When all hope had vanished a stash of old Simpsons Comics were uncovered as the media drive themselves into a frenzy looking for deaths to pre-empt their coverage of Michael Jackson's arrest on child molestation charges. As more and more people are uncovered for opinions on the matter so too were issues of the comics from an old warehouse out West.
The issue at hand, Simpsons Comics #31 printed in June 1997, features the appearance of mental patient Michael Jackson donning a Fallout Boy costume with Homer Simpson in Radioactive Man garb in a tale entitled, The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth. One customer was lessed than impressed at the find and the mind of the stockists, "The box full of fifty cent comics looked like it was going to get another title but then they started putting them on the shelves. It was horrendous." said Aran Lauchs. The customer later on starting handing out bottles of wine and sandwiches with crushed sleeping pills.
Written on Friday, 21 November 2003