A visit to a comic book shop
I stopped by Rubber City Comics today as I was in that area and I wanted to find out if they carried underground comics. Kenmore Comics only carries mainstream comics. Apparently the term is no longer in use -- is there no underground anymore? Perhaps online media has subsumed it? Rubber City did have an old Zap for $75. But the owner of the shop didn't seem to think any of the old school underground people were putting out work. I recommended the ongoing graphic novels of Bill Griffith and his current book about Ernie Bushmiller. I bought three comic books as pictured here. The Mask because of the subject and it is DC. Very happy to find the artwork of Curt Swan inside! The Metal Men is an updated version of my old faves. And Brazilian Wax was recommended to me by the proprietor, who thought I might like it. He was right! Let's open the books and checkout a sample page of art in each: The first page shown above, from The Mask #9 1987 calls me back to the DC comics of my
