What's the name of your comic book store?

We're considering a defection.

A) miss some of the less-regular "indie"r stuff on my pull list (cf. Goon, Berlin)
B) semi-discriminately pull stuff related to my list based on CHARACTER not CREATOR (cf. I like Wolverine = I want Wolverine/Captain America NO!, and I mistakenly still pull Incredible Hulk = I want every piece of crap Hulk thing out there HELL NO!, but I like Alias + USM + Daredevil + Powers != I desire The Pulse & Secret War??? YOU POXY FULES!)
C) allow ransacking of the weekly shipments every Wednesday by stragglers as they open the boxes & do a quick inventory (which might be why A) always happens to me)

Irksome, to say the least. I blame his employees. Boo hiss.

Or I might just drive the 20+ minutes and make Buried Under in Manchester, CT my pusherman.

How do you "break up" with your comic store? Do you honestly and frankly go through the list of reasons, or do you meekly offer some lame-o excuse and take your business elsewhere?

Tom knows I'm obsessed with Gaiman, so he'll pull anything and everything Gaiman's touched, colaborated, thunk up, etc. Usually it's graphic novels and I feel obligated to buy them.

But Tom gives me 10-15% off my purchases all the time, so that's really nice.

Haha, we tried to do this yesterday. He was apologetic enough about missing our stuff, but in kind of a, you know, patronizing comic book store owner way. Thing is, I know other people who literally go there about twice a year and having everything on their list waiting for them. We did let him know that if it keeps happening we're taking our business to his ex-wife (snap!). It was totally like trying to break off a relationship though, suprisingly hard to do.

my comic shop is Sub City. In Dublin. Because I am *shy* I have never really got into being friends with the Sub City people, who all seem like very likeable fellow who are into their comics and not in a wankery comic store bloke kind of way. I bumped into one of them on the big anti war march last year, so he's obviously a sound kind of bloke.

I thought that was the point of comic shops? I don't have the time go to a comic shop every single week to keep up with what I want to read, much less go every Wednesday to insure I get them before they sell out. I do enjoy the ritual of it, but sometimes I've just got shit to do, yo.

Was it tall SC guy or bald SC guy on the march?

I've just started up again with having a pull file at Collector's Edge, which is a small chain around here (Milwaukee, WI).

I went into the Blue Dog once when I lived downtown, but they had just opened and weren't really set up yet. How is it?

I've never asked for a "pull list" tho, for that way lies MADNESS. Since I got back into reading comics after a 10 year absence I have tried, and almost succeeded in NOT buying every issue of ANYTHING just because I always have done... as a youth I bought "Alpha Flight", for instance, for YEARS without ever wanting to, and this must never happen again.

Okay, not really, but still.

Speaking of online buying, I've been happy with Mile High Comics for back issues -- I got a couple of Ambush Bugs the other day, and the "Rocky Grimm, Space Ranger" post-Secret Wars arc of the Thing, all for good prices (mostly because I went with like VG and F because all I cared about was reading em).

ha, oddly that's the only one of that storyline that i have, bought for the mignola art. i kinda gave up on lotdk early on but then started picking them up again when i saw them in the 4 for a pound bins.

so, is there a thread here where we post things that aren't particularly rare but which we've been looking for for ages?

Sad to hear the one of the local comic book stores of my youth is closing down after 22 years. Alternate Realities was probably the last comic book shop in Westchester to survive the comic book boom and bust of the '80s and '90s. Lotta good memories, though I haven't really been back there more than a handful of times in the past 15 years. The owner posted a bitter screed on Facebook about how what killed him were the handful of terrible customers who would reserve books and never pay for them. I'll miss Steve!

Grew up with The Great Escape, had a few others between, I guess Desert Island is my spot now? Really more a mix of internet/amazon/ebay/Strand Bookstore.