Wow Cool Retail Location In Silicon Valley Robbed



I hope that Marc Arsenault's own humor in that direction will allow the owner/operator of Alternative Comics and the Wow Cool retail space in Cupertino, California to forgive me for noting on the occasion of what must be an unsettling and upsetting robbery that the books taken were probably not what you'll find in any similar crime this holiday season. In addition to some high-end art volumes taken from the location on a smash-and-grab, comics missing include works from Noah Van Sciver, Derf Backderf, Devin Flynn, Henriette Valium and Keith Knight.

You can see the ugly physical damage caused by the breaking glass through the link presented above. My local police department has noted a rise in "opportunistic" robberies this season, enough that it made the front page of the local paper about a week ago. I also know that comic stores of the kind that aren't the lovely alt-focused variety Marc runs tend to get hit in part because of the perception -- legitimate or not -- that there's treasure to be had in old issues.

I hope that clean-up goes well, that Arsenault is able to process what happened without too much spiritual scarring and that he's back to work with an open storefront sooner rather than later. I'll gladly participate in any campaign to replace material or the cash behind that material in a crowd-funded sense should that prove necessary. I hope that some of you might take a chance to shop at Arsenault's store with any extra holiday cash that might be circulated. I'm not even sure I remembered that the comic depicted above was out; there's a lot of work of rare quality like that available at Wow Cool.
 
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