Annoyed at Newbury Comics... again

[athenaltena]

I think in terms of comic buying I'm going to have to start trekking down to Kenmore Square, since yet again the Newbury Comics over in Fanueil Hall didn't have Birds Of Prey. It's one of the best selling books out there, and they don't carry it, instead they have the goddamn Rise of Arsenal series which was universally panned as a piece of shit (among other things it killed a little Asian girl just to make her father angst)! I also refuse to believe that it's simply not selling considering that it's in its second or third printing everywhere else, and it definitely sells in Kenmore.

So I'm annoyed, and can't help but wonder if there's some latent sexism since it's one of the few books out there where the majority of the characters are female. They also didn't carry any of the collections of it, which is once again an eyebrow raiser. They also didn't even have Batwoman, a book I already own, that was near universally praised and sold very very well. It's irking. So I'll just have to travel to get my comics.

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[pegasi1978.livejournal.com]

Have you asked if they have a "subscription" service or a customer holding area? At my local comic shop, the proprietor will hold comics for customers and will even go so far as to order more copies of a specific title if you request it of him.

When I moved back to my parents after my divorce I stopped by and asked if he would set certain titles aside for me and for the ones he wasn't currently getting he started ordering them because I asked for it. In fact he told me that within two weeks of my requesting a certain title he had three others request it as well. Since I only get a few titles I only stop in once or twice a month, but since he holds them I don't have to worry about them selling out before I get in to pay for them.