What city do you live in?
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Tom Scola - May 26, 2004 7:45:17 am PDT #3024 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
-t - May 26, 2004 7:47:45 am PDT #3025 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
New Orleans
DXMachina - May 26, 2004 8:15:15 am PDT #3026 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
joss mentioned the animated series in the EW interview too.
Time to dust off the spec script.
shrift - May 26, 2004 8:24:49 am PDT #3027 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Y'all are scaring me. I've never actually been in a comic store, or not for decades, anyway.
My local comic shop isn't scary. Even on Wednesday it's not very packed.
Single issues will be arranged by publisher, most likely. If you see titles like Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, X-Men, you'll know you're on the Marvel side. You see Batman, Superman, JLA, Flash stuff? You're on the DC side. You see a bunch of titles and don't recognize a one? Congrats, you probably found the small/independent publishing houses.
You shouldn't feel stupid for walking up to an employee and asking for help finding something. If the employee makes you feel dumb, then you probably don't wanna give them your business, anyway.
-t - May 26, 2004 8:37:05 am PDT #3028 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks, shrift, I'm gonna print that out and take it with me. Fleeing in ignorance becaue the store employees are intimidating is my usual tactic, I'm afraid.
shrift - May 26, 2004 8:49:02 am PDT #3029 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Thanks, shrift, I'm gonna print that out and take it with me.
Heh. You're welcome.
Oh, and I don't know if they do this elsewhere, but at my local shop, the brand new issues are displayed on shelves just above the magazine racks of comics.
It actually took me a while to realize that, despite the fact that the new comics are basically on eye-level.
Fleeing in ignorance becaue the store employees are intimidating is my usual tactic, I'm afraid.
Yeah, comic store employees can sometimes turn out to be like the guys who work in the record store in High Fidelity.
askye - May 26, 2004 8:49:22 am PDT #3030 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
And also it makes you look like a big dork who has nothing better to do than go to a comic book store twice a week.
Luckily there are three comic book stores in town and since I hit two yesterday (they are fairly close to each other) I can hit the other today.
sj -- there have been times I want to ask something but don't because it seems like such a basic question. But when I have talked to the various employees at the various stores they've been very nice and helpful and happy to enable my new addiction.
askye - May 26, 2004 8:53:47 am PDT #3031 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
Also I forgot to mention that in 2 stores the new comics are arranged alphabetically. And on store has more recent back issues behind the current issues.
But the other place has them divided up by publisher.
amych - May 26, 2004 8:54:35 am PDT #3032 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Because I am insane: Dickwiki. Click to poke around, register to edit stuff.
Warning: still profoundly contentless.
P.M. Marc - May 26, 2004 9:20:45 am PDT #3033 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yeah, comic store employees can sometimes turn out to be like the guys who work in the record store in High Fidelity.
I find bouncing a little helps with that.
I am, of course, shameless.
Amych, you rock completely. Should the Wiki have pre-title backstory thumbnails? (Wiki entries for major storylines, like C/L, after which the NW title picked up.)