did it 35 minutes ago".

For Stevie it's gotta be Oymandias' triumphant reiteration of, "I DID IT!" It feels as if you're in the very same room.

My FIRST one (i.e. the one I can remember right now, not necessarily the biggest or best) is oddly enough a Garth Ennis penned Dredd line, from Helter Skelter...

Agreed. Who says only Wagner understands Dredd? That's a great line that sums up Dredd perfectly.

Snap. The line that does it for me, that succinctly encapsulates how spot on Ennis gets the character is at the end of the first episode:

"Citizen Darien Kenzie -- take my hand if you want to live."

Others moments immediately springing to mind:

Howler quite literally wiping the floor with Dredd. Got to be the most brutally-realised smack down I've ever seen in a comic. You can feel every bruise form. Hear each bone snap.

"I am such a one as thou didst formerly know as the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. It is my mission to abase the flesh of others and herein I will have some exercise!"

"We defeated the Zhind. They were a species."

"Bird watchers are a rugged & hardy breed, Cane. Like stamp collectors & comic book fans, they crave excitement & danger."

"The bear's pullin' off my pants! I- I don't believe it -- this can't be happenin' to me..."

"- i guess y'all could say I got my partner right here!"

Where it's cold-sensitive bio-plastic epidermis grew & grew until the pretty thing was the size of a happy moon...

"Look up there! LOOK AT IT! There's NOTHING as important as that! Not even PIPE-FITTING!" (the dizzy vaults of imagination & 2000ad's working classs ethos, the infinite & the intimate, distilled together in a single panel)

Many if the engines are old robots, especially adapted for seige warefare... like this beffroy or mobile battle tower... BIG JOBS!

"I SEE A SHIP! A BIG SHIP!"

"Take me home! Feed me! Look after me! Take me h"

The humans would pay for killing his mother... Oh, they'd suffer... ALL humans would SUFFER!

Have you ever had your brain turned inside out..? ...IT HURTS!

Firekind part 6

"I could hear His footsteps getting louder & louder. Then He leaned over the rooftops to look down at me... & He had no face. There was just a terrible Light.
"A Light that filled the whole world."

D.D's K-craft fighter crossed the path the Odyssey had carved through the Solar System... "Monday! No, he's gone, there's nothing left... Only the debris from the battle falling into the Sun..."

A sequence so chilling because it is so innately, primally the apposite of all experience:

[spoiler]"I wish the Sun would only rise
"& then I realise that it has risen
"And the Sun is black" [/spoiler]

The most perfect conclusion one could ever ask for:

"...& then I was out.
"Just out."

But Pete, you WILL insist on cavorting shamelessly with wanton trollops and brazen hussies!!! 

That's not actually true by the way Pete's Michelle.  I made it up in a silly attempt at cheap humour.  I'm a very bad person. 

Ah Mike, but you only said it. Stevie laughed at it. Out loud too.

Be seeing you in the infernal circle then, I take it?