When you base your judgements on porn?

....I think something is missing in your life.

Got a phone call about reviews of our store on Yelp, one of those city directory things. The phone call was just a solicitation, but figured it's always good to check up and see what's what. And y'know, some reviews are really nice, some are really vague, and some you get the feeling the person came in just once.

But then you get the following:
"WTF happened to the adult comics section??? ......I am severely disappointed, as this used to be one of my favorite places in the whole wide world. Please bring back the adult section, or nobody that shops here will ever get laid again. At least, that's my guess."

Cause y'know, the best thing to do is tell a token 'geek's-don't-get-laid' joke. Never see those coming.

But honestly the number of times we have to explain this is astonishing. After the change in ownership 3 years ago the store has made the decision to become as much of a kid friendly environment as possible. It's a little tricky since we also carry a large quantity of indy/underground titles. When anyone ask for an adult title, I usually make it a point to tell them I can order it for them if they know what they want. Beyond that, sorry, not much else we can do.

But seriously. On our east wall alone, we have over 200 independent/small publisher/art book comics displayed face out. The sheer amount of possible choices alone in art and story should keep you busy enough for a while. A large chunk of those are still mature reader material, some with naughty art even.

Limiting yourself to what you see in adult/erotic titles? Really?