"Where is your new place, anyway?" Richie asks, swinging his backpack off his shoulders and dumping it somewhat unceremoniously on the ground.
Then he kneels down and opens it up, taking out comic books like The Obsidian Obelisk, Titanium Man (a blatant rip-off of the long-departed Iron Man), and Galaxy Battles (an even more blatant rip-off of Star Wars, because the publishers had plenty to work with off the antics of imPorts from a galaxy far, far away). There's a few paperbacks knocking around in there, but one is entitled The Amytown Terror: Based on a True Story and the other is very obviously school reading. After all, what else would Richie, of all people, be doing with The Scarlet Letter?
"Take your pick," he says. "Obelisk started a new arc while you were away, now they're trying to pull a Magnificent Seven scenario out of their asses."
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Then he kneels down and opens it up, taking out comic books like The Obsidian Obelisk, Titanium Man (a blatant rip-off of the long-departed Iron Man), and Galaxy Battles (an even more blatant rip-off of Star Wars, because the publishers had plenty to work with off the antics of imPorts from a galaxy far, far away). There's a few paperbacks knocking around in there, but one is entitled The Amytown Terror: Based on a True Story and the other is very obviously school reading. After all, what else would Richie, of all people, be doing with The Scarlet Letter?
"Take your pick," he says. "Obelisk started a new arc while you were away, now they're trying to pull a Magnificent Seven scenario out of their asses."