Andrew posted a note to Twitter on Thursday:
Comics Dungeon has a bunch of boxes outside and a sign on the door saying “Store Flooded!”
So this Saturday, we loaded L’il Z into his Baby Bjorn carrier, donned our cub reporter outfit and headed up there to get the scoop.
Manager Chris gave us the bad news: someone (perhaps an upstairs tenant) left a hose running against the back of the building overnight. When they arrived in the morning, the place had a river of water marching from the back wall towards the front. Boxes and boxes of comics stored in boxes on the floor were ruined (no word yet on what insurance will cover). Ugh, our heart goes out to them.
On the bright side, we did learn from Chris that Saturday, May 2nd will be Free Comic Books Day.
No way, there is such a thing?
Yah, for real! Once a year, all the comic publishers run huge extra runs of popular comics, reprints of old comics, teaser comics for upcoming events (e.g., the Wolverine movie) and sell them to comic book shops all over the country for super cheap. The shops then give them away (most shops limit to 1 or 2 / customer, Comics Dungeon will lavish six on you). They encourage you to go around the city to all different shops to get one of each.
We’ll repost closer to the time, but you’d better start thinking about what costume you’re going to wear, now.