AMC's Comic Book Men - Anybody Watching?

[Admiral_Young]

Widening Gyre is really wacky Trekker...I should warn you I enjoyed some of it, mostly just for the hilarious Aquaman sequence I mentioned above.

 

[Hound of UIster]

No one that I know of...I liked both Smith's Batman books. They aren't meant to be in continuity anyway.

Given the multiple reference to previous events such as Luthor's Injustice Gang and Silver's husband, it clearly was suppose to be set in continuity.

Maybe Smith's books was it's "own" continuity that happened to have those events in it but the events in Smith's book didn't impact the "real" events in the main title(s.)

Nope it's in the main DC Continuity.

Greg Rucka had asked for permission to use Onomatopoeia for a story and got shot down because of this.

 

[Admiral_Young]

It might have been in the DCU continuity...but do we know if it carried over to the New 52, and yes I know most of Bruce's continuity is supposed to have carried over.

 

[Trekker4747]

I found Onomatopoeia to be a really interesting villain. If a movie were made featuring him he could only be played by Michael Winslow.

 

[Disruptor]

I said I wouldn't watch again, but had the t.v. on while doing something else...

I wonder how many garage sales they hit before they found that great one, because I went to over a hundred last year and never found anything that good. Usually fast food kiddie meal toys, infant toys, along with the common crap...teenage girl's cassette/cd collections, religious junk, ceramic crap, clothes...

I also wonder if the owner found it odd that camera crew was at his yard sale.

I can remember when the big COMMANDO movie figures were listed for $100+ in price guides.

 

[Trekker4747]

Haven't watched last night's yet but I've been enjoying this show.

 

[Galileo7]

Yes, it is a fun diversion.

 

[Trekker4747]

The season finale was last night and it was good, I honestly like this series and hope to see it return.

I'm not a tattoo person but I've go to say the one Chen got was pretty cool. If there was a family crest or "symbol" or something that had a cultural importance to me I'd consider getting that tatted to me. That's something pretty deep and meaningful, cool that that is what Chen went with. I sort of agree with the idea of what Bryan was planning on going maybe was a bit... "out there" but it's cool he sort-of did it for his niece. Mike's was pretty generic. At the end I half-expected Walt to push up his sleeves and reveal he DID, infact, get one but the double-cross getting them to do it was funny.

Still really like the "anecdote break" the show takes in the middle of one of the commercial breaks.

Very good show, hope to see it back.

 

[T'Baio]

It was a good ep, thought I thought Walt kinda' came off like a dick, not getting the tattoo and all. Also, they need to get better fact checkers. The graphic for "The Killing Joke" said it was published in 1971 or something like that. It was in fact first published in 1988.

 

[Trekker4747]

Yeah, Walt was maybe a bit dicky on the tattoo thing but Bryan, Ming and Mike didn't have to go through with getting them, either. I couldn't see The Killing Joke book fetching much, really, considering you can probably find it in every comic book shop's shelves and most likely the better-colored version of the book too.

I didn't expect the Green Lantern lantern toy to go for much it just looked cheap and just not overly impressive looking. They makers should have made it much more of a "prop replica" it'd probably had been more sought-after and a better collectible then, and I like how occasionally the show dips into doing sales rather than being like Pawn Stars and it being solely buys.

Bryan I really warmed up to over the course of the series and found him to be much more likable especially once you get with the "pulse" of his personality and humor (and once he seemed to ease up on picking on Ming.) I need to watch/listen to the (extended) Pod Casts for the episodes.

Again, good show and I hope to see it come back.

EDIT - And I watched "Mallrats" recently and took note of "Steve-Dave" (Bryan) in the movie and, man, have the years not been kind to him!

 

[DarthPipes]

I started watching Comic Book Men with episode 3. I really enjoy it. I don't usually watch shows like this but it's about comics and the guys are entertaining so it works for me.

Not a tattoo fan either but I agree, Chen's was pretty cool.

The guy at my comic book store isn't a fan. He said the guys were jerks who underprice the hell out of what they buy from people.

 

[Admiral_Young]

The tattoo thing was funny...and Walt really does seem like the inspiration for Dante, the more we see him! I could totally see Dante pulling a stunt like that. Ming for me is the breakout "star" out of the Secret Stash employees for me. Bryan...yeah I warmed up to him over the course of the series, and that segment with his niece was heart warming. I hope they bring this back for a second season.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

Surprised to see so much praise of the show here, it's being panned on most other sites I look at. Anyway cool that you guys are enjoying it.

I guess I'll have to be "that guy" on this one though. I find these people to be so incredibly annoying and mean spirited.

I don't know how close this is to a typical comic book shop as I'm sure it's very faked up for television, but if it's anything close I'm happy that I gave up the hobby years back due to the high prices of comics.

I will confess that I can't stand Kevin Smith or anything he is involved in, so I'm a bit prejudiced.

 

[Admiral_Young]

It's pretty close to what goes on in my local shop. Don't know about anyone else.

 

[OmahaStar]

I saw the first 2-3 episodes of it last night. To me, it looks staged, especially when people come in to sell their stuff. I don't know anyone (well, normal people - not actors) who would walk into a store filled with cameras, who can ignore them as these people seem to time and time again. Not one of them ever looks into the camera? And these are just people off the street coming in at random to sell stuff? I call shenanigans on that.

Also, it just happens that the other "star" of the Jay and Silent Bob movies comes along, acting just like his character, and it's not a ratings stunt? I don't know about that. It does seem like he's done a LOT of drugs in his life. I have a cousin who starting abusing drugs around 17/18. He's in his mid-30s now, and has the exact same voice, same mannerisms, same lack of focus ... it's all the drugs. Hope Jason is off them now and cleaning his life up, but if so, it didn't look that way.

It's an enjoyable enough show for what it is, but it's not reality.

 

[Trekker4747]

1. The sales segments are "staged." When the show was entering production they put up signs telling its customers what they were planning and to come in to sell their items, interesting people/items were selected and times were set-up for them to come in and do the barter scene.

This really isn't too different than how Pawn Stars does things.

I thought Mewes' behavior was overly similar to Jay too but was told that's basically how he "really is."

 

[nightwind1]

1. The sales segments are "staged." When the show was entering production they put up signs telling its customers what they were planning and to come in to sell their items, interesting people/items were selected and times were set-up for them to come in and do the barter scene.

This really isn't too different than how Pawn Stars does things.

I thought Mewes' behavior was overly similar to Jay too but was told that's basically how he "really is."

Oh, it is. Mewes wasn't acting when he played Jay, he was just being himself.

 

[Admiral2]

The guy at my comic book store isn't a fan. He said the guys were jerks who underprice the hell out of what they buy from people.

Walt explained that. The idea is he's gotta sell the items and make a profit. If you haul off and give the people what they ask for knowing that you can't get more than that when you resell it, you might as well fill out your Chapter 11 papers the next morning.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Same mentality that Rick has on "Pawn Stars". It doesn't mean they're dicks. It means they gotta make a profit of some kind. As mentioned before Jason Mewes as we see him on camera, is pretty much what Jay is off camera in real life. As for the graphic error, on "The Killing Joke"...it could have been just that, a simple error. I'm pretty sure Jay has been clean and sober for a few years now. He is married and been through quite a lot of shit over the years, mostly his own doing, I think he's been in jail a couple of times as well.

 

[Dac]

Well, I really enjoyed this series. Sure, I was a fan of SModcast and Tell Em Steve Dave before this, but it was great seeing the guys as well as hearing them for once.

I hope it does come back for another run.

As for Mewes, well, in all the things I've seen him in - the second you place him in front of a camera he acts pretty hyper. When you add that to the "hyper-reality" of Comic Book Men of course your gonna get an excited Mewes. On the one on one Jay and Silent Bob get old podcasts (before they went live, and even when they did in some instances) he just comes across as a fairly normal guy who led a fairly fucked up life which he seems to have mostly straightened out nowadays.