Did Kingdom Press screw up and rerun a set of strips already run or are we STILL actually plodding through more comic book storylines in today’s strip!?
The problem is, as a Snarker, I’m running out of things to say other than USE EBAY YOU CRAZY NINNY.
Son of Stuck Funky 
I, for one, don’t believe that John can limit himself to a single slice of pizza for breakfast/lunch/ and or dinner.
THE main local comic book guy is listening to the woman who works right downstairs from his shop about the specific issues she needs to complete a collection and he’s sitting there making witless jokes as opposed to tracking down those issues and selling them to her, which is, you know, what he does for a living. The complete disconnect from reality is just amazing. The whole town appears to be interested in her stupid quest, but no one is helping…not even the town’s comic book retailer! Again, just amazing.
I guess in Westview no one is allowed to help you on a comic book quest, it’s a spiritual journey you have to embark upon all alone. Paying someone to get comic books for you would be like paying someone to go to church as your substitute. Aimlessly wandering from comic book shop to comic book shop in total terror while dealing with the twisted freaks that lurk within is all part of the quest. It’s the single greatest thing any of them will ever do. So I suppose it makes sense in a stupid sort of Batominc way.
But still, DSHJ should be all over this. No wonder he still rents that horrible upstairs dungeon with the hand-lettered signs. I still maintain that his stupid store is nothing more than a hideout where he goes to escape that one-armed wife of his and her endless band stories, not to mention her meddlesome old bag of a mother. It’s the only theory that makes any sense.
But Epicus, if John helps out, how can Holly learn the valuable lesson that striving toward a goal is a fool’s errand, and that she should just wearily give up on accomplishing anything?
So… only 4 issues to go…and they are all in the 100# series?
That means she already has the fabled #1issue. You know the one like Funky had in a safe. You know the one that sold for enough $$ to rescue 2 otherwise failing businesses, one of which was behind in his rent even.
But Holly not only found one…she plunked down what had to be tens of thousands for it.
How much was issues # 2,3,4 and 5?
Jesus H. Christ…..Don Quixote had quests saner than this!!
Noticing the famous Montoni’s pie case there in the background of panel 1, I wonder who bought the only missing slice of pie. Perhaps it was a break time snack for one of the proprietors…
And to the left of the pie case is what I can only assume to be Montoni’s ever-empty lobster tank.
If only there were some way to communicate with comic book collectors outside of Westview, to know who else has these particular editions and is willing to sell them. Nah, I guess I’ll just have to keep coming into Komix Korner every week and ask for the same thing.
Maybe Cory already had #1 already. If I know him, he probably sold meth to purchase it.
Who can forget this charming (sensitive manner) scene from 2008? Actually, I did until I stumbled across it this morning.
Funky: Four grand, Khahn! She spent four grand, and counting, in the main, on comic books for Cory! Kill him for me, Khahn!
Khahn: You’re out of your ugly, alcoholic mind, Funky! That’s murder! I don’t think so!
Funky: I mean it, Khahn! I want the little thief ended! So you’d better think again!
Khahn: On 2nd thought, you’re FAT, too!
There may be a way to make comics collecting interesting to people who don’t collect comic books. This certainly isn’t it.
Merry Pookster: Ah yes, the SJ #1 conundrum. Ignoring his own comic book mythology and continuity, all for the sake of featuring those dumb SJ covers every third or fourth Sunday. Perhaps he’ll do a retcon job and reveal that Funky actually bought TWO #1’s when he traveled through time. Then again, that seems way too logical for a FW arc.
@TheDiva: I am a comic collector and I find this whole thing boring.