Should I even bother with this one? 

I still owe you that quarter. You should have bugged me at the shop and I would have paid you.

The absurdity of this, and how I will tend to view it as simply a matter of the economics of DIY ventures, is that I sent $6 for the five mini-comics, one dollar for each and one dollar prescribed for posting.  The mini-comics were each priced at 75 cents, which was the price I would see them at at Fallout Comics in Seattle for the next couple of years.  This would, at least in theory, bring the sum available for postage with this purchase to $2.25, evidentally 52 cents would be required for postage, and 29 cents of which Shannon Wheeler paid.

At this point, I believe Shannon Wheeler was just then transitioning to a stage where his income could come entirely from his art.  “Adhesive Comics” was still a collaborative effort full of a handful of comic books that I never really saw anywhere — fall into the dustbin of comics history, and he would buy the whole thing out the next year, leaving it as purely a vehicle for “Too Much Coffee Man”.  I assume that the roughly $2 helped  tide over the printing costs of the mini-comic until they would eventually earn a minor profit, by which time his character was appearing in a Converse commercial.  Now that I think about it, I do wonder if anyone else received something from Shannon Wheeler at this time period “Postage Due”.

But my mother handing me that envelope and asking me for a quarter is a far cry from everyone planning their retirement based upon their stock in  Bear Stearns.

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