Then open one... whats stopping you?

Well I think you've answered your own question

I've always thought of opening a combination takeout burrito joint/comic book shop/gaming store.

I figure I'd do it if I won the lottery.

Lease a place
Get enough money to buy from Diamond Direct
Advertise
?????
Profit

>>16817715
Comics AND Burritos?

You sir, are a genius!

>>16817693
No Johnny, you are the neckbeards!

>Go to local comic store
>nothing but local zines and pretentious bullshit
>small Marvel/DC corner
>FILLED WITH HATE

>>16817767
I am worried I'll be a neckbeard manchild when I open one.

>>16817767
>>16817768

I always feel so awkward going into a comic book shop. They are always playing table top games and stare at me when I walk past them. If you arent part of their neck beardy clique then prepare to get stared at.

>Go to local comic book store
>oh wait there is no store
>forced to either scrounge /co/ and other sites for comics and pirate
>feel bad
>wonder if i donation can be made to marvel/dc for comics value

>>16817803
OH GOD MAGIC THE GATHERING

Those guys will hate you if you don't know how to play it.

I was under the impression that /co/ is entirely populated by manchildren and neckbeards

...Am I being trolled?

suddenly: a mirror!

So, you can read comics and not being a neckbeard?

So I guess what I need is money in order to rent a place to run it. I'll look into it.

How would /co/ like a store to be organized if they went to one?

>>16817814
Just say "how's the five-colored crack addiction working out for ya?"

>They're run by manchildren and neckbeards

and you were surprised by this?

My LCS is run by a woman.
Still as cliquey and annoying.
They don't talk to you and eye you weirdly as soon as you walk in.

You're probably not gonna make much money.

>>16817803
I hate that most of all. It makes things very awkward and it scares away potential customers. And if they bring up "lawl, you're a girl" NO. FUCK YOU. SELL ME COMIC BOOKS AND SHUT UP, YOU FEDORA-WEARING FUCKFACE.

>>16817715
Gaming things are what I hate about some LCS's
I don't want to be looking for comics and have to listen to MTG, Yu-gi-oh, Warhammer, D&D, WHATEVER THE FUCK those 8-50 year olds faggots are playing.

>>16817837
comics on the right
beer and pizza on the left
big everything is for free sign on window

>>16817830
Oh wow
For a second I thought that was the CAD Jackie pic

Someone should start a comic book library or some shit. Like charge 30$ a month, but you can come in and sit and read new releases or older stuff. also with a snack-bar but no Cheetos.

>>16817814
Ugh I know. I know how to play, but barely. Same thing with Yu-Gi-Oh, if you are not using the most OP shit...
anyways back to OP, I'd say try and get some people to work with you to soften the finances, and see if you can arrange some sort of deal. Also avoid neckbeard.

>>16817884
Strippers, don't forget the strippers.

>>16817813
so you have that new version of the internet that doesn't allow you to make online purchases...

>>16817874
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucking fedoraaaaaaaaaas

>>16817916
The Fedora's been killed horribly.

you more than likely do not have OCD. OCD does not mean you're a neat freak who needs to have everything organized in some way. In actuality, if you had bad OCD the store might be a mess because you spend all of your time touching the walls of the store with your elbows in a certain pattern because that's the only thing that lets you stop thinking about yourself as a corpse.

>>16817814
OH GOD YESTERDAY
>Go to LCS with friend because he's looking for SNES games
>Look around while he talks about selling sports cards
>MTG box catches eye
>Read back
>"What the fuck is a mythic rare card?"
>Owner explains
>INTERNAL ETERNAL RAGE AT THE BULLSHIT THAT HAS HAPPENED IN 10 YEARS

Oh my fucking Christ, has it been 10 years since I played?! Shit, I'm getting old...

>>16817814
That's actually the feeling I get from Yu-Gi-Oh players. I play MtG and really don't care if people don't know how to play. The Yugi players on the other hand will call you a heathen if you don't know how to play their game.

>>16817930
Fedora's are great on pulp heroes, vigilantes and hardboiled detectives, not for the neckbeards.

>>16817960
lol do people really still play yu-gi-oh? not trollin

OP here

Steps to awesome shop:

1. Sell food like Pizza and Burritos
2. Kick out Magic and Yugioh players
3. Have a comic rental service
4. Hire strippers on Fridays

>>16817996
Sounds good, but I don't know if the comic book rental idea it's good.

I don't get how OP has the right to call other comic readers man-children and neck-beards, while he clearly is one himself...

>>16817906
how could i forget the strippers

>>16817996

Sounds like a great way to fail miserably and close in a month.

>>16817987
I'll rock mine occasionally.

Both of my local comic stores are pretty cool. One has a collection of every Spider-Man toy ever made on display, and the other has replicas of all the Iron Man helmets and Cap's shield.

The first one has their porn comics RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORE, though, so it's rrrrreeeally awkward to go there with my non-comic nerd friends.

>>16818019
Having standards of cleanliness makes you a manchild neckbeard?

>>16817996
food+rental comics=horribly destroyed comics

>>16818035
and you look like a d-bag bro, seriously lose it

>>16817715
interesting i always wanted to open a comic shop/video game depo and then tell manga fans to go fuck themselves.

>>16818035
I think that's a trillby, not a fedora.

Don't quote me, though.

>>16818028
What are you, gay? How could that in anyway fail?
Kicking out the tabletop players would only get rid of that base AND WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT THEM.
That would allow for more /co/mraddes.
Plus strippers? HELLO.
Fuck, I was sold after reading burritos.

>Walk in LCS
>1/3 Marvel, 1/3 DC, 1/3 Everybody else + a smudge of Manga
>Owner doesn't care if you read through the new releases
>Gamingfags have they're own room secluded off behind the TPB shelf.
>They always shut the door during tournaments
>interstellerbrofist.png

>>16817813
hey you midtown comics. your lcs that delivers if you don't have a lcs.

I'll be honest, tcgs are a necessary evil when it comes to running a comic shop

>>16818035
do you keep anti theft tags on all your clothes ?

>>16818054
Interesting I always wanted to see a xenophobic douche go bankrupt.

>>16818076
Ha ha, oh wow. Just noticed that.

>>16818076
people won't steal his clothes

>>16818064
Getting rid of a comic store's main base of money intake, as well as focusing on a service where the comics will all too easily become ruined in some way.

Your store would collapse in on itself.

>>16818055
>>16818049
>>16818076
I WAS HAT SHOPPING!

Two words I'm fairly sure Alan Moore would never say and would hate to have associated with a picture of him:

"Manchildren"

"Neckbeards"

>>16818085
the only comic shop in my area says that he won't carry manga because he can't sell it. go into local barnes and nobel. small shelf of manga whole double sided aisle of tpbs.

>>sometimes kentucky is win.....

Kick out card players like suggested.

Then.
Get this......

Make it a hybrid LAN center.

My favorite comic shop is clean except for the unorganized "25 cents + tax" drawer, but the clerk usually does have a neckbeard.

Also, they have a small manga rack that probably hasn't been touched in a long time, if the color-faded spines are any indication.

>>16818075
>>16818112
Where do you play it, your lap?
Also, I've seen a ridiculous number of LCS's that don't cater to the games. At all.
They're stores were always a shitload bigger, better and way more packed than the ones that did?
Know why?
No pre-teens yelling about cards.

>>16818124
why is spicbeetle wearing batmask?

>>16818155

Catering to "/co/mrades" would mean focusing entirely upon maybe 4 or 5 people to visit the store and maintain it, apparently without any real reliable source of income due to the renting idea.

Food and hookers would not pay for themselves, and you wouldn't have the money necessary to keep a constant supply while not really providing any service that would bring it in.

>>16817960
haha true. They made fun of my Toon deck...it raped their asses. Feels good.

>>16818175
Because I was drinking and it was $4 at Walmart.

>>16818143
So create some sort of Comic-Cafe that sells Burritos and Coffee ala >>16817785 and have it offer free LAN after you buy a comic. No card players allowed to boot.

Sounds good anon.

>>16818203
burritos and coffee? seriously?

>>16818193
4 or 5 people.
Are you fucking serious?
Where the hell do you live, Wyoming?!
Get out with your faggotry.
Also, the best LCS's cater also to the /toy/ soldiers.

>>16818208
Yeah, you'd be really successful with that attitude.

What about a coffee shop/comic shop combination. It works for books, why can't it work for comic books?

>>16818208

My LCS mainly makes money off of card gamer's buying packs and boxes, with the comic fan's stopping in only once a month to pick up their subscriptions.

More people play TCGs than read comics, and yes, they do spend more money.

>>16818232
They don't buy shit.
Those kids are always playing never buying.

My LCS is fucking awesome. Sorry guys :/
also burrito and comics dude is cool.

>>16818244
Umm excuse me but card players are neckbears so I will ban them from my storem *devilish grin*

>>16818231
With a good shelve of horror comics you can cater to /x/philes, wherever they are now...

>>16818232
If I wanted to be successful, I wouldn't open a comic shop in the first place.

It would be more financially sound to take that money to the horse track.

>>16818203
Exactly. Coffee, cheap delicious mexican food, comics, video games. Gotta have some candy bars too.

Make it happen.

>>16818256

Just like comic book fans never buy, just browse in store, right?

>>16818203
Best.
store.
ever.

>>16818268
>neckbears

>>16818290

It'd be great until you never get a lease because the idea presents no possible method of profit for anybody.

I don't feel like clicking numbers, all I'm going to say is WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU PEOPLE LIVE

When I was in San Diego there was a RIDICULOUS amount of comic stores the size of my fucking apartment or bigger (1700sqft) and while some sold cards, there was little selection on that end and no playing.

The only places I've been to that had players, were focused mainly on the comics and made 80% off of those.

ALSO AGAIN, NO ONE WANTS TO SHOP WERE LITTLE FAGGOTS ARGUE OVER THEIR TRAP CARDS

>>16818295
Yeah. Browse for the issues they need and buy them.

>>16818244
hmmm the comic shop I go to I pick up Manga, comics and cards (if I have money to spare). He has it set up really nice.

>>16818319
I don't know shit about tabletop games or card games, what is a Trap Card?

>>16818343
>Buy

Yeah, /co/ and declining sales prove how privy they are to that. I meant "browse" as in, "read in store and leave".

My LCS used to have cards, but they took those away. I was so happy when they did. Now it's just plain comics, which is fine by me.

>>16818319
I live in the UK and have to travel about 80 miles to get to my nearest comic shop

It is worth the journey

>>16818354

>>16818268
I'm not a neckbear ;-;
>>16818354
A trap card is a game mechanic from Yu-Gi-Oh

>OCD
Get some damn medication and stop bitching.

>>16818354
KFC flavoured scratch n' sniff cards

>>16818314
Hmm. why not?

>>16818399
Now now, his issues aside, he makes a good point. One of the other shops in my area is run terribly. The place is a shithole.

>>16818361
And spend $4.00 a piece on comic books that are crap. No thank you.

>>16818387
FUCK IT'S A NECK-BEAR EVERBODY RUN!

>>16818309
that pic is from a manga, get that oriental shit off my /co/

>>16818354
Yu-Gi-Oh

>>16817813
Poor honest guy.

>>16818380
I was expecting that.
>>16818387
Thanks. I don't know why people find those games so interesting, I find them confusing to the extreme.

>>16818035
>wearing a fedora...with a t-shirt

CONGRATS YOU HAVE BEEN CROWNED KING OF FAGGOTS FOR THE DAY!"

>>16818400
This face will haunt my dreams from now on...

>>16818361
You show me one store where people are allowed to open the package, pull the issue out and read it, and I'll show you a shitty LCS clerk.

>>16818444
Trades don't come in packages.

Why doesn't anyone just open a regular bookstore but actually stock it with comics?

>>16818405

You're limited yourself to a single consumer base, comic fans. How would you pay for the food, the LAN, ect.?

I already run one, it's not too hard. For any Portland fags it's called excalibur.

>>16818035
Fedora + t-shirt = most retarded look ever.

>>16818436
I just enjoyed the series and I like the art, some of the archetypes are cool too. But yes, some of the rulings make no goddamn sense.

>Go to comic shop
>12:00 noon
>Closed sign up and lights turned off
>Owner at the front desk
>eating a salad
>Still fat as fuck
lol comic heaven

>>16818471
>>16818438
Hence the joke retards.

>>16818461
Open an apartment/dormitory building on the side. Then they will never leave.

>>16818473
The only card game I know it's the truco. Once I won one peso in a game. But that's all.

>>16818499
GENIUS

Ruin their teeth, and then get paid to fix it!

>>16818486
>they don't like it. Quick, I have to say it was a joke

My one lcs is run by a husband and wife, neither are particularly fat.

Anybody here go to the Laughing Ogre?

I fucking love fedoras and t-shirts I don't care what you guys say.

>>16818530
Do you see the tag on the hat faggot?
That means I don't own it.
That means I was putting on hats in a store.
HERE, A BEAR HAT FOR FUNNSIES.

>>16818542
A marriage, that sounds suspicious, maybe they are selling falsified pants!

>>16818582
ooo where did you get that, it's cute.

>>16818582
you sir are a giant faggot, please quit posting pictures of your retarded ugly mexican mug in hats

Both of my LCS's are in pretty shitty parts of town. I'm too scared to park my car there or walk around there. I haven't been to either of them for that reason alone, but they also have signs advertising "Magic the Gathering played here" and stuff, so I'll probably steer clear.

>>16818619
Personally, I think he's cute, but that's just me.

>>16818610
....I DID want to buy that hat but decided ultimately I'd have no use for it and it'd be a waste of $26.

It was at Zoomies.

>>16818628
>>16818610
>acting like this isn't him posting without his nametag

>>16818582
You are so cute...

>>16818619

Well, technically, his mug isn't IN the hat. His cranium is.

So it's not really his "mug", but rather his "bowl".

>>16818628
Thank you

>>16818648
>>16818628
>>16818610

>>16818660
You are quite welcome.

>>16817827
No, the OP is just blissfully unaware of his own faults.

>>16818648
>>16818628
>>16818610
>>16818674

>>16818667
You are not going to steal my soul, Rasputín.

>>16818648
>>16818628
>>16818610
>>16818674
>>16818700

>>16818730
I can see the Void were acursed being dwells in the blackness of his eyes.

>>16818700
>>16818730
JESUS CHRIST DUDE JUST GIVE HIM YOUR SOUL ALREADY, HE'S CREEPING ME OUT!

>>16818667
>>16818697
>>16818730
Piss off, grandad.

>>16818268
>Neckbear

>>16818648
>>16818628
>>16818610
>>16818674
>>16818700
>>16818754
>>16818758

>>16818730
STAND BACK GUYS! I GOT THIS.

>>16818781
We're done here.

Back to the topic, maybe open a LCS and having success it's just question of luck.

>>16818648
>>16818628
>>16818610
>>16818674
>>16818700
>>16818754
>>16818758
>>16818768
>>16818781

>>16818814
Probably. Or being opened in a high traffic area.

>>16818814
I'd also say demographic.
But seriously the BEST ones I've seen had no games going on, though some sold the cards and catered to /co/ and /toy/

The one here though caters to /co/, /toy/ cards and /v/
Love it but HATE going there. Fucking middleschoolers and teens running around

>>16818773
Awesome picture.

>>16819039
I approve of it too. Gotta love neckbears. Bears make everything better.

>>16818773
...did you just happen to have this ready or was it some fast drawfag?

>>16817987
suddenly linkara.

Op here, thanks for the suggestions with this.

Someday I might open a comic book shop like this, but for now I'm going to save up money and continue to increase my knowledge of comics in order to be more useful for helping people find the perfect comic for themselves.

I'd like for the idea of comic rentals to work, but in reality people can just go to the library for that. I will, however, server Burritos, because I happen to know how to make them myself.

LAN can be supported cheaply by buying the business one. People will have to buy a comic to be able to use it, and I will also use the internet from the shop as my own, and have none at my house. It'll save cash that way.

I'd probably to have to come into the possession of a large amount of money sometime soon to get this going, but for now that just gives me more time to learn.

>>16819212
No card games

My LCS is pretty great. There's a huge selection of trade paper backs and back issues that you can read.
Oh and any back issue costs 50p.

>>16819099

Well... at least HE doesn't have a neckbeard. Then he'd be completely unbearable to look at.

My LCS is pretty great. It's not run by manchildren or neckbeards, but some of the people that shop there are unfathomably lame (excluding myself, of course). That's expected, though.

>>16819269
More like unBEARDable to look at?

>>16819269
He has the lisping and typical fanboyish attiude to make for the lack of neckbeard.

>>16819298

>>16819212
Burritos? FUCK YEAH!

My LCS is fucking awesome.

It's small, so if you go later in the day there will probably be a table set up so people can play Heroclix/D&D/Random TCG, but they're generally nice and don't mind you checking out the game they're playing.

I'm pretty sure only three guys work there full time, but this one guy who's probably the owner is there everytime I go in. One is pretty quiet and keeps to himself, but the owner is fucking awesome. I'm just getting into comics, so he didn't mind letting me know which I should stay away from, what stuff I should read to catch up on a few characters, what stuff is good for newbies, etc.

And he's always giving freebies away to regulars, which I guess means going in three or four times and being a bro, because that's all I've done. I walked in last night to grab Xenogenesis after I got my paycheck, and he surprised me with American Vampire #1 he had been holding for me after I mentioned it in passing once.

Such an awesome guy.