Gadgets & Toys
For those who want to embrace the odors, scratch and sniff is back. Imagine little Dick and Jane's faces lighting up as they pore over probably the first comic book with "scents designed to offend, inform and amuse." There's leather, pizza burps and, wouldn't ya know it, the scent of "Cannibisylocibe 7-A," a hallucinogenic substance created by a hideous egg creature who wanted to dose everyone into not noticing he was a freak so he could get a rent-controlled apartment in New York City. Seriously. Anyway, the scratch 'n' sniff concept is clever, and the Cannibisylocibe (made from a strain of "dingleberry haze") odor is among the least offensive, though it's not earthy enough to be anything but a joke. Well played, DC.
For: Adults who still read comic books.