local business

I was short a back issue of Buffy Season 8 because I've been a delinquent comics buyer and Newbury, a shop I like less and less, did not have it. Fine--it's not their responsibility to have two months ago's single ish. But this story arc ("Wolves at the Gate") has had one MAJOR BOMBSHELL already and I neeeeed every ish. So I went to Comicazi in my neighbourhood and they also didn't have issue 14 on the shelf. At Newbury, which I'd been growing very cool about lately, I would not have asked the staff for help because, ah, they are not fanboys and the store stocks too much general stuff for me to think they care about finding me one back issue of Buffy for $2.99. They cop the kinds of attitude I used to get from the kids at Reckless (but never got from the staff at Laurie's Planet of Sound, which is why I love Laurie's with the burning fire of 1000 of your Earth's yellow suns. That and I think Laurie's could read my mind: if they didn't have something one week, I'd just think to myself "gee, I wish they had That One Album," and it'd be there the next week, without fail).