Comics in the 1990s were huge on the gimmicks, they really were. From foil embossed covers to holograms and polybags with one of way too many variant cards, gimmicks were the Kardashians of the comic industry. They were everywhere and just when you thought they couldn’t get more annoying or inane, someone went and raised that bar ever so slightly.
But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a sucker for those things. The gimmicks, not the Kardashians. Because someone needs to make that family go away. Seriously. Why the hell does Kourtney sound perpetually medicated and say everything like it’s a question? I don’t get it.
Anyway, I remember getting a lot of those gimmick covers just because the fourteen year old in me thought they were cool, and the idiot in me thought they’d be worth money someday.
While I was occasionally correct on the former, I still maintain my idiot status on the latter, two decades later.
But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a sucker for those things. The gimmicks, not the Kardashians. Because someone needs to make that family go away. Seriously. Why the hell does Kourtney sound perpetually medicated and say everything like it’s a question? I don’t get it.
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While I was occasionally correct on the former, I still maintain my idiot status on the latter, two decades later.