The owner of the shop I go to had one copy of JLA 95 last week. He always gets a small batch of comics a week early; it's part of some sort of incentive program, I think. (He also had a copy of JLA/AVENGERS # 4.)
The message boards should be buzzing after JLA95 comes out. Look for all kinds of "proof" that the issue was heavily reworked to bring the story "more in line" with how vampires "work" in the DCU.
Seriously. I can almost promise you will see this.
(And before anyone asks -- no, the issue was not reworked, heavily or otherwise.)
You meet me at my place at, say, three o'clock Thursday; you bring the new comics, and I'll get my Mom to spring for grape Nehis, and some Mike and Ikes. Sound good?
A woman in San Antonio was shot in the leg while she was heating fish sticks in her oven. Hey, who hasn’t had the same exact thing happen to them? Fish sticks can be awfully dangerous. Roxanne Perez took a slug from a .357 hand gun while heating her dinner. How? Because someone left the gun in the oven. While the fish sticks were getting hot, so was the gun, which eventually discharged several rounds, one of which hit her in the leg.
One of Roxanne’s friends left the gun in the oven when she told him that she didn’t want any guns in the house. So the genius did what I think we would all do, he hid it in the oven and never told her. I mean what could go wrong? You want to keep your guns in a nice hot space, right? I think they put that in the owner’s manual when you buy them. ‘Make sure you keep the gun in the oven, so when someone cooks, they will get shot’. I think it says that right there on the box.
Guns in the oven? That is natural selection at work right before your eyes. The less intelligent of the species being weeded out by their own bad decisions. I guess keeping it in the kid’s room or the baby’s crib wasn’t an option. Keeping a gun in the oven might the second most dangerous place you could keep a loaded gun. The first of course, being in the hands of an inebriated Jayson Williams around a limo driver. Remind me to check my oven for guns when I get home. I would hate to shoot myself when I go to cook my dinner.
I doubt it. What are the odds that only the cartridge lined up to the barrel would discharge, or at least discharge before the others? Nothing in the story says the weapon was an automatic, with a clip -- but even there the question would be the same.
This message has been edited by johnbyrne on Mar 31, 2004 11:07 AM
Kevin: "The owner of the shop I go to had one copy of JLA 95 last week. He always gets a small batch of comics a week early; it's part of some sort of incentive program, I think. (He also had a copy of JLA/AVENGERS # 4.)"
The program is the "First Look" program that both Marvel and DC Comics offer through Diamond Comics. For a fee, retailers get one copy of most of the titles that those publishers will be releasing the following week. This is done so that the retailers can get a peek at the product, as well as offering customers a look, to encourage reorders.
Uh, Mister Lightning?
Make sure yer store didn't receive damages; my store got about half their order of JLA-Avengers damaged, as well as Superman. The resupply will be in next week.
2) I think you're misunderstanding what I am telling you, so I'll slow down and tell it the long way.
I went to the story Wednesday (31 March 04) to pick up JLA #95. While I was there, I looked at the back issue rack, where they try to sell their overstock. There were still 8 overstock issues of JLA #93. There were only two overstock issues of JLA #94. This is a good thing. It means the store sold almost its entire order in two weeks.
