Okay, so I visited 3 stores today.

I don't know if I'm going to do grades or ratings, but if I did, I'd know what to give each of them. I'll go into more detail on them later.

I will say this though. It seems that the two major things that comic book stores have to balance MUCH more correctly and skillfully than most retailers in other industries seem to be inventory management, and the dichotomy between attracting new customers and keeping existing ones. These are obviously not exclusive to comic book stores, but how well these are done and how much attention is being placed on them is evident damn near immediately.

In the meantime, if you have any initial thoughts or suggestions, recommedations or things to consider, shoot me a tweet or facebook message (I'm easy to find.)