Uneasy Rhetoric

Once upon a time, there was a venerable comic book store on K Street Mall in Sacramento (I’m talking about the pedestrian mall, not the Westfield nightmare) called “Comics and Comics.” They had everything a budding geek could need to fulfill his wildest superheros in full color needs. It always smelled just slightly musty and its high walls were covered with comic and movie posters.

Then one night, the store burned down.

I can’t remember exactly where the old location was, but it was a bad fire. The store relocated to a much smaller location at 921 K Street, and eventually elsewhere.

921 K Street is now a mini-mart where you can watch all manner of Sacramento’s downtown denizens buy lottery tickets with their bologna and white bread and where I sometimes go to buy a soda.

But if you go to the back wall there, in the northeast corner of the store, is part of a mural with Spiderman and other comic book characters.