It’s a one trick pony, they’re only after the collectable aspect of the magazine issue, but I hope that it curls some beards of those who want to quash all forms of resistance. And of course the feckless state broadcaster Yle refuses to show the magazine issue in question:
Personally, I think this adaptation is better:
Turku comics shop stunned by demand for Charlie Hebdo
Shopkeeper Petteri Oja says that originally the first copies of the irreverent French magazine were to have arrived on Friday, but that he now believes they won’t come until next week.
A small comics shop in Turku, south-west Finland, is apparently the only store in Finland to sell this week’s issue of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
On Wednesday, the magazine was published with a massive print run in France.
In Finland, the phone was ringing off the hook at Turun Sarjakuvakauppa, which is taking orders for the publication. There was a constant stream of customers asking about the magazine. The issue is the first to be published following last Wednesday’s massacre at the magazine’s Paris headquarters, which left many of its cartoonists and other staff dead.
From 50 to 1,000 copies
Shopkeeper Petteri Oja says he has been completely surprised by the heavy demand for the historic issue. As of Wednesday morning there already more than 100 names on the list of orders.
“We originally ordered 50 copies. Through a French acquaintance, I just reached the wholesaler that is distributing the magazine. We ordered 1,000 more copies. But I can’t say when they’ll arrive,” says Oja.
He says that originally the first copies were to have arrived on Friday, but that he now believes they won’t come until next week.
The first edition of Charlie Hebdo published after last week’s deadly attack by Islamist gunmen sold out within minutes at newspaper kiosks around France on Wednesday, with readers queuing up for copies to support the satirical weekly. A total five million copies of the edition are to be printed, dwarfing the normal print run of 60,000.
