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It was looking like a pretty mediocre week until about five minutes ago, when Self Made Hero’s latest book turned up. To avoid of being blocked by all your profanity filters (again) (sorry), it is [expletive deleted] gorgeous.

Self Made Hero are on a roll, and everything they’ve expertly ushered onto our shelves is highly recommended. Last week they personally carted in a box of signed Kiki de Montparnasse (which I wrote about a couple of weeks back), and then Ian Edginton and Ian Culbard carted themselves in and signed all three of their Sherlock Holmes books. You should snap them up quickly before someone else does.

Their latest is Baby’s in Black by Arne Belstorff. It’s about The Beatles’ time in Hamburg, particularly the relationship between former band member Stuart Sutcliffe and the young photographer Astrid Kirchherr, or (if you’d prefer) it’s very much like the “Official Comic Book Adaptation” of the film Backbeat as my colleague Nat so succinctly put it.

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Happy birthday to us! We are now a quarter of a century old. Hands up who’s been coming here for twenty-five years? Doesn’t matter if you’ve only been coming since yesterday, you’re still welcome to raid our backissue bins and plug the holes in your comic collection to the tune of 25p a pop.

Almost as rare as a 25th birthday but not quite, is the arrival of a new issue of Uptight by Jordan Crane. We last saw an issue of this one-man anthology series two (gah!) years ago. As a recap, here it is being recommended on Boing Boing, whose opinion you no doubt hold in higher regard than my own (I certainly do). It doesn’t really matter what Crane does from here on out – he’s already got a lifelong fan in me thanks to The Last Lonely Saturday, that weird little book about an old man going to visit his wife’s grave – so I’ll pretty much recommend everything he does. Uptight #4 looks amazing though, and The Comics Journal have squeezed out an early review. Thirty-six ad-free black and white pages of indie comics excellence to look forward to this Wednesday. Fantagraphics have one of their videos for you.

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If you’ve been paying attention to the twitters you’ve probably already heard about the huge-ass sale we’re about to have, starting Saturday:

While the rest of the world is buying tacky lovehearts and watching terrible romantic comedies, we Goshers will be collectively blowing out twenty-five candles. The 14th of February 2011 marks twenty-five years of selling comics from this little shop on Great Russell Street, and I’ll bet there are some of you who’ve been coming here to spend your pocket money since Day One.

It’s our party and instead of crying we’re knocking 25% off all books for this weekend only, and until the 25th you can grab any backissue in the backissue bins downstairs for a meagre 25p, which is considerably less than a bag of crisps and will take you longer to finish.

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While the rest of the world is buying tacky lovehearts and watching terrible romantic comedies, we Goshers will be collectively blowing out twenty-five candles. That’s right, the 14th of February 2011 marks twenty-five years of selling comics from this little shop on Great Russell Street, and I’ll bet there are some of you who’ve been coming here to spend your pocket money since Day One. Don your party hat and drape yourself in streamers because we’re having a whacking great sale to celebrate!

You can grab a massive 25% discount on all books in the shop (not counting new comics) on Saturday the 12th and Sunday the 13th, and from the 12th to Friday the 25th any backissue in the backissue bins downstairs will be a ridiculously low 25p (thematically priced!).

Now’s the time to buy that hardcover you’ve been eyeing, or to fill in the gaps in your backissue collection, or to buy what you’d probably buy anyway and have a chunk of change left over.

It starts this Saturday, and you don’t even have to sing us Happy Birthday while we’re toting up your swag.