David Lillard, a comic book & science fiction collector, creator and dealer, read Steve Bennett's column on The Big Bang Theory (see "Confessions of a Comic Book Guy--The Brotherhood of Broken Toys") and had this to say.
From the start, I *really* liked this television program. I was afraid it wouldn't last long; fearing the general public would not find enough interesting about it, to keep it in production.
In high school, I wanted to be a theoretical physicist, but got sidetracked into computers… then into comics, SF and conventions. I associate MOST with Sheldon; mostly because I never had the [envious] sex life of Leonard. In computers, I have worked along side of REAL people like Raj and Wolowicz. And I have become acquainted with women like Penny, along the way.
I *wish* I'd earned the wages that the fictional shop-owner claims. Seems like every time I was about to break-even and start showing a profit on a store, someone would open a store down the street (or 4 doors down, in one case), or, in the case of my last one, the economy took a DIVE, that I didn't have the resources to weather.
VERY rarely has a good-looking woman EVER come in to ANY of my stores. In part, I believe, because there really wasn't much being published for them. Now, there are several items coming out for--AND BY--females. A *definite* improvement!
The biggest problem, that *I* see facing shop-owners, today, is the digital publishing. It won't be long before the majority of our tech-savy comics customers bypass us. Who wants to maintain 1000's of comics in their home, when the can be EASILY maintained AND accessed via smart-phone, computer, tablet or the cloud. I know that I don't! (But, I am stuck with them)
Just some comments from an old-timer.
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'I Really Like'
Posted by ICv2 on November 10, 2011 @ 3:19 am CT
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