Mid-afternoon, a pillar-row table covering Marvel NFT comics variants pulled its cloth and left. The queue was folded at that exact moment, so half the line did not see the cloth move. Within ten minutes, people at the rope were speaking as if the table were only “paused.”
Panel Trail Line walked back. The chairs were stacked. The paperweight was gone. The recap used the word closed.
Softer language would have been convenient for anyone still hunting a conversation with that table. It would also have been false. Community event recaps fail when they protect a reader’s hope against the hall’s furniture.
We listed the issue titles that had been on the table before the cloth moved, according to two volunteers who agreed on the same three names. Where they disagreed on a fourth title, the recap said they disagreed. That fourth title remains a question mark, which is more honest than a guessed cover.