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NO CARNAL COMICS FOR YOU!!! Cherry and Demi the Demoness join the unemployment line; Archie, Jughead and the ‘Joes from ‘Drafted’ lookin’ real nervous…

By Scott Licina

Well, well, well, looks like it’s going to be harder to get your forbidden fruit fix at the local comic shop from now on, o’ frantic followers of XXXenophile and Cherry (and yes, Mr. Raven Gregory, I am looking at you).  It’s hard to believe that Adult Comic sales (what a misnomer- nearly ALL comics are “adult” comics now, and have been for over two decades) have tanked to the point that Diamond is doing away with the supplemental catalog, but I guess all the hassles Gordon Lee went through must have scared off more retailer dollars than I had imagined over the past few years.  Because it can’t be that all the 40 year old virgins who buy this stuff suddenly found girlfriends, can it? Maybe we should blame all the free hentai vids floatin’ around on the ‘Net- did video kill the comic porn star? (Shout out to The Buggles for the groovy play-on-song-lyrics op.  Betcha’ll be humming that the rest of the day…)

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