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April 12, 2006


Not Comics: Man Overstays at Cafe

I'm beginning to think that "Manga Cafe Shenanigans" is another one of those writing-about-comics genres, right up there with "Bif Bam Pow" and the "Local Cartoonist Profile." Anyway, this guy spent over a month at a manga cafe, in a cheap rental room, running up a huge tab and, one guesses, reading a lot of manga. It's not like the North American 24-hour-comic-shop or the comic-shops-plus-food-on-credit operating models needed any more arguing against, but there you have it.

Although I stayed home rather than moved into a cafe and the comics were Keith Pollard-era Fantastic Four and Turok, Son of Stone rather than manga volumes, I have to admit I spent my first entire month at 30 years old in roughly the same state as this guy.
 
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