It’s Free Comic Book Day today, and yes, my daughter and I were down at our local comic book store this morning to take advantage. (To prove we’re not just freeloading parasites, we also bought stuff.)

So today’s Rainbow Snippet is taken from my book set in a comic book store, It’s All Geek to Me:

Our hero, Jez, is in a comic book store for the first time in his life–and he’s just met a disconcertingly good-looking shop assistant, Rhys:

Rhys led me past rack after rack of books and comics. I’d never dreamed there were this many superheroes, villains, and just plain weirdos in the world. Well, in the world of fiction, anyway.

Speaking of racks, another life-size model, Arachno Girl, crouched on a plinth as if watching for shoplifters. Her lacy, weblike skirt barely covered her muscular yet shapely thighs. At least her breastplate-slash-bra-thingy was a bit more substantial—well, it’d have to be. No way would anything lacy keep those mammoth puppies in check. Even restrained, they threatened to take your eye out.

I edged away nervously, little cogs chugging around in my brain. If comic-book women all had really big tits, did that mean the blokes all had really big . . . I glanced at Rhys, swallowed, and threatened the little cogs with a metaphorical spanner until they stopped trying to cause inappropriate hard-ons.

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