Shop features and Birthday coupon code!

It's new month so it's time for a new coupon code! October is my birthday month. So I'm giving everyone a present. A huge 27% off coupon because I'm turning 27!

The coupon code is: Present

It expires October 31st so you have practically all month to use it.This probably going to be the biggest discount we'll ever offer for an entire month. So if you've been eyeing things up and waiting now is a great time.

I still have a lot of stuff to add to the site, but I managed to get a bunch of Sailor Moon Comics added so if you've got an holes in your collections of single issues comics head on over!

A quick tip for buying comics from us, the shopping cart doesn't calculate shipping for them correctly because of how we have to set them individually. If you want a bunch of comics submit your order, but DO NOT PAY. Send me an email instead and let me know you've submitted an order and I'll reinvoice you for the correct shipping amount even if you bought every comic on the site, the shipping would never be more than $7 and most of the time it's going to be less than $5.





We've got some rare issues like the Super hard to find issue #32 with the gorgeous Sailor Saturn cover. We searched for months to find just this issue for our collection of comics. Because it's so hard to find we have it priced at $10 but it would be $7.30 with the discount!







If Sailor Moon isn't your think a more season appropriate manga would be Uzumaki (and no it doesn't have anything to do with Naruto):


Written by horror master Junji Ito, it tells the story of a young girl living in a town descending into madness and terror. I can't say much else without ruining the plot, but it's a classic. This is just the first volume, but it's got more than enough story to let you know if you want to keep reading. It's got great old school art and solid writing. We own and have read the entire series and can highly suggest it to anyone interested in the genre. (I'll be attempting to write a review of it later this month)





Or if you're not into comics but still after something seasonal how about this fantastic McFarlane Dracula:


The detail in this figure is phenomenal as you'd expect from McFarlane. I'm using the stock image, because he's hard to see in his package, but he does come with the hanging chains, rats and bats. It's hard to imagine in our current vampire crazed, Twilight loving society, but vampires haven't always been sexy and pretty. They were seen as animalastic, bloodthirsty horrifying monsters and Mcfarlane did a fantastic job of depicting it with this figure.






Hope you see something you like. We own our own version of all the items above and they're all awesome, and we give them our highest endorsements! Besides I'd like more birthday money. ;)

~Stephanie

Stephanie's Introduction

As this the first post I thought it best if I do an introduction post. I'm one half of the collecting team, Stephanie. As of these writing I'm 26 and as one could easily guess I collect bits of geekery. I like to collect lots of things and have the cluttered shelves to prove it. My favorite collections though are easily animation cels and vintage video games.

I started collecting animation cels because I was on the look out for a unique Christmas present for Jen. I chanced on a sailor moon cel on ebay and was suddenly amazed that you could own an actual piece of your favorite show. You could own a frame millions of people have seen and enjoyed for a fraction of what a movie prop or similarly exposed painting would cost. So I eventually bought some cheap ones for myself and I was hooked. If you're interested in cels I suggest checking out keys cel FAQ for your basic information, Rubberslug for some gorgegous galleries and anime-beta to meet other collectors. There are lots of other sites devoted to cel collecting/collections but those are some of the most accessible. We have a joint online collection gallery at rubberslug which showcases our art collection quite nicely so be sure to stop over there if you're interested in our collection. We'll probably post here when we've updated over there if we remember. On that note we have some in the works as our gallery hasn't seen a new cel in months but we've purchased several. Though compensate for the new we've had to take out a few old. They're being slowly updated to our shop so head on over and take a peak. I'd love to see our celluloid babies in new homes.

For video games, I've been playing games for as long as I can remeber starting with the intellevision and just blossoming from there as I've aged. Jen and I have many of the major gaming systems released from the early 1980's to the present, our most recent acquisition being the red limited edition Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 with the game (RE5 is fabulous and we've already beat it twice). We have hundreds of games, so many in fact we have trouble keeping count and sometimes buy doubles.(pictures documenting pieces of it to come soon) Hopefully keeping a collection blog will help us catalog our collection a little better. In all honesty I actually love video games a lot more than anime so most of the collectibles I tend to buy for myself are video game related. I can't get enough of weird video game related bits and baubles especially from the Super Mario brothers and the Zelda game series.

My other collections include: unicorns (in general), x-men comics, vinyl records, D&D 1st & 2nd edition manuals, Star trek memorobilia related to spock/leonard Nimoy, Star wars memoribilia primarily relating to the sith and the more minor alien races, fossils, and other weird things I'm too lazy to think of at the moment. Not to mention all the things I really love but don't collect much from like Dr. Who (mostly the Tom Baker seasons) and the early Godzilla films.

So I think that's it I think that gives a pretty good overview of my mainline geekery. I promise that subsquent entries will be at least a little more interesting.

~Stephanie