I was somewhat startled to see a story about "Free Comics Day" on the
front page of the local paper -- below the fold, but on the front
page. *And* on the day before the event, so that people can, like,
actually go!
But more startling to me was that this was the first I'd heard of it.
Some of the forums I frequent were all excited about it last year, and
I frequent more forums this year than last.
Whatever, I slept until I'd be on the road after the comic store
opened, and Chimp's is more-or-less on the way from the first
farmer's market of the season to the health-food store, so I dropped
in. Didn't bother to look at the free comics, because there was a
line, and skipped the clearance books because some guy was doing
exactly what I wanted to do and there wasn't room by the shelf for
both of us, but I looked at most of the other stuff in the store, then
took a glance at the fifty-cent comics -- most were comix rather than
funnybooks, but in the third box peeked into I spotted a title I'd
never seen before: Dark Horse's "Boris the Bear". The book that
caught my eye had a rather elaborate scene on the cover, and in the
lower right corner (my right, that is), on a tombstone of the sort you
see on cigarette packs and chocolates processed in facilities that
also process nuts, was written: "WARNING! The scene depicted on this
cover appears nowhere in this issue!"
I grabbed all four of the issues in the box without even cracking open
the book or looking around for the six more comic books I could have
gotten for my two dollars. (plus fourteen cents tax).
Joy Beeson
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