The night of store inventory, two comic-book shop employees begin to question their stagnant lives as the possibility of finding a recently stolen, $1.5 million dollar comic becomes increasingly real.
Comics and trading card tournaments. An O.C.D. boss, obnoxiously loud gamers, dudes dressed like wolves and an ungodly amount of fast food and energy drinks. For Kole & Hayes, our mid-twenties, complacent employees, it's simply another Tournament Friday at Buy and Trade Comics. It's been three weeks since the theft of a $1.5 million dollar comic: a 9.9 grade issue of Amazing Fantasy #15. Its whereabouts are still thought to be unknown, until a questionably schizophrenic and homeless man, Hugh, appears in front of the two unmotivated employees after closing. When Hugh offers to sell an un-named comic in an envelope marked with the number "15", Kole and Hayes initial doubt is slowly replaced with suspicion when Raymond, the store owner, purchases the envelope without revealing its contents. Throughout the night, Hayes' growing curiosity gradually leads him to believe millions are at his fingertips in the form of a comic book. What happens is a result of Hayes' growing delusions, and finding no easy way out of his stagnant, mid-twenties life.—C.A. Wasson