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 Okay, the latest section to get a bit of a revamp is that of ace British 1960s anti-hero the Spider.
I've folded the Review and Spotlight stories into each other, basically making a 'master' page for each adventure. Scans have been moved to Megaupload, so we'll see how this goes - in theory it means you can download them in a single archive rather than downloading JPEGs individually, while at the same time I save on my webspace and bandwidth. We'll see how we go. Some stories have scans, some don't - I'm not putting up anything that's in King of Crooks, and some comics I've since moved on and don't have scans for. Basically, if it's not there, I don't have it at the moment.
New stuff includes scans of "The Spider and the Molecule Man" from the 1975 Lion Annual, "Robot Archie vs. The Spider" from the 1980 Lion Holiday Special and a couple of fragments of Jerry Siegel's sixties serials "The Spider v The Android Emperor" and "The Spider versus the Sinister Seven".
I've got vague plans to put up a few more classic 1960s/1970s British comics, but again we'll see where we go with that. For now, enjoy the varied adventures of the uncrowned King of Crime.
- Comics - The Spider
 This is a bit of a contractual obligation review - I'm rapidly getting bored of the HCM line after some early hits, and I've already reviewed a better Zaku figure from the Kadoh Senshi line, but while I had this guy I thought I might as well review it. There's not an awful lot outright wrong with the figure, it just pales in comparison to one made ~15 years later with a much larger budget.
This also seems as good a point as any to point out that all the Gundam figures now have their own index, at http://counter-x.net/gundam/ - the old URLs should now all be switched to (text) redirects.
I'm actually hawking a trio of HCM figures, as well as some MS in Pocket Gundams and a few other bits and bobs on ebay right now, in case any of you want to find out how accurate my reviews are =)
Big thanks, not for the first time, to Denyer, by the way :)
- High Complete Model MS-06R Zaku II
 Something a bit different - I'm currently working my way through my Marvel UK Transformers comics, and I've decided to add scans of some of them to the site. I'm not suicidal enough to do anything IDW are putting out in an overpriced mini-series or the like, but I am going to try and provide some way of reading the stories they and Titan have ignored over the years, without having to pay for ropey back-issues.
With the odd exception (from this batch, just the American scans of "Man of Iron", which are the scans Brendan Reilly did for the old version of the Transformers Archive, just tarted up a little) these are fresh scans done by me, rather than the sometimes tired ones which usually circulate for these stories. I've also chucked in scans of any relevant features from the rest of the comics, including posters, adverts, letters pages and the like.
So, for now there's Steve Parkhouse's curious "Man of Iron", Simon Furman's excellent debut "The Enemy Within!" and Simon Furman's slightly less than excellent second story "Raiders of the Last Ark". It's generally unusual stuff with the odd taste of the forthcoming class, but is largely worth reading. The scans are ZIPed and uploaded to Megaupload - this puts less of a strain on my bandwidth and means I can just put them up there and leave them, rather than having to rotate them if I did the hosting in-house.
- Transformers - The Complete Works
 It's been over two months since I last bought an Ideon toy, so obviously I was starting to get a little twitchy. Thankfully I'd never quite got around to buying the Yamato version, reasoning that it was made redundant by the Soul of Chogokin version, and anyway I didn't like PVC.
Having recently sold a boatload of stuff and then not really found anything to spend the money on (I find that the more disposable cash I have, the more reluctant I am to spend it... I did think I might be growing up or something, but then realised my potential plans all revolved around buying toys, so it can't be that), I went for it anyway, and I'm bloody glad I did.
The figure's smaller size and lighter weight means it's a lot easier to have on the computer desk than the SoC, even if it doesn't have a fraction of the features. I even like the packaging - I'm pretty sure the plastic clam shell tray could be used to make an Ideon-shaped jelly, for a start.
- The Ideon - SIM EX Ideon
 My first Zaku figure - kinda. It arrived in the same lot as the HCM version of the exact same suit (both were even Black Tri-Stars customs, #06 - I changed the stickers on the Chogokin).
I think the thing rounds out my collection of Kado/Kahen Senshi moulds. I'm not going to go mental collecting the variants of the figures - if I won the lottery I'd round up Char's Zaku and a squad of the start green ones (and finish off the Black Tri-Stars), and probably Amuro's Zeta, but I'm not going to go mad when there are plenty of other toys out there.
The Zaku figure itself is rather impressive, a lovely counterpart to the Kado Senshi Gundam as it has a similar level of articulation and balance - great fun for shelf display.
- Chogokin MS-06 Zaku II review
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