I opened my Teen Titans #41 to find a cardboard advertisement sticking out of the page.  Yes, it was the ad for “Hero Scape”.  I was completely aggravated.

There is nothing worse than having “blow cards” in magazines.  When they are literally “blown in”–which means that a magazine has a stack of advertising cards and blows them into the magazine–that is bad enough.  Having the card stapled into the book is the worst.  Why can’t they buy a page of advertising like everybody else?  Final Fantasy for Game Boy Advance has had several two page ads in most of the books I read, but they don’t bother me.  Why?  Because I understand that ads help DC Comics make money–and if I don’t want to read the ad, I can go to the next page.  Not so with a “blow card”, they just keep popping up. 

The hardest problem in having these cards in the books is knowing that I can’t just rip it out.  That would decrease the value of the book terribly.  So, DC, please stop the “blow cards”, make them buy advertisements like every one else.