Tuesday, April 01, 2003

Yea, by the way...DC is cancelling another book...this time it's Power Company, which aside from Tom Grummet's amazing pencils, is not that great a book..

Also...when at work yesterday,there was a printed email from John Byrne on the counter. Byrne is pissed that his book, "Lab Rats" didn't sell. He blames comic stores for not pushing the book, and compares us to car salespeople, basically saying that comics are like cars and employees of the store like car salespeople.We are comic shop employees. We sell comics John, I see no similarity between us and car salespeople. It's not our fault that you put out crap, it's not our fault that people pick it up and vomit. People ask us what's hot and selling,we tell them what's hot and selling. People ask us what we like, and we tell them what we like. How does it help us if we recommend a book we don't like and then someone comes back and returns it? Half the time,the customers pick what they like and don't even listen to our opinions, which is good - it's their money. There is a guy who comes in to the store every week and buys anything having to do with Wolverine. I joke with him and tell him, "Wolverine is lame and sucky",and that doesn't stop him. People told me Young Justice was crap, I ignored them and kept buying.

So Byrne should be blaming himself for producing crap, not us.I was looking at some of his Wonder Woman covers when I was filing back issues,and on some of them, I can't tell if it's Wonder Woman or Dee Snider with black hair,. Byrne needs to quit his bitching and find a better line of work, perhaps as a car salesman..

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