Where are the Sci/Fi Comics?

There is a Forbidden Planet in the centre of Dublin. They are usually pretty reliable, although I don't remember being hugely impressed with the selection. They will have all the basic though ;)

If you head towards Trinity/Grafton Street from O'Connell st and look left after you cross the river, it should be a block or two up.
 
Thanks for the tips. I'll try the George's Street one when I go next.

The link has some strange ideas as to what is local- Suggesting Windsor, but will try Acme in Bangor again.
 
Sorry Meaghan. We turned into a geography lesson, briefly.
Let normal service resume!

The very fact that I am having to search for comics, even considering day long journey's to obtain one (all be it on other business), must logically imply any claim for them catering for 'more' readers is inaccurate. If there are more readers than there used to be, then surely the comics would appear in the newsagents, what ever their size.
 
You Did!?

I've just realised how badly I wrote the original. Corrected it now.
 
Originally posted by ray gower

The very fact that I am having to search for comics, even considering day long journey's to obtain one (all be it on other business), must logically imply any claim for them catering for 'more' readers is inaccurate. If there are more readers than there used to be, then surely the comics would appear in the newsagents, what ever their size.
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Not a bit of it. As I've already said, I've got no problems buying comics. I've got hundreds of different titles, ranging from Bitchy Bitch to the X-Men. If you can't find any, I humbly suggest that it says more about Wales than it does about comics.

A factor that may (or may not) be of interest: Eason's are the biggest magazine distributor over here; they don't do US comics (which, let's face it, is pretty much what we're talking about). Any shop that's supplied solely by Eason's just doesn't sell comics. A few years ago I tried selling a science fiction magazine I edited to some city-centre newsagents, and they told me that their agreement with Eason's precluded their taking it. So it was Eason's that was the problem. In Wales, I've no idea who distributes the magazines, but I'm willing to be that, like Ireland, Diamond is the only game in town; if you've no account with Diamond, you've no comics.

Of the shops that you tried, how many said 'no-one wants to read Gen-13', and how many said 'what's Gen-13'? I've found that most of the shops that don't sell these comics aren't really aware of their existence.
 
You could be right about it being 'just Wales', except it also says much the same about Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Which are not in Wales at all, but sat comfortably on the M4 corridor for London.

As for distributors, I think WH Smiths is the main one in this area, they even have a depot in town. But WH Smiths, themselves, only carry tots, fanrags (StarTrek Mag etc) and Commando comics in their shops. The response I got from the shop when I went looking was on a par with 'What's a comic?' (but in Bangor grunt).

You do appear to be fortunate, able to womble down the street to obtain almost anything you want. Whilst I sit amidst the woolly destitutes.

Perhaps we should ask Meaghan and Tabitha. Just how far do you have to go to collect your pictorial masterpieces?
 
I owe a carefully limited apology.

I have found a shop that sells comics (not just American ones), within 15 miles of the house.

In the back of our local Playstation Emporium, behind a fenced gate and on carefully locked shelves, there are some dozen different comics, all carefully sealed on polybags.

If that is not difficult enough. Try asking the proprietor to open the rack so that one might browse the contents, or even for a light to see what one is trying to read!

He can't get that many fifty year olds in three piece suits can he?
 
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