Imagine being in your thirties or forties, having grown up in the 80s and 90s loving Marvel and DC comic books, spending absurd amounts of time and money after school or on weekends in your local comic book store, looking around you and going, "I want to own a place like this one day." And through a combination of tenacity, skill and good fortune, you end up as an adult, owning your own comic book store, living your childhood dream, fulfilling the American middle class ambition of owning your own business, only to discover that this is the shit that it's now your job to sell.
And that's when you switch over to manga. My local comic store is mostly manga, manga merch and a tiny section of comics. Sad if you've been a fan but what else you gotta do? You want food on the table, not try to hold up a dying industry.
Imagine being in your thirties or forties, having grown up in the 80s and 90s loving Marvel and DC comic books, spending absurd amounts of time and money after school or on weekends in your local comic book store, looking around you and going, "I want to own a place like this one day." And through a combination of tenacity, skill and good fortune, you end up as an adult, owning your own comic book store, living your childhood dream, fulfilling the American middle class ambition of owning your own business, only to discover that this is the shit that it's now your job to sell.
And that's when you switch over to manga. My local comic store is mostly manga, manga merch and a tiny section of comics. Sad if you've been a fan but what else you gotta do? You want food on the table, not try to hold up a dying industry.
Amen! My local comic shop makes the bulk of its money on Manga, Older comics, and tabletop games.
Isn't this the origin story of Nerdrotic?