I mentioned the female dragon Mina in the My Little Pony comic who runs her own comic book shop to the guy behind my lcs today and he mentioned that a dragon (I think, he was dealing with five other costumers at the time) ran a comic book shop in Coventry. Can anyone else think of non-human's who run comic books or book stores?
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I don't know if you'll count this or not, but a Golden Age comic book character (The Black Terror) ran a comic book shop in Alter Ego.
That "non-human" stipulation is going to be hard to get around. Didn't a former employee of Rick and Marlo Jones' return as a ghost in Peter David's Incedible Hulk?
Captain Carrot wrote a comic (Just'a Lotta Animals Comics) in Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew, so a comics shop may have appeared at some point. Or perhaps such a store appeared in a Spider-Ham story, but I haven't read one.
How many comic books stores have been ran by someone that wasn't a caricature like Comic Book Guy? I've seen stores run by guys like that who didn't seem to understand that they needed to run the store like a business and not like a hippy head shop. They didn't survive the speculator bust.
I think Stewart on Big Bang Theory does run his store like a business but you can tell he's still a fan. In the case of MLP the character of Mina seems almost a fangirl. The recent talk of Howard the Duck makes me wonder if there aren't comic book stores on Duckworld and the type of duck who'd run them.
Ron M. said:
How many comic books stores have been ran by someone that wasn't a caricature like Comic Book Guy? I've seen stores run by guys like that who didn't seem to understand that they needed to run the store like a business and not like a hippy head shop. They didn't survive the speculator bust.
After returning to buying comics with Legends of the Dark Knight #1, which I bought at the 1989 San Diego Con, I found my first comic book store. When I had quit in 1979 I was still getting them at newsstands.
My first store had two full-size arcade games on the back wall. The people who were supposed to be servicing customers were playing the games while loudly cursing. I was eventually helped at the cash register. I think I only went there once.
The bad store was on the way home from work. I'm sure that they and all the others who weren't business-like are long gone. The good store I found was actually close to home and was run by the late, great Ken Krueger and his wife. When they sold the store it continued to be run as a business and is still my store today. The owners have been personal friends of my wife and I for over fifteen years now.
Finding arcade games in a store was always a bad sign.
My worst experience was a gaming store that had a bunch of people loudly playing D&D. I was told to wait until the owner came back because they were buddies of his but not employees so none of them could sell anything. He didn't show up for over an hour.The store didn't last long. He tried moving to another location but disappeared fast from there. A comic book store just a few buildings down is still there surprisingly, despite it originally being owned by somebody that expanded to four stores during the boom days and ended up closing them all down, except for that one which he managed to sell to someone. I find the store unfriendly but since it's still running some people must like it. Or they can't find another place (the closest being about 5-8 miles away.)
Wuat I'm wondering do the people in comic book stories in comics, movies, etc. usually act like Comic Book Guy or are they (more or less) normal people most of the time? I know Chuck in Archie Comics wants to be a comic book artist and I've seen him in a store but I can't remember what the boss was like. The MLP one definitely falls into the Comic Book Guy mode. But then from the little I've seen of that show there seems to be only one adult (the ruler) and males are extremely rare.
From what I've read MLP has an 80% male audience with the average age in college. Apparently even in something like talking rainbow ponies they can't get a large female audience. They've said they made changes from original plans (and the 80s show) to attract more guys, but if their audience is really only 20% female then they did too good a job there.
Ron M. said:
Wuat I'm wondering do the people in comic book stories in comics, movies, etc. usually act like Comic Book Guy or are they (more or less) normal people most of the time? I know Chuck in Archie Comics wants to be a comic book artist and I've seen him in a store but I can't remember what the boss was like.
If they show a comic book store in Archie Comics does it only sell .....Archie Comics? Like the shop in Big Bang Theory (from Warner Bros) only sells DC comics, statues, etc.
I think I saw the Shield in it. He hadn't appeared in comics for many years at the time (except the DC Impact version that lasted about a year). I think it was back when they were trying to revive their characters but never published a single comic. I believe they were going to call the superhero titles Spectrum Comics. They had a couple dozen of their characters saying hello and giving their name in a two page ad saying something like "The world's greatest heroes in the world's greatest comic books!" "I'm the Shield! Hi!" "I'm the Fox! Hi!" "H'lo! I'm Captain Flag!" "Greetings! I am Mister Justice!" "And I'm Inferno! Hi!" I think they made two of those, the first with realistic artwork and the second a bit toony, followed by a two page comic showing the Fox catching some crooks with serious dialogue but toony art. Thinking back I think they also sold Super Duck.