Bears No Relation
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By the time Howard raids the Perdido Beach Comics Kingdom, almost everyone else has been there first, so all he ends up with are the Free Comic Book Day giveaways and obscure, weird indie comics about characters like G-Man and Punchy. Howard's never been much into comic books, but with the electricity down and time, for the moment, both peaceful and in abundance, it gives him something to do.
Orc likes the pictures, even if he has trouble following the story lines. He doesn't get all the characters coming back from the dead or passing on costumes or traveling through time, though he figures he probably should, given that they're keeping a mutant zombie in the basement. Nothing's weird to them anymore.
Well, except the weirdness of a character that looks sort of like him, a hunk of gravel from an experiment gone terribly wrong. They made a shitty movie about it once, Orc thinks, with that Jessica Alba girl. Feels like years since he saw it, and he didn't pay attention to the rock guy – why would he? How was he to know that someday, Ben Grimm would be vitally important?
"You sure read that Fantastic Four comic a lot," Howard remarks one day, staring longingly at an ad for Mountain Dew in his issue of Animal Man.
"The other ones have too many words," Orc says.