Ah, book stores! Especially mom and pop bookstores, have been in trouble financially since about, oh, 2003. I guess “a while now” means 8 or so years. I appreciate the opportunity to guest blog on here and give SnarkMaster T. the chance to chill for a little but it would appear I picked the week we’re going to be trapped in a small, stifling bookstore with the Unibomber and a misshapen blob of talking dough.
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Don’t forget the time jump, so it’s really been 18 or so years. Anyway, it could be worse, it could be Les instead of Crazy who we have to endure for the next week. Any week without Les can’t be too bad.
Actually, the thought crossed my mind, it seems like it would have been nice if Les had his grand book opening in this struggling book store instead of Montoni’s.
Panel 1: Once again, B*ti*k draws a face on someone’s butt. Why?
Panel 2: Yikes! Talk about scaring away customers!
Panel 3: There’s your typical Westview citizen: An ugly, fat, depressed loser. Welcome!
In case you’re the one person on earth who doesn’t already know where this arc is going, let me clue you in: everything old was great and everything new sucks. This won’t be a “weekly arc” as much as it’ll be an “arc, weakly”. I was waiting for a Harry arc and this is going to be it? Another progress = bad thing for everyone arc? Blech.
Perhaps the businesses in Westview aren’t dying off due to economic reasons but because they’re all owned by old depressing mopes. Also because Harry appears to be the only regular customer any of them have. Explains a lot.
Hmm… maybe if sad, pathetic bookstore man would add breakfast pizza to his product line, he might be able to keep this struggling bookstore afloat.
That’s really sad about the local bookstore closing and everything but.. psst! Who the hell is this guy and why should I care!?
bobanero: good call, why didn’t Les have his book-launch-opening-party at the local book emporium instead of Montoni’s? Every other business in town must loathe that f*cking pizza joint.
Well of course this quaint little “booksmith” is out of business. He tried to sell an assortment of different books. There are only two books that anyone in Westview buys and reads anymore – Lisa’s Story and Fallen Angel…
Les: Hey, that’s a book I wrote about John Darl..
Sarge: Shut the f*#@ up Les!
As I was saying, people in Westview only read two books these days and that poor bookseller schlemiel doesn’t realize it.
Bookstore Guy has a disturbing resemblance to Curly Joe from The Three Stooges. Would you buy a used book from this man?
[img]http://www.projetovip.net/curlyjo1.jpg[/img]
Maybe book-man should hang a sign in his window like:
“Hey Kids, why read a boring book when we have Classics Illustrated and Cliff Notes”
Well it’s just his own fault for not hiring an MBA to put together an app for ordering books while in the car or something.
And doesn’t Crazy spend all his time when he’s not drinking coffee at the pizza place (and who does that?) at the comic books store?
Really have we ever seen this person before? He looks a bit like Funky’s not quite twin brother.
And as someone one pointed out why wasn’t having the launch of the greatest book on cancer ever written at this bookstore even discussed.
and one last thought: Do you think he’s mad because Lisa’s Story is not even in the top one million in book sales on Amazon?
Am i the only person that saw an article that in the wake of Borders closing, mom-and-pop bookstores are on the upswing again?
You’d think a character that lives in Westville would’nt be so suprised that a bookstore is closing. I’d be more suprised that the damn building didn;t catch fire and kill 50 people.
Who else mentally voiced the bookseller’s speech balloons as Droopy Dog?
Who thinks this will be a revenge comic against Amazon.com for the fact that Batiuk’s novel isn’t selling too well?
Who else mentally voiced the bookseller’s speech balloons as Droopy Dog?
Yah know what, Harry? I’M SAD!!!
Who thinks this will be a revenge comic against Amazon.com for the fact that Batiuk’s novel isn’t selling too well?
Hmm, let’s see.. ranked currently on Amazon at #1,107,421. To put that into perspective, Walter the Farting Dog is at #47,699.
No wonder Backache had Les appear on Good Morning America in the comic strip; it sure as hell ain’t gonna happen in real life.
#1,107,421? For reals? LOL! That means that out of the three people who read FW non-ironically, only one actually bought it.
omg, this had me choking on my lo mein.
This arc may be dull as paste, but at least it’s Crazy in the lead instead of TomBat’s Avatar. It seriously could so easily have been the Great Author, waxing profoundly on how stores like this are the “spine” of the Great Book that is American Literature, and thank goodness they carry local authors like HIM.