California’s East Bay Express visits Berkeley’s Comic Relief to get a snapshot of the direct market crowd on New Comics Day.
So what are they reading? Astro City, 52, Civil War, B.P.R.D., The Walking Dead and Usagi Yojimbo, to name a few.
Near the back wall, carpenter Don Simonds peruses an issue of Fantastic Four. “Civil War‘s been fun,” he says, referring to the recent Marvel comic about superheroes taking sides over a federal Super-human Registration Act. “I like that they have Captain America as one of the rebels going against the government.” Raised by a beatnik father and a flower-power mother, Simonds relates most to the character Green Arrow: “He’s something of an iconoclast. He’s kind of a hippie. With a bow. And exploding arrows.”
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