What's your local comic shop like?

What's your local comic shop like?

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been in there about ten times to grab some random shit and its only ever been me and the store owner, kind of sad desu

An empty lot right now.

Dead.

Last time I was there was Free comic Book day. The owner seemed pissed off that he can only let in so many people at a time and everyone there only wanted free shit.

A lot of white people and the occasional dude who was the store owner along with his wife’s boyfriend. The wife’s boyfriend is cool and chill so I can’t complain

>his wife’s boyfriend. The wife’s boyfriend is cool and chill so I can’t complain
What?

Pretty friendly.
They run a monthly Book Club through it and half the employees are actually part of the club too, so I know them on a friendly level and they pretty much all know me by name.

For getting stuff they're kind of a local chain (live in a major city) so if they don't have it in store they can either order what you want or check the inventory of 5 other locations over the phone.

Like the dude who is in a relationship with the store owner’s wife.

Empty and closed. It’s usually run by an okd hippy and stinks of unchanged cat litter. I’m pretty sure he owns the space, though so he’ll be back.

Dead. They closed after many successful years not wanting to deal with increased problems with Diamond Distributors and the grind.

It got replaced with a Starbucks last year. And COVID is killing the other ones. Honestly I’m surprised Disney/AT&T or any other big company hasn’t started a chain of “hobby shops” that are set up as a Barnes and Nobel/Starbucks hybrid that has manages, comics, bluerays, arcade machines, pizza etc. I mean if you combined the the anime/comic/video game fags together into one all purpose hobby nerd store with a hip and trendy asthetic I could see it making bank. COVID will probably go on for another or 2 so right now is actually the perfect time to buy up all the abandoned and foreclosed property for such a venture

My LCS has a very nice selection and would be a pleasant place to shop, if it wasn't for the owner. He can be helpful and is very knowledgeable, but most of the time he just seems to be very annoyed by having to interrupt the chats with his employees in order to interact with customers. He also chain smokes in the backroom, which smells bad and can't be good for the actual books.

The best.

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Closed and dilapidated.

Smelly and Marvel dominant.

comics are outdated, they don't move

Closed forever

Damn. I didn't thought about them. Probably dead as fuck since the business was already on the verge of dying.

my comic shop isn't bad usually a few people in the morning on Wednesdays for comic book day

FCBD is trash always.

pretty good, its on a popular street in my city, so i generally avoid it on the weekends when casuals go to browse, and early ncbds because the wednesday warriors are annoying as hell

Shit, they overprice everything, one time they repriced an item higher in front of my very eyes.

Full of obese women.

There are three comic book stores in my town. They're all very friendly, if a bit quiet.

It’s pretty neat. Could have a better selection of trades though, but over all really good. They have another location like 30 minutes away so they have a huge warehouse and they do sales sometimes for back issues by the long box. They also sponsor north Carolina comic con
who here /919/ here

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Pretty cool. They’re always getting new stuff, and it’s fun talking about random shit when flipping through boxes. They have a low/mid grade Hulk 181 they just got in, asking 1600 bucks

Being ran by a bunch of fat neckbeard guys and two fat girls who don't give a fuck about their inventory or customers. I've stopped going there months ago after the manager change.

The few times I went there when it wasn't FCBD it was pretty empty
They had an entire section dedicated to those stupid pop figures and a couple of folding tables set up where people played Magic

Killed by the 'rona.

Still going strong and has a cheap pizza place next door. I bought all my Hellblazer and Swamp Thing stuff from there.

>Hobby Shop
Not a bad idea actually. Let's partner up and make it real, my dude.

My local closed a couple years ago after the owner passed away. Sad shit. I just went in one day and it was a woman at the desk, asked where he was and she said she was him mum and that he’d lost the battle with cancer or something so she was selling everything on. I didn’t mind buying more than I usually would that day, I felt awful.

I still carry his business card around to this day, poor bastard. It wasn’t just about going in for the comics but talking with Simon was great, and he was a big reason why I got into comics. Sold me my first one when I was like 11 (20 now for reference).

So I don’t have a local anymore, I just buy from Amazon or go into HMV when I’m in town to see what trades they have.

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That's sad story user. At least you still have memories.

I wasn’t ready for this feel

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