200

Q: Since this is Ask Chris #200, what's the best 200th issue in comics? -- @therealdealkern A: You know, Kern, I'm glad you asked. 200 is a really weird number, especially in comics. It should be a pretty huge deal -- as alert reader Charlotte pointed out in her own question this week, once a comic racks up 200 issues, it's pretty much going to be around forever -- but it doesn't quite have the ring of #100, and even hitting that third century mark seems way more important than breezing through the two. Maybe it's that it feels like a foregone conclusion, that once you've passed that first milestone, the second feels like more of an inevitability than an achievement. But at the same time, there's definitely one issue that sticks out as being everything you want out of an anniversary comic, and that's the subject of this week's column. I mean, come on. You didn't really think I was going to answer 100 questions again, did you?

Cue up every single one of your “politicians need toilet paper because they’re so full of crap” puns, ’cause you’re gonna need them. In Stralsund, Germany, toilet paper started disappearing from the town hall.  Like, 200 rolls of toilet paper.  The janitors were suspicious that a 24-year-old, far-left politician named Frank-Michael John was STEALING the toilet paper.