Oh, and, having witness a slew of layoffs at comic book companies within the last few months, I do not find it a coincidence that Borders filed bankruptcy and left a lot of bills unpaid, and now a lot of comic book companies are hurting.
Dead media is dying. Sucks for anyone to lose their job, but so did the whalebone corseters and moonshiners. The handwriting has been on the wall since 1994.
Aside from being local,and aside from being a standard bearer for creator owned comics, and aside from the fact that quality matters to them...aside from all of those things, they're still the best.
Damn.
I know that is a malapropism - it's just pacifically one of my favorites.