FIVE MINUTES LATER, OUTSIDE THE COMIC BOOK STORE, MCGURK CLOSES THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MANGA HE HAS JUST FINISHED READING

SOLOMON: Well?

MCGURK: Wow! That was a great story! I'd read the next one in the series, but it's not out yet.

SOLOMON: The ghost ship, McGurk. What about the ghost ship?

MCGURK: Oh, yeah. In this story, a fake ghost ship kidnaps people and takes them to Fuji-san. That's what Japanese people call Mt. Fuji, that big mountain near here.

SOLOMON: Then I guess we're renting a car and driving to Fuji-san. But what I don't get is, why is all this information in a comic book?

MCGURK: I don't know. It's from the same people who created my other comic book: TSURC Enterprises.

SOLOMON: Wait — that's CRUST spelled backwards. They publish comic books?

MCGURK: Wow! They really have diversified.

SOLOMON: Then off to the car rental agency it is!