I go once a month to pick up my pulls and buy whatever manga is on sale if I can't be arsed to use Amazon. Reminds me I need to get the last four or five Golden Kamuy volumes I need
>I give money to a bullshit niche store that operates at a loss so it can take up space in a strip mall instead of letting another small business that could actually help the local economy >I'm such a chad
Half the storefronts around me are empty, I'm glad when the spaces gets used for something instead of sitting there dead. The abandoned stores rot, become unusable, and attract crime.
I swear in some areas of Pittsburgh, there are more rotting condemned storefronts than functional stores.
I will never understand the logic of raising rent so high your tenant has to close, then letting the space sit there and fall apart while making $0.
I wish the city could instead take those buildings before they decay too far and give them to people who would actually use them for good, even a shitty tranime comic store.
I go once a month to pick up my pulls and buy whatever manga is on sale if I can't be arsed to use Amazon. Reminds me I need to get the last four or five Golden Kamuy volumes I need
Around Thanksgiving when I had some friends in town, got Morrsion's JLA Classified out of a dollar bin.
Before I lost my job and went broke I'd go a least once a month to browse dollar/quarter bins and discounted trades though.
I don’t know a single person who buys comics. All of them are into manga and anime. I’m the only one who likes capeshit. But the last time I went to a comic store was to get a couple of TMNT comics several years ago, which I eventually threw away because it was pointless. I don’t read comics of any kind anymore because I don’t care. I come here for cartoons.
I dunno, probably like a decade ago.
I'm a pirategay, I rarely buy anything when I can just pirate it, unless I really like the person/people making it.
im curious how available comic stores are to you all i always hear about how there are none anywhere in people's areas. I live in a big city so obviously there are several here. i also hear it can suck to live outside the us/north america
They are. A very limited line came out in the early 2000s. Then they kinda stopped being a thing. Not sure why. Considering how popular lewd anime figures are, the west would make Bank from making cheap 3d printed figures or high quality figures of lewd cartoon characters or pornstars, twitch those insta models, and onlyfans birches.
I supose because having anime figures just make you a fan or a weaboo, but is mostly ip of mangas or visual novels. mostly "cartoony" stuff", but for the normalgay i guess having a figure of your favorite pornstar/Twitch/instagram/only fan model would only made you look like a coomer/pervert i guess.
but we have people that were buying bath water from girls, so i guess you can actually exploit the demand.
A couple of years. There are no comic stores in my tiny, shitty town. I have to drive an hour or more to get to one and it sucks. The only good one I ever went to is even farther away than that.
Well, I wanted to go there. I took the bus for 20 minutes to get there. But then, I just felt like I couldn't go inside. Or like something really bad would happen if I did. So I went and got a burger from some place, and then took the bus back home.
That's anxious not autistic. Though I guess anxiety is a symptom of autism. Sorry you felt that way but as you probably know nothing bad would happen to you going to a comic shop. They'd be happy to have your business most likely.
Last month but there’s just one rack of comics now, no manga (it was apparently a money pit cause apparently weebs are broke at), and like 95% games and collectibles
Is OP pic even a comic book store? its 90% merchandise, 5% videogames and figures and 5% comicbooks and manga. my local comic store has merchandise like figures, cards and board games but is 95% comicbooks, and is really a big comic books shop.
>gundam figures
that's rad >taylor swift comic
what the heck? i mean, i know almost every single ip or media has comics for some reason, but some titles are really baffling.
Bro you have no idea how insane a rapid Swifties are. They are borderline a cult. The only musician fans that are just as insane as Taylor swift fans are beyonce and k pop stans
>Is OP pic even a comic book store?
yes its my LCS actually there is another wall that is all comics and a whole other back room i just took kind of a shitty pic i guess here's one from google albiet its shity
I have never been in a comic store
I’ve been in collectible shops and video game shops and the like, but I do not care for anything in a comic store (not my types of comics and hate MTG and stupid card shit like that)
I work in one so I go almost every day but I can also say for sure that most of ya'll don't go very often (because these days I just ship warhammer figures we sell on the internet and browse Cinemaphile)
Last week to pick up Ultimate Spider-Man #1, and the week before that for Image Dracula #3. I don't pick up floppies very often but I have a couple pretty cool local shops with a good selection of figures and trades that I like to browse.
I would imagine it's a niche but still, not unheard of.
Most nip artists who do western art seem to like Disney and movie/TV based series too. Comics, not so much. But, this is from what I see on fanart in Japanese circles.
What do you think inspires them to make shit like My Hero and One Piece?
As already stated, from movies (and books, sometimes video games). Toriyama, Miura, Oda, Araki, Isayama, etc. were largely inspired by watching western movies. They couldn't make it through a western comic book to save their lives.
It's not as big as manga is in America, but yeah.
They call them "American Comics" or Ame-Comi.
One prime example was the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh, who was a huge fan of Spawn and Hellboy, and even got an art swap with Mignola. I first saw it in an issue of Shonen Jump, but it's easy to find online if you look.
Last time I went in for another other than board games, for actual comics, I had a bladder infection where I was puking pure unfiltered piss the whole day and I was trying not to pass out while looking at Deadpool. That was a couple of months ago. The Board/Card games they have are great though.
I go about once every 3-4 months to pick up a few pulls and browse the back issues. I used to go more often but giving it some time makes each trip feel a bit more exciting and saves me transit time.
A bit before the pandemic, after I got to work, I got paired with a bartender who doesn't tip shit, so my extra comic book money is gone. I'm now buying classic runs and cheap 80's indies off of ebay and pirating anything that seems interesting currently coming out.
Something like three hours ago. I usually head over there after work on Thursdays, to see if there's anything new that I follow to pick up.
Usually there isn't, because I'm not following cape comics, but it's good to see them still there and active.
Just Blade Runner and Cyberpunk. There's not really an indie comic that I've found and am interested in. I tried the occasional one that looks interesting, but they're typically not my interest.
I was poking around a couple different ones in the Spring of last year looking for random 80s indie comics, but I haven't back to any since.
While not a store, I did go to a local small press convention last November and found some cool stuff including an impressively large and lushly illustrated bio comic on Peter Laughner. I'm also trying to get plans together for a trip to Canada this year for TCAF, which I've never been to.
Honesty, once a year for the last 6-8 years on Free Comic Book Day. I guess I sorta grew out of it. Even getting the free comics is a bit of a chore; almost forgot to a few years and grab them last mintue.
Maybe a year ago? I go in every now and again, but I don’t ever buy anything. A few years ago I wanted to set up a pull list and they gave me a URL. If I gotta go online anyway wtf do I need them for?
Sometime in the second half of 2023. Then my friend that I was going with every Wednesday stopped showing up, so I stopped going too. Probably get back into it when the weather gets warmer.
About 2013, I think. Brighest Day and the fallout of killing all the Blue Lanterns put me off of comics, and I stopped buying the Transformers I could get there since I found the 3rd party ones online that I really wanted. I haven't read comics since, and Cinemaphile threads/movies are all I really know or care about DC or Marvel anymore. Comics were dumb and not worth the moronic schedules or money, and culture was starting to get moronic in general, so I obsessed on Steven Universe and Star Vs. instead and a few lore cartoons and a /misc/ paradigm shift here we are. Frick comics, frick Cinemaphile, frick jannies.
Last summer. It's literally called [Owner]'s Comics. The only comics for sale are ancient used issues nobody wants, stuffed in cardboard boxes with no rhyme or reason. A small spinner of old graphic novels. The whole rest of the store is clothes, toys, funko pops, and card game stuff.
Last time I was in a comic store that was actually a comic store? 2017.
1 year ago, then I read it was owned by a pedo on the sex offender registry, they built a school across the street, and he had to sell it to one of his business partners because he couldn't physically be there anymore LOL!
like 2 years ago, I tried supporting my LCS as much as possible but they just had to move somewhere far and made the trip to visit and buy comics every so often until I couldn't anymore and had to say goodbye.
february 10th of last year, according to the metadata on a pic I took of this book from the discount bin.
my old LCS shut down when the owner moved to Tennesse to take care of a relative, but this new one opened next door to my local Games Workshop a year or two later. it's not as nice as the old one, but it's better than those shitshacks where all they have is funkos and the latest single issues. the new place has glass cases like in the OP.
just a month ago, i found this other shop in anaheim that has like 4x the floorspace of this one, but i have trouble making the time to drive out there again.
Two months ago, while bike riding, I hit my truly local Local to find out it was going out of business at the end of December. I didn't even make the time to go check out if there were any really deep discounts at the end because I already knew the owner has an EBAY storefront and I'm sure he'll just move his unsold crap to a storage locker for at least 12 months and try to unload it there.
I did go through the entire store but he didn't really have an obvious 'wants' much less 'needs.'
The other LCSs near me are at least an hour away (15-20 miles but awful traffic) and I only hit them when I have other errands in those parts of the county. I don't even get to see movies in IMAX or 4DX now unless I schlep my ass somewhere since I moved to this part of town last summer.
One of owners got angry at me and yelled in my face in front of everyone for having actual audacity in getting them to do their job and showing me where few things I was interested in buying was kept as the shop was very badly organised with little to no consideration for customer service or care. Just because you know where something is doesn't automatically mean that I should know as well. Not when everything is totally mislabeled and mismanaged, with so many books having been put in wrong category. I just ended walking out, telling her "I would love to stay and talk with you but you're total b***h. Frick you." Frick comic book shops and frick slackers who still run them. The industry is dead and it's buttholes who can't even be bother to get off chair and show someone where latest Death Dealer issue is that's killed it. R.I.P.
I've been going to the same one for over a decade now, but literally never to buy American comics. Card Sleeves, Board games, vidya, and all of the Berserk deluxe volumes.
Last month. I went and bought all the Spider Man comics I could that had Bailey on the cover and reveled in the look I got from the clerk. I still smile and feel tingly remembering it
I'm considering going to a local one that just opened to ask what the frick they're thinking and maybe pick up the new ultimate spider-man. I already pirated it but I figure I should probably buy things I like.
two months ago, when I picked up my first MTG Toxic Phyrexian deck with my girlfriend because nobody else in the store wanted to play standard. Kinda sucks, too, since I had a fun meme deck on me made almost exclusively out of defenders/walls, and some gimmick spells/buffs to let them attack. Some smug nerd with a Doctor Who deck turned all of his creatures into motherfricking Time Lord Dinosaurs and fricked the rest of the table.
2007, with my then gf. She was kind enough to indulge me and the guy working the counter creeped her out by following us around recommending "girl" books.
Place is gone now but she never took me quite as seriously after that.
Thanks a lot, you fat frick.
Several years ago. I was trying to find Spider-Man Life Story. They didn't have it, but they offered to order it for me and it would be here in a few weeks. I went home and ordered it on Amazon, got it in two days, and for cheaper. I was deliberately trying to support a shop, but it was just too moronic. The only other customer was some fat ghetto pig and her three feral joggers running around unrestricted. Comic shops are dead. Frankly any shared public space is dead. Most of them have already tried to turn into generic nerd culture stores, but that won't work.
Last time I was home. It's crazy seeing the small shop having grown and consumed the entire strip mall it's a part of. I think there's only one other store there now.
maybe a dumb question but why did marvel/dc never try to open their own stores to sell comics out of ? its too far gone now as shops are closing instead of opening but in all their years why was this never done?
>walk in >find the comics among a maze of anime merch >It's all the mainstream usual suspects and a few token webcomic volumes >impossible to find anything 2 issues back >spot the register next to a mountain of board games that require 8 players willing to memorize the rule textbook >all Pokemon and Magic cards behind bulletproof glass and turrets >300lb woman with a DND tattoo is busy having a conversation with the guy at the register about Rick and Morty >takes 5+ minutes for her to buy one set of shitty injection molded dice >finally pay >turn to leave >door is blocked by avalanche of unpainted Warhammer 40k figurines
Comic stores don't exist anymore. They're just "pop culture" stores now. The MCU was a mistake.
the days of $30 for VHS tapes with burned in hard subs are over. we can live free. let them frick their body pillows and pay $4,500 for a statue of the kekashi dude in jujutsu kaiser with a massive dick. we can sail away to the fairy lands and live forever.
>Comic stores don't exist anymore. They're just "pop culture" stores now. The MCU was a mistake.
For you maybe. My local comic shop is 80% comics with a small corner for manga, and a counter for classic Transformers and kaiju shit. It's great, and doing well enough they just opened a second location in a higher rent area. Feels nice.
Two years or so? A lot of them just closed around here and moved further out into suburban spots. Funny enough a Warhammer spot opened up in a gentrifying neighborhood. But I've been pairing down and going digital. and win-o-threads
Maybe roughly a month ago. I normally don't touch Marvel/DC anymore but I was looking for Justice League vs Godzilla. But I'll be honest. I don't visit comic shops much anymore. When I do it's picking up Usagi Yojimbo or maybe Groo. Something like that.
Couple of months ago, it was my old regular store before I moved away two years ago and I had just moved back. Covid times had not been kind...overstock no space, it had become untidy and cramped. Claustrophobic and the organization had gone to shit. Same guy behind the counter.
Like at least 10 years ago. I just pirate everything now. Anyways I don't think comics will ever die anymore, they're basically a loss leader for Disney and WB.
I just realized this shop has gunpla, that Raider gundam kit is probably gonna be sitting there for years as shit didn't really seem to sell that well everywhere else. My local shop has a ton of them discounted and only sold like 2 out 10
last week.
picrel. the rest of you are losers
>I give money to a bullshit niche store that operates at a loss so it can take up space in a strip mall instead of letting another small business that could actually help the local economy
>I'm such a chad
>g another small business that could actually help the local economy
name 6
Literally anything is better than a dying industry nostalgiawank store. Your local Dollar General draws more dimes guaranteed.
call me crazy but wouldn't they prefer dollars
Yeah, they only draw pictures of the dimes
Half the storefronts around me are empty, I'm glad when the spaces gets used for something instead of sitting there dead. The abandoned stores rot, become unusable, and attract crime.
I swear in some areas of Pittsburgh, there are more rotting condemned storefronts than functional stores.
I will never understand the logic of raising rent so high your tenant has to close, then letting the space sit there and fall apart while making $0.
I wish the city could instead take those buildings before they decay too far and give them to people who would actually use them for good, even a shitty tranime comic store.
3 or 4 weeks ago, browsed the toy section.
I go once a month to pick up my pulls and buy whatever manga is on sale if I can't be arsed to use Amazon. Reminds me I need to get the last four or five Golden Kamuy volumes I need
I have literally never been in a comic store.
Six or seven years not counting book stores.
About 3 months ago and it was only because it was right next to a Flag store
About once a month to get my books. Most of my pulls are mini-series or have ended recently so it isn't much these days.
Taylor Swift has a comic?
I tried to get ai to produce a picture of Taylor Swift as a speed themess superhero but it said no.
looks like a "Little Golden Book." It's a children's picture book.
Around Thanksgiving when I had some friends in town, got Morrsion's JLA Classified out of a dollar bin.
Before I lost my job and went broke I'd go a least once a month to browse dollar/quarter bins and discounted trades though.
I don’t know a single person who buys comics. All of them are into manga and anime. I’m the only one who likes capeshit. But the last time I went to a comic store was to get a couple of TMNT comics several years ago, which I eventually threw away because it was pointless. I don’t read comics of any kind anymore because I don’t care. I come here for cartoons.
I dunno, probably like a decade ago.
I'm a pirategay, I rarely buy anything when I can just pirate it, unless I really like the person/people making it.
im curious how available comic stores are to you all i always hear about how there are none anywhere in people's areas. I live in a big city so obviously there are several here. i also hear it can suck to live outside the us/north america
The staff at mine could not stop talking about politics and the customers were fricking weirdoes that shouldn't be around women or children
A month ago. I bought manga and a old porn star action figure. Also looked at some magic cards.
>porn stars figures
i'm surprised that's even a thing, sounds like a very niche thing tough.
They are. A very limited line came out in the early 2000s. Then they kinda stopped being a thing. Not sure why. Considering how popular lewd anime figures are, the west would make Bank from making cheap 3d printed figures or high quality figures of lewd cartoon characters or pornstars, twitch those insta models, and onlyfans birches.
I supose because having anime figures just make you a fan or a weaboo, but is mostly ip of mangas or visual novels. mostly "cartoony" stuff", but for the normalgay i guess having a figure of your favorite pornstar/Twitch/instagram/only fan model would only made you look like a coomer/pervert i guess.
but we have people that were buying bath water from girls, so i guess you can actually exploit the demand.
>pornstar figure
boy I wish there was one for hitomi tanaka
They really should just stop calling them comic stores considering how no one buys the majority of the capeshit anymore
Last weekend on Sunday.
Yesterday
Got Cobra Commander 1, JLvGvKk 4, Conan 6, and Mighty Masterworks Fantastic Four 3
And a Beast Hunters Wheeljack
Sunday. We chatted about anime and horror for a bit.
cool
literally yesterday, i came for my IDW sonic the hedgehog's subscription and confirmed my free comic book day titles.
Last week.
I got my pull list, we had a book club meeting, and because it was the December meeting delayed had a white elephant game.
A couple of years. There are no comic stores in my tiny, shitty town. I have to drive an hour or more to get to one and it sucks. The only good one I ever went to is even farther away than that.
I wanted to last week, to buy the new Ultimate Spider-Man. But I got too autistic so I just put my hat down, and walked past.
>I got too autistic
elaborate
Well, I wanted to go there. I took the bus for 20 minutes to get there. But then, I just felt like I couldn't go inside. Or like something really bad would happen if I did. So I went and got a burger from some place, and then took the bus back home.
weird hope you feel better now
That's anxious not autistic. Though I guess anxiety is a symptom of autism. Sorry you felt that way but as you probably know nothing bad would happen to you going to a comic shop. They'd be happy to have your business most likely.
Last month but there’s just one rack of comics now, no manga (it was apparently a money pit cause apparently weebs are broke at), and like 95% games and collectibles
Is OP pic even a comic book store? its 90% merchandise, 5% videogames and figures and 5% comicbooks and manga. my local comic store has merchandise like figures, cards and board games but is 95% comicbooks, and is really a big comic books shop.
>gundam figures
that's rad
>taylor swift comic
what the heck? i mean, i know almost every single ip or media has comics for some reason, but some titles are really baffling.
Bro you have no idea how insane a rapid Swifties are. They are borderline a cult. The only musician fans that are just as insane as Taylor swift fans are beyonce and k pop stans
>Is OP pic even a comic book store?
yes its my LCS actually there is another wall that is all comics and a whole other back room i just took kind of a shitty pic i guess here's one from google albiet its shity
cool man, the place looks kinda small, is it not hard to get through when the shop have a lot of customers? or is just the perspective?
>is just the perspective?
the place is small but also the perspective is making it look tiny and like i said there's another room behind there
I have never been in a comic store
I’ve been in collectible shops and video game shops and the like, but I do not care for anything in a comic store (not my types of comics and hate MTG and stupid card shit like that)
I can't remember when but the last time was when I went to France, just to see what they had.
I work in one so I go almost every day but I can also say for sure that most of ya'll don't go very often (because these days I just ship warhammer figures we sell on the internet and browse Cinemaphile)
Never been in one because we dont have any around here, just regular book stores with a comic section.
>around here,
where are you
I dint have any money
like an hour ago
About 10 years ago, here in my city in Brazil, the newsstands were full of comic books and mangas, including hardcorvers.
A few months ago when I was hanging out with a friend. Got a copy of Mort Cinder a a couple of local self-published comics.
Last week to pick up Ultimate Spider-Man #1, and the week before that for Image Dracula #3. I don't pick up floppies very often but I have a couple pretty cool local shops with a good selection of figures and trades that I like to browse.
Forbidden Planet probably doesn't count because it's a nerdslop store rather than a comic book store but uhhhhhhhhh 2 weeks ago.
10 years ago
Kings Comics Sydney in 2014...shit.
I've literally been to Japanese book stores in Japan more recently.
do japanese even consume american comic-books/merchandise?
What do you think inspires them to make shit like My Hero and One Piece?
Anon, MHA's author was inspired by the Raimi Spiderman movies.
He didn't even read the comics until he was an adult.
the mha guy is a really contained example, i meant the actual average japanese. also this
I would imagine it's a niche but still, not unheard of.
Most nip artists who do western art seem to like Disney and movie/TV based series too. Comics, not so much. But, this is from what I see on fanart in Japanese circles.
There's a small import market, which is how you get westaboo artists like Kia Asamiya who have actually gone on to do work for western publishers.
The innovators used to.
As already stated, from movies (and books, sometimes video games). Toriyama, Miura, Oda, Araki, Isayama, etc. were largely inspired by watching western movies. They couldn't make it through a western comic book to save their lives.
It's not as big as manga is in America, but yeah.
They call them "American Comics" or Ame-Comi.
One prime example was the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh, who was a huge fan of Spawn and Hellboy, and even got an art swap with Mignola. I first saw it in an issue of Shonen Jump, but it's easy to find online if you look.
I go to my local shop at least once a month. They don't really update their stock anymore, but I like to collect their newsletter.
Yesterday
Last time I went in for another other than board games, for actual comics, I had a bladder infection where I was puking pure unfiltered piss the whole day and I was trying not to pass out while looking at Deadpool. That was a couple of months ago. The Board/Card games they have are great though.
I go about once every 3-4 months to pick up a few pulls and browse the back issues. I used to go more often but giving it some time makes each trip feel a bit more exciting and saves me transit time.
Monday. I took my daughter.
Did you get a lot for her in trade?
2 and a half weeks ago. Got the Miracleman omnibus on sale for $60.
I popped into my local Forbidden Planet a few weeks ago to see if they had anything fun on discount.
They didn't.
A bit before the pandemic, after I got to work, I got paired with a bartender who doesn't tip shit, so my extra comic book money is gone. I'm now buying classic runs and cheap 80's indies off of ebay and pirating anything that seems interesting currently coming out.
Cinemaphile doesnt read comics
Some do, like 30 percent. And 20 percent of that reads indies. Only morons still read capeshit
Something like three hours ago. I usually head over there after work on Thursdays, to see if there's anything new that I follow to pick up.
Usually there isn't, because I'm not following cape comics, but it's good to see them still there and active.
>Usually there isn't, because I'm not following cape comics
you're not following any indies ?
Just Blade Runner and Cyberpunk. There's not really an indie comic that I've found and am interested in. I tried the occasional one that looks interesting, but they're typically not my interest.
15 years ago, the owner was some mid 50s homosexual that acted like he didn't want anyone in the store.
I was poking around a couple different ones in the Spring of last year looking for random 80s indie comics, but I haven't back to any since.
While not a store, I did go to a local small press convention last November and found some cool stuff including an impressively large and lushly illustrated bio comic on Peter Laughner. I'm also trying to get plans together for a trip to Canada this year for TCAF, which I've never been to.
About 4 years ago. Just moved closer to it so I might be going more often.
Around September last year.
Honesty, once a year for the last 6-8 years on Free Comic Book Day. I guess I sorta grew out of it. Even getting the free comics is a bit of a chore; almost forgot to a few years and grab them last mintue.
Maybe a year ago? I go in every now and again, but I don’t ever buy anything. A few years ago I wanted to set up a pull list and they gave me a URL. If I gotta go online anyway wtf do I need them for?
my LCS just started using leagueofcomicsgeeks to manage pull lists and its been great
I’ve given up on monthlies. Reprints of old ass comics are all I want these days. Those are far easier to find online.
Sometime in the second half of 2023. Then my friend that I was going with every Wednesday stopped showing up, so I stopped going too. Probably get back into it when the weather gets warmer.
About 2013, I think. Brighest Day and the fallout of killing all the Blue Lanterns put me off of comics, and I stopped buying the Transformers I could get there since I found the 3rd party ones online that I really wanted. I haven't read comics since, and Cinemaphile threads/movies are all I really know or care about DC or Marvel anymore. Comics were dumb and not worth the moronic schedules or money, and culture was starting to get moronic in general, so I obsessed on Steven Universe and Star Vs. instead and a few lore cartoons and a /misc/ paradigm shift here we are. Frick comics, frick Cinemaphile, frick jannies.
Mine closed during the pandemic.
sry
Yesterday. I picked up some D&D miniatures and the 4th issue of Predator vs. Wolverine.
Last summer. It's literally called [Owner]'s Comics. The only comics for sale are ancient used issues nobody wants, stuffed in cardboard boxes with no rhyme or reason. A small spinner of old graphic novels. The whole rest of the store is clothes, toys, funko pops, and card game stuff.
Last time I was in a comic store that was actually a comic store? 2017.
1 year ago, then I read it was owned by a pedo on the sex offender registry, they built a school across the street, and he had to sell it to one of his business partners because he couldn't physically be there anymore LOL!
like 2 years ago, I tried supporting my LCS as much as possible but they just had to move somewhere far and made the trip to visit and buy comics every so often until I couldn't anymore and had to say goodbye.
february 10th of last year, according to the metadata on a pic I took of this book from the discount bin.
my old LCS shut down when the owner moved to Tennesse to take care of a relative, but this new one opened next door to my local Games Workshop a year or two later. it's not as nice as the old one, but it's better than those shitshacks where all they have is funkos and the latest single issues. the new place has glass cases like in the OP.
just a month ago, i found this other shop in anaheim that has like 4x the floorspace of this one, but i have trouble making the time to drive out there again.
Two months ago, while bike riding, I hit my truly local Local to find out it was going out of business at the end of December. I didn't even make the time to go check out if there were any really deep discounts at the end because I already knew the owner has an EBAY storefront and I'm sure he'll just move his unsold crap to a storage locker for at least 12 months and try to unload it there.
I did go through the entire store but he didn't really have an obvious 'wants' much less 'needs.'
The other LCSs near me are at least an hour away (15-20 miles but awful traffic) and I only hit them when I have other errands in those parts of the county. I don't even get to see movies in IMAX or 4DX now unless I schlep my ass somewhere since I moved to this part of town last summer.
whre are you
I never been to a comic book store, I've been browsing Cinemaphile for the last six years just for cartoons. I joined in 2018
3 years ago.
One of owners got angry at me and yelled in my face in front of everyone for having actual audacity in getting them to do their job and showing me where few things I was interested in buying was kept as the shop was very badly organised with little to no consideration for customer service or care. Just because you know where something is doesn't automatically mean that I should know as well. Not when everything is totally mislabeled and mismanaged, with so many books having been put in wrong category. I just ended walking out, telling her "I would love to stay and talk with you but you're total b***h. Frick you." Frick comic book shops and frick slackers who still run them. The industry is dead and it's buttholes who can't even be bother to get off chair and show someone where latest Death Dealer issue is that's killed it. R.I.P.
It was pre covid. Now I just get everything in the mail bc it's so much cheaper. I feel really bad about it though but I'm too poor
Last month. Bought a HG Gustav Karl and a can of Bawls.
I've been going to the same one for over a decade now, but literally never to buy American comics. Card Sleeves, Board games, vidya, and all of the Berserk deluxe volumes.
Tuesday, I have one in the mall across the street so I also went to grab some Korean BBQ.
Last month. I went and bought all the Spider Man comics I could that had Bailey on the cover and reveled in the look I got from the clerk. I still smile and feel tingly remembering it
Last week.
We have two comic stores though, and the other one I haven't been to in 5 years because the guy who runs it is just an butthole.
I'm considering going to a local one that just opened to ask what the frick they're thinking and maybe pick up the new ultimate spider-man. I already pirated it but I figure I should probably buy things I like.
two months ago, when I picked up my first MTG Toxic Phyrexian deck with my girlfriend because nobody else in the store wanted to play standard. Kinda sucks, too, since I had a fun meme deck on me made almost exclusively out of defenders/walls, and some gimmick spells/buffs to let them attack. Some smug nerd with a Doctor Who deck turned all of his creatures into motherfricking Time Lord Dinosaurs and fricked the rest of the table.
I pop into mine once in a while but hardly buy anything because he never gets new stock and charges cover price on everything
I am sitting in one right now... mine.
Man ... depressing. I'm sorry, dude. I wish your life had gone better
I have a 70 inch TV, Snacks, and a couch. I'm good here lol --- oh yeah, and a late night MTG Commander tournament with 30 participants
We will probably be done around 4 AM. 😛
Tyler, get back to work.
how is it being a retailer? be honest
Four days ago to get Ultimate Spider-Man #1 and a few Funko Pops.
2007, with my then gf. She was kind enough to indulge me and the guy working the counter creeped her out by following us around recommending "girl" books.
Place is gone now but she never took me quite as seriously after that.
Thanks a lot, you fat frick.
kek at the story but sorry that happened bro
>Place is gone now but she never took me quite as seriously after that.
im sorry but kek
About 10 years when I tried to buy Red Lanterns at a shop and the guy behind the counter tried to insult me over it.
what'd he say
Several years ago. I was trying to find Spider-Man Life Story. They didn't have it, but they offered to order it for me and it would be here in a few weeks. I went home and ordered it on Amazon, got it in two days, and for cheaper. I was deliberately trying to support a shop, but it was just too moronic. The only other customer was some fat ghetto pig and her three feral joggers running around unrestricted. Comic shops are dead. Frankly any shared public space is dead. Most of them have already tried to turn into generic nerd culture stores, but that won't work.
library has comicbooks too.
3 weeks ago
Yesterday. I'm going again today. It'll probably be slow with all the snow and I can get some cleaning done.
A few months ago. Didn't buy anything.
Last time I was home. It's crazy seeing the small shop having grown and consumed the entire strip mall it's a part of. I think there's only one other store there now.
maybe a dumb question but why did marvel/dc never try to open their own stores to sell comics out of ? its too far gone now as shops are closing instead of opening but in all their years why was this never done?
>walk in
>find the comics among a maze of anime merch
>It's all the mainstream usual suspects and a few token webcomic volumes
>impossible to find anything 2 issues back
>spot the register next to a mountain of board games that require 8 players willing to memorize the rule textbook
>all Pokemon and Magic cards behind bulletproof glass and turrets
>300lb woman with a DND tattoo is busy having a conversation with the guy at the register about Rick and Morty
>takes 5+ minutes for her to buy one set of shitty injection molded dice
>finally pay
>turn to leave
>door is blocked by avalanche of unpainted Warhammer 40k figurines
Comic stores don't exist anymore. They're just "pop culture" stores now. The MCU was a mistake.
Its our fault really, we didn't gatekeep hard enough. Anime is next if we aren't careful
>gatekeeping
>anime
the days of $30 for VHS tapes with burned in hard subs are over. we can live free. let them frick their body pillows and pay $4,500 for a statue of the kekashi dude in jujutsu kaiser with a massive dick. we can sail away to the fairy lands and live forever.
Yep, it's a goner.
>Comic stores don't exist anymore. They're just "pop culture" stores now. The MCU was a mistake.
For you maybe. My local comic shop is 80% comics with a small corner for manga, and a counter for classic Transformers and kaiju shit. It's great, and doing well enough they just opened a second location in a higher rent area. Feels nice.
Sunday, but I went in to buy paint for miniatures.
About 40 minutes ago.
Two years or so? A lot of them just closed around here and moved further out into suburban spots. Funny enough a Warhammer spot opened up in a gentrifying neighborhood. But I've been pairing down and going digital. and win-o-threads
Maybe roughly a month ago. I normally don't touch Marvel/DC anymore but I was looking for Justice League vs Godzilla. But I'll be honest. I don't visit comic shops much anymore. When I do it's picking up Usagi Yojimbo or maybe Groo. Something like that.
This week. Brought dungeon crawl classics dice and the D&D book with the AI art glory of the giants.
Couple of months ago, it was my old regular store before I moved away two years ago and I had just moved back. Covid times had not been kind...overstock no space, it had become untidy and cramped. Claustrophobic and the organization had gone to shit. Same guy behind the counter.
Times...times are tough.
Like at least 10 years ago. I just pirate everything now. Anyways I don't think comics will ever die anymore, they're basically a loss leader for Disney and WB.
>I don't think comics will ever die anymore
The overhead on making a comic is so low compared to producing movies/tv/cartoons that they will always be around even if nobody is really buying them
I just realized this shop has gunpla, that Raider gundam kit is probably gonna be sitting there for years as shit didn't really seem to sell that well everywhere else. My local shop has a ton of them discounted and only sold like 2 out 10
is that the mechanical grade one? I just learned about that and Mega Grade.