[[Closeup of a credit-card disclosure agreement.]]
DAN: Can you make heads or tails of it?
JUNE: No. But it's gotta be something BAD.
JUNE: Probably raising the interest rates again.
Or instituting a COMPETENCY SURCHARGE for paying the bill on time.
DAN: Hey, Josiah's good at deciphering this stuff. What does this SAY?
What AFFRONT do we need to BRACE ourselves for?
[[JOSIAH takes the document and reads it.]]
JOSIAH: Hmmm
Prime rate
Average daily balance
Promotional APR
Taxes
...They're going to drop a locomotive on your house.
DAN & JUNE: WHAT?!
JOSIAH: Tuesday. Seven A.M.
Sneaky.
CAPTION: LATER
[[A locomotive has indeed been dropped on the house.]]
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The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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