Gotham Central--Destroy All Ads

Comics are filled with ads. I get it. To keep comic prices low, ads were another way to make money. And some of the ads are neat--showing upcoming comic lines, toys for Teen Titans or Batman the Animated Series. But the ads slow down the action and interrupt the dramatic moments. So the really annoying ones have to go.

Ads come in different forms, each needing a special way to destroy it.

1. Some pages I can rip right out because there's an ad on the front and back.

Separating Cover from Spider-Man Ad

2. And some are two-page spreads which can be glued together.

3. The third type of ad has comic on the back side. I can't rip that out! But usually there is a another ad on the next page. So I rip out (carefully using a ruler and x-acto knife) the one page, flip it and paste it down on the other ad. That way the ads are covered up and the story can continue uninterrupted.

4. And lastly, there are ads with comic on the back but no other nearby ad to cover up like in step 3. For these ads, I plan to draw something related to the series and paste it over these ads.