Pharmacy Finds
This is the feature I wanted to do over the weekend, but didn’t have the time.
Then, I arrived to find my “sample” as it were ransacked beyond recognition.
The sample I speak of is actually the pharmacy. Before the days of comic book shops, believe it or not, this is where all the action was. But the rise of specialty shops made a big dent in the comic book industry’s MO - offering often secluded, den-like atmospheres, a wide variety of bubble-bursting “varients” and many other collector’s items.
So where does this leave comic books in the pharmacy nowadays? Actually in the very back shelf of the bottom rack. But despite their hard-to-reach position, I found one item of interest which caught my eye last Wednesday - an issue of Warren Ellis’ Thunderbolts.
Odd that this comic - one not especially aimed to the mainstream audience - landed in the pharmacy. I noticed others - including Moon Knight and even Blade - gracing the shelves of recent months.
I arrived at noon with a notebook in hand today to write a list of titles appearing regularly in the “pharmacy finds” - but to my dismay, my selections were limited by a single eight-year old, who ransacked the section in search of DC Animated’s latest Legion of Superheroes.
Not wanting to discourage the next generation of comic book readers - especially if they’re singing my paycheck - I left this project for another day.
Hopefully they’ll be restocked Tuesday or Wednesday. But while we wait, here’s an open question to anyone who likes to see their name on the comment roll:
Just what comics do you typically find at your gas station or grocery store?
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