New Comic Day [OTA, Tag to Family]

[theniceturtle]

For the better part of the last two weeks Mike has been living and breathing comics in a way that he's never done so before. He hasn't been this on top of his game since...well...sort of never, actually

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[amy_igrewup]

Amy has definitely missed a few New Comic Days recently. She would say it was because she had a lot of jobs with Veronica going on, but those weren't taking up that much of her time.

She entered the comic shop, admiring the new displays in the front windows before spotting Mike.

"Hey!" Amy couldn't help but smile.

[theniceturtle]

Mike looks up from his forays into font reproduction and grins at the sight of Amy. "Well hullo there, what can we do you for?"

[amy_igrewup]

"Just thought I'd stop by and visit. How are things?" She came over closer to see what he was doing.

[theniceturtle]

The best way to describe what Mike is doing is blowing up fonts by hand. There's a sample of text cobbled together from various magazine snippets taped to a piece of paper, and Mike is using them as a guide to free-hand the same shaped letters onto a large piece of poster board.

It's something he could have done far easier on a computer, if he knew how to run a program like Photoshop.

"Well you certainly picked the best day to do so."
He's not kidding, this place is a madhouse.

[amy_igrewup]

She grimaced as she looked around. "Yeah, looks a little crazy. Need help with anything?"

Although Amy wasn't sure if she'd be very much help.

[theniceturtle]

Mike gets a positively wicked look in his eye.

"Yeah, you want to do me a favor? See that back corner? The one with the crap sight lines from here? There's a group of kids over there that think I don't know they're there. It's like they forgot I was a ninja or something. Anyway, I don't think there's anything that'd embarrass them more than a pretty girl barging in on what it is that they're trying to get away with."

[amy_igrewup]

Amy laughed. "Sounds fun. Wait, what are they trying to get away with?"

Yes, she really had to ask.

[theniceturtle]

"There's a new collected hardback edition of Heavy Metal out this week. They're oggling the drawings," he says nonchalantly. "Oh, and the one in the skully cap thinks I didn't seem him pocket three rolls of Mentos. Seriously? Who shop lifts the freshmaker?"

[amy_igrewup]

"Gotcha. So the skull cap kid really needs me to embarrass him." She grinned and casually made her way over closer to the kids in the corner, pretending to check a few things before getting there. "Oh, hey boys. Don't mind me, yeah? I just need to check out my favorite magazine."

She took the copy of Heavy Metal out of skull cap boy's hand. "Hey do any of you have a breath mint?"

[theniceturtle]

Mike was not laughing. He also did not mutter, "FLY MY MONKEY! FLY!" as Amy walked away from the register area. And he most certainly did not just turn down the volume on the sound system so that the entire store would have an easier time hearing the goings on from the back corner.

He'd never do such a thing.

[amy_igrewup]

Amy was enjoying this just about as much as Mike was. The boys looked terrified. A few of them fled right at the beginning, others following suit as time went on. Skull cap boy looked like he was going to pee himself as he mumbled something, sticking his hands into his pockets. He was trying to stand his ground.

The redhead looked down at him, raising a brow. "Well? Do you have any?" She decided this would have been so much more affective if she had worn her police uniform.

Anyway, the boy shrugged and pulled out one of the rolls of mentos and handed it over. Amy rolled her eyes. "Other two. Come on, cough 'em up."

Skull cap's face was bright red when he noticed he was last of the group of boys (not to mention everyone in the shop was watching). He gave her the other two rolls, mumbled something along the lines of 'this isn't fair', and then got out of there as fast as he could.

[theniceturtle]

There's nothing but silence until the buzzer from the front door sounds as it slams shut in the kid's wake.

That is until, "We are the Champions" begins to play loudly through the store's speakers.

Mike is beside himself in near hysterics.

[amy_igrewup]

"Too much?" Amy asked Mike as she started to laugh. "I got your Mentos back anyway, and they probably wont come here for a couple of weeks at least."

[theniceturtle]

"That's not something I can answer. Hey Guys!" he yells to the room at large. "Do we think that was too much?"

Those still left in the store respond with varying negatives, at various volumes.

"The people have spoken."

[amy_igrewup]

Amy shook her head, still grinning. "Alright. Well, back to New Comic Day!"

[theniceturtle]

"We now return you to your geeky buying frenzy, already in progress," he tells the room at large. With a quick lean back to the music controls the volume of Queen is brought to a rational level.

"And now you've done your good deed for the day, so you can turn your brownie pin upside down."