CrescentCityBlues

February 1, 2012 10:55 pm My wife doesn't read comics...but she loves webcomics and comic strips, like the old Popeyes Fantagraphics put out. I try getting her to read stuff but she takes forever to get around to starting something, let alone finishing it. but hey, she plays video games and is gorgeous!

January 25, 2012 11:18 pm Whoops, meant to write Captain America and #629 is going up up up, not Winter Soldier. Sorry.

January 25, 2012 10:56 pm I'd like to jump on the no crossover interest bandwagon. Thankfully, it appears the few Marvel books I collect will be left out of this (for now). I'm sure we'll get the inevitable Thunderbolts crossover, and probably and FF/Fantastic Four one. Sigh.

January 25, 2012 10:53 pm Yeah. I also noticed Winter Soldier went up to $3.99 this month for the 4th issue. What the ##@%@#%?

January 18, 2012 2:48 pm Maty, there is, of course, the Strand. They do have a good fantasy sci-fi collection (though not great). Bookoff is uptown, and has cheap books, but no way to tell if they'll be the cheap books you want.

January 18, 2012 2:29 pm I've noticed a trend in some shops to not actively pursue restocking on back issues, or forego selling them altogether. There's one in Manhattan that truly irks me. It took over its second floor location from a shop that was there for years, and had tons of back issues in opened boxes on top, and even more in unbrowsable lower boxes. The new owners have less than half of what the old owners had, and the selection is all from the last five years, and literally in NO particular order. This shop was getting so blasted on a certain well known review site it offered discounts to customers for good reviews. Classy. Another thing that bothers me is the guiding thing. Yeah, I understand comic prices change every year. Do you want me to come back? Make me feel like you want me to come back, by not gouging me for every penny you can. Also, as others have said on here, just because a book guides for a price, doesn't mean you're going to get it. One of my favorite LCS (who I later did "cleaning for comics" for, and found some gems in his huge basement area) was selling old Ultraverse books about 8 years ago for a buck. I asked him if he had anymore (hey, the stories were good), and he thought for a moment, pointed me to some boxes and said, "Maybe in there, they aren't marked a dollar, but that's what I'm charging." This is how you keep customers. One last horror story. A few years ago, a shop I'd gone into for the first time whipped out a Wizard magazine and proceeded to attempt to gouge me. I had that same Wizard in the car, and lo and behold, the prices he quoted weren't in the magazine...in fact, the titles he looked up were not even listed. Why am I sharing the one good story and two horror stories? Simple. It seems all of us have two horror stories for every one good story. Or maybe it's just me since I go to a lot of comic shops.

January 18, 2012 2:04 pm Yeah, shops in Orlando are cool, and I was made to feel extremely welcome when I was down there.

December 27, 2011 1:55 pm I wouldn't want Destiny of the Endless at my party. He'd get drunk and start telling us all what's gonna happen next.

December 27, 2011 1:50 pm Yeah, you're right. Everytime she shows up somewhere, someone dies.

December 22, 2011 10:21 am If you're in Queens, come to the library! There are several of us with extensive knowledge of comics and the budgets to use them, though the city is cutting our budget again. In fact, come in more (all you need is proof of address, like a bill with your address on it, and a photo id) and take out old stuff. We even have ebooks now, that you can dl from our website. I personally just bought 500 bucks worth of graphic novels for our collection. Also, moving? Need to get rid of old books? I'LL TAKE THEM! If you bring in graphic novels to our branches, or anything else in good condition that we think people might take out, we will add them to the collection, and give you a receipt for tax purposes. What I'm trying to say is, support your local library, and we will support you.