I just finished the Compleat Next Men volumes. I bought them months ago but hadn't started reading them until the news of the return came along. This was the first time I've read NEXT MEN since reading the issues brand new as they were released.

Bravo! I'd forgotten how good it was! Sure I remembered the basics, but there were so many little things I had forgotten about or maybe not even noticed since I was a lot younger then.

I'm looking forward to the rebirth of the series even more than before.  

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Hmm. I am sure a lot of comic readers are coffee drinkers, since so many are so much older than the general audience used to be, but I wonder if there is enough "cross-over" to make such an idea practical from Starbucks' perspective?

I'm reminded of a few decades back when Marvel was setting up a deal to be distributed by the same folk who handled the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. Everywhere you saw that tabloid, you would see a spinner rack with Marvel comics. Marvel's regular distributors got wind of this and talked the Powers That Were out of it, promising that they, too, would be able to guarantee such a wide distribution if they were given the chance.

Never happened, of course.