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    Thu, 21 Jun 2007

    liar liar


    Ok, I'll confess, Hijinx Comics isn't actually 25 years old. I'm a scurrilous wanna-be trying to fake a legacy. Many thanks to another Bay Area comic retailer for pointing this fact out in his latest newsletter. I would mention his name, but since he didn't have the courtesy to do the same I'll just post an excerpt from his latest pompous email newsletter:

    July will mark my 25th anniversary of comics retailing. We've had no buyouts or name changes here at XXX's Comics. We didn't close up for a while and then start again. It's been XXX's Comics for the whole 25 years. Others have come and gone, but XXX's Comics remains.

    I get a chuckle out of some of my friends that own comic book shops that they recently bought. They are new owners with new business names, yet they are still celebrating a big anniversary. It seems to me that if you want to celebrate 25 years of "Acme Comics", there should have been an Acme comics for 25 years, but perhaps I'm a stickler.

    Thanks again XXX, for calling me out on my heinous misrepresentations. I'm a bad man.

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