This giant stack of unread comics is killing Mike.

So Something Is Killing the Children, the Boom! Studios comic series by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera, is one of those things I stock in the store that always gets a mixed response from “the mundanes.” Perusing the shop for Spider-Man and Batman, or perhaps simply just looking in a comic book store because they know comic book movies are/were big in popular culture, or maybe they just recall enjoying Big Bang Theory, they aren’t necessarily familiar with the depth and breadth of the medium and can be surprised by what they find therein. I am reminded of an incident very early in my comics retailing sentence, and perhaps in fact just as I was starting given the book’s Fall 1988 release, involving Steve Bissette’s Taboo horror anthology. That’s bit of a cover, right? Old guy waitin’ to eat a baby? Not something you see every day yet, so you can imagine it would get a reaction out of folks not as steeped in the comic book culture as your average comic shop denizen. And reaction…

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