{"id":34799,"date":"2025-10-08T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34799"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:03:11","slug":"pondering-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34799","title":{"rendered":"Pondering the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did FBI Director Kash Patel and I buy comics from the same comic shop in Richmond twenty-five-ish years ago?<\/p>\n

The news about the Punisher-themed challenge coins<\/a> Patel had made for the FBI makes me wonder.<\/p>\n

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I was not expecting to see a post about Patel and the challenge coins in Facebook’s University of Richmond<\/a> 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<\/a> attended the law school.)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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>, I remember getting that at Dave’s Comics. Jeffrey Lang’s Grendel Tales<\/i> series, too.<\/p>\n

With Kash being a Punisher fan, I wonder if he also bought his comics from Dave’s Comics.<\/p>\n

They closed up about a decade ago, after Dave Luebke passed away<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And we probably bought comics in the same shop.<\/p>\n

Life is weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 alumniContinue reading “Pondering the Past”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[4092,5321,5320,157,5322,4909],"class_list":["post-34799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-books","tag-comic-books","tag-fbi","tag-kash-patel","tag-marvel-comics","tag-the-punisher","tag-university-of-richmond","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}