Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 24, 2010
Transcript:
Man: Everybody get something good? Boy: Yeah! Girl: I got Squirrelly Shirley, the pink robot alien girl crime-fighter who's a werewolf squirrel! But oops, I've already finished it. Boy: I got a massive superhero crossover special that's so staggeringly complex they couldn't fit the title on the cover. Petey: I got the Little Neuro four-page minicomic "Thrilling Tales of Inertia!" It'll last me for weeks!
They should have gone for a DC Showcase Presents or a Marvel Essentials … hundreds of pages of comicky goodness for a relative pittance. I’ve felt Loris’ pain. I’ve spent less than 10 minutes reading a comic to look up and proclaim to the universe, “$3.95 for that?!?”