Still Waiting

As I said to Norm in a strip a few weeks ago, I can hold a grudge for years, and yesterday I was reminded of one I've been holding onto for a good long while now.
I was reading through my old Ambush Bug comics (yeah, I know I just recently bought the Showcase Presents AB TPB, but some of the jokes actually rely on color, and the book doesn't include the letters columns, which are just as funny as the comics, or Dick Giordano's Meanwhile... columns, which are a time capsule of the comics industry in the 80s) and I came across an old ballot for the Comics Buyer's Guide's Fan Awards. At the bottom, CBG promised a free copy of the issue of the then weekly newspaper (now a monthly magazine) to anyone without a subscription to CBG who sent in a ballot.
Well, I'm still waiting.
About fifteen years ago, back when I still read periodical comics--in fact, it was during my mercifully brief rabid fanboy phase, I photocopied and filled out one of those little ballots. As you've obviously guessed by now ('cause my readers are unusually perceptive--and exceptionally good looking--like myself), I never got my free issue. And I'm still waiting for it, despite the fact that I really no longer give a crap about the comics industry.
Hear me, CBG publishers? Sure, I've moved twice since I sent you the ballot, but I'm really not that hard to find if you go looking, so I will be expecting that free issue any day now.
I'll let you know in another fifteen years or so whether I get it this time.

- Posted by wastedpotential on 21 Jun 2009 09:05 am    -   0 comments