Meme of the Secret Ten: Four-Color Shopping Spree!

I have to jump feetfirst into something today, but I wanted to end the suspense and post this before I began. In answer to Ami's question:

1, 4 and 8 go into a comic store, with a total of 250 dollars, what would they buy?

I offered you a duck, a professor, and a fruit. Here they are:



#1 is Daffy Duck, #4 is Professor Frink from The Simpsons, and #8 is Liz Lemon from 30 Rock.

Daffy, of course, wants as much of the $250 as he can get, declares it a shopping spree and goes rushing off to find some Duck Dodgers and Duck Tracy comic books. Professor Frink races through the store, soon getting his hands on some of Jim Ottaviani's excellent science comics, like Dignifying Science, Two-Fisted Science, and Bone Sharps, Cowboys and Thunder Lizards. He also picks up some of Phil & Kaja Foglio's Girl Genius collections and a couple of Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibi for the real way-out stuff. "I bet I can glaven the anti-life equation before unheyden Darkseid can, if I just carry the one..."

Liz wanders the aisles, picking up a collection of Jessica Abel's Artbabe, thinking it's been something she's been planning to read for quite a while now. (Me, too, honestly. And La Perdida.) But she quickly also finds herself drawn to Evan Dorkin's Milk & Cheese and Dork! comics, and Kyle Baker's comics, like Cartoonist, You Are Here, and Birth of a Nation, with the first issue of Special Forces for good measure. Ms. Lemon likes the yuks.

Daffy, of course, has very little luck finding Duck Dodgers or Duck Tracy comics. A big fan of larger-than-life heroes, he picks up the hardcover of Green Lantern: Rebirth and whatever recent Sinestro Corps War issues he can find on the stands. And one of IDW's Dick Tracy comic strip collections, because even a cheap imitation of Duck Tracy is better than nothing.

Naturally, this is all way more than $250 worth of comics. But Frink momentarily baffles the clerks with glaven, and our heroes are soon all running from the store before anyone knows better.

Oh, That Frink!

Rob