FREE COMIC BOOK DAY THIS WEEKEND!!!

Don't worry, I'll be reminding you all *EVERY DAY* about this wonderful event!

For the full story and to locate a participating comic book store near you, click HERE.

In a nut-shell, you can go to pretty much any comic book store on Saturday May 3rd and get a free comic book. It's that easy! There's about 21 different comic books available this year, everything from X-Men to Batman to Archie to Manga to weird stuff from Keenspot.com... ALL FREE!!!

Free Comic Book Day started last year, and it has been decided that it needs to be an annual event. Last year, it happened to coincide with the opening weekend of the Spider-Man Movie; this year, it is on the weekend that X-Men 2 opens nation-wide.

So check it out! Get a free comic book! Find out what types of stuff is available at your local Comic Shop! I'll be spending Saturday traveling from shop-to-shop everywhere between Everett and Tacoma... maybe even further. Who knows?

SO MUCH FUNNY!!!

From one of my Ebay customers, I received a note today that started out like this...

"The package arrived, and the two parts were wrapped very carefully for shipping, however I was absolutely horrified when I saw that you had used newspaper to wrap such an item!"

He also went on to school me in the *proper* packing of a Muffy VaDerBear Figurine, why using Newspaper directly on the figurine is like working for Lucifer himself, how it *could* have left newsprint-ink on the figure (which it didn't THANK THE LORD), and I replied to let him know I would take his advice to heart.

HOWEVER!

Now I've got this image of this prissy-little fellow in Georgia when he received the package.

PRISSY: "Oh JOY! My Muffy VanDerBear Figurine I ordered off of Ebay has finally arrived! Did you hear that, girls?" (Looks over to shelves full of prissy little porcelain sculptures of bears and fairies and froggies and such) "MUFFY IS HERE!!"

**Russel, Russel**

"Wait a minute..." (pulling back a bit, look of the dead upon his face) "...Something is wrong. TERRIBLY Wrong!"

**Frantinc russeling of packing materials**

"MUFFY!!! WHERE ARE YOU, GIRL? Oh Lord... if there's just *one* mark on her precious head, I'll.. Oh, *there* you are!" (Kissing the figurine) "Are you okay? Any ink on you anywhere?" (Breaks down and starts crying) "Why... WHY, GOD, WHY??? Why are there people who don't know to put a tissue around a precious figurine before wrapping it in newspaper???"

This guy was so *moved* by his near-smudge experience, he had to write me a 3-page e-mail explaining why it was so bad what I had done! THREE PAGES!!!