Keith Knight, left, who clearly had no idea what he was getting himself into, sat down to chat with Dave and Pete during a short break at the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo. Last month Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb were here to give us a preview of the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) -- and this past weekend, we got to see how their hard work paid off in person. Spoiler alert: Boy, did it ever. We hit the Expo Sunday afternoon, Oct. 21, and even after a day and a half University Hall at Lesley University was jam-packed, with lots of smiling comics fans perusing the wares of more than 200 cartoonists and illustrators and taking part in the workshops and panels. (At least part of the reason they were smiling was that they hadn't paid a penny to enter, thanks to a slew of generous sponsors .) In our short time there, we got to chat with a bunch of MICE planners and participants, including: Keith Knight , creator of the nationally syndicated com