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Our friends over at Castle Galleries in Glasgow have legendary comic book editor, Stan Lee's Marvel’s fine art collection on show in the gallery with all of the pieces available to buy. The first exhibition was unveiled at the gallery earlier in the year, with new collection just recently arriving. You can check out a few of them below. All of the pieces come in a mixture of box canvas or framed paper prints, all signed by the iconic artist Stan Lee. If your in Glasgow pop by the gallery in Princes Square or check them out online here .

The other day (by that, I mean about 3 months back) I was asked a question. Scene-party, wrecked, bump into someone who has heard I 'write'. They asked a fair if very naive question-what's the best book you've ever read? That's almost impossible to answer, as he soon realised when I explained I owned a few thousand books and probably read about 250+ books a year. As a minimum. "My goodness" he was heard to exclaim, in slightly stronger vocabulary. So I figured I'd recommend a few of my personal favourites and pick out some books I particularly rate at Fat Buddha. It's worth noting my taste is not really everyone's cup of tea, so tread carefully. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski This is, over The Shining or anything in that vein, the most frightening book I've ever read. What's particularly nerve racking is the idea of the book itself coming to get you... Danielewski's first novel (or something like that) is my favourite boo...

V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious anarchist named "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. The series is set in a near-future Britain after a limited nuclear war, which has left much of the world destroyed. In this future, a fascist party called Norsefire has arisen and is the ruling power. "V", an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent and theatrical campaign to bring down the government. This is essential reading folk, comic geeks like myself or not, especially on today of all days 'November the 5th'. The brief summary above does not do it justice, seriously, and the film was pretty diabolical, despite excellent casting of the very pretty Natalie Portman. Retailing for around a tenner you wi...