Comments on: Things that go on in comics shops

By: Isaeblla

Isaeblla — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:41:58 +0000

Isaeblla…

Thank you for the information. I will look forward to the next post….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:46:43 +0000

Last week I was at Jim Hanley’s Universe, and there were THREE WOMEN working behind the counter.

By: Christopher Moonlight

Christopher Moonlight — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:32:08 +0000

Whether we be fans (in a store or on a board) or creators, we do seem to be good at alienationg new readers. As for girls in comic stores, I have to give a big thumbs up on that to Atomic Comics in AZ, for having most wonderful co-ed staff you could ever ask for.

By: Todd Alcott

Todd Alcott — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:35:23 +0000

The Iron Man story is, as you know, my weekly experience in comics shops regardless of the character I’m looking for. The other day I was reading my son a copy of the generally kid-friendly Adventures in the DC Universe and there was Miracle Man as a private snoop taking pictures of adulterous couples for divorce settlements. Try explaining that to a 5-year-old.

By: Joe Lawler

Joe Lawler — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:50:41 +0000

“Robert Downey Jr. stumbling around in the iron suit like a drunken jackass just like his old man Mort back in the day.”

You know that Morton Downey Jr. isn’t Robert Downey Jr.’s father, right?

By: Sphinx Magoo

Sphinx Magoo — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:27:29 +0000

I was in a well-known bookstore once and a mom came back to return some Batman comics which she felt were inappropriate for her son. Luckily there were some copies of “Batman Adventures” available instead.

I suspect this sort of thing goes on more often than gets reported.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:12:27 +0000

Heidi,

Regarding the “adultification” of comic books, here’s a recent newspaper article in the San Jose Mercury News on that topic:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16795767.htm

Front page of the Arts section yesterday, with a big picture of “300″.

By: cary_coatney

cary_coatney — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:04:43 +0000

Hard to image back in the day when Iron Man used to be kid friendly.

See, if they had those classic Marvel Superheroes cartoons on DVD LIKE they were SUPPOSED to be released a year ago – Iron Man would be the BOMB and winning kids’s hearts and minds the world wide over – instead, in 2008 we’ll have Robert Downey Jr. stumbling around in the iron suit like a drunken jackass just like his old man Mort back in the day.

Somedays, it just doesn’t pay to be a Iron Man fan…

Coat

By: The Dane

The Dane — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:43:57 +0000

I would love to be treated like a magical unicorn.