Did FBI Director Kash Patel and I buy comics from the same comic shop in Richmond twenty-five-ish years ago?
The news about the Punisher-themed challenge coins Patel had made for the FBI makes me wonder.
I was not expecting to see a post about Patel and the challenge coins in Facebook’s University of Richmond alumni group, which has generally steered clear of politics. (Patel was a year behind me at Richmond, and a few years later convicted insurrectionist Jenna Ellis attended the law school.)
There was a shopping center just off campus on Three Chopt Road, anchored by a Ukrops grocery store. A Blockbuster, a CVS (which is where the beer at most every Richmond party came from), a bank that eventually folded into Wells Fargo, an Irish pub… and a comic shop, Dave’s Comics.
Dave’s Comics did not face the parking lot. You had to go down a hall, and it was at the end on the right. You wouldn’t have suspected, but it was rather larger that you’d expect. I bought comics there over the years. DC One Million, I remember getting that at Dave’s Comics. Jeffrey Lang’s Grendel Tales series, too.
With Kash being a Punisher fan, I wonder if he also bought his comics from Dave’s Comics.
They closed up about a decade ago, after Dave Luebke passed away.
Kash Patel and I shared space. We probably encountered each other, may have had classes together. I have no memory of him. I imagine he has none of me.
And we probably bought comics in the same shop.
Life is weird.