Wtf, Rucka? Comics are already out of comic stores. Major book stores have hella comics, and their collections are both wider and more diverse than what you could accomplish with more widespread spinner racks.
I think the problem is that comics are still geared towards a serialized format, and mainstream audiences don't like that because the stories feel insubstantial and they can't be arsed to go to a store every month to read a complete storyline.
I hate comic stores. I hated then in the 80s, and I hate them now (mostly since they are the same stores run by the same jackasses I couldn't stand then because "Lobo is cool") and like gaming stores they just effing suck. One of these days I'm going to go all-in to buy stuff online, but I haven't and that's my own idiocy. Still, he's right.
My comic store is interesting in that the balding, overweight, bearded guy with glasses that owns and used to manage it no longer does so, and the cool young guy that used to work there has, over time, begun to bald, gain weight, grow a beard, and start wearing glasses.
Comic stores need a Dian Fossey to come in and just observe, and compile some kind of anthropological study. I have a feeling it'd be interesting.
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also munch that would be rad because the dude who owns my comic store operates it with his wife who runs the second store and they always bicker about sending shit in between stores
Interestingly in the UK a lot of comics tend to be stocked in newsagents and the like because, shock horror, kids still buy comics here. (The link's a bit old, but still.) There are relatively few comic stores in the UK, or at least in my section of it, probably because the focus seems still to be on comics as more of a child's pastime than an adult's.
Maybe Marvel should be taking a few lessons from their UK partner Panini in how to market their books to kids.
I love my comic store. They have a really diverse customer base (you never really see any walking caricatures of neckbearditry), they do random live band shows and stand up comedy.
Sometimes you show up to buy comics in the evening when an event happens and suddenly you are being handed a beer.
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Interestingly in the UK a lot of comics tend to be stocked in newsagents and the like because, shock horror, kids still buy comics here. (The link's a bit old, but still.) There are relatively few comic stores in the UK, or at least in my section of it, probably because the focus seems still to be on comics as more of a child's pastime than an adult's.
Maybe Marvel should be taking a few lessons from their UK partner Panini in how to market their books to kids.
Only problem with those comics that you'd find in WHSmiths is that they are usually around 2-3 years behind the books that you'd get from the comic store.
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edit: Wait, is a goatee a beard? Legally it probably is.
Wow, someone took One More Day badly hurp de durpie durp
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I know Ultimatum was a bomb, but that's even worse than I expected.
edit: Texiken is stupid.
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I beat you Hensler, I beat you. Outdated jokes about bad comics hooooo!
I remember when all 3 of the Bedrock City Comic shops got damaged pretty bad with Hurricane Ike, especially the one on Westheimer (the main location). Basically the roof collapsed, 90% of the stuff was lost that they didn't take to be stored in a safer location like all the CGC and key issue stuff.
Interestingly in the UK a lot of comics tend to be stocked in newsagents and the like because, shock horror, kids still buy comics here. (The link's a bit old, but still.) There are relatively few comic stores in the UK, or at least in my section of it, probably because the focus seems still to be on comics as more of a child's pastime than an adult's.
Maybe Marvel should be taking a few lessons from their UK partner Panini in how to market their books to kids.
Only problem with those comics that you'd find in WHSmiths is that they are usually around 2-3 years behind the books that you'd get from the comic store.
Honestly, I don't think a 10 year-old really cares.
I really dont like how Bats are being tied into the Wayne dynasty long before Batman. Makes that bat in his window seem less like chance and more like destiny or a curse or something.
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Johns is messing with Superman's origin again, it's basically turning into that scene in Punisher MAX where Kingpin gets raped in prison:
Metallo is now retconned to be one of General Lane's favorite soldiers who he hoped would date/marry Lois, who either doesn't get Lois doesn't want to date him or the more obvious Johns cop out that he is obsessed with Lois stalker-like
There's something very weird about this "Smallville" retconning where every hero bumped into their rogues/allies when they were little but didn't know it yet, such as how Thomas Wayne was the reason Jor-El sent Clark to Earth, Superman and Batman met each other very briefly in Smallville, etc.
Johns is messing with Superman's origin again, it's basically turning into that scene in Punisher MAX where Kingpin gets raped in prison:
Metallo is now retconned to be one of General Lane's favorite soldiers who he hoped would date/marry Lois, who either doesn't get Lois doesn't want to date him or the more obvious Johns cop out that he is obsessed with Lois stalker-like
There's something very weird about this "Smallville" retconning where every hero bumped into their rogues/allies when they were little but didn't know it yet, such as how Thomas Wayne was the reason Jor-El sent Clark to Earth, Superman and Batman met each other very briefly in Smallville, etc.
Oh wtf Tex? How does this shit get past editors? Isn't it the editors job to stop retardation getting into costly print?
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So! I picked up world war hulks, and found it to be an interesting mix of good (hulkpool was funnier then I thought it would be and Red she hulk is better then I thought it would be) but holy shit The writers seemed to have a mandate to give James talbot of all people the sloppiest blowjob possible. The thing I remember most about this asshole was that he had a creepy relationship with betty and he crashed a jet/hovercraft thing into a volcano while trying to kill the hulk.
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Hey! I go to Comic Bug sometimes, too. It's not that close to me, but every once in a while I like to go to a nicer store, or to pick up from their wider trade selection.
the comic store i go to is close to a military base, so every wednesday, its me and a couple friends plus a handful of dudes in uniform. it makes me feel like a badass.
then some overweight, neck-bearded dink walks in and makes me ashamed of myself again...
Interestingly in the UK a lot of comics tend to be stocked in newsagents and the like because, shock horror, kids still buy comics here. (The link's a bit old, but still.) There are relatively few comic stores in the UK, or at least in my section of it, probably because the focus seems still to be on comics as more of a child's pastime than an adult's.
Maybe Marvel should be taking a few lessons from their UK partner Panini in how to market their books to kids.
Only problem with those comics that you'd find in WHSmiths is that they are usually around 2-3 years behind the books that you'd get from the comic store.
Honestly, I don't think a 10 year-old really cares.
Probably not.
It is confusing though, considering the stores have to order those comics from diamond that they don't get the more up to date books.
I don't agree. Lumping retcons together with resurrections in the first place is a bad idea since the two, despite occasionally intersecting, occur for different reasons and say different things about the industry. Beyond that, his treatment of Final Crisis is misleading (Bruce and Jonn's death were never meant to be permanent, and Bruce's resurrection is just as much Morrison's idea as his death) and he's inferring far too much from a couple of short panels cherry-picked from Morrison's wide body of work.
TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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You can't blame Xorneto on Morrison when all the bullshit occurred after Morrison's run. Morrison made it work, Marvel trying to add another character and then tying it to M-Day in New Avengers is what ruined it for everyone.
I think its true. Morrison likes to play with other peoples toys his way, then puts them back on the shelf and expects other people to clean up after him.
I don't understand why you'd single Morrison out for that behavior when it's doubtful that any writer is anticipating the needs of his successor while penning the conclusions of his own arc. That's the editors' job, not the writers'.
I don't understand why you'd single Morrison out for that behavior when it's doubtful that any writer is anticipating the needs of his successor while penning the conclusions of his own arc. That's the editors' job, not the writers'.
Mmm...true...but I think Morrison gets away with it more than most.
Its actually kind of interesting to see other writers try to jump on Loeb's Rulk-train and weave some continuity around him.
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morrison never intended on actually killing batman, that was editorial saying no no, lets turn this story arc in to an event with terrible tie-ins and 'really' kill him.
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I think the problem is that comics are still geared towards a serialized format, and mainstream audiences don't like that because the stories feel insubstantial and they can't be arsed to go to a store every month to read a complete storyline.
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Whoa, Crimsondude has gotten cool recently.
Then again it's the same one I have gone to since I was a kid and the dude who owns it is rad as hell
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That's like saying you would order BBQ from someone in Finland, what the hella
Comic stores need a Dian Fossey to come in and just observe, and compile some kind of anthropological study. I have a feeling it'd be interesting.
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also munch that would be rad because the dude who owns my comic store operates it with his wife who runs the second store and they always bicker about sending shit in between stores
Maybe Marvel should be taking a few lessons from their UK partner Panini in how to market their books to kids.
Sometimes you show up to buy comics in the evening when an event happens and suddenly you are being handed a beer.
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Only problem with those comics that you'd find in WHSmiths is that they are usually around 2-3 years behind the books that you'd get from the comic store.
Wow, someone took One More Day badly hurp de durpie durp
I know Ultimatum was a bomb, but that's even worse than I expected.
edit: Texiken is stupid.
I remember when all 3 of the Bedrock City Comic shops got damaged pretty bad with Hurricane Ike, especially the one on Westheimer (the main location). Basically the roof collapsed, 90% of the stuff was lost that they didn't take to be stored in a safer location like all the CGC and key issue stuff.
Honestly, I don't think a 10 year-old really cares.
There's something very weird about this "Smallville" retconning where every hero bumped into their rogues/allies when they were little but didn't know it yet, such as how Thomas Wayne was the reason Jor-El sent Clark to Earth, Superman and Batman met each other very briefly in Smallville, etc.
Oh wtf Tex? How does this shit get past editors? Isn't it the editors job to stop retardation getting into costly print?
Hey! I go to Comic Bug sometimes, too. It's not that close to me, but every once in a while I like to go to a nicer store, or to pick up from their wider trade selection.
That fire was unfortunate.
then some overweight, neck-bearded dink walks in and makes me ashamed of myself again...
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wait....
Probably not.
It is confusing though, considering the stores have to order those comics from diamond that they don't get the more up to date books.
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I don't agree. Lumping retcons together with resurrections in the first place is a bad idea since the two, despite occasionally intersecting, occur for different reasons and say different things about the industry. Beyond that, his treatment of Final Crisis is misleading (Bruce and Jonn's death were never meant to be permanent, and Bruce's resurrection is just as much Morrison's idea as his death) and he's inferring far too much from a couple of short panels cherry-picked from Morrison's wide body of work.
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Mmm...true...but I think Morrison gets away with it more than most.
Its actually kind of interesting to see other writers try to jump on Loeb's Rulk-train and weave some continuity around him.
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