Free Comic Day
Yesterday (Saturday) was Free Comic Day, so we trekked down to Gateway Etc. Comics in East Wareham, which was the nearest independent comic shop near us -- about a half an hour away. Nice guys -- they had a long table all laid out with the free titles being offered this year, gave us bags with promotional posters for the upcoming Silver Surfer Fantastic Four movie, and were very welcoming.
The best part, though, was that they had tons of back issues for sale for a quarter a pop. That's right, 25 cents each for magazines that originally cost $2.25 or $2.50. I went insane. We had about $26 in cash between us and I spent every single cent on back issues of stuff like Usagi Yojimbo, Flaming Carrot Comics, Transformers (for James), X-Men, Spectacular Spider-Man and lots more. Picked up some manga for Emmeline, even.