Ken Aldred

Just wow. I concur. That's a really cool way to blow mess up.

Jerry Weist's shop. When I started collecting in my mid-teens and read my first copy of Overstreet I always wanted to visit that store, in particular. I could never have afforded the airfare from England, or had much to spend there, anyway.

A small bookshop, Chapter and Verse, in Bolton, near Manchester. They sold imported, cent copy Marvel and DC titles that weren't ordinarily available the UK and charged 35p for a standard-sized issue, which was three times the cover price for the distributed pence copy comics received by the newsagents three months later. Lots of overpriced back issues but only from the previous four years or so to 1973, after the picture frame Marvel era, with lots of Giant-Size titles but without the most significant one, of course. I went there for about 18 months and then started going to comic marts, found cheaper dealers and a wider range of material, and never went back.

1 - The Invaders 1

9 = Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 33 first series

I've finished Crysis 2 on PS3. Good 'super-soldier vs alien invasion of Earth' FPS with excellent graphics. Make sure it's patched.

It appears that here in the UK we will have to wait until Celebrity Big Brother finishes to pick up on what's been happening in the new Gotham episodes.

2 - Detective Comics 27

4 - Wonder Woman 302

3 - Mad 159

1 - Detective Comics 43

Resident Evil 1 is a great game to update, especially if there's a vast improvement on the original's clunky, unresponsive tank controls.

I like the later issues, inked by Craig Russell. Quite the polar opposite to his opera comics. Variety is good.

Porcupine or Peter Quill?

Tim Burton should've been the guest director. Perfect for him.

I really enjoyed Man of Steel, much, much more than Dark Knight Rises. Very rewatchable on Blu-ray. In contrast, I couldn't sit through DKR again.

The Rockford Files ?

I combined these two posts, took into account your randomness, and thought that this could've been a reference to a popular 70s police show featuring a certain, bald actor. I hadn't heard of the actual product before, so it's an easy mistake to make.

Red is for the aristocracy. I'm just a scruffy, blue-collar northerner. It would be inappropriate. A Happy New Year to all !!

There was also a British spy / super-hero TV series called The Champions... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Champions

I thought DS 2 was excellent. Still creepy and claustrophobic like the first, with excellent graphics. For many, the series derailed with DS 3, which was more a third-person shooter than survival horror, with an overabundance of ammo. The worst part about the game for me was a poor automatic checkpoint system, where there could be too long between saves and failure would lead to having to repeat time-consuming segments again. If the creators learn from the mistakes they made in DS3 and return more to the previous gameplay - and the save station system, especially - then I'd like another go at the Necromorphs myself.

The CGI Captain Scarlet series done a few years back was good.

I fell for this every time I saw it on the cover in the 70s - Exactly. Just like I did when I was in my early teens in the 70s - especially with that issue, Star Wars 1. Time for another group to make all the same mistakes all over again.

During the 90's boom period I think it was hyped more because of Ghost Rider becoming a hot character?

You can get immersed in the game for a very, very long time. You should consider playing the preceding Elder Scrolls title, Oblivion, as well. Fantastic RPGs. I found Oblivion harder to get into. A bit too much in depth in certain aspects than Skyrim Oblivion was the first RPG I'd played since Final Fantasy 7, and I really enjoyed it. I was glad I persisted with it. You had to be quite careful with the levelling system ; Skyrim's is better. I do get what you mean when you compare the two Elder Scrolls games against each other, though.