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Post by kirby101 on Nov 26, 2023 12:20:05 GMT -5
So while not the perfect fix, far from a law that makes no sense.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 26, 2023 12:29:31 GMT -5
It doesn’t come from YouTube videos that people are building homeless encampments in front of peoples homes and that it’s against the law to try to stop someone from stealing from your store. But by all means , ignore what you like.
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Post by Rags on Nov 26, 2023 12:34:29 GMT -5
This California comic store is singing the blues and closing down...
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 26, 2023 13:02:33 GMT -5
This California comic store is singing the blues and closing down...
It’s not only there. Comic stores are closing all over.
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Post by kirby101 on Nov 26, 2023 16:40:40 GMT -5
Jim Hanleys Universe just closed in Manhattan after decades.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 26, 2023 18:30:46 GMT -5
Jim Hanleys Universe just closed in Manhattan after decades. I actually have a pull list in the JH located in Staten Island.
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Post by tonebone on Nov 26, 2023 20:27:34 GMT -5
Now I want to read it more. To see hatchet-faced Natasha? Be sure to post your impressions on CCF. She's got the look of a sqinty-eyed carnival chick. Thanks to David Letterman for the perfect description, 30 years ago.
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Post by Farrar on Nov 26, 2023 20:53:18 GMT -5
Jim Hanleys Universe just closed in Manhattan after decades. Yeah, I read that recently in their newsletter. Loved Jim Hanley's; the one near the Empire State Building was the first comic shop I'd ever been to, about 13 years ago when I got back into comics (for me that means not new comics, but old ones plus material about old comics). I couldn't believe how large it was, like a department store. And it was not only large but spacious; I could browse in peace without feeling crowded by others (or having to step over people on the floor reading the goods). It had everything including the reference books I love. My first few visits I stocked up on a lot of trades there to catch up on Marvel and DC. They often had some really sales such as buy 2 get 1 free, etc. A pity that over the years the Manhattan site had to move and downsize several times, and now this.
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Post by MWGallaher on Nov 27, 2023 6:53:34 GMT -5
Inspired by this year's Classic Comics Christmas, I was thinking of how heavily Jack Kirby's creations have been mined for spin-off material over the years when it occurred to me that Jack, himself, either didn't choose to or didn't get to initiate many spin-offs of his own material. I can only think of:
The Inhumans: Kirby did the first "solo" Inhumans material, the back-ups in THOR (which were evidently intended to be the lead in their own magazine, not a back-up, as evidenced by the space for an indicia in the splash of the first installment).
Machine Man: not a spin-off in the classic sense, but more of a back-door pilot introduced in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
He did eventually get to do some Silver Surfer and Black Panther solos, but only after others had started them.
Am I forgetting something obvious?
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Post by foxley on Nov 27, 2023 7:02:33 GMT -5
Inspired by this year's Classic Comics Christmas, I was thinking of how heavily Jack Kirby's creations have been mined for spin-off material over the years when it occurred to me that Jack, himself, either didn't choose to or didn't get to initiate many spin-offs of his own material. I can only think of: The Inhumans: Kirby did the first "solo" Inhumans material, the back-ups in THOR (which were evidently intended to be the lead in their own magazine, not a back-up, as evidenced by the space for an indicia in the splash of the first installment). Machine Man: not a spin-off in the classic sense, but more of a back-door pilot introduced in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY He did eventually get to do some Silver Surfer and Black Panther solos, but only after others had started them. Am I forgetting something obvious? The entire Fourth World/New Gods thing is a spin-off of Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen.
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Post by MDG on Nov 27, 2023 13:22:06 GMT -5
This California comic store is singing the blues and closing down... It’s not only there. Comic stores are closing all over. That's a shame. I was in two different stores the past two saturdays--just about the first times I've been in store in years where I wasn't there to get "supplies"--and kind've gotten the bug to start making it a regular thing again.
Now two of my three purchases were gifts, but I saw plenty of stuff I've been meaning to get, even if it meant paying (gasp!) full retail.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 27, 2023 14:25:29 GMT -5
If you want them to survive, you have to buy from them on a regular basis. That’s what i started to do , but there isn’t a lot I want to collect.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 27, 2023 15:37:23 GMT -5
The last time I was in the comic book shop I frequented, quite a few years back, when I had a pull list it was for FCBD with my boys. And my impression is when you have places like Lone Star, Mile High and Newkadia (to name a few) that have millions of back issues available, LCS have to adapt. And I think that is why the LCS in my area seems to thrive on new comics, collections, apparel, toys/statues, superhero card/board games, etc. I don't think it is anywhere remotely feasible for a LCS to have the actual physical space for a large amount of back issues. So their "back issues" are unsold new issues in past years. They may have some old back issues in a glass case or some other display but rarely more than a dozen or so. All business have to adapt to survive. And my days of going into a LCS and spending $50 on back issues and everyone of them being something I want to read are over. So for me personally, I can't see myself supporting a LCS whose stock only has about 5% of what I might possibly want to purchase.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 27, 2023 21:42:25 GMT -5
Inspired by this year's Classic Comics Christmas, I was thinking of how heavily Jack Kirby's creations have been mined for spin-off material over the years when it occurred to me that Jack, himself, either didn't choose to or didn't get to initiate many spin-offs of his own material. I can only think of: The Inhumans: Kirby did the first "solo" Inhumans material, the back-ups in THOR (which were evidently intended to be the lead in their own magazine, not a back-up, as evidenced by the space for an indicia in the splash of the first installment). Machine Man: not a spin-off in the classic sense, but more of a back-door pilot introduced in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY He did eventually get to do some Silver Surfer and Black Panther solos, but only after others had started them. Am I forgetting something obvious? Kirby didn't like tor revisit past things and was usually roped into it. He wanted to do the next thing. So, in that, he was rarely thinking about spinning off material. Usually, he was devising whole new concepts, though, like the 4th World, they might be a collection of interlinking things, rather than something spawned by one series.
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Post by MWGallaher on Nov 28, 2023 5:50:33 GMT -5
Inspired by this year's Classic Comics Christmas, I was thinking of how heavily Jack Kirby's creations have been mined for spin-off material over the years when it occurred to me that Jack, himself, either didn't choose to or didn't get to initiate many spin-offs of his own material. I can only think of: The Inhumans: Kirby did the first "solo" Inhumans material, the back-ups in THOR (which were evidently intended to be the lead in their own magazine, not a back-up, as evidenced by the space for an indicia in the splash of the first installment). Machine Man: not a spin-off in the classic sense, but more of a back-door pilot introduced in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY He did eventually get to do some Silver Surfer and Black Panther solos, but only after others had started them. Am I forgetting something obvious? Kirby didn't like to revisit past things and was usually roped into it. He wanted to do the next thing. So, in that, he was rarely thinking about spinning off material. Usually, he was devising whole new concepts, though, like the 4th World, they might be a collection of interlinking things, rather than something spawned by one series. True, but he also saw the potential that many of the characters introduced in other features had for their own spotlights: Black Panther, Inhumans, Silver Surfer, Big Barda and the Female Furies, many of the New Gods, the Black Racer... Aside from the idea to hand his DC properties to other hands under his editorship, it seems likely that he'd rather have handled the Marvel spin-offs himself, which reminds me of one example that confirms that I was forgetting one: He did the first real Ka-Zar solo feature (the Savage Land incarnation, that is).
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