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The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8
by Thomas Ott | Hardcover | Fantagraphic Books
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Some of us read comics on a daily basis and mostly in the super-hero genre, at some point it can start to all look the same. But sometimes, only sometimes you stumble on a book that reminds you why comic books are so great and why you spend so much money into it.

After putting a prisoner to the electric chair, the executioner finds a piece of paper next to the chair with the number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 written on it. He brings it home, not knowing what it means, but eventually realise that the numbers appear everywhere in his life, in the order that they are on the piece of paper. First on a dog he fins the number 73304, then on the morning paper he finds the number 23 (no, it has nothing to do with the bad Jim Carrey flick), etc. It will quickly bring him good fortune, and his downfall.

While sounding like a bit of a weird story, there