I received a my monthly shipment of comics and related books and magazines yesterday and among the items included was the new Comics Journal. Today I was on my way out the door to go swim a few laps at the YMCA and it occured to me that, being a weekend, I needn’t rush back home post-swimming to work—I could spend a few minutes baking in the sauna. The problem with the sauna though is that it’s unbelievably boring…just hanging out in there sweating and staring at the walls. “I’ll take the new Comics Journal with me to read in the sauna,” I thought, “That’ll help pass the time” and out the door I went.
Let me tell you something: Fantagraphics, the publishers of the Journal, are known for their high production values, but don’t ever take a copy of the Comics Journal into a sauna! You see, the magazine is square-bound, rather than stapled together, and once it reaches the temperature of the sauna—around 180 degrees—the glue along the spine that holds the pages reverts to its gooey liquid state…and then the magazine pretty much just disinitigrates.
On the bright side, I jammed all the pages back in while the glue was still wet and, now that it’s cool again, they appear to have re-attached themselves.
This is why comic book entheusiasts are rarely also atheletes.
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