Wow - has this game ever passed me by. Only ONE comics distributor now!?!?! Amazing, simply amazing. With returns no longer accepted, no wonder drug and dime stores quit carrying comics. What is this country coming to? Thanks for the comics clinic.
Well, retailers used to just tear off the tops of the front covers and return them to the distributors for credit. They would then just give away the rest of the comic. I used to have quite a few of those myself; has this practice since been discontinued?
We do have comic shops in this area, and so I guess that is where one has to go to buy comic books at retail. I don't know when drug and dine stores quit selling them.
No, I have seen the retail prices of current Marvel comics although I have long since quit buying them. Heh - and I was buying comics in my youth when they were still a dime. I have bought a few 'graphic novels' (such as Batman vs. Alien) over the last 10 years and they are Not Cheap.
Glad to hear it - I used to be a voracious reader of Marvel and DC, then turned to undergrounds 50 years ago, finally buying my last MAD circa 1984. Perhaps that should instead state "the mainstream comic books". Agree re independents.
Hadn't known the full story of FF, thank you. But I do notice that places that used to sell comics - the drugstores, the dime stores - no longer seem to carry plain comic books. At least, I don't notice them. MAD is reeling too, with the death of the old guard, people like Jack Davis, and the rise of millennials, who think everything should be free. Their circulation must be a small fraction of what it was at their peak, and I shouldn't be surprised to see it become just an e-magazine. That is, if it survives at all.
Technically not true regarding drinking water with bleach in it. Water is sterilized with bleach when chlorine is unavailable, to the tune of 2-10 drops per gallon. Bleach can be used to kill viruses and bacteria in water, but it’s important to use only small amounts to avoid poisoning.
Back in 2004 I was in Seoul's airport and it was like being in another world. Spotlessly clean, and free carts to tote your luggage, plus polite people. This, as opposed to Houston Intercontinental Airport (I refuse to call it Bush), which is filthy and charges you for everything except breathing and they're probably working on that.
True enough, the site's title block posted above does not claim 'complete', but elsewhere on the site it is stated,"the Complete Text of the Works of H.P. Lovecraft, which led me to believe the collection was complete. It is not 'complete', as you have pointed out, as it is missing all of his ghost writing. Also missing is this, which you may have seen elsewhere: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/bec.aspx
Oh well, I still enjoy reading his 'works', complete or not. Beware of the site's spelling errors, though.
Actually, his racism, misogyny, and anti-semitism are well-known if that is what you are hinting at. I've read his biography and it would be shocking to many people today, true. A decent man otherwise and far from perfect, holding contrarian views on many topics, he nonetheless was a master of horror. The French adore him, but then again, they adored Jerry Lewis as well.
The main culprit these days is disposable wipes, which bind with the fats into a solid mass that has to be cut apart with high-pressure water jets. Compounding the problem is a lot of non-disposable wipes that have been flushed anyway.
I visited the Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, TX this week and samples of the Japanese war propaganda found therein aren't all that different from what we see here. BTW, this is a world-class museum since Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the Pacific Theater after Pearl Harbor, was born there. Highly recommended for the war buff and/or historian.
What people don't realize is how windy it is at that height. This wasn't like walking a tightrope in your backyard. I really have to wonder if he knew how dangerous that was actually going to be.
We do have comic shops in this area, and so I guess that is where one has to go to buy comic books at retail. I don't know when drug and dine stores quit selling them.
No, I have seen the retail prices of current Marvel comics although I have long since quit buying them. Heh - and I was buying comics in my youth when they were still a dime. I have bought a few 'graphic novels' (such as Batman vs. Alien) over the last 10 years and they are Not Cheap.
Hadn't known the full story of FF, thank you. But I do notice that places that used to sell comics - the drugstores, the dime stores - no longer seem to carry plain comic books. At least, I don't notice them. MAD is reeling too, with the death of the old guard, people like Jack Davis, and the rise of millennials, who think everything should be free. Their circulation must be a small fraction of what it was at their peak, and I shouldn't be surprised to see it become just an e-magazine. That is, if it survives at all.
Oh well, I still enjoy reading his 'works', complete or not. Beware of the site's spelling errors, though.
In my working life, I had to deal with these things and did so via the Muffin Monster - https://www.nomorewipes.com/choose-your-grinder/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofY-_TjaVd8