Sunday, March 30, 2008  DC figures are lame  OK that's a lie
they're not all lame. Only the ones I want are lame. I went to
the big smoke yesterday to meet with friends, see some art and
do some comic related shopping. We got down to London especially
early so we could go to Forbidden Planet and I could buy some
toys. Big fail.  We got the tube to Tottenham Court Road, turned
onto Charing Cross Road and noticed a shop called Orbital
comics. This was the awesome - lots of 80s to the present stuff
for 50p, a manga selection my ever picky boyfriend was impressed
with, to the point of going back later and purchasing 2 books,
and this awesome Nightwing figure:  Which I'm now kicking myself
about not getting. I'd just spent 12 quid on comics and thought
I'd see what Forbidden Planet had to offer.  We got to Forbidden
Planet and the DC selection was rubbish. The 12 inch batgirl
dolls looked liked men. the material for the costumes all
sucked, and the Women of the dc universe ones were rubbish. The
expressions were a