Have you ever been like bitched out at a comic shop?

[ComicBookWriter13]

I have been going to the same LCS for like 10 years, and every once in awhile I will get an overzealous fanboy wanting to debate why Jean Grey didn't open up a trans dimensional portal, and use the phoenix to warp time or some shit like that. I was just wondering how many times this has happened to anyone else here.

[Brian Defferding]

So far, not yet. Guess I've been lucky :) But I'm sure some comic shop owners got tons of stories to share here - with that being said, I'm keeping a close eye on this thread.

[ds9]

I just hate the assholes who stand in front of the racks reading comics while other people are trying to pick up there books.

[Jim T.]

I go in, chat a bit with the owner, buy my shit and leave. I hear the fanboy debating going on all around me and just refuse to sucked into it. I get my fix on that stuff here on the board. I suspect if you didn't, you'd have no other outlet but the guys you run into at the LCS.

[ComicBookWriter13]

I'm a relatively big guy, 6' 1", and 200 pounds, and I get these little scrawny assholes who are ready to take it outside because I didn't like the last panel of Astonishing x-men 12. (true story)

[YouStayClassy]

Never at a comic shop.... I did get the mother of all bitchings out from an ex at a Safeway once....

[ComicBookWriter13]

I don't try to get into it with them, they might just jump into a conversation that I am having with the owner, and hijack the whole thing.

[HCMarvel]

I liked when someone was arguing that Fancy Dan was a great villian that was under appreciated. When I laughed, cause i thought he was kidding, he got pretty confrontational.

[Cth]

I had a store owner once get on a rant about why the indy guys don't use color.. that it's all pretentious and they could get a wider audience if they used color.

I just shook my head and walked out of the store :D

[ComicBookWriter13]

I just hate the assholes who stand in front of the racks reading comics while other people are trying to pick up there books.


The comic shop I go to is relatively small. It is very clean and everything, but the owner just moved everything around, and the new comics are back on a huge rack. However, only like 3 feet from the rack, there is another structure, with crap stacked upon crap, and it is like a damn war when you have to get your comics. There are literally people who get into shoving matches to get a single issue, even if there are like 50 books still in the stack!

[ComicBookWriter13]

I had a store owner once get on a rant about why the indy guys don't use color.. that it's all pretentious and they could get a wider audience if they used color.

I just shook my head and walked out of the store :D



The thing I like about my shop owner is that he loves comics, but he seems pretty down to earth. He isn't one of those dudes who eats sleeps, and drinks comic books, and I kinda like that. he is very knowledgable, but he also doesn't start fist fights.

[ClintP]

Cth - Who is that on the comics with the iron man helmet on?

[ClintP]

My LCS owner is like a moody woman with PMS in that he can be your best friend or to avoided at all costs. I usually just get my shit and go.

[WinterRose]

Cth - Who is that on the comics with the iron man helmet on?

Me in my new drama role. I told ya you'd do me.

[ComicBookWriter13]

if anyone has been to graham cracker comics on madison street in chicago, you will know the definition of a great comic shop. The only thing that pisses me off is the lack of a quarter bin!

[ClintP]

Me in my new drama role. I told ya you'd do me.
Seriously?

[andrew french]

I had a store owner once get on a rant about why the indy guys don't use color.. that it's all pretentious and they could get a wider audience if they used color.

I just shook my head and walked out of the store :D

what a nice place.

[Thomas8354]

Only once, by my g/f. She no longer goes with me.

[SteveFlack]

I just hate the assholes who stand in front of the racks reading comics while other people are trying to pick up there books.

Midtown Comics? I hate those fuckers.

-Steve!

[Pat Loika]

I love the thread title.

P.

[Cth]

Cth - Who is that on the comics with the iron man helmet on?

Just some random gal, there's a reason she's wearing the helmet apparently. :D

[The Roman Candle]

I don't really talk to people at my comic book store. I'll say hi to whoever's working, and the usual "how's it going?" pleasantries, but other than that I pretty much just get my books and leave.

[Jacob Lyon Goddard]

once saw two employees get in a screaming match over the use of visual symbolism in the King Kong remake

saw a fanboy freaking out at a clerk for the store (a different store) that he worked at being in a basement
"I'M FAT, MOST COMIC BOOK READERS ARE FAT, WHAT KIND OF SICK PERSON WOULD MAKE THEIR CUSTOMERS WALK UP AND DOWN ALL THESE STEPS TO BUY THEIR COMICS???"
and he was serious
and he was saying it in that whiney, nasally tv-geek voice, and was out of breath from coming down the stairs
so everybody else started cracking up as soon as he finished and huffed it back up the steps
i was so close to making a bat poll joke

and he wasn't even that fat, not cut a whole in the wall to get him out fat

[ComicBookWriter13]

why?

[ClintP]

Just some random gal, there's a reason she's wearing the helmet apparently. :D
If that is the case, shouldn't it be a Dr. Doom mask then?:scared:

[ComicBookWriter13]

I love the thread title.

P.


why? I love it too, but is there something special, or slightly retarded about it?

[Pat Loika]

why? I love it too, but is there something special, or slightly retarded about it?

It's special. It made me smile. :lol:

I'm just not used to seeing the words 'bitched out' and 'comic store' in the same sentence. That, and I have images of my LCS clerk, Jenn, smacking a bunch of guys down while I kick them around.

P.

[ClintP]

why? I love it too, but is there something special, or slightly retarded about it?
Well.. It could use a comma, but its a little late for that don't you think?;)

[ComicBookWriter13]

It's special. It made me smile. :lol:

I'm just not used to seeing the words 'bitched out' and 'comic store' in the same sentence. That, and I have images of my LCS clerk, Jenn, smacking a bunch of guys down while I kick them around.

P.


in that case I can see why.

[ComicBookWriter13]

Commas are for canadiens.....sorry if anyone hee is canadien.

[ComicBookWriter13]

wow, this thread sunk fast, are there a lot of canadiens here or something?

[YouStayClassy]

wow, this thread sunk fast, are there a lot of canadiens here or something?
There are, but I'm sure a good portion of the board is at their LCS right now or reading their new scores.

[ComicBookWriter13]

Ah, that would explain it.

[DAVE]

It's funny you should start this thread. A few weeks ago I wa going into the comics store with my ipod on. I thought "Nah, I've always loved going to the comics store, why would I want to miss out on the environment?" So I turned off my Ipod.
Five minutes in, I heard the skinniest, most acne covered fan boy I've ever seen pontificating on a stair case to all below about how Gail Simone and Devin Grayson clearly got their jobs through sex. I kid you not. I looked up and said, "Yeah and you clearly have this job because you'll never have sex." and I put my Ipod back on. I guess I did the comic store bitching outing.

[ComicBookWriter13]

It's funny you should start this thread. A few weeks ago I wa going into the comics store with my ipod on. I thought "Nah, I've always loved going to the comics store, why would I want to miss out on the environment?" So I turned off my Ipod.
Five minutes in, I heard the skinniest, most acne covered fan boy I've ever seen pontificating on a stair case to all below about how Gail Simone and Devin Grayson clearly got their jobs through sex. I kid you not. I looked up and said, "Yeah and you clearly have this job because you'll never have sex." and I put my Ipod back on. I guess I did the comic store bitching outing.



:rofl: :yoda:

[Meteornotes]

I can't recall any conversations at either my current comic shop, or the last two places I regularly bought comics at. I do remember fanboy conversations at the place I used to buy comics at in Glendale, CA, but that was over ten years ago.

I did hear all sorts of inane conversations when I sold comics at local LA conventions. And witnessed Danzig getting into a shouting match with someone. Good times...

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[Race]

The only conversations I have are with one of the guys who works there - he happens to be my neighboor, and this guy I went to HS with and used to do a little art for and wants me to do art on this book he's working on and swears he should have finished any day now . . .

The latter will talk my ear off if someone else doesn't distract him.

[SeanC]

There are, but I'm sure a good portion of the board is at their LCS right now or reading their new scores.

Yeah, along with all the Canadians. Canadiens and Canadians are close as peas in a pod.

[ComicBookWriter13]

sorry mr. canadian sir.

[Evan the Shaggy]

Bitched out? Nope not really. I talk with the guys behind the counter all the time, and I doubt many people would argue with the 6'6 guy though I'd like them to every once in awhile.

[AAlgar]

I haven't been "like" bitched out, no.

[SeanC]

Last weekend I was at work and it was near closing time. One customer, who was a former employee, came in to get his Absolute Kingdom Come and we chatted for a bit. He has well-rounded tastes, as comes with being a fan of comics for a couple of decades, and likes a wide variety of books (not just superhero). Another customer, who currently works with the first, comes in and he loves nothing but superhero stories.

The two of them actually got into an argument that, I could of sworn, was going to end in punches being thrown. It ran the gamit from talking about conventions (how they are no longer 'fun' for myself and the first customer to attend) to how most comic readers eventually hungry for something 'more' than just Spider-man and X-men. The second customer became offended and, hopefully because he has personal issues with the first customer, walked out of the store while saying (to the Muslim first customer) "Why don't you go fly some planes into a building!"

I stood there stunnded. Just stunned. Most conversations in the store are all in good fun; it was crazy to me.

[Taki Soma]

bitched out, no. stalked, yes.

[YouStayClassy]

Last weekend I was at work and it was near closing time. One customer, who was a former employee, came in to get his Absolute Kingdom Come and we chatted for a bit. He has well-rounded tastes, as comes with being a fan of comics for a couple of decades, and likes a wide variety of books (not just superhero). Another customer, who currently works with the first, comes in and he loves nothing but superhero stories.

The two of them actually got into an argument that, I could of sworn, was going to end in punches being thrown. It ran the gamit from talking about conventions (how they are no longer 'fun' for myself and the first customer to attend) to how most comic readers eventually hungry for something 'more' than just Spider-man and X-men. The second customer became offended and, hopefully because he has personal issues with the first customer, walked out of the store while saying (to the Muslim first customer) "Why don't you go fly some planes into a building!"

I stood there stunnded. Just stunned. Most conversations in the store are all in good fun; it was crazy to me.

:shock:

Good Lord....

[SeanC]

sorry mr. canadian sir.

No problem, eh? You were close to gettin' a boot to da head, though, eh? :D

[ComicBookWriter13]

No problem, eh? You were close to gettin' a boot to da head, though, eh? :D


I don't want another boot to da head.......they hurt like hell.

[SeanC]

I don't want another boot to da head.......they hurt like hell.

Well, there's usually only the one because if I give two I fall down, eh? No doot aboot it.

[YouStayClassy]

Well, there's usually only the one because if I give two I fall down, eh? No doot aboot it.

:lol:

Now say "house".

[SeanC]

:lol:

Now say "house".

My hoose has a chesterfield, eh?

[SeanC]

bitched out, no. stalked, yes.

Is that the story about the man who followed you to your car? The one that scared you half to death in the process? :sad:

[Taki Soma]

Is that the story about the man who followed you to your car? The one that scared you half to death in the process? :sad:
yea... somehow, I attract stalker types. I can't tell you how many stalkers I've had in the past. I may look vulnerable? I don't know. but yea, that's the time. that fucker still makes me angry thinking about it.

I realize this dude following me to my car isn't necessarily 'stalking' rather than just following me, but whatevs. it's scary.

[TSChamp]

May comic shop treats me like a god. (They better because the amount I drop there is insane.) I always adding more books to my list and ordering special items. The first time I went there I didn't buy anything because I was out of collecting for 10 years. The owner took the time to talk to me about the characters I used to collect. Show me some places on the web to check out before I made any decisions. He treat me like a valve customer. He also pointed me to some intresting indies that I going to pick up tomorrow. It also helps that I used to work with him at a old comic shop in late 80s.

[Jamie Coville]

yea... somehow, I attract stalker types. I can't tell you how many stalkers I've had in the past. I may look vulnerable? I don't know. but yea, that's the time. that fucker still makes me angry thinking about it.

I realize this dude following me to my car isn't necessarily 'stalking' rather than just following me, but whatevs. it's scary.

That's sad.

Here's a link you might want to explore:
http://beauty.expertvillage.com/interviews/self-defense.htm

It's got a lot of small videos showing physical self defense techniques.

[niceguyeddie]

i hate the young avengers "hawkeye" and I got into an argument about it, but the heat was more coming from me than anyone else.

i think it's a ok to pretty good comic, but no frackin' way should that be "hawkeye"

[Masculine Todd]

Yes, I have been bitched out by someone at my LCS, but it wasn't by a fellow fanboy.

I was kinda hiding out from my boyfriend because we had been engaged in a rather heated (verbal) fight prior to leaving to pick up my pulls, and I decided to hang around the shop, due to the fact that many of my friends are mutual between the two of us.

He finally found me there, walked in, and started shouting at me. I kept trying to get him out of the shop but he wouldn't budge, nor would he allow me to leave.

When a patron and fellow geek friend asked him what his problem was, he started calling everyone in the shop "ugly fucking dorks".

Yeah, that was fun.

[ComicBookWriter13]

Yes, I have been bitched out by someone at my LCS, but it wasn't by a fellow fanboy.

I was kinda hiding out from my boyfriend because we had been engaged in a rather heated (verbal) fight prior to leaving to pick up my pulls, and I decided to hang around the shop, due to the fact that many of my friends are mutual between the two of us.

He finally found me there, walked in, and started shouting at me. I kept trying to get him out of the shop but he wouldn't budge, nor would he allow me to leave.

When a patron and fellow geek friend asked him what his problem was, he started calling everyone in the shop "ugly fucking dorks".

Yeah, that was fun.



wow.....he's a winnner!


DAMN those DORKS!

[thatguylobo]

I work the other side of the counter, but most of my regulars are good guys. The worst I get are a couple of hardcore guys who are a little too into stuff. I have yet to experience any nerd rage however. The only guy that ever really got me was some dude a month or so ago who was really REALLY into '52.' I'm doing some pricing or something, and he's hanging around me and essentially recapping the entire book.
"Did you know" says he. "that Black Adam is going to take over and destroy the whole world? Man, that's scary! And I feel really bad for Tim Drake. He lost his whole family and everything."
"Yes." I reply. "It's a good thing for him that he doesn't exist."
Not actual bitching. Just annoying. Very very annoying.

[Dwimmerling]

Not with the other comic book geeks, but I have with the magic player geeks. I hate them, I hate them lots. . .

[ComicBookWriter13]

I work the other side of the counter, but most of my regulars are good guys. The worst I get are a couple of hardcore guys who are a little too into stuff. I have yet to experience any nerd rage however. The only guy that ever really got me was some dude a month or so ago who was really REALLY into '52.' I'm doing some pricing or something, and he's hanging around me and essentially recapping the entire book.
"Did you know" says he. "that Black Adam is going to take over and destroy the whole world? Man, that's scary! And I feel really bad for Tim Drake. He lost his whole family and everything."
"Yes." I reply. "It's a good thing for him that he doesn't exist."
Not actual bitching. Just annoying. Very very annoying.



Nerd Rage is like the equal to retard strength, which is scary.

[Foolish Mortal]

Last weekend I was at work and it was near closing time. One customer, who was a former employee, came in to get his Absolute Kingdom Come and we chatted for a bit. He has well-rounded tastes, as comes with being a fan of comics for a couple of decades, and likes a wide variety of books (not just superhero). Another customer, who currently works with the first, comes in and he loves nothing but superhero stories.

The two of them actually got into an argument that, I could of sworn, was going to end in punches being thrown. It ran the gamit from talking about conventions (how they are no longer 'fun' for myself and the first customer to attend) to how most comic readers eventually hungry for something 'more' than just Spider-man and X-men. The second customer became offended and, hopefully because he has personal issues with the first customer, walked out of the store while saying (to the Muslim first customer) "Why don't you go fly some planes into a building!"

I stood there stunnded. Just stunned. Most conversations in the store are all in good fun; it was crazy to me.
Sheesh. Somebody must've peed in that guy's rice krispies that day I guess.


It's funny you should start this thread. A few weeks ago I wa going into the comics store with my ipod on. I thought "Nah, I've always loved going to the comics store, why would I want to miss out on the environment?" So I turned off my Ipod.

Five minutes in, I heard the skinniest, most acne covered fan boy I've ever seen pontificating on a stair case to all below about how Gail Simone and Devin Grayson clearly got their jobs through sex. I kid you not. I looked up and said, "Yeah and you clearly have this job because you'll never have sex." and I put my Ipod back on. I guess I did the comic store bitching outing.
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[james michael]

thats so dumb...

phoenix HAS opened a portal and fucked with time :roll:

[Foolish Mortal]

yea... somehow, I attract stalker types. I can't tell you how many stalkers I've had in the past. I may look vulnerable? I don't know. but yea, that's the time. that fucker still makes me angry thinking about it.

I realize this dude following me to my car isn't necessarily 'stalking' rather than just following me, but whatevs. it's scary.
I guess being stalked by weirdos is the price you pay for being really hot.

How's that for a creepy compliment? :p

Seriously though, you'd be well-advised in buying some pepper-spray in the little sprayers that can attach to your key chain. That shit works.

[ComicBookWriter13]

thats so dumb...

phoenix HAS opened a portal and fucked with time :roll:




I was pulling that out of my ass, and not surprisingly, I got shit.