The annual Comic Con is coming to San Diego this weekend, and my favorite part of this story-for-straight-people is the line: "It's when superheroes walk the streets."
Stephanie was a comix afficionado, sometime artist and former worker at Comic Relief in the Haight (which no longer exists; the Berkeley store and the SF store stopped being related long before) who went to Comic Con with her comix buddies at least twice; she showed me a strip a friend drew which showed Stephanie and several other attendees on a day trip to Tijuana. (When could that have been? Perhaps 1994 or 1995.)
But what that line about superheroes really reminded me of was one night, either on or near Halloween, when she and I were near the Castro, and we saw a multitude of costumed people on their way to the big street party. As a quartet of sorority girls all dressed as fuzzy dice walked into the nearby Safeway, Stephanie sighed, "This is what I wish things were like all the time!"
See this picture of a girl (not Stephanie) dressed as a superhero at last year's Comic Con. And read this huge feature on new comix in SF Gate.
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