Sep 29 2008
Indie Monday: Box Office Poison Kolor Karnival
In a rare moment of boredom and extravagance back in the late nineties when I was living in Poland, I bought an issue of an American magazine, despite such things being very expensive and my salary being rather low. I’d run out of things to read, I’d gone through most of the interesting part of the local English-language library’s collection, and I just wanted something new. The magazine was called Wizard, and was about my favorite medium, comic books. The only thing that I remember about the issue now was the article praising a comic book called Box Office Poison, which was created by Alex Robinson, and was about a group of ordinary people in New York. I was intrigued, especially because I’d been looking for some non-mainstream super-hero books to try, but I didn’t reckon on being able to find any issues anytime soon. It was very nice to be proven wrong: on my very next trip to Dublin, I found Box Office Poison Kolor Karnival on the new releases shelf of Sub City Comics. I bought it without even looking through it, just on the strength of the article, and I was not disappointed.
