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Thaddeus Smith

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Variety - is your collective expectation that everything be there and available for immediate purchase.. or if it can be special ordered and ready within 3-5 days, is that sufficient?

 

I'm finding the common theme of comic store closures is an excess of product on the shelves that doesn't sell.

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First thing is low prices, more affordable tinder if I run out of firewood on a freezing day.

 

All female sale staff aged between 20 and 35 and good looking, if I'm stuck in the equivalent of the Theater of the Inane I need something to look at.

 

A disco ball, to keep me awake

 

A stopped clock on the wall as every minute I spend in a Comic Book Store is a minute I'll never get back.

 

A massive number of History Books for sale as well as one good history book is too many and 10,000 never enough.

 

YMMV. 

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I collect & follow certain artists & writers (Nat Jones, Greg Capullo, Ashley Wood, Brian Michael Bendis, Frank Miller, Garth Ennis just to name a few). Variety is a double edge sword. Mass appeal titles are required) to drive revenue for the casual demographic... but not at the expense of the more esoteric, niche efforts. I collect B&W sketch variants. Got some killer stuff from Nat Jones, Mike Mignola, Scott Cambell, McFarlane etc. More than my share of long boxes.

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