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Tuesday Trending Topics: Paper Chase
It's hard not to draw a symbolic link between one of today's trending topics and one of yesterday's — particularly with Mark Waid's nostalgic Youtube remembrance of his earliest days of buying comics off the newsstand and starting the comic book collection he is selling now to help fund his digital endeavors.
Having countless similar childhood memories myself, I can relate. Standing there, staring longingly at the stand, mentally noting which of the issues I needed had come in and deciding which ones I would get this time with the coins in hand.
Will some of today's kids someday have similar memories of browsing the Comixology store? Maybe. Or maybe it'll be something about a DC Nation cartoon first, or a Marvel Studios movie, or a convention, or a local shop.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TOo9Zm4A8Q[/youtube]
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