Time Travelers.
I had a dentist appointment yesterday at 2:00 PM, and got out of school at 1:00. Given that home, school and the dentist were all roughly twenty-minute drives from one another, it didn't make a great deal of sense to drive home, sit around for a few minutes, and then have to drive out to the dentist. It seemed smarter to consolidate my drive time and just go straight to the dentist's office, and simply walk around a bit and check out downtown Berkley, where my dentist is, and where my paternal grandmother lives. I wasn't close enough or given enough time to drop in unexpectedly on Grandma, so I did the walk-around bit instead.
I ended up at Time Travelers. I was not ready.
Time Travelers is a comic shop. It's accurate to describe it as one of those old-style comic shops you used to see all the time in the '80s and '90s, before the crash of the '90s forced comic shops to modernize and lose their cluttered "curio shop" image. I stepped into Time Travelers, and it was just like stepping into the Dealers' room at a comic convention. I couldn't believe it! First thing I see is the huge wall of Transformers and Japanese import toys (I recognized the Sega Evangelion figures I used to have and a few other goodies). Opposite side is "long box" after "long box" of back-issue comic books. There's a Sci-Fi novel section, role-playing game area, and just all kinds of oddities. Thing I least expected see anywhere but found here: The AnimEigo laserdisc set for Bubblegum Crash (3 discs). I had to look it over and remember my ill-timed LD days. (Foolishly, I bought a Laserdisc player and a smattering of software for it a mere three years before DVD came to prominence. Also foolishly, I kept it in a non-climate-controlled room, where it petered out from the heat and humidity. This was a rough lesson to learn, but I did enjoy watching things like Terminator II, Gunsmith Cats and Moldiver on it.) Pretty funny.
I didn't end up buying anything there, but I could spend hours and a small (or large) fortune in a place like that. Beware, otaku.
Beware.
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I ended up at Time Travelers. I was not ready.
Time Travelers is a comic shop. It's accurate to describe it as one of those old-style comic shops you used to see all the time in the '80s and '90s, before the crash of the '90s forced comic shops to modernize and lose their cluttered "curio shop" image. I stepped into Time Travelers, and it was just like stepping into the Dealers' room at a comic convention. I couldn't believe it! First thing I see is the huge wall of Transformers and Japanese import toys (I recognized the Sega Evangelion figures I used to have and a few other goodies). Opposite side is "long box" after "long box" of back-issue comic books. There's a Sci-Fi novel section, role-playing game area, and just all kinds of oddities. Thing I least expected see anywhere but found here: The AnimEigo laserdisc set for Bubblegum Crash (3 discs). I had to look it over and remember my ill-timed LD days. (Foolishly, I bought a Laserdisc player and a smattering of software for it a mere three years before DVD came to prominence. Also foolishly, I kept it in a non-climate-controlled room, where it petered out from the heat and humidity. This was a rough lesson to learn, but I did enjoy watching things like Terminator II, Gunsmith Cats and Moldiver on it.) Pretty funny.
I didn't end up buying anything there, but I could spend hours and a small (or large) fortune in a place like that. Beware, otaku.
Beware.
Next: Center-right? Really?