Comic Book Store shout-out
Mar. 12th, 2006 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeregenestYesterday while visiting my mother-in-law we stopped by New England Comics in Norwood and I must say I was impressed. Not by the store as a whole, it was fairly a typical comic book store (but roomy). What I was impressed by was its kids section. Large, clearly set apart, and very thorough. They had everything from young-kid manga through all the young-kid comics and hen coloring books and activity books and other stuff. The boy thought he was in heaven. The guy running it was also very kid friendly and excited about kids shopping there. This is what I want to se in all my comic book stores and it annoys me greatly tha the boston ones aren't like this. But for all I know all the suburban stores do this.
The Starchild spent her time running around and identifying all the superheroes to the amusement of my mother-in-law and the store-guy. It was very cute.
I'll be making a point to stop there more often when we visit my mother-in-law on the strength of yesterdays visit. Its good to have a lace that caters to kids, cause you know comics are for kids as well.
The Starchild spent her time running around and identifying all the superheroes to the amusement of my mother-in-law and the store-guy. It was very cute.
I'll be making a point to stop there more often when we visit my mother-in-law on the strength of yesterdays visit. Its good to have a lace that caters to kids, cause you know comics are for kids as well.
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Date: 2006-03-12 06:10 pm (UTC)There is or used to be another store in that neck of the woods. I went there a bunch of times back around 98/99/00 or so when I was doing admissions travel in that part of the world. Maybe it was in Walpole. I haven't been successful in finding it recently. It was in a strip mall sort of thing, pretty much right off Route 1. They were really pushing the indy stuff back then and had a big Kabuki and Bendis display right inside the front door. First place I ever picked up any Kabuki - they guy running the place was a NUT for the book. I keep meaning to head back over that way and try to find it again, assuming it is still in business.
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Date: 2006-03-12 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-12 06:54 pm (UTC)I keep forgetting that's shifted so much.
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Date: 2006-03-12 07:14 pm (UTC)Adult is his thirty somethings
Date: 2006-03-13 03:35 pm (UTC)Please I prefer being called a kid at heart. Although I'm more of a manga person.
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Date: 2006-03-12 10:11 pm (UTC)The boy says his favorites are: Fantastic Four (Mr Fantastc, Invisible Woman, the Thing, Human Tourch), Beast Boy, Robin, Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Catwoman, Raven (okay all the Teen Titans!) and Green Lantern.
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Date: 2006-03-12 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-12 10:46 pm (UTC)Perhaps I should lend him my copy of SHOWCASE PRESENTS GREEN LANTERN, a collection of GL stories from way back when their intended audience really was children. But it's in black-and-white (which means you have to take his word for it when GL says something is yellow) and also it's about Hal Jordan, a different GL than the one he's probably thinking of (John Stewart). Maybe in a few years.
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Date: 2006-03-13 01:01 am (UTC)