Selling comics is hours and hours and hours worth of logistics. Sorting. Filing. Bagging. Boarding. Pricing. Moving. Stacking. Databasing. It's never ending. The better system you have, the more you're going to sell. People who are lazier with their store than I am with my personal collection don't get my business.
It's a BTC and 22 team-up!!!!! Unfortunately there are very few comic shops in the area. I think the further south you go the worst it gets. There are two stores in Mobile, Alabama and three in Pensacola, Florida. Where I live has the best comic book shop in the area and that is Covert Comics in Foley. After talking with the owner of the store, a large percent of his business comes from tourists who are headed to the beach on vacation. Tourists see the store on the way down and stop by on the way back home or if the wife decides to do some shopping at the outlet stores. The South is not like in New England where there is comic shop after comic shop or antique shops full of comics or estate sales with comics or garage sales with comics. That type of thing doesn't exist down here.
BTC with the logical comic book store business practices. If I was in a shop and found out they check the prices at the counter I would immediately walk out. Such a shady practice. It is a shame that cons these days are more about pop culture than the actual comics. It kind of proves the theory that comic book movies are not made for the fans but rather the general audience. I talk to a lot of people who love the MCU and are huge fans of the characters but they refuse to read a comic book. It is mind numbing sometimes. Great video by the way. Glad you had a good time with 22!
I don't need a page for page adaptation of a comic book in a movie. I like the idea of the movie getting me interested in reading thr comics. It was leaked after Avengers 1 sometime that Feige wanted non comic book readers to direct MCU films. I assume he wanted this so that these movies would be made by casuals and have a casual comic fan flare and appeal to the mass audience. Most people are not fans of Superheroes or just casual. That's where the money is unfortunately. As much as James Gunn reads and appreciates the source material I expect the coming DCU to have a casual flare... I totally understand walking out of a comic book store for that reason. If I was in my local area or Birmingham had more stores we probably would have left; however, I had about an hour left of my time before I needed to go back home and that was really the only store we could find in the area so we put up with it for that trip, but we won't be back.
