What are some of your favorite comics in your personal collection not counting Swamp Thing?
Shane | Email | Homepage | 10.03.05 - 9:40 am | #

If there is one trend that you would like to see flourish - that is starting now in comics, and that you want to see continue -what would it be?

Plus, who would win in a fight - the Incredible Hulk or Rush Limbaugh?

Thanks for the props, dude.
Gordon | Email | Homepage | 10.03.05 - 10:20 am | #

Here's a terribly obscure and possibly uninteresting question:

Mike Allred's adaptation of the Book of Mormon sells like hotcakes here in Utah. Indy hotcakes, but hotcakes nonetheless. Is it even a blip on the radar in your store? I'm trying to figure is there's any market for it outside of the Mormon Theocracy of Utah ...
Mark Fossen | Email | Homepage | 10.03.05 - 10:59 am | #

Merci. Merci.

1. How much do you spend annually on your own (personal, not store) comic (or comic-related) collection? A rough breakdown by the stapled stuff, graphic novels, and other stuff. Breakdown by Marvel, DC and other.

2. If you weren't a comic book entrepreneur, what would you be doing?

3. What was the first comic book series you ever collected?
Roger Green | Email | Homepage | 10.03.05 - 12:06 pm | #

How often is Endemic Treponematosis discussed in the store?
Milos | Homepage | 10.03.05 - 12:11 pm | #

I should add that the best way I've seen of moving slow back issues is the bundle. People won't buy a single issue of Magik, but put the four of them in a pack and take 15% off the list price as a set, and they move surprisingly quickly - especially if you have a wall or a long, prominent case devoted to it. Encapsulating storylines in comics works well, too.
The Ferrett | Email | 10.03.05 - 12:58 pm | #

The Ferrett - we've tried the bundle technique several times over the years, deep discounting the packages, displaying them prominently, having a wide variety of titles...they've never, ever, ever sold for us. I know it does well for other shops, but in our area, people just don't want them for whatever reason. Which is too bad...I like the idea, but our customers don't.
Mikester | Homepage | 10.03.05 - 1:07 pm | #

Are my brother and I the only people who remember (and still own) "The Amazing Slapstick"?
Knitter | Email | 10.03.05 - 1:46 pm | #

What superhero has a weakness to pure metals?
Chris Griswold | 10.03.05 - 2:02 pm | #

What are you going to do after popular culture finally implodes?

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | 10.03.05 - 3:04 pm | #

Thanks to you I now own Superman Annual #11, Detective comics #500, and The Flash #300 just from reading your blog.

So my next question is: Are there any other one-shot comics that I should pick up?
Knitter | Email | 10.03.05 - 10:37 pm | #

Knitter - I'd try Superman #400 (lots of artists who previously had not taken a crack at Supes doing multiple stories) and Action Comics #500 (one of the definitive pre-Crisis Superman origin retellings). Or any of the DC Comics Presents annuals (the third one, with Captain Marvel, is a little weak storywise, but the Gil Kane art is great).
Mikester | Homepage | 10.03.05 - 11:27 pm | #

Mike,

Do you think having thumbs helps you read and enjoy your comics more than if you didn't have thumbs?

I'm conducting a poll about thumbs.

Thanks

Rob
RobB | Homepage | 10.04.05 - 6:11 am | #

What are the best Kung Fu comics?
John Dominguez | Email | 10.04.05 - 7:27 am | #

So, what the hell is wrong with most comic book fans (i.e., the ones who have heart attacks over non-mint comics, debate continuity to the point of absurdity, and so on)? Is it in fact connected to not being laid?
Dan Kelly | Email | Homepage | 10.04.05 - 7:59 am | #

Rob - Thumbs may not be 100% necessary, but man, they sure make things easier.

John D. - My favorite is Yang from Charlton Comics, mostly because of the name.

Mr. Dan Kelly - That could be part of it. Other theories include obsessive/compulsive behavior, an overprivileged upbringing that reacts badly to any inconvenience, an unwillingness to accept change, or maybe just plain ol' asshole-ery. (I have that last one.)
Mikester | Homepage | 10.04.05 - 9:45 am | #

There's something about DC continuity I seriously don't get. Pre-Crisis, when DC opperated on that "Multiple Earths" system... did all those earths exist in the same universe or something? Because that's the only way I can rationalize a difference between then and now. How many Elseworlds stories were we hit with? Crisis cleary didn't destroy the Marvel universe, and at the very least, we have DC Earth 1, Crime Sindicate Earth 2, Kingdom Come's possible future, half a dozen Legion reboot universes... Is this some kinda Hypertime thing?

I was reading Boston Con DC coverage, and a fan asked if DC was returning to the multiple earths system. I guess my question is... when did they stop?
The Amazing David-Man | Email | Homepage | 10.04.05 - 11:37 am | #

And yes, I realize that this possibly falls into the column of debating continuity to the point of absurdity.
The Amazing David-Man | Email | Homepage | 10.04.05 - 11:40 am | #

Name two comics that you can't wait until the next issue.
Jim | Email | 10.04.05 - 4:54 pm | #

Who's your favorite Beatle?

Who's your favorite Beetle?
Mag | Email | Homepage | 10.04.05 - 5:44 pm | #

Amazing David Man - in the Pre-Crisis universe, all of the parallel Earths existed in their own dimension...you couldn't just hop in a rocket ship and fly there, you had to have some kinda interdimensional-transportation thingie to do so. Crisis was supposed to put an end to the whole Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-etc. stuff, but more and more writers, nostalgic for that period, slowly brought that multi-Earth idea back over the last few years.

Elseworlds are different, in that these weren't intended to cross over into the main line DCU, though a Superboy storyline and recent events in Superman/Batman seem to have done so anyway.

I don't know for sure that DC is going back to the old-style "multiple-Earths" thing...I'm not sure they'd want to, beyond perhaps on a limited basis. If we saw the Earth-2 Superman as often as we see, say, Barry Allen, maybe that would work.

I don't know if they want to bring up Hypertime again, at any rate!

Jim - Two comics, eh? Well, beyond Swamp Thing, I'm going to say...JSA and Fables, which will endear me to some on the comicsweblogosphere, I'm sure!

Mag - Favorite Beatle: Ringo, if only because he made the movie Caveman.

Favorite Beetle: the stag beetle, because they look cool and they always attend social gatherings unaccompanied by partners.
Mikester | Homepage | 10.04.05 - 6:54 pm | #

This might be more appropriate for Dorian, but who's the gayest character in mainstream comics?
Greg Burgas | Email | Homepage | 10.04.05 - 8:48 pm | #

Mike,

How many times have you dressed up as Swamp Thing for Halloween?
RobB | Homepage | 10.05.05 - 5:01 am | #

Greg - Actually, Dorian is the gayest character in comics. Go figure.

RobB - Sadly, never. I could never get the tubers to dangle correctly.
Mikester | Homepage | 10.05.05 - 7:44 am | #

Am I too late to ask a question?

Is Captain Shazam's other identity, Micheal Grey, a SECRET identity or just a second one?

Truly,
B. Fatty
jp | Homepage | 10.05.05 - 5:21 pm | #