{"id":144,"date":"2006-05-27T00:52:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T07:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/27\/my-comic-shop-can-beat-up-your-comic-shop\/"},"modified":"2006-05-27T00:52:16","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T07:52:16","slug":"my-comic-shop-can-beat-up-your-comic-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"My comic shop can beat up your comic shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { }\n.flickr-frame {\tfloat: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/castewar\/154033731\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/52\/154033731_336702e5e2_t.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"Elfsar Hero Clix Championship belt 2\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/castewar\/154033731\/\">Elfsar Hero Clix Championship belt 2<\/a>,<br \/> originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/castewar\/\">castewar<\/a>.<br \/>\n\t<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I have a short, but slowly growing list of comic shops that I consider world class. I call the list, &#8220;Comic Ships That I Consider World Class.&#8221;<br \/>\nMeltdown Comics and Golden Apple Comics in LA would be good examples. I worked at another, way back when &#8211; Another Dimension Comics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (you&#8217;ve heard of it &#8211; they had an Olympics there once.)<\/p>\n<p>In Vancouver, I count two (with two near misses that I won&#8217;t name drop today) &#8211; Imperial Hobbies in Richmond, and my home base (home is where your account box resides), Elfsar comics.<\/p>\n<p>In the four years they&#8217;ve been operating, they&#8217;ve been big advocates of Wizkids Clix games, hosting a couple of gaming nights a week. One of thier regulars went to LA a few months back and won the Hero Clix tournament &#8211; Ethan, Elfsar head honcho, took it upon himself, as a way to celebrate the victory, to build this awesome championship belt. In the middle are an excellent selection of hero clix figures, collaged together, and spraypainted gold.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeeeeeet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elfsar Hero Clix Championship belt 2, originally uploaded by castewar. I have a short, but slowly growing list of comic shops that I consider world class. I call the list, &#8220;Comic Ships That I Consider World Class.&#8221; Meltdown Comics and Golden Apple Comics in LA would be good examples. I worked at another, way back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}