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stuff about Metro Entertainment, my home away from home: also, work.

with Tongue

I’m kind of starting to enjoy these quick bits of furious webcam-ing.  This is really what I do on my ten minute break at work if I’m not hungry or aren’t reading anything.  I set up (harder than it looks as the video is so dark), record, check levels, edit as much as I can [...]

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2009 09 22 admin DC
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a Brave new world….

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2009 09 19 admin Marvel
reviews
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Let’s Do Lunch

So, I’m back to work; nt full time just yet, but I got a head full of projects and promotions and tons of excitement for getting behind the ol’ register again.  On the whole, it’s been exactly what I’ve needed and the support been just super.
But I love lunch.
Just love it.  Work an eight-hour shift, [...]

2009 07 14 admin indy
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Cracking the Internet in Half

Okay, so it’s one thing to overhype your stuff to the tried and true fans; by this point, we should expect every issue of every comic that rolls off the Marvel assembly lines to fundamentally change our lives and bring peace to the Middle East.  No, let’s not get into whether or not the issues [...]

2009 06 17 admin Marvel
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The Coolest Thing EVER

You see, sometimes cool things happen to you and others have coolness thrust upon them.
This is a little of both:
That’s right.  At my hometown comic shop, at my place of employment, Mr. MATT FREAKIN’ FRACTION is going to be live in person sitting not ten feet from where I type this.  All the way from [...]

2008 10 15 admin Comments (1)

All the Luck in the World

Funny story:
Metro Entertainment (SANTA BARBARA’S BEST AND BRIGHTEST FOR COMICS TOYS GAMES AND MORE – sorry, got a little promo tourette’s there) sent me and the store manager to local university UCSB to spread the word about our shop, our big event coming up on the 18th this month and about what we sell.  It [...]

2008 10 08 admin Comments (0)

The End of Summer

So things have been rather quiet in the world of snappy judgments over here as with the middle of August hitting, we’re starting to hit that all important crucial time in comic shopdom known as ‘they’re starting to go back to school’.
Now, i won’t lie and say that even a good portion of our customers [...]

2008 08 21 admin site Comments (0)

Defensive Marvel is Defensive

At the Marvel: Your Universe panel, i was able to not only praise the panelist for putting out two great books at the same time the Iron Man movie hit, but ask them why we got two very very very different books on the stands that were as far away as possible from the Incredible [...]

2008 07 25 admin Marvel
conventions
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Blood Colossus

These two words have sold me more $3.99 issues than any other since I started this job.  Since I started selling.
BLOOD COLOSSUS.
Just… just bask in it for a moment, will you?  Take in the wonder and the glory that is a Blood Colossus.  The name excites the imagination and lays the groundwork for what is [...]

2008 07 21 admin Marvel
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Courting Girls

When I worked at my first comic shop down in the City of Industry in sunny southern California, I was handed a small pamphlet titled “How to get Women (and other new customers) Into Your Store!”.  Well, something like that at least as that’s the impression that was left to me upon seeing the [...]

2008 07 12 admin commentaries Comments (4)