Camden Town, 7/7/11

Does London have comic book stores? It does!

Best store? Forbidden Planet, of course, but second best has got to be MegaCity Comics. They had not one, but TWO copies of Executive Assistant: Iris on hand.

Camden Town is home to a lot of odd characters.



Camden Town has a long street that also serves as a market on weekends, and you can find a lot of different items, from vintage clothes to food to hard-to-find electronics.



Here's the Blues Kitchen--the last place Jimi Hendrix played before he died.



Camden is also home to Camden Locks, where you can get a close-up view of how a series of locks work.

Comic Book Crawl in Camden Town

Tomorrow, I leave Ilford for good and head to Scotland for a couple of days. So today was a light day...laundry, getting organized, and a comic book crawl.

Oh, yes. A comic book crawl.

In central London there are a handful of different comic book stores, and I've noticed that each one is situatated within a 5-minute walk of their respective tube stations. How cool is that? Mega City Comics for instance, is located in Camden Town near Regent's Park. Now CT is one of the cooler markets I've seen, and it's easy to find a Sex Pistols t-shirt, or a floor-length leather coat, or a tattoo of a goat-devil.

Also, while you're eating your lunch, why not watch one of the narrow boats go through the locks? I knew how it worked, but I've never seen it before. Pretty cool.

What comics did I get? Mark Waid and Mirco Pierfederici's Ruse, a copy of The Simpsons, and a Dark Horse title called Silke. Something for the train ride tomorrow.