How does the best basketball player on the planet pass time on a 13 hour flight to Beijing? By reading comics and graphic novels of course:
I opened the door and shook the hands of the three men as they entered the store and said, “Welcome to Lee’s Comics, how can I help you?” I must have been working on some sort of autonomous shock setting as I spoke with Kobe, stunned that he was in San Mateo and in Lee’s Comics asking him, “So what kind of stuff are you into?”
Kobe happily replied, “I’m into that dark shit. I’ve got a 13-hour flight to China and need something good to read.” Immediately I recommended my favorite author Garth Ennis and “Preacher” to him, explaining the intricacies of the faithless Reverend Custer, his assassin girlfriend Tulip, best-friend/Irish Vampire Cassidy, and his quest to make God pay for abandoning humanity. Kobe’s eyes lit up as I told him the tale of Jesse and the reasons why Preacher would change his view on comics forever.
He chuckled, saying, “My Man!” and giving me a high-five and taking the first two “Preacher” volumes.
