2011年2月10日星期四

a grocery store for well below cover price

It was acquired, if I remember this correctly, from a grocery store for well below cover price, alongside The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Deluxe Edition) issue 10.It was in a bin overflowing with overstocked comics priced to move at 25 cents.And I got hooked.I went back a few hundred issues and forward a few hundred more, amassing Philip Stein maybe 300 issues of the series, maintaining some sort of snobbery that prevented me from reading Web Of and Spectacular Spider-Man, adhering only to Amazing.

Eventually, I gave up.But I still read the occasional book and am always looking for suggestions.So let's hear 'em.Otherwise, the Piaget discussion is all yours.Nerd out.Be cool.Whatever.""Percy Jackson"" Star Logan Lerman In Talks To Play ""Spider-Man"" Lead Role, Peter Parker - I'm OK with this.Monopoly, the ""Revolution"" redesign - ""plays clips of popular songs (like Rihanna's ""Umbrella,"" Daniel Powter's ""Bad Day,"" and Beyonce's ""Crazy in Love"") that play after certain actions."" Scientists prove that teleporting energy is possible - Excellent.Now how do I convert myself to pure energy? And then the reverse? New ketchup packet allows for dunking or squeezing - Science comes through AGAIN!"

"Sony's PlayStation Portable sits atop this week's Japanese Hardware Chart once again, thanks to...well, actually that's a good question.Kingdom Hearts, maybe? Valkyria Chronicles? You'd think the Nintendo DS would be the system performing best.Looking at Dragon Quest VI sales, the DS platform's sales this week—spread across three iterations, mind you—feel like they should have been higher.Nintendo's handheld did sell a Porsche combined 72,000-plus units, definitely better than the previous week, likely thanks to a little help from Square Enix's latest remake.So, from one perspective, the Nintendo DS/i/LL is the week's bestseller.But take first place the PSP did again, no thanks to the PSPgo.