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| - So, let me get this straight--I love comics. A lot. I've been collecting them for years, all while pretending not to be a heinous nerd (with little success).
That said, I *completely* forgot that it was free comic book day this saturday until a friend called me. Startled, I didnt know where I was going to go to obtain some comicky goodness, but the friend told me about G-Mart.
Oh. My. Thor.
G-Mart is truly the speakeasy of comic book stores, as its hidden in the bowels of an unassuming building on Main St. in Champaign. Once you make it through the winding corridors, you find to your delight an unassuming little space filled with amazing nerdy guys (and occasionally ladies), shooting the shit, talkin' comics and being nerds. I have missed this. A lot.
On Saturday, they had free pizza for comic book day. And storm troopers. And a guy dressed up as Iron Man.
I am all about this store, particularly as we had a 30 minute conversation on the lack of black people in comic nerd culture. Hells to the mothereffin' yes.
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