One more thing!

[jon_chaisson]

Just heard that Showcase Comics in Hampshire Mall is closing!! WAAAHHH!!!! :( Actually, they're not so much closing as consolidating with their Springfield store where they apparently get more customers. GAH! No more zipping down 116 after work to pick up my weekly geekfest of comic greatness. Well, I could actually go to the new shop down the road that Grover and the ex-Showcasers opened a few months ago (hey cell23, I know you're down the road...do you go there? If so, has it improved since opening?)...or go to the comic store in Greenfield that my dad told me about. *sigh* This sucks.

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[head58.livejournal.com]

I went to that store a few weeks ago. Sidekicks - right next to Stan the Vegetable Man. I was...unimpressed. The tool behind the counter was ranting and raving the whole time about what an asshole Bendis is and that he (Bendis) was up there at some panel at Comicon saying how great he was and bashing DC's president or something. Called Bendis a "fat bald no talent loser."

Now, I have issues with some of bendis's writing, but this guy was pretty much just being a Comic Book Guy stereotype. I looked up the stories about the panel at Comicon (you an find it on Newsarama. too lazy to link), and Bendis was nowhere near saying what this guy was describing. Plus, Bendis fat? buh?

It clinched it for me when he complained that Bendis's books were too wordy, and that he likes to be able to finish a comic in the time it takes him to eat a cheeseburger.

Now, I don't know if this guy was just part time help or a manager/owner or what, but his attitude really put me off going back. Also: their tpb selection was for crap (and, coincidentally, missing all the Bendis Daredevil volumes, and nary a Powers to be found).

Modern Myth in Noho on the other hand is always well stocked and has amazingly friendly and helpful staff. And you can just shoot down 91 to get there. That's my vote.

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me. My friend Leslie lives not too far from the place and she'll give me directions. Thanks!

I guess I'll just have to get used to shlepping all the way down to Noho. I haven't been down there in ages. This, of course, will give me a valid reason to spend money I won't have at Turn It Up. Feh.