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Unthinkable Foolishness from TSA

“Flying from Los Angeles to New York for a signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe Wednesday (May 13th), I was flagged at the gate for ‘extra screening’. I was subjected to not one, but two invasive searches of my person and belongings. TSA agents then ‘discovered’ the script for Unthinkable #3. They sat and read the script while I stood there, without any personal items, identification or ticket, which had all been confiscated.

“The minute I saw the faces of the agents, I knew I was in trouble. The first page of the Unthinkable script mentioned 9/11, terror plots, and the fact that the (fictional) world had become a police state. The TSA agents then proceeded to interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics. (From Boing Boing, “Comics creator stopped by TSA for carrying script about writer under suspicion by TSA

Issues of Unthinkable are only $3.99 each, a bargain! Why not pop over to Boom studios and support the artist? [link to http://www.boom-studios.net/catalogsearch/result/index/?q=unthinkable&x=0&y=0 no longer works]

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