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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus
Thank you. I'm glad you agree. And Newbury Comics? Fakey and pretentious? I remember a time when they didn't even sell comics. Is it still like that? God, I hated that place.
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Newbury Comics I actually don't mind. We don't have any good indie record stores around us, so Newbury Comics was the only place near me where I could find artists like Gogol Bordello, Pedro the Lion, The Notwist, The Magnetic Fields, and the smaller guys like that.
The guys who work at the one near me are more the fanboy types and not the snooty types. You can sit down with them and talk about when the latest volume of The Walking Dead is coming out and whether or not it's worth waiting for, blah blah blah.
Sure, you have all of the teenie-bopper-wannabe-punk clothing all over the place and the silly tchotchkies, but amongst that, you also get some neat toys, stickers, and the whatnot from artists like Tarah McPherson (who is a favorite of mine).
The comic book section IS pretty small, though, so I can see why that's pretty irritating.
I just use it for its music and DVD collection, which it has a decent selection of.