Prickly City by Scott Stantis for May 04, 2024

Do they still make comic books? I loved them growing up

Last time I priced a comic book it was a long way from free.

I’m going out to pick up my free copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 right now.

The problem with Free Comic Book Day is the fact that all comic stores are not equal. Some stores limit the amount of comics you can get free, while others set no limits at all. Unfortunately the former is becoming more and more the norm from what I have seen.

That’s what I think I’m reading when looking at articles on Trump’s trial and his attorney’s latest blunders. Only thing different is there are no pictures.

How does this “Free Comic Book Day,” thingy work?:

My first reaction to today’s Prickly City was: “a chuckel”. Free terror comics and brochures is the way jihad and intifada perpetrators/activists use to indoctrinate/encourage their “useful idiots” to the ways and means of and to their goal. A goal of a “pure world”. i.e. If you “ain’t” one of us, you are dead … dead … dead. Pretty soon: “your next door neighbors.”

But if it’s Free Comic Day, why do I have to buy a print of this comic?

Apropos of nothing, I read this and felt it should have greater readership:

South Bend, Indiana — Gene Eyster, a retired police lieutenant, cannot drive past one specific apartment complex here without reliving that strange day 24 years ago.

“That was one of the strangest calls I think I’ve ever had: ‘We have a found baby in a box,’” Eyster, a 47-year veteran of the department, told CBS News. “You always wonder, what happened?”

On Dec. 22, 2000, a newborn was found abandoned in a common hallway. For Eyster, the case of the “Baby Boy Doe,” swaddled in cardboard and blankets, didn’t end after the child got to the hospital.

“I went back with a teddy bear,” Eyster said. “Just a symbol to let everyone that walked past know that he was cared about.”

For more than two decades, Eyster wondered what became of that boy. Unfortunately, records were sealed so there was no way to find out.

That was until just a few weeks ago, when Eyster got a phone call from a fellow officer, who asked Eyster if remembered the case of the baby left in the carboard box.

“And he (the officer) said, ’he’s (the baby) sitting next to me, he’s my rookie,’” Eyster recounted.

The rookie in question was Matthew Hegedus-Stewart, the baby in the box. After his rescue, he was placed for adoption. He always knew he had been left in a box, but only connected the dots to Eyster after joining the department.

Think nice thoughts – it won’t kill ya.