At 12:59 PM 2/21/2001 -0500, Margaret C Vining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>All of the stores were located in old strip malls with trash in the
>parking lot.
You're overgeneralizing, but a lot of comic stores are in run-down places for
the same reason that used bookstores are: They don't make a lot of money.
Lone Star Comics, which has at least four or five locations in Dallas-Fort
Worth, is exactly the kind of Barnes & Noble atmosphere you're looking for,
though the clientele is not going to be the soccer moms and Ford Expedition
owners you appear to be yearning to see. Even the best comic book or
gaming store is frequented mostly by geeks.
>Additionally, a used bookstore does not share the same social stigma that
>a comic store does. When I think of the word "used bookstore" I
>immediately get the image of a sweet old man in glasses and charming
>wooden shelves. When I think of the word "comic store" I think of bongs,
>a smelly guy reading a comic book, and kids in black t-shirts stealing
>dice.
Give me a break -- bongs? I've been buying comics and games since 1981.
I have never seen a store that sold a bong or any other kind of head shop
stuff. You talk about comic book stores like they were crack houses.
Rogers Cadenhead
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