Comic Retailers: J N J Comics & Cards
I was recently in Los Angeles visiting, so I GPSed some comics shops in Fountain Valley where I was staying. I wasn’t looking for any of the big names of comics retailing, just some small local shops that want to distribute comics. JNJ sounded like the perfect comic shop to pick up some wednesday comics. It was pretty weird. I walked in to a guy saving energy with the lights off. He was eating something from subway with lots of jalapenos, and let me know it vocally. Plus he was giving me his commentary on an episode of Cops that he was watching. Turns out this guy was the owner! So I went out to look for some books.
He flipped the lights back on so I can actually do some perusing. There were tables of long boxes filled with older books and back issues. And ofcourse like most comic stores, there were walls of shelves with new releases. There wasn’t much of anything to unexpect out of the store. It was your pretty average store where you could quickly pick up the titles you want and take them home to read. And while I was looking for some treasures, that’s exactly what other people came in to do. But the service was good! The owner looked out for me, making sure that I even got a stool to slide around and look through the boxes on the ground without having to crouch down uncomfortably. But as normal as this store was, it became a little weirder.
The dude releases doves! WHAT??? When he found out I was taking pictures for the blog, he busted out a bird and released it. I took a picture with it before it took off flying around the room. I grabbed my comics and got the hell out of there! It was pretty wild. I managed to snap a few of the dove flying around, which you can view below!
July 14th, 2009 at 11:21 am
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February 20th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
I’m actually a regular customer at this store. Jeff, the owner, owns what is actually one of the better comic book shops in Orange County. Most of the remaining shops focus on product that sells, mainly current comics and recent back issues and then other things like cards and other gaming stuff. Jeff is one of the few that still keeps a really good selection of back issues, including Silver and Golden Age books. Jeff may run his business a little differently than other guys do but he’s still in business after a decade while many other shops in the Orange County area have gone the way of the goonie bird. He’s always given me good service and he has a regular customer base that continues to come back to his shop every week. By your own admission, you were also served well so it’s surprising to me that you took some shots at him here on your blog. I’ve been in some very unfriendly comic book shops in my time, where the lights never get turned on, the employees are blaring loud music and even talking down to their customers. JNJ Comics is not a place like that and if you had a good shopping experience there, that’s the message you should be sending to people.