{"id":254,"date":"2006-08-13T21:23:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T04:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/my-kingdom-for-a-copy-of-she-hulk-10\/"},"modified":"2006-08-13T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T04:23:37","slug":"my-kingdom-for-a-copy-of-she-hulk-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"My Kingdom for a Copy of She-Hulk #10!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am so wishing Nerd Nation<\/a> was a reality already. See, this weekend, Jeff and I were staying in a certain unfamiliar locale, and we wanted to find a decent comic shop so we could pick up our books. Thanks to some convoluted Googling, I located a place that seemed cool: newish shop, nifty name and mere steps away from where we were staying. We hustled on over there — and in approximately 30 seconds, we had come to a rather dismaying conclusion. The shop only stocked two things: graphic novels and RPGs. Which…nothing wrong with either, but there was nary a single issue in sight. No new comics. No tantalizing display of the week’s latest issues. What’s more, we were the only customers in sight, and the atmosphere was one of heavy silence coupled with sterile weirdness, so we didn’t quite feel comfortable asking what the deal was.<\/p>\n

We decided to wander around the area a bit, and came upon a little olde thymey hobby shop with model trains, action figures annnnndddd…comic books! Huzzah! Only once we got inside, we found that said comic books were mysteriously ensconced behind the counter. No touchy! So…OK. I guess they don’t want you reading stuff you aren’t gonna buy, but…the books weren’t even displayed well. We craned our necks a bit, trying to suss out the full selection, but it was all for naught since old hobby shop proprietor dude was busy chatting up another customer and could not be bothered to take notice of us. Jeff was pretty put off by the whole behind-the-counter schtick anyway, so we ditched the place.<\/p>\n

Both of those scenarios are…weird<\/i>, right? And if NN existed, I might write up both of these places and name names, oh my! Instead, I shall just marvel at this particular town’s lack of a good shop in which to indulge in one of my weekly rituals of nerdery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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