FCBD Horror Stories

I went to the LCS.
Got some comics.
The call is coming from inside your house!

I picked up some comics for half-off, so I'm pleased.

The "downsides" were that they were Steven Universe comics and one was a copy I already had.

Some shop said to enter a raffle for some shit you had to spend money. I think the entry fee was 10 dollars.

Half the shit up there was local artists comic covers and the other was warhammer shit. I really wanted that Age of Sigmar kit or Know No Fear box set.

Yeah but what happened after you stopped looking in the mirror?

didn´t even now that this was yesterday.
I just walked passed the store on my way to the park with my dog.
Haven´t been there for 5 years.
see the "free comic book" sign so decided to look in for 5 minutes.
nobody seemed to be in the store.
Owner seems depressed as fuck but quickly starts to cheer up when he sees me entering the store.
He asks if he can help me.
Look at most of the recent covers. Ugly art, ugly new female costumes or minority/female characters I don´t recognize.
I say "are comics still censored by feminists and liberals?"
He doesn´t seem to know how to answer so I wish him a nice day and walk out.

Wait. Where was your dog during all of this? Did you bring the dog into the shop? Or leave it outside?

You don't seem good at making conversation

leave outside
he is a good doggy

Recently moved so I got to actually go there and stand in line.

Had a pretty good relationship with my old store after doing them some favours, so they'd just save my picks and I'd pick them up whenever.

then who was the phone?

Nice larping user.

maybe. he just seemed uncomfortable with answering the question so I decided to give him a break an move on.
if comics are no longer for people like me then that is fine. I was just curious

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is this what the average Yea Forums user looks like nowadays?
fat mutts with glasses and shitty hair?

based and redpilled

You walked in, looked at the art covers then asked the shop owner a pointed question then left. Assuming you really did do that and you aren’t larping.

what´s pointed about the question?
it´s really something I wanted to know.
only reason why I came back to Yea Forums was to answer the same question

The killer.

I wasn't able to make it and I feel horrible because they had less workers than they hoped to have for FCBD and wanted me to help out for store credit.

>but then there weren't any comic books stores ooooOooOoooOoooh

A line for the register was pretty long because the owner was just straight talking to the customers, which isn’t inherently bad but when you have a line that is fully around the store it’s a bit frustrating.

Also it’s my own fault but I went to two different stores and picked up the same copy of Deathstroke Vol 2 accidentally thought I was picking up a different volume

3 stores not 1 vampi
Hold me

I just buy the books I want in basically empty stores every other day of the year.

Not interested in free gibs, not interested in posting about it on social media for nerd brownie points

Also, Why would I want to be around 400 lb women who unironically name their child Harley Quinn and watch Big Bang theory religiously?

I feel sorry for comic store owners

mine had plenty

Sure you did.

Women don't go to comic stores. Especially not "women".

2spooky4me

i've seen a female in the comic store but not a woman.

If this is real it’s some god tier autism and I hope it is legitimate.

Like teenage girls? I have those in my LCS.

>boring day at work, almost no customers in even though it's FCBD
>customers comes in with his dog
>we don't usually allow dogs in the store, but whatever, at least it's a customer
>say "Hi, can I help you?"
>only get "are comics still censored by feminists and liberals?" as a response, no hi or anything
>while I'm gauging whether it's a bad joke or if he's serious he bids me good day and walks out again, having done nothing but shoot a glance across the covers
Man, FCBD brings in some weird customers.

I looked like an idiot in front of some cosplayers bc a bee was biting my leg.

Tru Blu Kek.

>biting
Like, a bumblebee or something actually flew over to bite you? That’s genuinely bizarre.

Pretty sure what you got there was one of the cosplayers had dressed up their dog, because bees don't bite.

Just say you've been travelling and it opened your eyes to the convenience of reading digital comics on a tablet. Now you're just in to use the gift certificate to buy a comic for a friend or relative. Whenever you feel ashamed, simply lie. It's the way to success.

Walking into a comic book store in Orange county. Its pretty rundown since its been there for some time. Place looks more like a storage warehouse that hasn't been painted. owner is a short skinnny white dude in his 50's and most likely hasn't been touched by a woman sexually in decades.

I was there to buy some Conan, dude was cool with me and told me he wasn't doing the free comic book day stuff as an fyi. So I'm looking around, a man and his children walk in, walk around the store for a bit and leave. Dude takes a hit of his pipe (place smells like weed too) then goes on a rant talking to this basedboy cuckface skinny white dude that was hanging out there: "these people were only here for the free comic and they leave, they don't want to support small business, they just want free shit and no chance in hell I'm giving it to them. Welp, sorry, no free shit from me."

In my head I'm thinking "the fuck does that matter? why does that shit trigger you? no wonder your place is shit. Its free comic book day. that what every fucking store in the OC is doing." Get my stuff, checkout, in the counter behind him I see the giant stack of comic books (Year of the Villain Issue #1) which were the ones he was suppose to be giving out for free. How do I know this? Cause I had been to 3 other comic book stores before I went to his in my area.

Won't be going back to that douche again. Dude got attacked in his store a couple years back.

>every fucking store in the OC is doing
By oc you mean Orange County, as in the area around Orlando?

was it JNJ's? that dude's an old stupid stoner, half of the yelp comments are people complaining he's leaving cheap shwag just laying on a table at the door, and he never gives me discounts

Like always I forgot about it, I doubt any of the free stuff was any good.

Orange County California.

lol I see you are from the area. Hello Fellow OC user. I'm in Tustin. Where are you?

HOLY SHIT. Seriously, how did you know? Out of all the comic stores in the area how did you guess it? lol I think cause he's the only comic book store owner that smokes weed in his store.

basically a female who almost dresses or acts like a man.

basically i have no idea if it's being on a military base but all the god damn females around here act like men.

The guy was walking around the neighborhood and the nearby mall with a toy gun with no orange tip on it. And so for 15 minutes before the incident, there were cop cars everywhere and when they found him, they took him down right in the line-up. It was hilarious; his makeup was all over the ground.

>*Go to checkout wearing bloodshot shirt and valiant hat like a fucking dork.

>buying x-o #15 and bloodshot salvation #6 since its the only 2 valiant books they had in the entire place and I don't have them yet.

>"Hey its the valiant guy, I told you we need to keep them." "Where have you been?"

>Realize I have not been at this particular stop since last year.

>"uh,...deployment." "I was hoping to get some trades too but iv already have the ones you got"

I'm the reason my favorite company and medium is dying.

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Genuinely incredible experience m8.

>not interested in posting about it on social media for nerd brownie points

Confirmed for -2 followers on insta

One time my local comic book shop set the limit for free comics at four comics. But I asked them if I could have six free comics. And they gave them to me. I still have nightmares about how inconsiderate I was that day.

You Monster!!!

San Clemente
because he sucks and has been doing it forever
his picture should be an anti-drug advertisement, crusty lonely mean old fuck

Okay now this is epic

Mine didn't get it either. It was one of the few FCBD books I actually wanted.

>show up at LCS with sister, dressed as Elsa
>kid asks her where Anna is
>"Back at our castle."
>"She's a THOT."
>ofw

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>The guy was walking around the neighborhood and the nearby mall with a toy gun with no orange tip on it.
He lives in a society.

There was a guy dressed up as Green Arrow promoting the event. No, I'm not talking about the current CW series. I'm talking full classic outfit with a full real beard. I would have taken a picture but he had a sign next to him stating “no photos, please".

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What a fucking idiot. How do you run a comic shop without knowing that FCBD is supposed to be your biggest business day of the year? How is he even still open? It's like a store closing on Black Friday because they're not into it.

I'll take "shit that didn't happen for $500, Alex."

>a store closing on Black Friday because they're not into it

Not trying to diminish your point, but I think I kind of would want to support that store just on principle.

Sounds like that guy really lives in a society

There's a decent sized Mom & Pop outdoors store in my town that closes on Black Friday to allow its employees to go shopping or whatnot. However, they host a "Turkey Hangover Weekend" sale that goes until Cyber Monday.

Hmmm, how accurate of a portrayal was it?

You'll be here all week, won't you.. :-(

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I'm pretty sure that the store paid someone to dress up. The guy was mostly friendly, just refusing pictures. He even yelled at a couple girls who tried to sneak a pic.

While the costume was custom made and he said that he shaved his beard for the event. He had a real bow, quiver, and arrows as he hunts in the Fall.

I had to read a ton of valiant stuff for work recently. They've got some good shit. Shame they're not talked about too much. A lot of their stuff has the veneer of generic, but when you actually read it it's great

Random thing: I hate the "Anni-Padda" second name. For all I think they do well, I think some of their names are balls.

>I think some of their names are balls.

Absolutely.
As much as I really love some of the things they do there is also alot that is just lame, corny or just too on the nose.
Like the last name "Boniface"

A couple of years ago me and my friend got stuck in line in front of a guy wearing an angry birds onesie as he was detailing the intricacies to a cosplay girl and her boyfriend how he went about getting it custom made.

They then talked about the Funko Pops they wanted to get from the store.

I honestly wish this was just a joke and that I'm being an ass but it isn't. This kind of shit always happens to me when I go out and socialise

Well there is Small Business Saturday which makes sense since The Big Box Stores make it nearly impossible to compete against on Black Friday.

There was no 2000AD issue this year.