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Watched a kid at my LCS try to flip through a key issue with one hand... felt ancient
I been going to the same shop in downtown Austin since 2003 (back when they had bins full of 90s junk for a quarter each). Last Saturday I saw this teenager grab a first print New Mutants #98 and scroll through it on his phone like an Instagram story, no bag, no gloves, not even looking at the cover. I had to bite my tongue so hard. It hit me that my entry point was bagging and boarding every single issue before reading it, even the crappy ones. He probably paid $40 for that thing and treated it like a napkin. Is it just me or did comic fans used to respect the physical book a lot more back then?
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