"…And when I return, I shall be a Cabin Man!"
Just so nobody gets the wrong idea about this post from a couple days ago:
…Cabin Boy is one of my all-time favorite films. Sheer, unmitigated brilliance, beginning to end. To not love this movie is to not love life, your fellow human, the glorious creation of God Himself.
And Russ Tamblyn’s in it, too.
A conversation I had with a customer yesterday:
Customer: “Hey, do you have that Serenity graphic novel in stock?”
Me: “No, I’m sorry, it’s been unavailable to us for a while now.”
Customer: “It just came out, didn’t it?”
Me: “Yeah, but this publisher has a history of not being able to supply books to comic shops while they’re in demand. Sin City, Hellboy…couldn’t get ’em while the movies were out and people were clamoring for them. We’ll probably be able to get Serenity again once Borders and Barnes & Noble don’t need them anymore.”
Customer: “This is some interesting industry.”
Me: “Man, you don’t know the half of it.”
Speaking of customers, apparently I missed a fellow who dropped by the store Friday morning (I was at the bar post office) while making the drive down to this weekend’s Wizard World convention. He had a want list all made out for the show…and he ended up finding nearly everything on that list at our store. And we didn’t even charge him admission.
Found on the eBay…how to sell your copy of the Atlas/Seaboard Scorpion #2:
Or how not to sell it, that is, since it didn’t get any bids. In the auction listing itself, an actual picture of the comic is available, but it’s just not the default one that shows up in searches and so on.
Because I’m a jerk, I’m going to quote from that auction listing too:
“THIS COMIC IS HARD TO FIND, VERY RARE.
THESE ARE UNDERGROUND LIKE NO OTHER,
THIS IS FOR THE SERIOUS COLLECTER WHO WANTS COMICS NO-ONE ELSE HAS.
FROM A REALIABLE SELLER AS WELL…ME…:)”
Well said.
Boing Boing takes a stand against Marvel and DC’s ownership of the term “superhero” (or “super-hero”):
“Here’s a proposal: from now on, let’s never use the term ‘super-hero’ to describe a Marvel character. […] Let’s reserve the term ‘super-hero’ exclusively to describe the heros [sic] of comics published by companies that aren’t crooked word-thieves.”
Something about Jack Kirby’s unpublished ideas being released by Marvel makes me uneasy, particularly given what Kirby went through in his later years. I know it’s from Marvel’s “creator owned” imprint, but somehow that just adds insult to injury.
(Remember what I said about what the name of Marvel’s “Icon” imprint should be?)
Thoughts that cross my mind when dealing with the store’s backstock: is there some small element of irony to the fact that Tekworld was effectively a vehicle for William Shatner’s Mary Sue character, given that the concept of “Mary Sue” either comes from, or was at the very least popularized by, Star Trek fan fiction?
DOOM deigns to respond to a certain Mr. D. Wright (or at least an amazing simulacrum), and somehow manages to drag me into it as well.
Ooh, you just wait…Wildcat, Swamp Thing, Aquaman, and Vibe are going to team up and kick your metal butt, Doom! I’m working on the fan-fic right now!*
