Well, it was a great Passover allright
May 2, 2003
By Avi Green
Okay, I must say, I really enjoyed last month’s Passover. Yeah, as
usual, no bread in sight anywhere, but who cares when I took the
time to read!
Oh yeah, that’s exactly what I did allright, and there was plenty in
that case to do. I also got to see my brother-in-law and my sister,
who came into town for the week. I also went down to the Israel
Museum during that week.
Not everything there was as great as I’d hoped though. The library
in the Ruth Youth Wing of the museum was closed. I hope it’s
only for renovations, because there were some good things that I
liked to read in that particular library.
There was a restaurant in there once that’s now closed as well, but
I’m not going to worry about that one, because it was so darned
expensive!
And, during the holidays, I got a chance to attend a dicount sale
being held by a comics distributor in the Tel-Aviv area, getting
myself several more back issues of Flash comics that are now
in my proud ownership, and, best of all, a TPB of Birds of
Prey’s first adventures. Now, I can really get a chance to
catch up on the adventures of Dinah Lance, the lovely daughter of
the first Black Canary, and of the first Batgirl, Barbara Gordon,
who now goes by the codename Oracle. For me, that was a great prize.
Free Comic Book Day over here?
While I’m at it, I discover that here too in Israel, there’ll be a Free Comic Book Day,
just like in North America. But, will it be mostly the same stuff
that’s being offered for free in the US too?
Not surprisingly, Marvel as usual chooses to make their free
giveaway a copy of Ultimate X-Men, when I’d rather get a
copy of the Fantastic Four for free. Whereas for DC, they’re
giving out a free copy of Batman Adventures, one of those
animated series tie-ins.
Personally, I can’t help but feel that these giveaways are either
too easy or just too biased. The good news though, is that if we
were to refer to CrossGen, they’re giving away a free copy of Way
of the Rat.
So if only then I could find more of CrossGen being sold more widely
in this country in order to really get the hang of it. Alas, these
things aren’t so easy. But with any luck, I’ll be able to figure out
how to find all their stuff, just like other stuff in time.
And with any luck, I’ll be able to find some really good free
puublications of my choice in time too on a day like FCBD.
Copyright 2003 Avi Green. All rights reserved.
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