Comic Book World Louisville, KY: Shop Review

I get the opportunity to travel a pretty good bit, and wherever I go I check out the local comic shop.  This is where I'll review them.

Comic Book World of Louisville sits along a busy industrial road south of downtown between the two interstates that make semi-circles around the city.  The shop takes up several store fronts of a strip mall, which it shares with a barber shop.  The sign for the shop is a little off-center indicating the expansion of the store over the years.

Upon walking in, I was immediately struck by the stores cleanliness and openness.  The glass doors and two front windows provided ample daylight while the rest of the store was lit by supermarket style florescent events which poured light evenly throughout the shop.  A white bearded gentleman greeted me and asked if I needed help finding anything. 

Shelves displaying trades and graphic novels are out front and at angles that allow the shoppers body and eyes easy passage into the center of the store.  Occupying bulk of the center space is a massive back issue case.   Most of the stock is recent back issues but there are older bronze and modern age books tucked in as well.  All of the issues are bagged and boarded and alphabetized. 

This picture looks dark but the shop is not.  The owner Doug is on the left mid-ground.

The majority of the back stock came from the walls lining the shop, which are filled with the most recent issues.  One of the things i like most about a store is their stock of new comics.  I don't make it to the store every week so having plenty of recent comics out and easy to see is great for me, and Comic Book World had plenty of that.  Nicely displayed on upright back tilting racks that keep the books from being damaged.

The other half of the store is dedicated to gaming.  A good selection of manuals and boxed sets for a good number of roll playing games, boosters and starters for Magic, Pokemon, and the various Heroclix sets, and strategy games and expansions for Settlers of Catan and the like.  This section shows off miniatures for D&D, Warhammer, & Shadowrun, although they are displayed rather low to the ground.  I had to stoop to get a good view of most of them.  This complaint is middling though as the rest of the store is very well kept.

Games and gaming supplies.  Gamers in Louisville must be shorties.

The best part of the Comic Book World experience though is talking to the owner, Doug.  Running the store for over 20 years in the same location and expanding as neighboring stores became available, Doug is a wealth of information.  Knowledgeable about both comics and games, and how to run a business well, too.

While I was in the shop a customer, a regular from what I gleaned while eavesdropping, came in and asked for a refund on a comic.  The young man bought an issue he already owned, to my surprise, Doug let him.  Returning a comic is like returning a Slurpee or a  bathing suit, it just isn't done.  This small interaction shows what kind of store Comic Book World, it is a great one.

I would definitely shop at Comic Book World again, and if you are in the Louisville, KY area it is worth the trip.  A very good shop.

Auto things there ghost

I am making this part using auto correct and swype.  I won't make any other corrections to it sort of letting the letters fall where they may.  I backfire noticed that in my emails and other online postcards that auto correct other makes some astute observations on the actual meanings of the parts.  Others have noted the damage and Danny you Arthur correct is a good placards to find some very hilarious and troubling examples.  I wonder though https making off are legitimate efforts and how many are screen cap foreclosures.  Damon you new media age and tour cynicism. 
I awww Billie Jean King yesterday at the National Press Club. She was pretty together although she didn't really answer Abby of three questions she was asked.  I doing know if that was because she is old and senile or if she is really very astute and didn't feel like answering the questions she was getting.  Either way she loved tennis balls into the audience at the end and made a point to thank the staff and the cameras mean, so she's gets a pass from me.  I doing know what three point lifespan converting it was, other than here breathing on the Presidents Council for Physical Fitness it was not very newsy. 
Toasty we delivered some finance guy talking about fighting terrorism and drugs through reform of shell company laws.  OK but hard to follow especially with a bad back. 
Going to Camden Yards Chilean Os Rangers double header.  Might see them finally breast fitness guys at least in one of these games. 
Just looking back at this post and it reads kind of funny but overall not the very best.  OH well a PST is a PST I guess.

Overly Ambitious

That must be what I am, overly ambitious.  I thought my biggest trouble with posting everyday would be ideas turns out that is just part of the problem.  Since my last writhing my social life geared back up, my work schedule got stupid, and I just my back.  Those three things combined with a lack with ideas and motivation.  Well all you can do is keep at it through, right. 

I'm going to see the Avengers movie again tonight.  This time in 3D. I'll post my day late review tonight or tomorrow.  Do I shock need to say schedule permitting? 

The Mighty Avengers

In a few hours the Avengers movie will premier and comic books, the Marvel way will become movies, the Marvel way.  The culmination of years of behind the scenes work by Marvel Entertainment will reach fruition with this film.  Even before Iron Man came out Marvel has been working hard to gather its various properties and place them back into their own tent so they could make a movie like this one.  Four individual movie franchises team-up and take aspects of those individual movies to form a plot in this one super movie.  I am stoked.

I'm stoked because the Avengers were always my team.  I consider Avengers 248 as my first comic.  Not because it was my actual first comic I ever read or owned, but it was the first comic I collected.

None of the Avengers in this issue, in fact it is a pretty weak team by most standards.  Vision leads the team of Scarlet Witch, Wasp, Captain Marvel, and Starfox.  You, probably do not know any of those characters, and I certainly didn't at the time either.  The story in the issue is the middle to an arc that began a couple of issues earlier and would end in a "double size spectacular" with issue 250. 

I'm not really sure why this issue made such an impression on me.  It might have been the grand scope of things.  The Eternals history was fantastic.  I think it is the villan Maelstrom, who at the end of the issue beckons a shadow creature Deathurge to kill him rather than face capture.  A double twist reveals Deathurge ressurecting a clone of Maelstrom who will complete his scheme another time.  Comic Book Villany, I love it. 

While October 1984 is the connected date it probably came out in mid summer, July or August, which would make me 8 years old. I was prime time for comics. I probably would have imprinted on anything I read at that point. It just so happened it was the Avengers. Flash forward 28 years and I am about to see my childhood heroes exposed to the largest audience they could get, powered by the biggest hype machine imaginable. There is a part of me, that pain in the ass juvenile jealous part that wants to keep the Avengers mine, but mostly I am super stoked to see what I know will be an awesome action movie featuring my favorite team of heroes since I was eight years old. I am stoked.

Day 2 Still Got Nothing

I didn't come up with anything today really worth putting out, or at least anything profound or interesting to me, so I guess I will explain the purpose of this again.  I go to thinking back in early April or late March that I would go out to a show everyday in the month of May.  I would take 5 pics, talk to 3 people other then who I went with and the bartender, and I would write up an account of the evening.  Then in mid April my social calendar started to get full, and I started to work some more overtime, and I started to get tired, and I started to think that the whole show every night thing was not such a good idea.  Last week I decided I would tumbl and blog once a day for each.  Something original if possible.  I had some old blog posts worked up, but I don't want to use them just yet.  I'm sure tomorrow I will come up with some profound shit to put here.  One good thing is last night I though I was posting after midnight, but Blogger had a different time stamp then I expected so I snuck a posting in on May 1.  Fist pump Yessssss.

It is now 8 minutes into May 2, so much for my "Everyday in May," pledge.   Which is to say that everyday in this month I will post a written entry in here and a picture in my picture blog.  I figure if I make a commitment to do it everyday then maybe, just maybe I will turn it into a habit.  The picture was an easy one and I have several easy ones lined up to follow, but this written part is another story.  I spent most of the day trying to think of a decent topic.  I guess I got anxious about it and I am left with this intro story, which is good enough, but in classic bad blog fashion should have been posted early last week, and this one would have been something decent.  Oh well, at least it is something. 

Either way check this space for more.  Everyday in May, except May 1 which was posted just past midnight on May 2.