Sad news...
Jan. 14th, 2006 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThe best comic book store in the Puget Sound region, Wonderworld, has announced that they will be closing their doors forever at the end of January. There's just not enough of a market for gaming, comics, and anime' these days, at least not enough to sustain a large store with departments for each of these. Dave says that his store is "Moving to the internet," but without the ability to touch and feel and assess the merchandise, that just will not be the same. There was something magnificent about the place.
I guess I share some of the blame. After my comic book collection was ruined after a flood I gave up collecting, and I haven't been buying nearly as much as I did in my youth. For that matter, I haven't bought that much anime from them recently because, well, I can watch the stuff when it comes out in Japan and I don't need the English dubs.
Still, as his wife told me, "At least now he'll have some time off."
For the next two weeks, all his figures are half-off, and the graphic novels are 20% off (I think she told me that because I was ogling a $35 copy of Robot), and I imagine there are similar deals in the gaming sections. Come help Dave with his moving fees.
I guess I share some of the blame. After my comic book collection was ruined after a flood I gave up collecting, and I haven't been buying nearly as much as I did in my youth. For that matter, I haven't bought that much anime from them recently because, well, I can watch the stuff when it comes out in Japan and I don't need the English dubs.
Still, as his wife told me, "At least now he'll have some time off."
For the next two weeks, all his figures are half-off, and the graphic novels are 20% off (I think she told me that because I was ogling a $35 copy of Robot), and I imagine there are similar deals in the gaming sections. Come help Dave with his moving fees.
