National Comic Book Day 2024
When I was a kid I enjoyed comic books. I would buy and read them. My friends would buy and read them. One time there was a large brown box in a Hanahan, SC playhouse in my friend's back yard full of them. We sat for days just reading and browsing.Those days having been long gone I was taken with the comic book store scenes from The Big Bang Theory because they brought back those memories of days gone by. While I must admit that my foray into comic books was at a much younger age than the cast of TBBT it was still gratifying to consider that indeed, some part of me is actually normal. I never had access to a comic book "store". I typically purchased mine at the local drug store around yon Yeamans Hall Plaza which though presently up for lease did a booming business back then.
Today is National Comic Book Day. It happens on September 25. The medium is something dear to my memory though nowadays I don't do anime or graphic novels or any of the other spinoffs.
Suffice it to say that comics had a significant place in my life and is now relegated to my past. Something about character redesign and plots being reworked and the entire nature of canon and multiuniverses simply lead me astray.
Regardless, I think it's fine for comic book fans to practice their affinity because the comic book was always something I enjoyed as well. They provided a release at a time in my life when few were available to me. Gosh, it's sometime difficult to grasp just how old I have become !
Happy National Comic Book Day.
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