Alas, Poor Comics Den

Alas, Poor Comics Den

My old comic book store in Renton, WA burned down a few days ago. For a lot of years, I went there every Wednesday and today my friend Bruce just drove me past it on our visit back here in the Seattle area. In 1997, after first moving to the Seattle area, my friend Jeff Quick and I started going there every Wednesday at lunch. "Comics lunch" became a tradition for a lot of years, growing in size to a huge group of us writers and editors and other Wizards of the Coast employees who would go get comics and then have lunch (lunch location changed many times over the years). I can only assume that even though Jeff and I are long gone, comics lunch continued up until, well, last week. It sounds like the owner, Howard, is going to relocate, though. Howard is a good guy. I hope it all works out for him.